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Whom Do You Miss Most?
HERE is Maurice little parish, ashy with dis- Chevalier? In the illusionment, which is the pic- Bouth of Franco. Where is ture world;
Danielle Darrieux, whose acting, Maybe they've bought, a farm half devil, half angel, knocked or a shop or a restaurant and all the critics off their pedestals now "eat regular.” ̈ Or perhaps. in "The Rage of Paris"?
an unlucky break in pictures
They say she's in Cannes, has put out the light of their I miss the square chin, the stardom and they're working obscurely on pictures that no- gurgle, the gusty Gallic humour of M. Chevalier, and I miss the body ever sees.
April beauty and July tempera- mont of Mlle. Darrieux. Her lightning flashes were new to
MEANWHILE, step this
way to the Bureau of the camera. These two are the Missing Film Stars and let's see
what they're doing.
centre of a mystery, like much
On the subject of stars in that is, going on in Unoccupied France. But there are other Unoccupied France no one is an stars whose absence from pic- authority.
sentimental commentator.
tures gives heartburn to your Bi Sistrom, American pro- ducer now working at Denham, Where is Harold Lloyd? Where had Danielle Darrieux under is Grace Moore, operatic nightin- contract. gale who was always singing, starring and posing amid roses?
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In August Danielle was re- ported to have escaped from Where are Luise Rainer, Jan Nazi-occupied France to Lisbon, Kiepura, Paula Wessely, whose where she arrived without any essays in Continental drama- luggage. That looked as though turgy were once the gossip of she was making for America. the boulevards?
Mr Sistrom, however, heard from
A girl in love is like Ginger Rogers as "Kitty Foyle." That's the highest tribute possible to her and the Alm-presupposing that you are sure love, ly something wonderful and difficult and worth it. Since this is what women, at least, persiat hy believing, "Kitty Foyle" will go straight to their hearts, all their hearts. It won't matter how old they are. If they are young crough never to have been in love, "Kitty Foyle" will affirm their dreams
day f
It is to be like.
KITTY FOYLE
her ecstasy; James Craig, solid worth. But they're both so very attractive and make love with so much grace, that the women in the audience are in as beautifully agonising a quandary as is Ginger Rogers, whom it really concerns.
Lan't by chance that the women take what's happening to Miss Rogers so much to heart. She lets them in on it, she confides in them. She lets them see the first faint glimmering of love quick- ening i her, lets them see it
of what one old co to know better, (but supposed to recognise it. lore she herself i
If they are no woman ever is) "Kitty Foyle" will rekindle only the good
memories, waft them back to tender remind them only of its glow, keep from musings
the reality of the ashes it become. (Some times, I'm told, it does burn out).
For "Kitty Foyle" is a love story in which people fall in love truly, but in which nobody falls out of love-but hush. It's modern Cinderella tale with a fine Cinderella and two splendid Prince Charmings. The wonderful part Is that the Prince Charmings overlap, so that Miss Rogers is never without at least one of them. Dennis Morgan offers
always
she lets them remember "that's the way it was. It happened just like that." She lets them watch it develop and deepen her, give her pride and strength, lots them see her forget everything reasonable and sen- sible in sudden inexplicable yielding, lets them say to themselves, "Yes, ains. But yes.
This job of Ginger Rogers' shines with myriad facets, lighted by Sam Woods' direction, by true and sensitive dialogue and by a logically motivated and richly filed-in script. For her work in this lm, which is now showing at the King's Theatre, she gained the Academy Award.
What has happened to Janet hier last October, and Danielle was
Paula Wessely, plumpish, Con- was asked whether she would con- Gaynor and the various heavens, then in Cannes. He has not heard opera houses in what I
There have been no thought was an unbreakable Holly-tinental star of "Escapade" whom tinue Alming.
the intellectuals went mad over and "Maybe yes, maybe no," sold from the seventh to the seventy- from her since.
wood halo, no longer wears such who seemed set for a biggish Alm Janet. reports of her arrival in America. seventh, she adorned?
future, is in Vienna doing stage She's stayed out of it ever since. Stories about such people are fuli
plays. So they say... but Paula's She's still youngish, very well off, and can order all her clothes from Adrian. Janet, sweet and urliess' as bit of a mystery, too.
millinery.
