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SHOW TACK
by HAROLD CONWAY TROPICALLY clad on the jungle border
an
-Pinewood Studios' most persuasive style-Claudette Colbert, as a Malayan planter's wife, has been alternately enjoy- ing.
English spring and, between camera shots, hugging a hot-water battle. Jack Hawkins is the planter, doing, his best to swelter and look rugged. But there have been days when he envied Miss Colbert her comfor- ter.
"You could call this, I suppose, the stor of my film life," said Mist Colbert was one of the hot-water bottle days. "Throughout the ucars, they order me to look frozen in heatwaves, when the script calls for a good, honest sweat, the temperature drops promptly to cue. Would you say that proves I am an actress?"
I did not need weather-proof, nor did the studio. Half-way through her first British flm, Miss Colbert goes on record as the least “starry" of all the Hollywood stars Pinewood has
welcomed,
...No
no self-por-
tance, not even
a sample bout
of tempera- ment.. But,
then this most
- VIC-
YOU'D BET
STOP
A 5001 WE CAN
ANOUK IN LONDON Still sultry but more poised.
by Lee Falk and Phit Davis
INVENTED BEFORE I'M THROUGH. OKAY, I EVERY COP IN TOWN WILLY MAESTRO THIS TURN IN HIS BADGE ANDY WARHEO THEY'LL RETIRE --TO KEEP FROM YOU" CATCH US
-GOING HAYWIRE!
The snake-charmer comes back
in search of some nostalgia
most
a dinner-jacketed ex- Laughton as intelligent and perienced-of our film' visitors Devil I have yet to encounter. perie
Anouk in, London calls herself content to concentrate on act- INTO London
"an actress"; is
the other day
ing. A more exacting job than new 19-year-old Anouk. She being a "star" though some gets the part that Simenon at Pine Alm, The Man Who Watched of her predecessors would have seemed serenely un- The Trains Go By, which her aware of the fact. Miss Cal compatriot Simone Simon threw
Lon- bert's only sightseeing In Coll up. don so for: a call at the Play- Anouk
the house on the Thames Embank ment-which she was surprised to find taken over by the BBC. Rules waived
THIS
was 'Claudette in search nostalgia Her. Arst, the and sole, appearance on London stage was at the Play house in 1928-she played a clrcus
snake-charmer, in romance called The Barker. The play was a near-flop; the critles described Miss Colbert as a pretty newcomer, and left it at that.
of
Now the snake-charmer 24 years ago would Uke complete the circle-by appear ing again on the West End stage,
"But you won't see me
01
doesn't mind street-girl character being made as pure as snow--well, nearly
by the censor, In compensation,
Erroll Flynn Making A Film
England
the part has been expanded for By ROY NASH
her-which sounds like a rebuff for the more eminent, but hasty,
Mic. Simon.
It
is two years since the London. She has hardly been sultry, young Anouk was last Inactive during the interval,
of
Herbert Wilcox replaced her as Michael Wilding's co-star, utter
a somewhat hectie "dis agreement" in Parls about her contract conditions. She had an carly marriage dissolved. Re-married, this time the "king" the Left Bank night clubs, Had a baby daughter. She has also done some film
Acting Today Anouk
still looked the London stage unless it is in sultry; but, not surprisingly an American role" scid Miss more poised than the slightly Colbert, decisively. "I should gauche girl of two years ago. be terrified to play an English And she has not forgotten her woman; there
been English lessons, "I thought they have enough criticiens of that prae- might like me back some day, tice in Alms. You have done so I kept practising," she says, some criticising yourself, you
i still say it know."
THEY all told Stella Riley
was difficult to become an Yes, I do know; but not of Claudette Colbert. This is an actress without starving first; to International actress wasn't forget about her looks- und She was she born In France? I walve about show business, the rules for Miss Colbert,
10.
So will the Tennent firm --
Whereupon:
who probably have the money
1
Young Miss Riley took a two- at dramatic please come forward persua- year course sively with a suitable play, a school. Left a few weeks ago. nice part? Nationality does not Gets her first professional part
another matter; even
make next week one of the boy.
in Richard III, at charmer would do, at a pinch. princes
Southwark's Shakespeare Festi-
answer
Errol Flynn's new British
will be his first for nearly picture "The Sean Rogue" 20 years. Not many film- goers remember that it was at Warrier Brothers Ted- dington studios in 1934 that Flynn played his first role, as the juvenile lead of a forgotten epic called "Mur-
der at Monte Carlo."
