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The Ghosts of Ealing
Y
THEY PASS IN PROUD FLASHBACK FOR ONE MAN AS BRITAIN'S MOST FAMOUS STUDIOS ARE SOLD
by MONJA DANISCHEWSKY
OU
that
WHO PRODUCLO CALING FILME
"WHISKY GALORE "
ster of a sultra- forget.e- all puzzl
know, perhaps, langs that the carpenters had to
life make 1 inside the room. 4 1 1 feeling you have at Could not have been brought in This is the famous tabio round the end of a very whic all those Eating Aims good film when the tip-ups were first suggested, begin to clatter....clatter andalanned.
clatter
tlewa
thrussel.
"Dead of
ing in their like.
to one un- other. They were
Alec Guin- egs in some of
Nither them? the and
The
Captive Hour," his many parts "Hue and Cry. for "Kind Hearts screen saya, blankly: "The "Overlanders."
"Pass- "Scott of the Amtarelle,"
and Coronetsa," End"?
port
Fimlico," to
"Whisky That is how I felt when tore. "Kind Hearts
There and
was I heard the
that Coronela," "Blue Lamp, "LAY- skinny, wide. had been onder Hill, Mob" "Man in the eyed dirk with long legs. Ealing Studios sold to BBC TV: for it is White Suit," "The Cruel Sea." namet Audrey Hepburn
Alm?"The Secret People." The End of a very good and many others.
Ernest I remember
Irving studio.
now dead, for years the musical
Iace that George Elvin, the technicians' leader, entis "the prestige bastion of the in- dustry."
Its name has been flashed in Hights on Broadway and on the boulevards of Paris. penetrates!
at
11 1.43 the Irese Curtain. unt tame George
Many sparks
PALING has been criticised for director.
working in committee.
Bul
fu retrospiet there is a good deal to be said for the methods
sparka
EALING
STUDIOS
Sir Michauf Balcon. Knight of the Round Table . . . and (AbuTO) the
Eating "arms".
Her
"It doesn't The Ernest sternly,
men liike that. Ealing Studios.”
Director Pen Tennyson, great- of grandson of the Poet Laureate, in the war, and Mietinel Balcon, the Knight of was killed
wanted actor John Clemenata the Round Table.
At this table many
to recite the translation of a were set off to Ignite the torches poem by Callimachus "They which
were later carried to the told me, Heraclitus, they told of Eating and Lady Red Lion and
"Time, before
me you were dead. of Hullywood!
gentlemen. pleaso!" puri sa memordid service. the affection end to the discussions yot
another comedy idea
whore Formby Hamilton for Arst place in
of the Soviel Bingoer,
But go today
lied
to this prim being.
was
at a
There W08 the day when Michael Balcon SOW the Ealing star writer T. E B.
"It isn't me, old boy," be spluttered. "It's the studio that's been knighted."
Hc believed that, for to Balcon his own identity has merged into the studio and the studio's identity into his,
THOSE
The ghosts
JOSE were the days.
they are over.
Now
So come to the Red Lion and meet some of the ghosts,
There in a corner 18 Juck Priestley, sucking at his pipe. discussing the day's work. Hero is another group Sir Compton Mackenzie Richard Hughes, Nicholas Monsarrat. Sir William Walton and even Henry Moore, Gracio Fields and
George Forby Tommy Trinder. Achat Diana bozar.
and
interlopars,
They were:lrare for 'Ealing's world was largely peopled by stroom, silent men,
But Gracie Fields is remem“ bered-and Stewart Granger Clarke walking in the studio.
and Jean Simmons, Joan Green- wood, Mai Zetterling.... "Why aren't you at Ascot?”
Look at the door. A number he asked him sternly. Tibby
af small nosee
are pressed lass. They are Clarice, who wrote "Passport to
against the and "Lavender
Hill waiting to give Jack Hawkins Pimlico" Mob." replied that his producer a chear as he goes out
for a script
And here is the final visitor. ave minutes the man behind ference. Within
#plSla
needed him
con-
the producer was on the carpet. Michael Balcon, putting
do "How to Sald Balcon:
you hond nervously round the door, expect Clarke to do good work for he believed in staying away if you don't let him go to the from the place where the boys
"could
blow off steam." T800s?"
"Ah, I thought I'd and
you here...
Time, gentlemen, pleaso..
"(COPYRIGHT
Wan
But Irving declined Pert another exciting arrange the music. The reason: 111 suburb in West London sequence had been plotted. Callimachus, it seems, wux
bowildering poot who of the locals to There was
private life and ask Une
and time when people kept sco- questionable. direct you to the studios mine Umes out of ten he'll be ing a crumpled old bishop,
"But Ernest," he was told. hard put
tell you where they hatchet-faced admiral, an older-
ty duke, and a frightening spin- "ho died 2,000 years ago."
art
Perhaps the facade is decep- Uvea small converted country collage
Ad- that is now the ministrative Block. It stands on what was the village green.
studius 0921 ihu Green became a legend, In the lean years of the British Blm indus- try they were an vasis of ad- venturous ilm-making
The
desert of mediocrity.
The vote
มา a
DUT Ealing was not without
pelf-contained.
