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THE PRIVATE LIFE
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JOAN CRAWFORD
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1954.
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| OH-CHANTHERE'S ANOTHER ONE**
LUCKY THAT MISSER ME? IT DISINTEGRATES ROCKI
AVERA RYNDICAER, de
6-10
FILMS-CURRENT AND COMING
I'm not going to take uny further nhend
80
By JANE ROBERTS
you than
this next week in "Current and Coming"
snatched from their grasp by n unavoidably I shall be sharp lawyer who knows the covering ground that
is exact counter regulation which probably a little familiar will free his client. to you.
However, to get
It's no wonder that in on
a clear view of any objec- tive you've got to look at It from many points of van- tage, so perhaps An audi- nisphere such as this, crime
flourishes ke the green tional opinion will
buy give
tree. My only slight quarrel
NO WONDER
I'd like to deal with "TORCH SONG," at the Capitol und Liberty with "FLIGHT TO TANGIER in mind, in order, Brst of all, to indulge a little femininity and comment once mor from the clothes angie.
cope in this ploture with LYTO X, the Ivory Queen, in the person of Monique Van Vooren. I'm told she's
nes a Belgian beauty WE with a voluptuous figure ani distinct
personality. To and out what they mean, look up "s- net" in the dictionary. Any- way, she should be at home in the Jungle! Joyce Mackenzie is still Torzarys mate.
W
Crossing
10
tho water Both films are coloured, but while the girls of "FLIGHT TO Kowloon, I'd like to mention two competent pictures of the TANGIER" were probably
the end of the picture that they
"hada't a THÌNG
to wear Crawford in "TORCH SONG" couldn't possibly have complained on that score,
you a better idea of what with "FLIGHT TO TANGIER Arguing with the director before Majestie next week. Hounds like your particu- was that the villains were all
and the way very villainous
other lar eup of ten in the
sidde in the end were all of pictures.
true blue.
The Roxy and Broadway are I sold at the beginning that continuing their successful cum the story's just porsibly beley- uf HOW TO MARRY A pun. Well, it is. Pilots Do get MILLIONAIRE" through next
sums to By private week and da case you Jurky Pala large
without Planer,
delvinis lop why the reasons deeply inlo they're hired. Arch foreign governments DO sometimes kill two birds with one stone
by engaging in a little
buying and selling of dubious good* throwing the blame on the poor peace-loving capituliat cou
iricals who've already seen haven't reguled you with all the drthits yet. here are u few them. Stars: Marilyn Monroe. Lauren Bacall and Betty Grable Story: Three ways to get a man, preferably a millionaire. Enter
tainment value: Very good.
and
EXOTIC AS EVER
didn't count her outfits, but almost every sequence shower her in a different one. However, mink, sweater and practice ughts or just a simple little yellow negligee, Jonh looked us exotic as ever.
WHA
J's definitely her picture. She
They'll bo screening "AP- POINTMENT IN HONDURAS
Ang again Glenn Ford and Sheridan among the trees this time (can't we get away from that this jungle?)-and afler "AFFAIR WITH A STRAN- GER."
DIFFERENT MATURÉ
face-contorting
The latter shows a very dif- ferent Victor Mature from the fellow we saw In "THE ROBE." Smoothed into Jean suit and with a lounge Simmons ne his attractive wife, "AFFAIR WITH A STRANGER" he plays the part successful playwright.
The King's and Princess wit ries. But I'm letting the story dominates it. The story is about of
"Killer Ape" next feak out and that won't do.
TALES OF THE Crý,"
haven't been
said
What I can
n
נולד
of
VOLI
Is
do, though, give you a few Interesting fucts about that survivor of so many animal pictures-Jungle
Jim, otherwise known
Johnny Weissmuller.