Story 15 that fim-struck Flynn, homé frem. a gold- prospecting trip to the Far East, parked himself outside an office door at the studio for two days waiting to see productios chief Irving Asher. Eventually the
door opened and Asher came out to fall over Flynn's sprawled legs.
The result of, this bruising
the WAS
contract encounter which took Flynn to Hollywood.
He has hit many a headline since then and now Teddington is an aircraft factory, but he will still be working for Warners
at Elstree:
GILBERT & SULLIVAN
Do they miss her? Valets her second part the week Hoy much
one
of Sullivan's
.T
!
Is the play the thing or the attor-as of Boccaccio's music, how many of Gilbert's stars? Especially when that exotic and naughty young lyrics will be heard in Korda's and Mr Sullivan" star is Mary Martin, much- women in a £290,000 film ver- "Mr Gilbert boosted and much-praised Ught ston of the Decameron. On now being filmed at Shopper- of South Pacific?
lecation in Spain, Majorca and ton? The public have given their Italy, all expenses paid; with
Though this is really the off- week, with Miss Joan Fontaine and Louis Jour- Jast Martin away on a Sicilian holl- dan among her acting com-stage story of the celebrated day-and openly announced as sani
panions. being away. The effect of her I still say: it is dimeult to partnership about two-nitha of absence on the box-office, says become an actress. But without the picture. will consist of ex-
Drury Lane
management, expecting one 18-year-old tracts from "The Mikado," "The Gondollers," "The Pirates of Playgoers who had booked in (World Copyright Rearrved Penzance" and other Savoy advance which means the London Express Service.).
the
has been infinitesimal,"
majority could have changed their seats for later. Nearly all have elected to see and encour
novice to believe me.
agc with cheers the Mr Gable Keeps
understudy, Patricia
British G
Hartley.
The South Pacific management should be pleased; they are not paying Misa Hartley the kind of salary the real star gets. I don't know if Miss Martin is pleased, too. Even the nicest stars like
to be missed.
Just themselvas
*
A Promise
operas...
Three Littlo Maids From School," "The Flowers That Hoom In The Spring" and "Take A Pair Of Sparkling Eyes" have already been record- ed with about 40 6ther songs. -
There will also be a match of Sullivan's most famous hymn Calling at a US Army Air une
Christian "Onward Force, base in East Anglia in Soldiers" and extracts from, his 1943, I spotted an American graudt opera "Ivanhoe." officer who looked remarkably
Ilke Clark Cable ---- he was Singers Include Martyn QUARTET of stars Dulce Clark Gable. He told me then Green, Webster Booth, Muric Gmy,
Michael Denison,
he had an ambition to make a a Brunskill, Owen Brannigan and
In England.
Marjorie Thomas. Some, includ
urgeated. "If and when we get country by bus, giving "dra~ matic readings of the new back to civilian life and it and
Rosamund John and Norman mit after the war" I aug-fing Mr Green and ise Biting-1
Wooland-BTC now making 1 one-night-stand tour
kill, will be seen and heure Others are lending, their voices
Priestley play, Dragon's Mouth. when plan to make a fim in non-singing members of the
On May 19 they pay of the England I'll let you know," was
bus-driver, come into the Winter his reply.
cost. Dark-haired Eva Bartok, home from location in Italy The war ended, Gable want to for. Pinowiod's The Venetian
Garden for a reason, Without Came pour scenery, without costumes; just themselves and Mr Priestley.
The author, handsomely” ad-
miis he got the idea from those
Avastky Jób as 'star and Interpreter. musi
after nine n promise.
Goole MISS Bartok is a girl who can dept
News came to me from him unually be relied on for the
Don Juan In Hell readings byat he and M.GM, back. In riglit wdra at the right moment!
Messrs Laughton, Boyer
and Co. last year. I trust the Dra-preement would be making gon's mouth will prove livellers, rat picture in Britain leter
Don Tuan's hell. Anything this year.
SMITH
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