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Fantasy!-how Harry Lime
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K
ORDA, the muster to showman, went Paris to Ree his friend Sir Carol Reed. He met Gina Lollo- brigida and Burt Lancaster.
to The talk turned
the Paris Metro-the Under- ground railway. Korda knew Paris well-he direct-
in
ed "Marius" there, a great tim still being revived London today.
CONTINUING
THE MEMORIES
OF FILMLAND'S
MOST FASCINATING
EDITED BY DAVID LEWIN
FIGURE
KORDA TALKS TO ORSON WELLES
THE MAN WHO MADE THE STARS SHINE
CHAPTER TWO
Your must know all about The Meirn," said the slurs who were experiencing its particular flavour for the first lime. "Alus, no. suid Korda, "When I Best was in Parts 1 did not have enough money to travel bay coffer the Metru
Now 1 have no
twer
KORDA & ECONOMY
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The Life & Opinions of Sir Alexander Korda
Welles countered with a bigger bribe, and had, the calls refused again.
Dietrich opposite Rubert Donat in "Knight Without Armour." Dietrich bad gold-dust sprayed en her hair every morning and was the queen of the studio.
Korda was so fascinated by one scene in the picture he asked the director for permis- sion lo shool
himself, "Certainly," told the director and wem off to Paris for the week-end.
Korda shot the scene...the result
fine, was
Then the directar returned and sadly toid Korda: "Sorry, your scene will not appear in the final fim. It was in an old script-1 is cut out of the one wo аге
working on now.
+
Niven for the film,
Niven came in by..ship and
London Express Servios
THE STATE OF U.S. ECONOMY:
IS IT TIME FOR GLOOM?
R
By ALEXANDER BROAD
Washington Farm income continues to ECESSION,
retroces skid.
Looks fairly black? sion, lowering, depres sion, slump.. Roget, complling
off 13
19
"readjust-
to
Yes and no. Against them is Mr the fact that there was ♫ 110- hia mendous boom in the last half Thesaurus, classified them of 1955, and the gentle adig
probably Just what under the headings politely catled all "motion from
and ment. "owering." In the unwrit Also there le the fact that ten dictionary of contem- his ears in debt. On the aver
the average American is up porary American politics age, the American at the mo- they are to be found under ment owes somebody or other For just a while Korda team-
about 12 percent of the theome the heading "dynamite." ed up
with cguin
his old
he expects to gel during 1950. assoclate Sam Goldwyn. To-
This week they were all In short, he bought last year
should really gether they made a new version pressed into service again. what he
have bought this year. So he must of "The Scarlet Pimpernel."Predicting gloom, in this
before ho Goldwyn loaned Korda David country, is the economist's buys any more.
pay off his debis. winter sport.
But, as soon as he begins to But they do have some faels see daylight, he will be back in announced that he was due for on their side. And this is a the market again, a hoilday before starting the presidential election year, Any
Everybody seems to be paus- 1277
he "Sorry," was told, sort of economic upset "but Mr
could Goldwyn in Holly-prove a political coll
SDYB you have already the Republicans-with or with politicians. tc." inid Alexander Kurda got the original idea
had your holiday coming over," out Eisenhower, Korda, “when I came to Eng- of "The Third Man" through
Niven stayed on board and land the first me from Holly reading IL newspaper glory
when the ship turned round wood I had lost all my savings about the black market Art to work timing in the sewers, went right back to America—
and asked Graham the stock market crush. So Vienna
Meanwhite, "from Hollywood for a holiday. 14 knew what
Was
Greene to go there to wrile. Sulznick
cabling Karda Greene jolted down notes on dully. Half way through the the back of an cnvelope and picture he was urging: “Whal
abou! "The Third Man" was born,
The
Third tille7 The Men isn't title. It 19 Then
timing number!" they started Korda was in London master- minding the deal and making other plans. "Then I made Henry VIII' Reed was in Vienna shooting. in London and I went back and Selznick was in Hollywood nothing was too good for me, grading cables by the yard 1 Was 2 partner with the which he usually dictated to
by the pound Third Man," Their American instead of three or four pounds partner was David O. Selznick, At a time. But he sent his who produced "Gone With Tho chauffeur-cis iven Rolls to Soho Wind" uring the Korda star
Vivien Leigh, to pick up every poland.
"You
broke
10
be
"They threw me out of Holly ward then and I was broken) – hearted. You
always arc 1-roken-hearted when you leave Hollywood.
board United
The game of hide and seek, bid and counter-bid, went on until Welles was finally put on the train, taken to Vienna, and on his first night sent straight
WDH
KORDA & COSTS
disaster for
ing for breath.
