THE CHINA MAIL,
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MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
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By Leo Falk and Phil Davis
SHOWING
WHAT'O THEY GET YOU FOR
NONE OF YOUR OKAY, LET'S BOTH SHUT UP. I GOT
SOME SERIOUS THINKIN' TO 00. BUSINESS.
HE MAY KNOW THE ANSWER TO THE
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IT IS not often that a film critic can bring his own cye - witness testimony to bear upon the truth of a big now film. But the
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'MURDER IN THE ROOM NEXT
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OES anyone, by this time, NOT. know the fantastic but true story of-how--the--British Ambassador's valet burgled his master's safe in Turkey during the war, extracted vital secrets from it and sold them to the Germans for £300,000?
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FINGERS with James Mason and Danielle Darrieux ite place.
There are one no two embellishments, but otherwise the aim is an exciting and ac- curate account of how a shabby little em- by servin' banbazled the British Secret Steves --- and pulled off the stnavas, espion- -age-erup-of-all-tinie...
what
What the day does not tell you happened to the say Dell for Elias, as he was known to the Brinsh) in the end,
It was at four o'clock
cnc morning.....
TT does not tell you because the man who
I work the story and the men who made
the picture just do not know. 1 do, I will tell you how and why...
About four o'clock one-morning towards the end of the war, I came back
to my room in that gloomy oki
MASON .. AND THE BEAUTIFUL DARBIEUX Intrigue and stdden débih in Istanbul
It was from Elias asking her valat, too-polite, affable, and
hotel, the Pera Palas, in Istan- to visit him at an address in the bul, Turkey. Next door someone bazaur quarter of the city. was groaning.
It was the first news the sceret rollee had had of the Httle Al- By the time the Turkish secret hanlan valet since he had sud- police arrived and we broke denly disappeared from the Bri- down the door, the groaning had tish Embassy in Ankara-taking ceased. There was woman with him a last batch of British lying in bed.
She was dead-having been forced by someone to consume enough strychnine to kill a dozen spies.
The police got ready to mark it down in their records as yet another unsolved wartime crime, They knew the woman.
The clue clutched in her hand....
efficient.
Something I do not
believe. HE would never have won the
have of Danielle Darrieux, however, as he does in the film real life "Five Fingers." In Ellas did not look a bit like James Mason.
scerels.
Half-an-hour later, when the
reached the address in the P.S. I see that the director of bazaar quarter, there was an- "Five Fingers" claims he met other body awaiting them.
Elias still very much alive- The pockets had been emptied. while making the film last year. But if it is A bullet had been fired into the I do not believe it. back of the head and had passed true, then one night towards the
the war
someone in right through, so that the fact end of
pretty nor was neither
recog Istanbul killed the wrong man.
(Landon Express Service) nisable.
These who saw it were salts- fed that the body was once a HONG-KONG STAGE CLUB valet named Ellas.
Who Illied him? Well, it could {CHE was a Rumanian who made
her living (or part of it, any have been the Germans for the information last information Elias cold to them way) picking up
was false evidence deliberately from foreigners in bars and sell- ing it to the Allies, the Nazis, or planted on the vatet by the Bri- the Italians.
tish who by that time had dis- The Turks, who did not care covered that someone was tam- which spy get murdered so long; pering with the embassy safe.
Anyway, 3
, your guess as good as their own neutrality was not
who often was helped the body removed and forget the 38 one
into his cont by Elias at the Bri- whole thing-until they found a note clutched inside the woman's lish Embassy) is that he was not hand.
Infringed, were prepared to have es mine. All I do know (speaking
only a great spy but a good
Accents Speak Louder Than Words Today
By BEN COOK
Accents speak
than words with movie films. fans these days.
The time
louder versions of English language: Despite his popularity abroad, Boyer couldn't get a chance as an English-speaking When the Studio was, in the early meter. of talking alms, when related, it was to give him
bit us à chauffeur with Jean foreign performers couldn't get Harlow in "Red leaded jobs in Hollywood movies. Women." French-bom Charles Boyer re- members those days well.
days
It was discovered finally that had Gurbo's Swedish necent
"At the beginning of dialogue hox-office allure when she made pictures, only American and her talking
debul in "Ann
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in Hollywood," Boyer recalled. Germanic inflections appealed to THE CHINA FLEET CLUB "Blg, established stars of client fans in "The Blue Angel" and
on
alms, such oy Pola Negri, Emil Morocco. Since then, Holly Thurs. Tat May, at 9.00 p.m. Jannings and Nils Asther had wood again has become Inter- their contracts dropped. It won national in outlook, believed accents would confuse the ears of Amerlenir audiences." As
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