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MANDRAKE. THE. MAGICIANS
THIS IS THE BAKERY WHERE YOU BOUGHT
THE BREAD WITH DIAMONOT IN IT?
BUT NO BAKERY. SAYS DRY G0005.
SOMEBODY CHANGED THIS PLACE OVERNIGHT, FROM A BAKERY TO A DRY-6000S STORE
BUTONE THING
THEY FORGOT
TO CHANGE-
[GRCOULDN'T CHANGE --THE DOOR- IT STILL SMELLS LIKE A BAKERY,
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By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
WHYARE THEY STANDING AROUND OUT THERE # WHY. 'DON'T THEY GOT)
This Will Even So Miss Kendall is back
Make A Rhino with Mr. Rank
Jitterbug!
Says SUE DAWSON
If all 'hush-hush' men be- haved as Tyrone Power does in the title role of "Diplo- Rusalan Courier," matic sples-in fact any spy ring would be most grateful, for they would only have to cast an eye about for the most worried and bewildered- looking man on the scene to have their quarry spotted. The tense furrow of our hero's brow.relaxes just twice during the nim; the first time right at the beginning when he falls the
· apy's arch nalcep on
at the shoulder, and the other very end when he and heroine have rolled down a steep mud bank after throwing them
train win- selves out of a dow
All of which should give some idea of
harassing toak which is the lot of this part- **T** cular 'hot message boy.
a postman", he says inno-
ICON somewhore
sho cently Leginning.
Not that much high links as Miko Kells finds himself mixed up in are the usual courier a lot. but. Kells happens to be an old Naval friend of Sam Carew
James Millican)
the State Do- whose boat partment's courier
the Iron Curtain borderland and who has got hold of some vital documents about plans for Russian invasion of Europe,
again
London.
The most disastrous picture Mr. Bank ever made was "London Town," six years 40. It put back Sid Field's screen career with a jolt; it very nearly finished the career at its beginning of a girl named Kay Kendall.
Miss Kendall was practically the first those new Rank contract actresses who ballyhooed around the country before their faces ever appeared on the screen. She was, in fact, the first of those big mistakes.
of.
After "London Town" she re- tired into the seclusion
learn provincial repertory, to about acting; ond it has taken her years of hurd, unpublicised work to reach the road back.
During the past year the Rank organisation have been off-load- ing their contract stars, rather than acquiring new ones.
But they have made an excep- tion; they signed on Kay Kendall for a series of films, beginning with her first starring role-in a comedy called "Genevieve," based on the annual London-to- Brighton veteran car rally.
of wero
SHOW TALK
by HAROLD CONWAY
pretty well for to have done herself in the way of West End debuta. She is not, quite 24.
Witch hunt
a
Last Tuesday a play called "The Trouble-Makers" opened at the Strand. It is the works of 33-year-old American, George Bellak, and is a highly provo». This seems where we, or Miss
about the Com- callvo drama Kendall, came in; Mr Hank munist "witch-hunt" mania in evidently believes in the girl, a small-town university, which And the girl, with a year of results in a student's violent steady come-back progress bo- death, hind her, has begun to believe in heself again. This time sho intends to stay in.
A new line?
The play had a few try-out United In the performances States; Broadway managers mained it, but hesitated to risk their peace-and-quietness with Bo the a regular production, author packed his script brought it to London.
LIKE A LOST PUPPY Kells is dispatched post haste to meat Carew In Salzburg, but his old friend avolds him at the station and
Arlsberg on the
I never *thought to sce Express, so that Tyrone Power just hangs round looking rather Elizabeth Allan-TV's charmer like a lost puppy and making in "What's My Line?", the at-
'Here it is being put on in his little tractive home-comforter of stage meticidous notes book: "Sam has entered the and screen-play the part of a blonde's compartment which is hard, selfish, catty wife. next to his stop he knock stop."
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28-year-old Desmond O'Dono- van, who used to be an actor. Mr. O'Donovan is not afraid of Now I am delighted at the
controversy--which, to judge prospect of her doing so, since from an advance view I had it is high time this talented ac- of the play in Brighton last tross got a chance for some real acting. The plan being dis week, he is going to get. cussed is for Miss Allan to star "If London likes my play, I in a film version of Graham think a Broadway Grecho's novel, "The Heart of fallow," Me Bellak told me. the Matter."
