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FILMS
"The Constant Husband”
is a delightful comedy with
Current & Coming
BY JANE ROBERTS
that little extra something The New Films At A Glance
that British films so often lack - glamour. There are, in fact, no less than six a8- sorted types of glamour, from
the sophisticated elegance of Kay Kendall to the winsome prettiness of Jill Adams via the Contin- ental charm of Nicole Mauroy.
There are the wiyes-a seventh touch of decoration is added by Rex Ilarrison's lawyer at his trial [or polygamy--Margaret Leighton.
It's not merely a face and fashi show however,
the skuntiny have been well thought out atk Rex Harrison's delivery of his many witty lines ደኛ polished and well-timed us
evor.
lugubrious
There's also Cecil Parker to provide more loughs with that nli-is-lost manner that
is a perfect foil for Rex Harren's breeziness, and George Cole, seen briefly as the brother volatile of the the inost wives-Nicole Maurey,
of
Rex Harrison lands himself in the law court because of a bud case of amnesla-he has wokert
in a small hotel in Wales to
ver that without having the discover slightest recollection of having -done so, he has married one after
the other, six wives,
A masier at the art of sum- dimcult situation
with the lift of an eyebrow and a demecatory chuckle he gem- bols through this dim like mischievous Puck.
Although professing himself to be thoroughly disgusted with The ercalure he was before re-
hus evering
memory, he nevertheless gives every Indica- tion of enjoying himself immensely.
Obviously a lot of time has
been spent
en working out the detail of this fim. The girls are well contrasted and the choice as the Margaret Leighton
dc-
Ierniine bist competent Lender tf the much-married champion couldn't have been bettered.
This is IE of the best light
films I have seen for a long time and a sure cure for back balance blues.
Surprise For
A Banker
Barry Sullivan and
SHOWING
EMPIRE: "Loopholo": A happily married bunk clerk, a shortage in the cash box'and an expensive blonde add up. to trouble for Barry Bullivan. With him aro Dorothy Malone and Mary Beth flughes. HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Jupiter's Darling": Two armies walt while Hannibal 'dailles under the walls of Rome with a Roman maiden. Howard Keel. Esther Williams and Marge and Gower Champion.
KING'S and PRINCESS: "The Man From Bitter Ridzo": A western cattle vs, sheep. lex Barker, Stephen McNally and
Corday.
Mara NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "The Constars Husband": An amnesia case discovers to his horror, that he has six live wives, Rex Harrison, Margaret Leighton, Kay Kendall and Cecil Parker.
QUEEN'S and ALHAMDRA; "Duel in the Sun": A good son,
a bad son, a half Indian girl and some love scenes that have taken their inspiration from the desert sunsets, Jennifer Jones, Gregory Peck and Joseph Colten ROXY and BROADWAY: "Hansel and Gretel": Electrically
controlled puppets in the old Grimm fairy tale.
COMING
EMPIRE. KING'S and PRINCESS: "Run for Cover": A sheriff with a past tries repeatedly and profitlessly to reform a young wastrel, James Cagney and John Derek. HOOVER and LIBERTY: “Marle Antoinette”: A re-issue with Norms Shearer, Robert Morley and Tyrone Power that Induces nostalgia for the days when Shearer was Queen of
the Screen.
NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "Royal African Rifles"; Á
game of hunt-the-stolen-rifles in British East Africa. Louls Hayward and Veronica Hurst,
QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA; "Pirates of Tripoll": Buccaneers on the Barbary Coast, a captive princess and all the familiar swashbuckling trimmings.
"Mr
Roberts": Life aboard an American naval ship is
the captain and sweetened by Suured by
the first Hieutenant ROXY and BROADWAY: "Green Magic": A Journey across South America from the Atlantic to the Pacific, taking in the Matto Grosso, the plains of Paraguay and the heighis of the Andes. Photographed Ferranicolour,
Jennifer Jones and Joseph Colten in a scene from "Duel in the Sun"
.