The slogan on the walls pro- alaimed it as "The Studio with the Team Spirit." So it was.
But at times the making of films by vote led to indecisions,
to compromises, examination lakon to extreme.
11
Then there was the, day when Balcon received congratulations on his knighthood.
THE VIENNA STATE
OPERA
REOPENS TONIGHT
T
ODAY heralds a new
chapter in the tale of Vienna's music-sym-
By GERARD BOURKE
bo
Twentieth century "opera represented In Wozzeck, the Viennese composer,
Seats costing up to £70 cach the war was interrupted by the that enabled nese--more than ten years,
In have been sold out for many theatro's closure. It was not an easy team for and back to the war.
Boxes have been re-
ita chiet, Sir Michael Balcon, to drive. He himself had
momenta those days, each morning months.
served for famous musicians The State Opera buliding it
af self-doubt, immortallied by after an air raid, the Vien- associated with
an incydent in the middle of nese used to examine their festivals.
a heated script
cor.kernet.
by
Alban
Bits faults. It has been con-bol of gaiety and romance, operti "Fidelio," first performed cet in the Vioms of that time. Behoven's Ninth Symphony, nourby and his rarely-heard The always reserved in Vienna for sidered by its critics to be too of pageantry and grandeur, go at the
Theatre an der Wien. Herr Woman without a Shadow.".
important musical occasions, For today the majestic Raab, the Austrian Chancellor, The Cartman composer's works
completes the 1st.
The Vienna Philharmonic Or Vienna State Opera, on the has declared that tonight's per- have always figured prominent-
formance of Beethoven's peaen ly in the repertory of
chestra, the oldest permanent Ringstrasse, reopens.
in freedom will officially mark Vienna State Opera under such orchestra, will play with the
Indepen- experts as Clemens Krauss and
company as always. It was, It has been a long wait Austria's newly-won
dence.
Karl Boehm, whose plan for a
of this great during fact, the survival Vien- self for the music-loving
complete. Strauss cycle.
organisation through the war Dr. Joseph Krips to re-establish the Opera: Com
any only a month after tho former gala self, designed by Von Slecards war's end. Some will contain burg and Van der Null, in free
GINER SETTING trorri prowar romantic style in contrast to the Opera House to make sure loading singers
First they gave “paty "Excuse me, chaps, wait had escaped unscathed. daye. From others elderly con- strict classicism of the period. ductors, will watch" Dr Karl was completed at the time when
in almost ove wash my hoods, Or
And so it did, 'until one day Boehm, director of the theatre operas by Verdi and Wagner Incking
auditorium Soon the ghosts of
at the close of war, conducting both born in 1813 vere vying from a proper walk on the green, in the five in March, 1945.
from the rostrum they once for favour..!
adegimie heating, but not The kind Vienniso were so musical splendour.
small Significantly, the last work occupied.
Viennese theatres There had been Sir Michael Balcon's office with performed
appalled by the under-nourished .appearance
the winged salons. Then they moved to the beohives, in Wagner's sombro The Twilight
That Red of the Gods."
was just of the
horses surmounting their state istorie Theatre an der Wigg before Hitler's tolal war policy, The foalival celebratingą the Opera that feeding, bags op There, in the theatre, kailt by pub over the road.
In for a final closed all German theatres now era will last a month, and peared around their necks! Schikaneder, librettist of. Moz Come with mo
they art's The Magic Flite," will include works closely asso- after a clated with
spent the ten yours pending re- Eight, moglbs later,
construction of their true bome. night of heavy · boribing, the past.
Their saváral dowalem totin com- homeless, they still presented Goethe included-havo placed missioned by the Khedira of unrivalled productions And In "before, all others, was chosen. Egypt, which Verdi, himsel the interim they, recruited many
at the very simple notable now, ginger,
ot
studio stages, in the canteen, in
the rectory-like garden behind
its roses and its
the salcon bar
LDI
walks round, the studios and let July 1944,
us meet some of these ghosts.
Bevan.
NEW ERA
Vienna's
floodlit
Viennese emerged from shelters and
・thoir'
The second evening will BED war-damaged
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the
GALA PIECES
So Vord will be represented
Variou
and
homas do no smoker pouring Mozart's "Don Giovanni for by gala performances of his showed musicistis Syroad that THE
UIE year is 1038. A voluble from the fire-razed intelon of this opera, which many people lavish "Aida," originally
young. Welshman, already their beloved building. portig, laying down the law in the canteen.
"To" he tells his table
**was the greatest
1
SOLD OUT
Much of the exterior
Filamentarian in our history, intact, but only the fan
· Fox,“ Winston white marble stairwaX
back-haided oned and broken, rett A oni? It could be--for
|Ride: Vierma's heart was Decks in. Aneurin Bevan ed and matted only
few wooks stint at the before the arrival of dos, ne teclinical adviser on Armor:
tor
great conduisted the theatre'sfrét opening night in 1609. It is the place
bly work by Mozart-bom
rears, ego next, airy sateringers of Nnberg.
in the fest
to be appointed hambe
The Werner operw con-spectacular, mlé
based on
the medieval
[clark" furned.
Today, back the "altadel
Wetterbeen opera,, the colppany
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