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Saturday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
une 21, 1941.
HEPBURN COMES BACK WITH A BANG Korda's New
KATHARINE HEPBURN, with the Mongolian cheeks and the spade-slit mouth, comes back with a bang. In "The Philadelphia Story," now at the Queen's and Alhambra, she starts the lim with a bang, too.
*
once labelled After this
The front door of the old Hepburn waM country house opens and out box-office poison. walks husband Cary Grant, cay- you'll find 'she's box-office pol. rying his bags; wife Katharine sonality. follows with his golf clubs, Sho
flings the clubs at him, first re this film won
It is interesting to note that moving his favourite pulter,
two "Oscars." niblick, mashic or what-have. James Stewart was awarded one you, which she breaks across for the best performance of the ber knee. Then she retreats year, and Donald Ogden into the house.
Stewart got another best screen play.
Mr Grant puta down his bags, follows her into the hall, pushes her face in, and leaves her flat on the mat. End of Incident.
Foreign
for the
We then have an old-fashioned Correspondent
subtitle announcing:
TWO YEARS LATER
And the film re-opens with
"Foreign Correspondent," at Katharine engaged to John the Lee Theatre starts off with Howard, the up-and-coming a high-flown dedication to self-made mati.
American foreign correspon- into life a few The rest of the film is de dents, breaks. voted to proving that blood will days before the start of the war, out damme, and that the upper and ends with a scene showing crust of Philadelphian Society is a broadenst from London during definitely above the gravy.
No an air raid.
old Etonian colonel ever had In between these topical" more hard-backed ideas about crusts is an excellent sandwich class than these Philadelphians. filling of fictional thrills, "Foreign Correspondent," in a thriller, but in
Plot is, briefly, that Cary; to fuct. is just get his own back on ex-wife, thriller with knobs on.
In London things move. Joel plants reporter James Stewart
McCren contacts Van Meer, bril- and photographer Ruth Hussey Alfred Hitchcock's smooth liantly played by Albert Basser- -what lovely and charming direction, fine camera work, are man. And then it is Van girl that is-on to the, Hepburn the knobs.
Meer's turn for trouble. menge for the wedding.
John Howard, Cary Grant, Katharino Hepburn and James Stewart in from "Tho
Story."
a scono
Philadelphia
The Great Profile
Picture A Hit
When a
pleture runs for three weeks continuously at New York's Radio City Music Hall, it is rated In the great metropolis as a "terrifle hit," but when a Alni tops this by running four weeks continuously, superiatives take Bight into stratosphere.
the
"Lady Hamilton," the Alexander Kordin production starring Vivien Leigh and Laurence Oliver, is such a pleture.
Alexander Korda is one of the least amboyant but at the sume time one of the most extraordinary leaders of the small group of Helly- wood film-makers who merit rame "genius,"
Korda
the
is pertups the best example we have In Hollywood of the word "cosmopolitan." And that is In- teresting because Hollywood lau town that is full of contrasts, having borrowed its personalities and cita- toms from all of the countries and peoples of the world, from the Eskimo to the Patagonian.
Up From Budapest From his native Budapest, Korda went to Berlin where he became famous at the UFA Studlos, later moving to Paris, London and Holly- wood before settling again in London where his greatest successes were to begin.
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It really started with "The Private Life
of Henry VIII" which has now | HONG KONG REFUGEE AND He Jag rolled
up to the become something of an awesome SOCIAL theatre, unsteady on his legs, legend, spoken of only whisperingly purlieus of the movie uncertain of his lines, and, split in the dim the theatre wide open
world.
"Henry" accomplished the with world.
renascence of the English film, put laughter. Nobody knew what Korda financially on his feet and he was going to do next, May- brought stardom to Robert Donat, be he'd topple into the orchestra Merle Oberon, Binnie Barnes. Elsa Lanchester, Wendy Barrle, and, of pit, or hit the leading man, or course, Charles Laughton, criticise, in trumpet tones, the leading lady's acting.
The setting is Europe in The German secret service Cary, whose weakness is August, 1939. Europe on the goes to work, and our Joel sees Scotch, sits back and watches. brink of war, with Van Meer, a murder, a car chase-old style After a lot of fun and games, the aged Dutch statesman, as with the assassin plugging bul- - Kate takes to champagne and a the man who is fighting to leis at the pursuing windscreen mild whoopee with James maintain peace.
-a kidnapping, dirty work in
Now, if you don't know all this Stewart. Which leads to a
an old. mill, and
(and why should you?) "The Great a couple of Editor Harry Davenport, up- thugs who come to do him in. hangover and the discovery that
Profile" will hit you as a John Barrymore comes
refined to brand of lunacy. Cary is the right guy to be mar- his foreign correspondents in fed with stock blurbs cabled by
town-not the Barrymore you All that happens in Amster used to know, but Barrymore roaring in his cups and doing the ried to.
You have this elderly gentlemani Europe, gives crime reporter dam. So he returns to London, the buffoon. The dialogue in this film is Joel McCrea the assignment of becoming engaged to Laraine
Chicago act all over agula. You have delightfully witty, and the Hep- covering Europe and interview- Day on
To understand "The Great him behaving with unpleasant famili- and starts Profile," the way, burn is a grand wise-cracker, ing Van Meer,
at the King's, arity to that fresh and sprightly Miss brightening up life in the great you must appreciate what has great profile is it a great profile?) Mary Beth Hughes. You have the Since she is supported by those All of which is made easier by cliy. mentioned plus Roland Young, an introduction to Herbert Mar-
been happening to him recently, glaring in alcoholle frenzy at a con- "Foreign Correspondent" is At the Virginia Weidler, and Mary shall, who runs an international not an epic, as they say, in the Chicago, in a ham play called have him in white tights....
of fifty-nine, at vulsed audience. And finally you Nash, and they are all in top peace society.
nt and more con- trade, but it is first-class enter- "My Dear People," he has
the circus. form, you couldn't want any genial by the presence of Mar- tainment. Just another techni- staged a terrific. comeback---but in the main It's Barrymore's There's a back-stage story of sorts shall's daughter, Laraine Day, cal Hitch, in fact.
just by playing the fool.
story..
more.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
LET HIM TALK ABOUT HIMSELF UNTIL YOU'RE
BLUE IN THE FACE. HE'LL BE CONVINCED YOU ARE
ONE OF THE BEST
INFORMED WOMEN HE'S EVER MET.
HOW
age
-YOU'RE WONDERFUL
London Filma. Karda's English com pany, strangely enough, was börn on the left bank of the Seine in Paris. Then it moved to London, perhaps to avold ent: barrossing the name of the firm. With it game two other Kordas, Vincent, the left bank painter, and Zolton, whom Alex trained for directing by a staff pro- iminary course in the cutting room. Vincent designed the sets and costumes and Alexander did the directing, and in A year they made four films,
All Hits
Zolian spent a couple of hot month the jungles of Africa and came back artistic and financial success-than which
with "Sanders of the Alver." It was an no producer could a catc
Without pausing to it breath. London Flims was off to a flying start on a new schedule of pletures. These in- cluded "Elephant Boy." "Things to Come."
Rembrand
Over England," "Druma "Feur Fentures." and the recent "Thief of Baghdad."
Now Korda has set up a complete pro. duction unit in Hollywood, and **Lady Hamliton" is the first production.
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