She was a trouper, that girl, of mystery and melancholy. They She has dedicated her tonsils to She knew her stuff. She toyed are full of such phrases as: " last radio, and according to a poll taken with our simple emotions like heard of her... she may have got by the "Mollon Picture Herald" is a travelling salesman meeting away... we haven't had a word." fifth in order of popularity among the classical vocalists (female) of And customers. Oh, ahe was very
Maurice with the same
Americo. Chevaller. I was actually told the sweet and clover was Janet.
was Another mystery, tangled with fantastic story that Maurice Do you remember a young, playing in Paris cabaret to German "is" and "buts," is Luise Rainer,
Nothing has been heard of her doggy-eyed actor called James soldiers, a myth which
gullible Alm reporter can't swallow. since she appeared in the stage play "Behold the Bride" at the Shaftes- Dunn? Do you remember him it's the bank.
bury Theatre, London, in 1939. in "Bad girl" with Sally Eilers? Where are these two now?
When are we going to see
Katle Hepburn again? ·
even your
I believe he is at La Bocca, on the French Riviera.
one or two
She, too, went to Hollywood in a balo-from Vienna. Her large, sur- Another illustrious profile I miss prised eyes, her breathless galety, from pictures is Harold Lloyd's. her emotional flair, succeeded bril- "The Harold, who is a millionaire and liantly in "The Good Earth." The reader will recall others
other Tims. whose profiles have dissolved needn't worry, has given up dang- Great Ziegfeld," and
And then-fade out. Where is from the celluloid-Helen Hayes, ling from skyscrapers and falling off Lily Pons, Lee Tracy, Gloria ladders and is now a producer. He Swanson, Simone Simon, Anna- has just made "Three Girls and a Lulse now, whom all the swains Gob" (sailor), with George Murphy adored, plus Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer? bella.
'and Lucille Ball.
Jan Klepura, Polish tenor hotel-keeper, his been out of RACE MOORE, who prima ilms for some time. I inst heard
donna'd
and that he was in the Polish Army." films Over
Maybe they've married and cscaped for good from the crazy“
"The Magic Bullet," long-awaited film, Is it last here and is showing at the Queen's and Alliambra Theatres.
Edward G. Robinson Is Dr Ehrlich, and salvarsan (otherwise compound 600) is his "magic bullet" in this dramatic and almost documentary story of the great bacteriologist.
The laboratory dominates this film of Ehrlich's experiments, adversities, and discoveries. We see the painstaking development of the scientist's imaginative reasoning into concreto-achievement,
First there Is the discovery that by the application of aniline dyes, the bacteria of tuberculosis can Le stolned, and thus casily identified by any doctor; then the development of andi-toxin for diphtherin; and 60 on to the
culminating specifle 600--first step in the cure of syphills.
It gives a moving account of the struggles of Ehrlich and his followers against prejudice and reaction. It is very hearly a great Alm.
Smooth camera work and direction make vivid and clear the scientific medical progression of the doctor.
The Alim becomes diffused here and there and tends to slow down towards the end. It is. however, the best of its type yet seen, and is thrilling entertainment.
Edward G. Robinson gives an astonishingly sensitive portrait of the scientist, with an obsession, endlessly involved in research. The rest of the cast is completely competent, with an outstanding character study by Albert Basserman es Dr Robert Koch,
THE MAGIC BULLET
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As for Janet Gaynor, her des- she was, always had sense..
tiny is as open and candid And Hepburn Hepburn has far as the thousand innocent heroines from a retiring disposition. You'll she has played.
be seeing Katle in "Philadelphia Story" soon after a big come-back Janet has sold in effect: "Nuts to the New York stage in the same this film business, I'm married." play. After she eloped with Adrian, dress- maker-extraordinary to M.G.M., she
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