THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1952. }
MANDRAKË THE MAGICIAN
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
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NOW,RELAX, LADY. AND TELL US THAT
•HE DIDN'T ——
STORY ALL OVER
AGAIN.
-1 FAINTED
HAVE A HEAD-
HE
ROMEO (E WAS PRAISED
BY THE QUEEN
TURNS TO HYPNOTISM
*SHOW TALK this week examines the case of Alan Badel, who steps from Shakespeare on the wrong foot.
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"OU are a '29-year-old actor who has made a lasting impression at Stratford-on-Avon, who has just played
a distinctive Romeo at the Old Vic—singled out for praise by the Queen. Where would you go from here?
Ainu Badel 110 not hest-
tated. At Elstree he has
hesitated
part
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I HEARD THE DAME TELL THE STORY, MYSELF, OVER AT THE STATION HOUSE, ISN'T THAT A'LAUGH ↑ ****
WE'LL USE IT.WRITEST.
HEADLESS HOLD-UR
MAN ROBBED HE
WOMAN CLAIMS
The boys at the 12th Dist station thought they
CONTINUED
BADEL THEN AND NOW... As Romeo (left) and moustached and bearded for his new film.
by HAROLD CONWAY
despite her objections to tho term-glamorous, Exotic? wouldn't know.
the war.
I
begun acting the role of music-hall hypnotist, in a film in Kila Hayworth's new I have every good will to-
Mother tongue of the Vernon Sylvaine stage Salome picture-"I didn't dare wards Alan Badel не Is UIDO LORRAINE 18 J force, Will Any Gentleman? 1 even look at the daily rushes of French parentage, came
to Polish actor,. D refugeo say he should have
London as
bul took boy,
from Communism.
who has long and thoughtfully,
Hollywood wants him back naturalisation papers so that he been working in British Alm
could night in the British Army,
studios ever since Is this screen choice madness on a seven-year centruct, begin-
made himself without ning with a screen blography hav or method on Badel's
may we be given strength of boosting one of the most dis- During that time he has acted roles of almost every European "Just a desire to stretch myself Richard Wagner. Korda has cussed young actors of today. a litte," he says. "Shakespeure put in a rival bid.
nationality but his own that And yet If ! comes to a tussle De being the way of 0lm produ- can be to cramping without a this is the ptor, on the thresh tween British studios
and cers. change."
old of stardom, who elects to Hollywood over
his
body, T Now Mr Lorraine is being wins. But surely go fim-fooling as a hypnotlat. hope Korda
allowed to speak Poilsh again; Not even Svengali, mind you, young man must stop stretch- but he has to go to Switzer- but a subordinate role In a
ing and frittering away his pro- land to do it. His parte a Con- family romp.
mise Indiscriminately. Versatil ly lo good, triviality dangerous,
munist, Best course of all would be
Yes, but this, actor cannot complain of monotony, Before Romco, he was in Holly- wood playing John the Baptist
THE VOLCANO ERUPTS
To London last month esme the Hallan-made Blm "Vol- cano."
With It came the star, the explosive Anna Magnani her- self. She made the film In competition with the Ingrid Bergman Roberto Rossellini film “Stromboll.”
you
started,
The competition
will
remember, when Rossellini, who had previous- ly paid court to Maguaul, teft
her to marry Bergman and direct her
films. "Volcano"
was part of Magnani's Bery reply.
Said Magnani, "Fm zlad you're going to see the Bim In London. You appreciate a good fim." Marnaul is con- Lident.
Asked about a current pro- Bosal that she should co-star in a film with Ingrid Berg- man, she replied, "I'd like to
this
The picture is A Bit of Heaven, successor to Four Men to leave films alone, for the in a Jeep, in which all the in-
time being and concentrate the stage. It would mean Anancial sacrifice.
on ternational cost talk their own
languages. Nearly all that is. Swedish actress Eva Dalbeck- "But who worries about being hailed in her own coun- money?
being I enjoy acting, not try as a new Garbo--has been money," says the Romeo whom allotted the part of the Polish the Queen "particularly liked." heroine, after a fruitless search
Startling idea
in England.
A
The X director
TOP Hollywood star spends The producers thought it his London visit thinking wiser to avoid Polond itself in long and hard about hypnotism their heroine-hunt; it is scarce- -Gregory Peck. For he has ly that kind of a film. been offered the role of Sven- gall himself in a British, screen
DUE in London soon; an all- version of Trilby.
male film called The Hitch- This Is producer
George Hiker described as a "gavage, Minter's somewhat startling torrid drama set in the Mexi- idea, as reporteti a few cab desert." Who made it?
4
months ago. Now Mr Peck has British-born Ida Lupino, at 34 asked to read the new script: one of Hollywood's very few a hypnotist is not women directors. "Perhaps they something I'd have thought up thought it took a woman to deal "And with a cast of men only," says for myself," he told me. this is the
free played him on the actress who began by play- the stage. John Barrymore on silly-girl rules. now
red-hot dramas.
all fiction Arch-practitioner of Miss Lupino. Also, of course,
int
the silent screen. Obviously. I specialises in the production.ot would stand to be shot at,
"Still, I am curious to see how the role comes out in the present version. It's not an op- portunity fo mo to dismiss lightly."
The Brst picture she made on her own had to get a special LCC dispensation before It could be shown in London. As for The Hilch-Hiker - "Your A Prek-Svengali sounds 80 censars had better give it on X unconventional to me that it certificates
hate should
to might work out effectively. think of children being allowed in," says the one non-comic
!Q
Now we know
member of the Lupino fra
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
While her husband, How from London-visiting Hil- Duff, smoking a British
nim, degarde Neff, Hollywood's new Ida Lupine will keep discreetly German capture, who is being away from the studio--despite described to fury as a inyltalons to hotp. "Directing "Second Dietrich":
a dozen or so men on Mexicań "It isn't true that they wrote
location is one thing," she told my role in the new Hemingway me. "But don't think
I
Am espect the original out-not in England, at
to exploit me - husband-bossing would work
though it
story. The producers wanted a rate."
them roud colle blonde; when
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couldn't find anybody suit- Express Service)! able the role was re-written to fit me."
Note: Miss Neff is brunette and intelligent. She is also
de it. I'm willing to forget | HEALTH PROTECTING the past."
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