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Another Sonsational SUSAN HAYWARD Picturos !.!! The Spectacular Rise of a Woman in a Man's World1 She Made Good With a Plunging Neckline, and the Morals of a Tigress.........
SUSAN HAYWARD
DAN DAILEY
GEORGE SANDERS,
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MANICISE FILMM
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ROXY: A 12.00 Noon BROADWAY: A12.30 P.M. Stop by Stop...Clue by Clue.. They Tracked Him Down-
Savage Truth!
Stranger Than Fiction! "HE WALKED
BY NIGHT”-
starring
Richard BASEHART
Scof 'Canon City' BRADY Directed by Alfred WERKER
Cathay
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1952.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
ON SECOND THOUGHT, JOIN THE OTHERS.
HORSEFACE. YOU'RE
NEW. YOU'D BETTER
LEARN WHAT GOES ON
HERE. AND KEEP YOUR MASK ON.
0.3
THIS IS WEIRD. I'M SUPPOSED TO BE WEARING A MASK--OF MY
OWN FACE!uts
.GENE
GLYNIS JOHNS is coming home... KELLY talks about Hollywood... ROBERT
THE
NEWTON curses in Welsh..... THE poised and piquant Glynis Johns called me from New York. "I'm flying home," she said, 'That is news I welcome.
She is coming at the invitation and the expense of Walt Disney to star with Richard Todd in Disney's new 11- Eve film, "When Knighthood was in Flower." And of all the parts the could have played, she chooses the most difficult- the scured Mary Tudor, who became Quern before Elizabeth 1.
Glynis Johns will re-enter London on a somewhat higher level than she left six months A successful marriage and an unsuccessful play (but not for her personally) given her
Broadway and a New York glow.
.
have boost
Her play there failed after four nights, but the critics ad- vised her to tear up her return ticket and stay
U.S. In the Hollywood moved in with
offers.
But to launch her new in- ternational star career she de- elded to come back home where she is known, and with her she brings the added push of the Disney world organisa- tion,
In London, US D visiting star, she will fx her own terms, move into a Park Lane 1:otel (her fat here is used by actor-director Sam Wanamaker), and will have her favourite studio dressing-room reserved In advents.
DAVID
LEWIN'S
PUT ON YOUR SUIT, BUD. WE ALL GOTTA DRESS ALIKE. YOU KNOW THAT? SAY--YOUR MASK SURE LOOKS REAL
Spotlight
So stars give orders mow
The producers said Yes,
PIER ANGELY, the wide- eyed, dramatic Italian actress, said she wanted a musical. The producers said Yes, DEBBIE REYNOLDS, bright, sharp, American song- and-dance girl, said the would like a comedy-crime story.
tho
Bo
The producers and Yes. It has not always been easy as that for stars to change their styles. Ginger Bogers fought for years to be allowed to net. Ciliton Webb hod leave Hollywood at one time because, he was only thought of as a dancer-not a come-
Hollywood producera said dion.
"Please" to Misa Johns, I nominate this as the opening of an ern cf picture politeness in which stars will state their de- mands and film men will reply "Oh, certainly.“
Yes, Yes, Yes ★TO SUPPORT my
pre- dietion is the news that Glynis Johns leaves behind in America three girls who perfeeling this art sunding producers.
of
Arc
to
But the tailor-made trio, still in their early twenties, show the older stars how make films follow them,
to
In London Gene Kelly, who has worked with all three, sald: "Hollywood is prepared now to ke chance, and.no just play for safety."
I predict one danger in the. new art of picture poilteneas. per Switching parts may break routine but it is repetition that makes reputations.
Pler Angel, Leslie Caron, and Debble Reynolds are the international trio who, despite differences in background ant temperament, are
steadfast friends,
in
They share one quality common: the will to play in dividual parts and not to bo pressed into any film mould.
LESLIE CARON, the French ballet dancer, decided the would like to attempt a drama- the part in a picture with some night-club dancing side,
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Just received
Top Note
JOHNNY
GREEN, the
top note in film musicals (he won Oscars for "Ebster Parade" and "An American ira Park"), was in Londen to supse- vise two musicals,
His own hit songs include "Body and Soul" (written for
Gertrude Lawrence). "Out of -and-Cover the
NOW ""
They are back as successes Oscars today--but he won no
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
ANOTHER WEIRD SENSATION FOR MANDRAKE. A ROOMFUL OF MEN, ALL OF WHOM LOOK EXACTLY LIKE HIM!
YES, DOESN'T #7
LETSLAE CARON-da "Glory Alley,” as the girl who reforms à boxer
Tarzan Is
Far From
Finished
By BEN COOK
COYLE
Tarzan has been swinging COYLE
for them, I found Itronic through studio jungles in
that his awards come for alms
in which 43-year-old Green Hollywood for 35 years and dealt with the music of other he's fur from finished. The composers.
"Waterfront" was written I asked nearly 20 years ago.
film producer, Sol Lesser,
has signed a new agreement
what happens to a composer with the Edgar Rice Bur- when he stops writing hits.roughs estate assuring the Johnny Green sald: "He ar- ape man of 20 years more ranges other people's music, screen activity,
writes film-music scores, ducts and hopes."
Sun-Money
con-
ENJOYING the weather?
It is fine for the picture- makers with stars liko John Mills, Dirk Bogarde, and Pat
The agreement gives Lesser exclusive film rights to the Tarzan stories.
+
"Tarzan movies will never die, much less fade away," said
Roo shooting out of doors. TheyLesser, whose "Tarzan's Savage
BATTERIES
are made in VANCOUVER
and are imported by
ALEX ROSS & CO. (CHINA) LTD. of HONG KONG.
save £1,000 a day while the Fury" is the 28th in the lobg-in small, but regular
sun shines.
Not so fine for the men who
lived RKO Radlo series.
show the alms in the cinemas. The producer emphasised his While the sun is out they can lose up to £500 a week at the box-office.
Explosivo
ROBERT NEWTON голг
shipments.
more They are charged at
faith in Tarzan's continued popularity by puting 17. of the scrics in the works. The feat will be "Tarzan Meels, the
the Factory and are
Vampire and, like its predicthus received in per-
into a new picture part-cessory, it already is giving Les- as that tough. rough pirate ser Ots. Blackbeard.
To smooth the passag pirate oaths through the sor, the script puts the pletives Into Welsh. They sound more terrifying that way.
of
cen- CX-
HAS TO BE MODERN
"Keeping Tarzan up to date has always been one of my major
Bald. concerns," he
Saya Newton: "Think of mo having to spit out a line like. "Time was when all he had to Liedradaidd, brodyclias, lech-fight was animals, and bare- gwyr, twyllu."
handed at that, World War II
It sounds frightening. But It brought mechanised warfare to merely micans:
Thieves. the jungles, Consequently Tar
rogues, vagabonds, ceivera,"
2.
and
-(London Express Service)
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zan has come face to face with guns and other weapons. He accepts Jeeps as a matter of
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"I can get him through next year without too much trouble, but Heaven only knows what he'll encounter by 1900
Legser is considering intro- ducing helicopters, rudar, gelger
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2091952
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advanco"with" the times,
1
"He might even tangle with the occupants of aging sau cor," Lesser sold. "They would bo portrayed" as heavies: CONTER.
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