Sull It's fun to watch tho The Administration that the 1 busily explaining world is full of budding roses.
Always Dangerous 1 has so far refused to admit
that anything at all le amiss.
The Federal Reserve Board, to In fact, is still busy trying hold the economy down with a policy of credit restriction.
Even the word "readjustment” would bring the, political wolves are howling. Therein, perhaps, lies the danger. It the goverament
Predicting the fate of the American economy, of course, is always dangerous. But, should to try your band, you wish here are the facte 11/HEN "The Scarlet Pim-
moment A1 the
there W
pertel" was over Goldwyn | 800,000 automobiles In the asked Korda to have certain dealers' store rooms. That's too daren't admit that there's any- scenes re-shot. They were--and many for the auto makers' peace making fim scenes over again of mind. So between 30,000 and is an expensive business.
40,000 auto workers are either cut of work new or likely to be Defore
long.
Sald Korda: "David Selznick has a great eye for detail Nothing maps him.
"He read a line in the script about the characters played by Welles
and Joseph Catten There was
having been at school together. which He wanted to know which attended. Someone asked about
conference Goldwyn and Karda
On the New York Stock Ex- change the average price of in spent on the re- dustrial shurts has fallen about
much?"
"Two five percent since the beginning
of January.
"How
thing wrong it may one day re- fuse to recognise the symptome of a genuine disorder.
Knowland's Aim WASHINGTON politicians are currently spending a lot of time" watching, slightly open mouthed. the machinations of Senator, William Fife Knowland and waiting for reactions from the White House. The Senator has ennounced
school
the taxpayers" where when, the money and how. We had just thought takes. of it as a line Graham Greene percent of the cost of the pic
iure," cald Kordu. had written.
-1 think he sent Carol Reed a 150-page memo once-all by cable."
people at the top-the people secretary while resting with his who did nat know ne head tace down on a cushion. originally."
Acd Oraco Welles was Rome
when
he should have was invited to join the
In Austria. of អ company called
A man was sent to Rome to Artists. The artists
coax Welles aboard the were Charles Chaplin, Mary train to Vierno. Welics had Pickford, Sam Goldwyn, and business
to complete in Italy, Douglas Fairbanks-the brightest and was not anxious to leave
nes in the business.
in a hurry. He bribed the on the hotel telephont switchboard
not to put any over himself. He had an cyo VORDA also brought the stars calls through.
When the film man discover- for dramatic casting. MARY PICKFORD Was the ed this Ho increased the bribe It the Denham days before Many woman but she had as to he increased
through, the
KORDA & HOLLYWOOD
keen brain for business as the others, They called her "The Iron Butterfly,"
"They were great days at United Artists-the only trouble V.LS that the others were seldom talking to one another," sold Korda,
"Yet there was a by-law of the company which said that
1 KORDA & DIETRICH
war
he
put Marleno
Inventories in the last quarter of 1055 roso about a billion and The questioner came in for a quarter dollars—and when the dll "How much did the businessmen have more stock on that, he would like to be picture cost?" "One hundred | hand they, naturally. buy less President of the United States. percent," said Korda blandly.
know, stock and production there- He has also announced that “he”
fore falls.
TOMORROW
i
WHEN KORDA SIGNED CHURCHILL...
will do something about his In the building industry, pre- heart's desiro If Eisenhower liminary applications to the decides not to. rumi government for mortgages for new buildings are down to about half what they were at this time last year.
THE ISLAND OF WOMEN SAID 'NO'
W
HEN Misa Charlotte Ebener first came across
all decisions had to be unani- the phrase "No facilities for
mous.
OF
AND MISS EBENER MISS-
on would talk to anyone. had been battling against bandit-ridden jungle there was equally out of place.
"Miss Electric Letter, sa her.
4
Furthermore, he has given the President a deadline. Either he decides whether, to run or., not to run by February 15-m the Senator's hat goes into the ring.
Finally, he has allowed his name to stand in the flinois and Alaska primaries. The Alaska primary is of monumental un- Importance. But the Illinois uffair may prove disastrosas „ for somebody..
