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THE CHINA MAIL. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1953.
★★★ A SEAT IN THE STALLS ☆ ☆ ☆
KEN SMITH Show Talking
Britain Makes A Star By Giving Him Films To
P
Do!
EOPLE have criticised band of Betty Box-his first Johnson.
· me: "You're ns bad as
the Palladium's Val Parnell;
only you American stars at the
put
ton
3 es a producer.
with
Humphrey Quees.
THE BATTLING JOAN CRAWFORD SPANS THE YEARS BETWEEN THESE TWO PICTURES
Dancing again: A notable girl of 45
DAVID LEWIN
cables from the Film City his
Hollywood Spotlight
Hollywood. JHEN Joan Crawford started work again at the studio
Bogart as Captain A Popular Bully Shooting starts July 1. ONALD'S colleague from
Studio Quandary The Cruel Sea, Stanley MGM are in # quandary. W Haker, gets a break now George
M The 5,000,000 - · dollar of your bill. How about Sanders has withdraws from damages sult they were bring which a quarter of a century ago
1he cast of Knights of the ing against Mario Lanza has going all over British some
Round Table. ("Fliming with been settled by mutual agree time?"
Rosselini in Italy was too ment," So this week I will-much. I'm completely worn
Lanza has given the studios thanks to the Rank Organi-out, I must go back to Hally the right to use his recordings
wood for a rest"). He
of the Sigmund Romberg sation.
Sanders' role.
song In The Student Prince. But Marlo will not ap
IL
Meet Mr Donald (The Cruel Sea) Sinden, British film actor who's being given a most unusual build-up to stardom - he's making films.
takes
Twenty-six-year-old Stan-
ley, who portrayed the boor and braggart Bennett,
你
steadily making a name for himself as a bully.
Following The Big Jump and Hell Below Zero, both with
Alan Ladd, he takes over
Muural. arch
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foe of King
pear in the film. He re-
corded the songs before the fim' was postponed Jast
year.
made her a star, Clarke Gable sent a basket of chocolates from Italy as a present, Fred Astaire visited her set carrying a forest of roses, and her poodle had a new bed with a red silk cover.
Joan Crawford's return gave the Sunset Boulevard story vivid life. She is a star in the old style and she is the only one left at World,
silent again.
Gforla
Swanson
Norma
Meantime, MGM had hoped Shearer, who was Crawford's great rival, is at my hotel, still blonde and attractive, but saying, "No one remembers me today."
that Vie. Damone would take now role; but over Lanza's
And that, friends, after a series of "stars" whose re- Arthur, in MGM's remake, due that the Lanza volce will be putations rest on opening to start at Elstree next month. used Mr Damone
garden fetes, autographing and making. photographa personal appearances,
Ncw8.
is
Just look at this 28-year-old, six-footer's schedule.
Late Overture
STAPLE Item in any
A musical is the overture."
In the new Richard Rodgers Oscar Hammerstein 11 show, First, The Cruel Sea; second Me and Juliet, opening in New the moment that epic was York on. Thursday (arriving
Lane Fometime with Clark Drury role
19557) the overture is missing from its time-honoured, Mogamba Ava Gardner
curtata risc, position.
Inished - j Guble
In
No. 3 is A Day To Remem ber, a comedy which producer Betty Box is just anishing at Pinewood,
pre-
But don't ret alarmed. There is an overture, but it
ها
not heard until 16 minutes after the curtain ND this month
rises. he begins
It is al a point when the work as the lar of Edwin Hyan's hilarious fantasy Sul-plot-within-a-plot calls for a
it on the overture-and gets it. vester (you'll see Screen, I'm sorry to say, as You Know What Sailors Are). Donald back in the Surgut vice only this time he'll make you laugh.
Technicolour #lm puts
Four pictures in his Brat year in ms- must be a British record,
Donald himself remains un-
moved by the fume and tidy fortune,
the
He looks less like a film stor than almost any man f know. His neat sult and tho whito collar, his shy smile and quiet
him as manner, stamp
more
like that pleasant chap next door who lends you his lawn- mower, rather than the success- ful entertainer.
Agate's Advice---
THE son of a Sussex chemist,
Another Mutiny
RED MacMURRAY has join- ed the all-star cast for Stanley Kramer's production of The Caine Mutiny (like The Cruel Sea, also serialised in the Sunday Chronicle).
He will have the role Keefer.
keen.
is not 50
His Ambition
TADGAR DERGEN, who Ar- rived in London last week, tells me that he would like to re-make The Great Gabbo-the original version starred von Stroheim 24 years ago -- with Jumes Mason as a ven- iloquist, Charlie McCarthy as the dummy and himself as the voice.