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"Managers there aro braver once they hear the West End has approved."
Raw material
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The blonde is Hildegarde Neff and her second appearaner an English-speaking film gives her much the sauno sort of part, only A far more im- portant one than she had in "Decision Before Dawn."
Karl Malden (Remember? He won an Oscar for his part in With its sultry West African "Stroot-ear Named Desire" setting ita morally sinning hers. actually
does very well as with the heart of a saint, cinema I SCO his point; another "Ernie" the U. S. sergeant, and audiences will find this pleture a American play, Third Person." so does Patricia Neal-the man- startling change from Greene's was produced here (following a
"The Third Man." They should brush with the censor)
after the
Elizabeth
беть Allan every Broadway manager But voice does and ailly, eyes large metamorphosis even more start- turned it down. It opens in New York this month follow- and carest, playing Tanine" ing-if she gets the part.
The wife's character is being ing a successful West Ead run. who
gambles everything for a
down a little in Alm-script toned Viss-how she can net!
American producers
do well forms.but she is still the narrow- minded woman who unwittingly to Europe for they
part of their cast and much of their drives her husband into the arine background, for although the of a young girl and eventually action itret WAB
shot in Holly-into suicide.
Greek singer, Helene Cordet, in musical wood, Twentieth Century Fox Who is the most controversial hand and a make a
are amerarnen have been active in Agure of all in "The Heart of the comedy star of her. We Salzburg, Parts and Trieste, and Matter? The giri-bride whoas short enough of talent in that.
and here
in talent going the film has the foot of these husband dies in a torpedoing feld; and pinces and
- International | disaster, whose subsequent bo to waste. undercurrent. Peter Cheyney's haviour may raise the censor's I have been watching Miss novel
Cordet, on and off, for the past year; her talent has been and off, too-a mixture of un-
Inst I watched her again week on two succosalvo nights: in Mayfair cabaret, where' a would have producer's hand saved the night; on TV, where good directions transformed her. A new Belle Heleno Indeed;
when
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go out to Hammersmith and see 19-year-old Virginia McKenna in "The River Line."
Censor's OK
Work begins soon at Elstree
on a new romantle flm called but lacking an Offenbach, or a "The Moonraker." As a play it new Cochran, to bring out the
dazzle. ran In the provinces for over
six months with Jean Kent; in
the West End it ran tour Broadway Nell ·· nights-also
also with Miss Kent.
The
chiefs have studio
I hear that Marwell Ander
worry fewer than usual, any son, darling of the
American
way they know this produc- highbrows, har spritten a new tion will not encounter trouble play about King Charles II-in and his from the censor. For Britain's which 'Rex Harrison chief film censor, Mr Arthur wife, Lilli Palmer, are to star Watkins,' wrote the story.
off Broadway
"
One in a crowds Jane Griffiths is the daughter of a Rottingdean dentist, and is
vivacious brunette. Like vivacious brunettes (and blondes) before her, she has been trying to get on to the London stage,
And so-producers, in turn,
show; made har an under troop sho study' in a West End play which
TEANNE CLAD-MYRNA LOY DEBRA PAGE packed her off to Germany in a
JEFFREY HUNTER-EDWARD'ARNSL common not run long enough for the|
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This should be fun, if it reaches London In Coronation rummer. An Austrian-born Neli Gwynne, speaking blank verse? (World Copyright lïnserved.----London Express Service.)
SACHA GUITRY FILM. TO. BE SCREENED
The Sino-British Club. Film principal to become ill; sent her Group will be screening the on tour in another play which Bacha Guitry fim, le talent collapsed balora, it could reach(neuf celibataires" at'the Helena
May Institute on). TUCSGORY| Miss Griffis September 30, at 8.15 pm.. Tuesday pens at the New Theatre in an film has been obtained through
of emotional drama called "Hanging | the_courtesy-
Consul for Judge Thera la cast of 20 stance,
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