"WOMEN
intro-
wife
on
10
has
the
be starting
a successful (thank goodness not week after the Chinese picture
"FLIGHT
a has-been making a come-back) America's preoccupation with My Bnal word on 1
ΤΟ TANGIER"
the that musical comedy star who is so television is suggested by the $00 "Killer
good and knows that the use of this melum to colour is lovely, Corinne Calvet Ape", so I can't recommend it
and Joan Fontaine are delect- drives all her co-workers to the duce the plot to the audience. as "on anhinal picture to take
tele- able and Jack Palance can't verge of hysterin with her bad The story starts when the whole family to" lu case possibly leave you neutral.
temper and impossible demands. vision commentator sets Broad- Killer Ape with a Jul
way talking with the news that crunch devours the heroine and
OF PARIS"
There are soine frightfully the playwright and his leaves you with
neat Bitle French ilm-(thank corny herd
lines-that ኣቲ about are heading for divorce. hysterical children
its goodness
players speak "lounging in front of the fre French, with the captions only with a good book and a bad The Bilm then goes hands,
In English and that it's not woman" crops up among them how how this situation dubbed. us Wax "GOLDEN but there a many compensa-
aboul-it's a como
material MARIE-with, as background. tions.
success story really, up to a night club enlles "The Blue
time of the threatened separa- ton, Jean Slimmons is a much There's Ribbon".
[1 hard-boiled pro-
after, but durer
lonely player by a
veteran cought
Victor
Mature actor who's model and HAMBRA are showing it before supporting par
struggling writer. They marry always worth watching (Henry "LOVE LOTTERY". "Did I say
Morgan) and if you Like him, ung It doesn't seem so very maby
scenes que tie ensuing the background? Some of the night there's Michael Wilding, simply combination of their years ago since he earned the title of "King of the Interno- the
tional Swimming
Pools," by the same length as they would zing sweetness and light and and public trials and being the current holder of five bu in a live show, making the manly fortitude in spite of his story Incidental to the revue, Olympic swimining champion rather than giving the film the ships and of some 67 world story with swimming records. a few of
ground" treatment. which haven't been besten yet. He retired graceful Into films with the enviable reputation of never having ist un event in which he competed.
OS
In "KILLER APE", the feminine interest is provided by Carol Thurston.
CHIFFON SCARF
The QUEEN'S
nind AL-
club numbers are produced to
a musica!
back-
blindness!
But to get back to Joan Craw- ford-and you really can't get away from her in "TORCH
lind All in all it is very well done SONG" you'll
that, and looks quite
up to date, whether you like the character which is more than could be
she portrays or not, she's made said for 4 certain so-called it At her Ülke a second skin. A "modern" Italian comedy I saw remarkable women to be look recently.
ing Ag attractive, colourful, trim and active as she does at her "X" years.
сал
A
The revue artists really dance and many of the comedy Incidents will make you chuckle. It's her first picture for Metro- Brigitte Auber us Giselle is en- Goldwyn-Mayer for ien years chanting, with something of and the studio must be feeling Michele Morgan about her, but Following Jungle Jim thero
with a slightly more elfin charinery pleased to get her buck, on will
"FLIGHT be
TO than the rather cold Michele.
showing like "TORCH SONG". The songs are good and quite TANGIER"--or six ways to
capable of standing alone as drape a lime green chiffon scarf. Perhaps I'm showing you the
popular numbers in the record world. film a little out of focus, because, wildly improbable though the story may seem, it's exciting and believable. You just possibly
can't
though, whether you're male or female, get away from the provocative presmice of Corinne Calvet AND that chiffon
svart.
Throughout the film she wears the came outāta delicious lime green, pearl trimmed sweater, a skirt a
few shades lighter that looks as though it has been poured on and the scarf. seart is a hem length drifting affair
that she BERTITS to be wearing a different way in each sequence.
STOPS SKY-SCANNING
As
of
LOVE
RUB SHOULDERS
Crime and
Lansbury,
tfans.
a
domestic tribula-
Monira Lewis (the singer you've possibly heard pulling over some of the popular re- cord hits)
is the ostensible reason for the Baal break-up.
From the serious mood of The Simmons-Mature domestle troubles, let's take a look at those bothering Ruth Hussey and Dennia O'Keefe in
THE LADY WANTS MINK" at the Empire. Filmed in Trucolour, this one is the age-old story of the wito who, when given camel-hair coat by her husband, says "thank you" with an eye on the mink coat of her neigh- bour.
friend
TO MATCH
the name
songs car
il
Hard boiled Eve Arden is the neighbour, married to
our old Professor Buisson, the Nobel prize winning astronomer
William Demarest, K Demarest signifies who deserts his laboratory at a crucial moment in his planel-
nothing, you'll recognise him in watching in order to go to the rub shoulders in "REMAINS TO the figure in countless racing light-heartedness a second when you see him, as help of a girl he's never seen, BE SEEN," which will be taking comedies who always wears Michel Simon is a very lovable, over as soon as "TORCH SONG" loud check suit and is saddled dignified old gentleman who can be believed in however improbe makes way for it. Its star tre with a personality to match.
