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By Lee Falk and Phil Dayik....
SHOWING
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MISS HEPBURN GIVES
THE BOSS A JOLT
-Who's Who. But after 20 years'- and tirell; they want waking up acting in her own country she and shaking out of themselves. arrived on her Brat visit to Wo old 'uns have the energy to London-to answer a four-day do the waking-and-shaking — we've had a Metime of vigorous notice invitation.
"1've nover been
outside training.
"But your modern glamour America before; I did not know even how to fill in a passport girl geta sleepy herself by mid-
night. She just can't take it." form," she told me.
Miss Stevenson is to star
FRESH WIND with Michael Denison and Bul TTOLLYWOODS Dayld 0.
H comedy dle Gray in a new
Selznick Is preparing to called Sweet Peri. "Can't you invade Broadway with a must- find any British actress for the cal stage version of Gone With already the Wind; says that the pre- part, or an American Alving
London?" oakcil parations "will consume at Equity of the management. least a year,”
How much time will the per-- Alter searching for weeks, the management reported that Mar- formance consume?, The screen lasted Indiepen- version, without songs, got Stevenson
for four hours. And how many sable.
What is her pari? A Holly years will the show run when,. wood star visiting a former as I suppose is inevitable, it sweetheart in Cornwall. One reaches London? The film stay of the fow things Mis Steven- ed in the West End for four son has not done in her career, yenra.
By Harold Conway
London. ATHARINE HEPBURN has given her Hollywood K
employers and their London representatives-an unexpected jolt. If she had not just gone home after her six months' visit, she might have suffered the jolt in per- The actress who was once described as "box-office poiron" in her own country has always been a safe draw with British qudiences.
When a top nim star appears Her West End singo
on the singe, the curiosity value season in Shaw was a
'is always good for the box- sell-out. Yet her latest
office. But it seldom helps that Aim with Spencer Hstar's cinema pull as quite a Tracy is being hurried-
few British Alm actresses have ly withdrawn from the
discovered. It is not always wise to satisfy thie
public's Empire
most-
curiosity; the substance is opt to replace the shadow.
'NO' TO FERRER HE Old Vid invited Ameri- Tea's Jose Ferrer, now in
Perhaps Drury Lane had bet- London, to star for them in a she tells me, is to visit Holly-
The wood or act in Elms. I watched ter take out U.S. naturalisation production of Tchechov's Seagullat a salary of just un- this lively newcomer rehearsing papers, and be done with it.
(World Copyright Reserved.—London
after
days - despite
11
10
W
ly favourable notices, publle Bupport has been too small for it to con- tinue.
Only by narrow shave did the picture escape being taken off after the first wook, The Hepburn public did rally for a tow days, and there was n reprieve but the support did not last.
Mr Ferrer, der 250 a week. whose film earnings have been nearer the £1,000 a week mark, suid he would be honoured.
British Equity, on the other hand, oppose the granting of a Lana Turner's Techni-
permit for all Ferrer's distinc- colour Merry Widow
Liob. they say, there are plenty actors who could of English goes into the Empire three daya carly. Miss Hepburn, play the part.
Old Vic have So now the whom London fated in per sustained hog
her first abandoned The Seagull. flop: Mise screen
Turner, would have been difficult to it whose
London visit two years in this extra production in any case," they said the other night. ago was a social failure, comics to the cinema's rescue. "Without Mr Ferrer dim-
the
500,
**
It is an ironic sequel to culty is not worth overcoming" Katharine Hepburn's
London
INDISPENSABLE stage triumph. But it may be MARGOT STEVENSON. is an
chave MA
her
was
for an hour.
report #3 refreshingly unlike Express Service.) any American Bim slor of my acquaintance; nevertheless, she qualifies for the "Indispensable" certificate so far as I am con- cerned.
NON, NON QUOTE FROM SIMONE SIG
NORET, püring her Lon- don visit last week:
"Ten times Hollywood has asked me to go there, ten times Isa No. I have watched Holly trees; Is is not high in one wood's taste in French so-
well-known low
caso, it is culis
when they my I am to thêir taste, too, it makes me lose con Bdence in myself ten times OVER
that the British public
American actress who has been seeing rather a lot of this half a column to herself, in actress lately, in the flesh 43 cluding her New York telephone, THE OLD IDEA
number, in the British theatre
well as on the screen.
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WHEN YOU 200 fashionable night-spots portrayed the screen, the customers aro always, applauding-and, ogling. -bevies of scantily clad young lovelles. That is the producers' idea of what goes on.
In real life? The West End's costliest supper trade is in the hands of three male veterans whose combined ages total 104 the yours. They hate beaten glamour girls to a standstill.
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