I think applied all the persistence, of all the voters devoted journalist, For her Eur
Eisenhower, may still Chinese servant had told her are likely to ignore Knowland rim they "A women must havò a
(who comes from California) in ED HER PERFECT: STORY master: otherwise she will not favour of a local boy who could find happiness, wherever she be relied on to support Elsen- women,"
," she was surprised
looks." And Miss Ebener agreed. hower when the real business is to find it applied to an
Sheltering from gunshot under lody, was given a chair. Such After touring Manchuria, Korea, transacted at the Republican "So whenever we met the
island governed by-women. a truck, only to and that her old-world courtesy in the midst Indo-China, the Balkans,
and convention. lawyers came too. Goldwyn
hiding place was shared by a of modern warfare may soom the Middle East, the deter
If they think, on the other brought four lawyers....Mary For years. Miss Ebener, a nervous snake; sleeping out on out of place. But the answer of mined correspondent caught up hand, that Eleenbower won't Pickford three. Fairbanks
then arch-conservative three, and Chaplin two, I had young American journalist, a veranda in the middle of a course, is that Charlotte Ebener with happiness and Mr Weller
in time to travel to the South Knowland (the personally were excitements, in plenty, malo, prejudice in a duty There was that trip to Russ Chinese servant called her, was Sets, Ferala. Kashmir, and the chosen successor of the wild-
borders of Tibet.
west's. Hero, the late Senator "So we all sat inside the
Manchuria. On not pfraid of danger, But war
Now on quieter missions, MissRobert Taft) may attepet votes Red Army Day a Russian the tough, ruthless slaughter Ebener could mix badinage within bushel baskets, offices and the lawyers talked tour which took her from slan-occupied
to terms or deals in the garden." Manchuria
Czecho-
colonel decided to further in the Far East-revolted her. slovakia, from the South Russo-American relations. Miss You are a woman. Go ahead reportage as she surveyed the
lives of other women.
· Ignored There That was the reintroduction Sea Islands to Kashmir.
Ebener fled down, tha hotel and cry, Thank your God you were the women of Yap in the That would have the net of Korda to Hollywood. Ho
Pacific, who wore grase skirts affect of leaving Tilmots com- decided, though, to make his But it was left to the women.
weighing thirty pounds-prob»|mitted to Knowland and pletures in England.
of a remote island off South
ably the homes, of mans gumming the machinery of the An American studio cabled Korça- to- put up the final
mouse, she reflected, ja nominating convention "In the him: "Como back at
any barrier. The women ruled the.
And then there were the event that Eisenhower did terms; offer you full freedom leland, and when Miss Ebener
arrived they were rioting over back-stairs and hid in a bin in can still cry at the sight of dead women of Tibet who run all elde to rus galworld dow the financial affairs. In the '': But the amusement in the and £00,000 a year."
Said Korda: "I was getting an election sterylded by the the kitchen. There were rotting boys she was told on the road words of Prince Pater of Greece, pituation derives chiefly from :.' -. ""The "women, can't be lamas, or the fact that Eigenhower but maybe £6,000 a year in Eng-American authorities,
perfect Life undoubtedly was dim At times the
job of war monks. They have to be reborn pointedly and studiedly ignored land at the time. It was nice Here, surbly, was the
the pet, cult. But to be a woman in a reporting seemed utterly futile, as men before they can reach Knowlend'aultimatum, The to get the offer and turn 11 story for woman down. I was never worried But the island Amazons-were predominantly male society had We never know what is salvation. But while they are President apparently fsas no in about the money always puspicious of American visitors: some advantages. It incunt in happening. Charlotte was told, women they sure enjoy, the tention of deciding his future
Journey's end for Miss Ebener until March at the belleved 11 would come. it So the authorities ruling was certain amount of comfort and "We Just try to save our own.
Knowland "No: Lacilities for a courtesy, in dimcult conditioni, necks and record the tiny pers is in Rome, which the and her
La Republican Set Whether it was on the Thirty-sonal victories and defenisin husband, have, made their base leader in the Senate... As suc woman"ANONI
* Eighth Parallel or in the 'Indo, front of our own eyes. Later for the last three years. But next, is supposed to be Recretfully
Miss Ebener turn- Chinese Junglo, that the was the generals add up and an there were problema evan vrin Presidente Kerk Leutenant KORDA & SELZNICK ed back. And regretfully nhỏ, stuck for the night, Miss Evener maunce who won and what the the Eternal City. The cas pres- legislative, milleras
eventually decided, unt the lie Invariably, came across a mallán), vatrategy Awas?/50
sure was never constant, and. At the moment, is cooja NA ETER that Korda found that: of a foreign corresporkunst an omen >WHO WORK OVEREENKOmlet word-latinatietying. · Chart -moother":"or" lätee the 'dooking, bir ön morakihit :
her work was Mine Ebener was convinced that and first Deutestant Hollywood was prepared to not a good like for a woma
different stoves hi come and deal with thimson | Dild
· did.”
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By ANNA LANDAU
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