Van Johnson (Esther Williams- able the situation.
less) and June Allyson. There We all know how It is lo
easy Comedy, British style, is the are lots of false clues, two make money as a second-hand
bodies, three popular keynote
"THE
dcoler, don't we.
Well, Picture's it (Tool, toot, Tootsie" "Taking a William Demarest is one and LOTTERY". The
can afford
a mink Technicolour and in it Daviu chance on leven and "Too mar- therefore This
Niven is seen as a Bim star with vellous for words" all tried and coat for his wife. It's all so a yearning to be a little more
tested; and a brunetto Angela altaple. Ruth Hussey's efforts than the Idol of thousands of film
neki a nice way of course, she's fans. He's tired of the hysteri-
that sort of a girl—to get a mink cal women whose devotion has June Allyson is allowed more
The glamour than usual and in this coat for her very own, form the made him a movie star. seems to
film manages to get in quite a adaptation of the Broadway basis of the plot of this picture. few digs at the star system, play you'll see her as a dance Well, what have we here--
definitely victor Mature again! Lounge. without, of course, condemning band vocalist of the
undreamy variety,
suit off, pleaso Mr Mature, and let's see what you can do with Van Johnson, although in the role method of The comedy In the film in
of the Prince of David Niven's lifted eyebrow manager of a co-operative apart of the sweater. Jour Fontaine's
rod-hot some time ago as an up and technique is of the more subtle well suited to the script given ambition to be
drummer. With the two stars coming British star, is also on kind. Except for her one him.
showing auch characteristics. the cast list of "THE VEILS OF change, she goes through
as is Virginia film with a sift upper lip,
you'll have an idea of the BAGHDAD,"
Field: magneta shirt blouse and
general temper of the film. white flared skirt.
The partod is 1535 A.D.-the days of the Ottoman Empire... them, Victor and between Mature and Mari Blanchard (as a princess in the disguise of a dannot) release the political Brisoners, foil the plotters and vanquish the villains in the best Arabian Night tradition.
Joan Fontaine, too, be working with a limited wardrobe in "FLIGHT TO TANGIER."
Corinne Calvet's straight- from-the-shoulder
it.
fighting for central shortcter, conveyed in the situation and sericus-minded job-he's the Baghdad, in Technicolour. Guy Jack Palince, is symbolised by and slightly bewildered air aro ment house...nourishes a secret uite, who I seem to remember
the
The best lines in the dim go to these two girls and naturally the best of the colouring.
Peggy Cummins and Anne Vernon are a freshly pretty pair of girls who grace the picture quite happlly and there's abo that fascinating villain, Herbert Lom, born in Czechoslovakia, to lend a Continental flavour to the whole thing.
Angela
slinky Lansbury's sophistication is a far cry from the Cockney servant girl of earlier day and makes an effee tive contrast with the offerves cint June Allyson.
During the war it was the elly of Lisbon that formed the I and Felix Aylmer's diction background for most of tho always a delight to listen to and John Beat is a sinister doctor adventure Aims folding an in! If you share my admiration for who does his bit, with Louis ternational background Now this delightful old gentleman, Colhem to mix up the plot lo ttoyk the Honour gods to you'll be glad to know that the misleading manner so dear. Tingler. So dontradictory are you'll and him. In "THE LOVE to the hearts of erinte alm the rules and
regulations LOTTERY."
producers. Dorothy Dandridge governing the free port
thar "It's not "hard to see how the
Another very small part
?
"THE LOVES OF CARMEN" will be ning the shoes of ""THE LADY WANTS MINK!! A very, vay fres, transcription of Pros per Marimewa original tåle which poor hard working international that of a chamber maid The Lee is Great World with daims to be musically unrelated poils are completely tangled in taken by Hattie Jacques. If the also be echoing to jungit aries to the opera, We in Mechirilt/tour. the complicated web.
namo docen't mohn anything to next week, in, fact they've ofid in case you'd forgotion, has you think back to the
with Bia Hayworth and Glenn. Ford They act on ONG gulation, ITMA GAL
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