Short Takes
Erich
on
PRITAIN'S Veronica Hurst, who went to Hollywood to make The Maze will stay and do □ secondi picture -- The African Rifles, an adven Lurc romance, in colour..... David O. Selzalék, al
London with wire
So Youthful
red. But Joan Crawford, 45-years-old, with hair, a youthful figure and wide snapping eyes. is buck showing the youngsters how it should be done.
Fivo secretaries tend her. Her dressing-room (former tenant, Ava Gardner) is a suite with even the curtains perfumed.
Miss Crawford has moved in a radio and re- frigerator, a stove, a special easy-chair and her own bedding. She sleeps there six nights a week and goes home on Sundays.
'My Struggle'
Why is the the last of her line? Jom Crawford thrusts the answer at you: "In my day It was a strug- gle and I battled for my position, You had to be tough to stay and 1 had a hard driving ambition which I had to throttle down to prevent myself becoming hard all through.
"Today's stars are pampered and rett they become lazy. They all back and singe let someone make them up.. I do Jones, plans a musical
few my own. They learn a version D( Conc With The lines and they net. Wind. .it's James Stewart and
Allyson
June Glenn Miller
years out of
Today. singing and dano ing again ой сма
screen for the Arst time in 13 years, Joan Crawford hardly has the appearance of a 45-year-old womtan... Yet think a moment: a chuis born when the small photograph of Joan.
was taken would now be 25....
indignity. But I had my four
favourite sly in a studio prop trunk. No Love for Solé, self-respecting elephant would which I gave ever have done that... to Elisabeth Welch."
-(London Express Service)
Judy Garland, sitting on the
for That Isn't enough. I imow adopted children as a comfort." floor with a blue dress billow- ing out around her "lke a toad- Story...the the hardness of life.
to Douglas stool," sang li while Cole Por- Her marriages was No Bed Of Her three of British film
work Fairbanks, jan., Franchot Tone, ter beat time with his sticlt.z. Own has been changed to (1938-41). I was box-office and Phillp Terry, were not Blolard Burton stood up to Already signed: Jose Ferrer Don't Blame The Stork. poison then. I struggled and I success. Crawford had to claw proclaim. Shakespearfan solito- (Lawyer Greenwald) and Van Hmm!
came back. "Idleness
quies to music and shot his
tress shirt cuffs, revealing they were fastened with safety Alm, pina......
equals her way back to the top alone.
Blackface
A Lot Of Sadness At
The End Of The Road
architecture he threw up
for the ginge. When repertory
new
Today, in her "Torch Song," she sings and And everyone laughed at dances again after 13 years,letier from Noel Coward in and even goes blackface.. London, in which he described
She has a new leading man, the West End night
Įhimself as "The Mistinguett of Michael Wilding, who plays a Then we all went quietly home.
clubs. blind planist with charm.
Typically, despite all the hee tic hurry of Hollywood filming. and Michael Wilding relaxes
Tommy Farr has retired from the ring irrevocably. Perhaps they "I am an old actor who
High-Drama
WHO SAID elephants were
lucky? On the
Him
Boss cross?
Serve RICKSHAW
Memo
Be sure to insist.a...
RICKSHAW CEYLON TEA
Against
ALWAYS
skin disease and itching
Mitigal
AGENUINE BAYER'PRODUCT, MANUFACTURED IN LEVERKUSEN, GERMANY
ER
CORONATION
work falled to pay off, he best of all British heavyweights-with the exception of Bob Fitzsimmons believes in learning his part. "Elephant Walk" they just mean PHOTOGRAPHIC
Cought advice from the James Agate.
late
The famous crille's reply: "Join a dramatic school,*** Donald did. Then came more
repertory, fours of France, Bel- gium, Germany, India and Bur- ma playing to the Forces, season with the London and Bristol Old Vics. And then at Jong
End slinl In
West
The Heiress.
Finally, while playing in Red Letter Day he was spotted and tested for The Cruel Sea.
Sim As Co-star
Farr has been handicapped the entire course of his comeback these past two years with a particularly badly cut eye. The injury was aggravated in his final Championship eliminator with Don Cockell, so now the Welsh Warrior cries "Enough" on doctors' advice.
When I visited him at his charming Hove home, backing on to the Sussex County Cricket Ground, his charming wife, "Monty," voiced how thankful she was that it was all over.
the
knowing the character
he
playing, and then scurrying back to the safety of his dressing- room when it is all over."