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recover some Vickers machine guns which have disappeared from his ship.
hard-side and rowdy cattle-, letting the skle down badly.
looking for a bold pirate to win back dom, stolen from
surper.
resourceful
her king- her by Q
Nowadays the canvassing is dono ut cocktail parties,
a
Patricia Medina 15 VITY lovely and about as regal as fluffy kitten.
Paul Henreid flourishes his sword as though he knows what he is doing, but is less at home firing a cannon---how unkind of the cameraman to record most unpirately flinch.
his
Back in the boudoir scenes ho appears more at home and tho princess succumbs gracefully, rewarding him suitably for his assistance.
QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
SPECIAL TIMES: 2.30, 5.00, 7.20 & 9,40, P.M.
SHOWING TO-DAY
THRILL TO ITĘ MOVE TRONSAND MEMORABLE MOMENTS
-
WIDE SCREENE BAYRAM DAS
DUEL
the SUN
- Tasksinler
JENNIFER JONES GREGORY PECK-JOSEPH COTTEN
*** LIONEL BAKESHORE BEDIENT MAISHALI BALERAYAAN WALKER MESTONE ENGRLES MENTORE
DUNG VOOR
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QUEEN'S
5 SHOWS
ALHAMBRA
AT 11.30 A.M. ONLY Walt Disney's
Animated Puppet "Duel in the Sun" COLOR CARTOONS
Show
"Hansel and Gretel" is not
a cartoon and it's not a pup- pet show, The finished pro- duct lies somewhere between the two.
The Kineming, as the little models have been christened, are superior cartoon characters in that they are not mere draw- Ings, and more naturai than The electrical im- puppets as pulses that control thom climinate the need for puppet strings.
Neither are limb and body
their creator
they confined to
movements
given them
facial movements making their range of expression greater of both cartoons or than that
puppets.
Not being very fond of either cartoon or marionettes I and it vimeuli to comment
this 00 plcture other than as a pains- taking achievement by designer James Summeru.
In conjunction with Michael Mycrberg he has worked on the in for 14 years and appears to have come up with an entire- ly new method of using animal-
eel tal{$«
Universal's Future
Before
men on the other, the campaign His daughter-proudly billed. No doesn't limit itself to harsh by the aforementioned authority words and innuendoes.
as "an English actress" foils
Plans
It
#
was
and after (and a little during) а delicious Chinese dinner given by Universal Pictures of Hongkong on Dorothy Malone are a hap- Bitter Ridge" and the script xent inland from Mombasa. to
Tuesday, the assistant foreign pily matried couple at the writer chose the fight provoker
manager of the parent com- beginning of "Loophole". of all time as his excuse for all
pally in America, here on a Security being their goal the gunplay-an election.
Hazon visit, spoke enthusias they have finally come with- Even the most pollte citizens Intended for the "English tiently about future. plass.
have been known to
East Used as we are to to indulge in regiment holding British
the super in sight of it and are looking the satisfaction of an accurately Africa" (I'm quoting from the latives that cover everything forward to a future free hurkd epithet at election time "Press Book) they have been ap- in the film industry with from worry.
and when the protagonists are proprinted by a rotter known as rose-tinted spray, Mr Cohn's
sheep farmers on Cunningham-who seems to be
claims and promises appeared
and moderafe, oth
new
''Score" · being planned by the com→ pany although a limited amount of ume was being spent on perfecting present techniques Instead, sensibly enough, they
were
COX- on thie Already
Vistavision and CinemaScope processes. Cautiously conservative on this side, they were channelling their resources into buliding situs (tho operative
"building" being opposed to launching catchy faces with no acting ability) and acquiring meaty stories with
strong human
He is 23 bank elek in a the Onc responsible position und is ex- pecting. A visit from the examiners. He knows that he has nothing to worry about and Lex Barker has been called the plot and Dad gets eaten by that the books will be in in to investigate series of crocodiles, poor fellah, order.
