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A TWEES FILM ***** BROLLLION DISTRIBUTION
ENE KELLY said to
me
in Munich: "I'll
tell you the difference be- tween Fred Astaire and my- self. He is a
performer,
and dancing means every- thing to him. If I stopped 'tlancing I could carry on by working out dances and directing others."
We were watching a group of teen-agers jiving for a scene In "The Devil Makes Three.". is the nearest to darieing that Kelly comes in the film.
It
SYD CHARISSE A ND GENE KELLY
Then back to Astaire. discuss us pretty often: you he sld: This Kelly makes me the see, we're good friends. Frett's feel good."
style is easy, intimate, light. The feeling is mutual.
A
My dancing is strong, wide- open, bravura,
BROADWAY: At 12:30 p.m. A Special Programme of
TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS
Prosented by: 20th-Century-Fox, & Wamor-Bros
THE MUCH-TRAVELLED Douglas Fairbanks Jan, is
con-
How docs Fairbanks de- scribe himself? He is an hono- rary K.B.E., with his own coat of name and a crest showing an American eagle with a spur
"I envy Astaire his ability to in London again on a variety walk across a room with that of business some of it coltish grace, and give pleasure cerned with films. just by that, Or watch him in top-hat, white tie, and tails, They are the specialities of his tra: they symbolise the style of the man.
He handles them with such assurance,
"But if I tried I'd rip and roar. Top-hat and tails to not belong to my school at all."
of knighthood in its beak.
Mountain" variety. has strong views about them. "They are seldom Says he: renuine. Mostly they are writ ten in Now York by guys wha have never even seen a hill.”.
THE BRITISH rag trade and the glamour of the fashion business is to have its first going-over in a British film, "It Started in Paradise"
al-
Product
GEORGE STEVENS' A PLACE IN THE SUN
A Paramount Picture
Right away I detect a forent approach from the one, usually adopted by Hollywood. COMING SOON TO
The stars of the new British
yen
So what do you put against film are Jane Bylion, Marilia the Fairbanks name: film star, Hunt, and Muriel Pavlow. "Not diplomat, man of affairs, world obvious glamour girls" traveller, or what?
director Complon
("Seventh In his Alms, Frod Astaire
Vell") Bennett. "The models Says the mid-Atlantic night: can supply that. We want real dances, and when he stops the story
picks up again, Kelly "I'm so many things now that character in the acting parts." alms to make a complete blend when I have to fill in forms To write the story Margh
dance, Anding I leave blunk the line against illa of story and
Laski, novelist and more I just don't know recently TV personally,
has partners with some ballet train- occupation.
whal to put."
been called in. Miss Laaki, as harp and glittering as some of
ind
Kelly talking: "I don't want
LEE & LIBERTY
the sume old stories told in BURL IVES is 6 ft. 2 ins.. the gowns in the film, has a Castle Peak Road, Kowloon.
dance over and over again.
weighs nearly 20 stone, certain authority. In the matter. That is my war with Sadler's and the best ballad singer in She spent a year in the fashion Wells.
business herself. "I found I Too much of the old the business. He has come to
Englund for a six-week tour, could design for myself-not stuff there: Swan Lake, Cin-
with him from
for others. I left," she says. derella,'
Sylphides bringing Or 'Ics
Amerien some of the early, anti Marghanita Laski likes to They are as familiar now as mostly forgotten, British folk Afth position in practice class.. songs.
have something tangible, to "I want to tell new stories
show from her work. Her book,
and that's what I'm after th He collected them on his "Little Boy Lost," brought her lims,"
wanderings through 40 of the an old mill in Somerset. From American States where they the money for the film she will The last word belongs to are still sung.
buy something less ambitious: Fred Astaire: When he *w Among his songs,there will a spinat, Gene Kelly's Oscar winning be none of the routine hillbilly Dim "An American in Paris," numbers of the "Comin' Round
-DAVID LEWİN
(London Express Service)
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Through the Looking-Glass"
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of
are to be danced on a ballet by Carol Bateman's pupils in the on Sunday April Lee Theatre
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Costumes are to be after the Illustrations by Sir John Tendiati
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of
In the original printing
Through the Looking Glass,"
This
B Carol "Bateman's ppcond ballet to be presented Ja Hongkong, and she will have nearly hundred and fifty children dancing in it.
4
The first was "Hansel and Gretel" at the Tal Ping Thratro in 1050.
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