In the midst of all the Craw- ford presents the im started. The gifts were not all one way, A wise star, Miss Crawford gave her director a basket con- taining a pullover and 12 lamb chops.
coma
tis
about fils new status: "I deeply ingrained facial scars of is that Joe Louis just best metre? Tommy has a yen for wald: "They didn't pay to get
13
Q
arc real
2
"For two years now," she said, in pit rough and tumbles, booths, though my wind and technique "I have been under almost third rate tournaments, unbearable strain, and I nimost headliners and they led me to
and were unimpaired."
Marx Brothor Farr may have been a novice
faced feel that I have suffered almost the New York ring for the World in the business world, but there GROUCHO MARX as much 09
ringside as Championship. Much has been is as much of the poet in him as -eight cameras, peered at Tommy has inside it."
sald and written about that fight, in any Celt, and, like Freddie the audience which had DON
ONALD'S only comment Farr, who always carries the but, candidly, my honest opinion Mills, he can talk engagingly on to watch the filming of
What many subjects.
of the workly television show. and belleve I'm finding out what his days below ground in the this Alming
all Rhondda Valley business
coalpits, said:
series "My big pride was that I had
of in: their journalism, and
standards about.
There is a lot of sadness at the upheld British boxing.
I was articles he is shortly to publish low." He will have Alastair Sim, as end of the road, and it has been comfortably situated Anancially in a Sunday paper are all his
Groucho's new carcer es co-star In You Know What a long one. I have been fighting when the War came, but after it own work, unlike so many re-
TV show 1 under the quiz-master on Sailors Are, and Ken Annakin for over a quarter of a century was over I lost a five Agure sum
ports that appear as director,
in business ventures in which 100
gives him every opportunity to HKFC BOWLS TEAM wes a baby. So I had to go
names of famous en.
itted exercise From the time
his astringent wit - the ring at an The following are the H.K.F.C, back into
postponed advanced age to keep my wife himself out of the ruck following generally at the expense of his for the selections
his defeat by Eddie Phillips for audience or the dontestants in First Division lawn bowls match and family,
the Cruiserweight Championship the quiz. "We have never been broke, at Mountain Ash I saw all his against the C.C.C. now taking place at 5.15 pm, on Thursday. far from it, but more money was Championship and
top-of-the- I honestly bill fights-Foord, Neusel, Olin, G. Verrall, T, Styles, T. Mor-needed to be secure. gan, M. N. Rakusen, A. Flaxman, thought that I could win back Bear, Loughran, etc. and Forr's McColl, E. Liddell, K. For the British title for which I was own opinion is that his greatest
E. TOW; F. Gee, T, Dyer, J.nover beaten, but the years de-
—ARCHIE QUICK. the Watson, B. 1. Bickford, Reserve i teated me. My legs went back night was against Beer, not Louis, cameraman, hands of Peter Rogers hus--J. Tayler.
Ainakin will use the pre-planning training he received while making Walt Disney's Robin Hood And The Sword And The Rose, with the meticulous use of drawn cartoons of 'ench
shot, which I told readers
about last year,
Production will be in
TALK ABOUT AN UPSET,
OUR SPARROW
IS WORSE THAN AN ARGENTINE
DISCUSSING
·ENGLISH SOCCER
THE MCC MADE X3 FIGURE IGCOPE AND...
on me, the reflexes were slower,
COMPTON'S RETURN TO FORM
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TO MY UNION
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ND WAYE MY FLAG
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EVICTED HIS PAL
THAT WHEN THEY STOP.
„THE LORD'S PIGEONA
FOR A DISCUSSION
FROM THE BOX!
YOU
IT'S NOT ABOUT TACTICS
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BUT HOW TO SPEND THE MONEY
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"I never find anything that 1 dy funny. others do." forward
marvel that
Then he stepped
"He worked with
to Introduce his
ths on our films. Which explains
why he is out of the business,” One of the quiz team claim- ed that he was from Britain and said: "I have a castle in Scotland, that goes back to the | Afteenth century."
Said Groucho: **That's oll right. I have a home that goes back to the Bank of America,"
Party Lines
AT MY FIRST big Holly-
tho wood party,
hostess Joan Feldman, wife of a Holly- wood producer and agent, wore ja wlille frock,' a pleased smile, and. camera with a flashlight round her neck... Through the evening she took pictures.
·This was a formal_party__— everyone in evening dress, Cola Porter,
younger-looking Cochran with a stick, unt at the "plano "helping the: planist
with his own compositions.
"I write misie because I am stago struck,” Porter said, "My,
Crawford, 1928
ork
accidents.
Then
First. Vivien Leigh. Elizabeth Taylor, Now
It is British Actor Abra- ham Sofser. He has to do
1
a scene in which
(clockwork) trunk sweeps him into the air. It Jans- med.
Sofner was hold aloft gripped tight-
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