The of course, is
stage coach hold-ups when the under way and
that the books are not an order hus a prelly rough time before The Princess Andring
and are out to
the
tune
he out-manoeuvres
Stephen $50,000. By the time that McNally for the favours of Sullyan has recovered from Mars Corday
and forces the
this shock, a week-end has gone last cattleman to bite the dust, by and he looks more and more guilty.
His
future
comTM
collapses
from the bank and although he has a strong suspicion of the culprit's identity he is forced to work as a store clerk, a service stalin attendant and a taxi
pletely when he is dismissed
hls
money.
honds
on
Nemesis For
A Rotter
The Pirate
"Pirates of Tripoli” as the title suggests, haя some faint connection with a city on the northern coast of Africa.
In order to make identifica- tion of any of the present day landmarks impossible however, it is set in the 17th century whom a princess in an off-the- dresa and golden sandals could roam the streets
driver before being able to get "The Royal African Rifles" the missing is original for these days in that it only goes back as for as 1014.
In it, Louis
shoulder Hayward is a lieutenant in the Royal Navy
Pistols At
The Polls
advanced
new
word
35
proach With the Increased production, we shall bo seeing, under the tho Universal flag, more of such store as Rock Hudson, Piper Laurie, Tony Curtis, Mamio van Doren,
Jeft Chandler arch Cornell
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Borchers.
Money Is Not Important
A bell is ringing in myTRATFORD-ON-AVON - Sir head on the subject of "con-mirence Olivier, regarded flipt". While musing over by some as the greatest living the thought that no western actor, is currently perform- Shakespeareon Ing on tho worth its salt gets far with-
Memorial Theatre stage for out the hero and villain pep- less money than the average paring each other with hot bit player receives in a Holly- lead, it occurred to me that
wood movie. nat oven a comedy hus much point unless there's friction of some kind introduced into the plot however light- hearted the treatment.
Lore
Salaries for Shakespearean ne- are ridiculously small, and this is especially true of the play handed out to thespians enacting the Dard's works in this historic War-
speare's works as a tribute to his literary genius," sald Olivier, "One does not con-
house is reputedly equal .to half, the cash Olivier is re- ceiving from his 'work.
sider the financial remunera. Olivier, of course, has been a tlons involved."
ติ
The pay for Shakespearean ac
tors at the world-famous Old Vic Theatre in London slightly less than the rale for - Stratford players. Stare at the Old Vic get less than £40 a week.
·
It's Prestige
for
Shakespearean devotor much of his acting career. Ho recently
Shakespeareled his third
film, "Richard III." the story of the hunch- back who schemed his way to Abus English throne.
"It Richard III proves 'as successful as its predeces- sow, 'Hamlet' and 'Henry V.' I
wickshire town, 93 miles. Prestige is the main factor, Ac-.
toro who perform in Shake-. As spearean productions invari-' ably receive lucrative offers from stage and nim producers a result, because an actor must be good to portray adequately any o of the Bord's characters.
It was 'then that the first warning elang prepared me for the deftating reflection that my conclusion was very.far from being original and that at least one respected and much- quoted philosopher has dealt with the subject st great lengthing in his
north of London. Olivier and his wife, Vivien Leigh, are dedicated) Shake- spearean supporters, however, and money, is of no importance to them when it
comes to plays.
and with dooper insight. The bell will continus to ring and his name rises to the surface.
Conflet there is without any cainoulless. in. "The Man From
why the Oliviers agroch co-mir hare in three plays.
to
and "Tllus Andronicus."'
"Twelfth Night," "Macbet{1}}
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During their stay here for the Biratford, wowson, the Oliviers. have rented a house in the "My wife and I are mainly, in-country near this town,
The farmstad fil-presenting. Shuko....... price they're paying tow, the...
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shall be
bo extremely happy,"
salt Olivier.
for his Stratford perforra- ances, Sir Laurence obviously considers them a labour of *tava, The money derived from the numerous tourists who journay here to watch - the Olivion will go towards the continued glorification of William Shakespeare, duke "And that is a very honourable
project, I think you'll agree Siek - Imarmos - concluded
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