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SHE KNEW MEN
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SHE KNEW LOVE
BETTE DAVIS
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GLENA STOLEN LIFE
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WALTER BRENNAN CHARLIE RUGGLES
DIRECTED ST CURTIS BERNARDI
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Colbert joins the trek to Britain
By DAVID LEWIN
LONDON: Eon, wife of Michael Redgrave; West OUR more Hollywood stars are End actress Jesalen Tandy; and un- coming to Britain. Margaret known Valerie Cordew, aged 19; It's O'Brien, Joan Fontaine; Dou- her first flm part. glas Fairbanks jun (to play Sir Lancelot in a story of King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table), And Claudette Colbert,
Why do American stars want to make pictures in
in Britain? Because
WEST END guessing game: How
old are the Borstal boys in the "Boys in Brown now playing at
to
The famous flim star wearing the new nearly-down-to-the-ground length-which Paris is trying popularise for daytime. She bought; it in Paris. In black silk, i had an off-shoulder neckline with petalled edge, and a black scarf in the same material which the held across her shoulders. Round her nock abe wore a Bt Christopher medallion.
GLAMOUR IS GONE
By PATRICIA CLARY Movieland today is dull com-
they like working in
in our studios-the the Duchess--which is being con-pared to the glamorous Holly-
atmosphere is more friendly than in sidered for films along Hollywood; because British films original cast? have ideas and call for acting in telligence, and because American
Alim executives think it is a way of keeping the British market open to their own productions.
There may be another reason, of course. They mostly get paid dollars.
in
THREE English actresses get parts Him, "Mortal Coils. Rachel Kemp
with Charles Boyer in his latest
"STAR QUOTES
Question To
PAULETTE GODDARD
"How do you keep
your figure?”
She Answers:
PAULATIE GODDARD
THE day
of
rigid dieting.
In my opinion.
Is pussed. It will not endanger my health W
tringent
diets, *or I can keep my *Bgure trim mostly by exer-
However, don't cat potatoes when 1st bread and vice versa.
lille dyin un rich desserts to once a week. Whenever I feel I have had more than my share of calories in a meal, I take a long walk.
Here's my diet. Breakfast: fresh or siewed fruits, black coffee, coffee cake or the like. Luncheon: a vegetable or fruit salad and a glass of milk. Mid-afternoon: Another glass
of
milk or buttermilk and a bit of fruit. Dinner: meat, fish or fowl with two or three different green vegetables. Three times a week I allow myself a balted potato..........but I cât no bread with my dinner at any time.
Gym Visits
When I am not working on a pic; ture I play a lot of golf and temiă, and I swim every day. But when I am working before the cameras- and lately I have been working very hard on my two new Paramount pletures, "Suddenly It's Spring," co- starring Fred MacMurray, and Cecil 8. DeMille's "Unconquered," in Technicolour, with Gary Cooper-I have no time for these sports so I pay dally visits to the studio gym where Jim Davies helps me to keep my figure in shape.
Undor Jim's auidance, I go through a series of exercises for half an hour After finish work in the evening. Then he gives me a massage, and I go into the steam cabinet for 15 or
20 minutes. After my dinner
at
home I go for a brisk walk and then to bed. When a star is working she koens early hours, and plenty of rest is mcessary.
best
I and walking one of the exercises in the world, and I do a int.of.the.!!
(Monday-Sonny Tafia).
with the Answer: Average age over 30, and five of the
"boys' were majors in the Burma campaign.
"NANOOK OF
THE NORTH," Robert J. Flaherty's famous silent picture study of Eskimo life,
la being reissued-25 years after was Arst shown.
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wood of 20 years ago.
Mole.stars used to trace up and down Hollywood Boulevard in Dusenbergs, Isotta-Fraschints nnd Mercedes. Feminine stars paraded in shiny black town cars half a city
lock
traughty long, driven by chauffeurs in livery.
Today, the film stars drive car resh off the assembly line. They lon't risk their valuable mockta peeding and they hardly ever to m Hollywood Boulevard Anyway.
hey hide
Valley.
now on Edgar Wallace's "The Calen- BRITISH: Alm studios are looking
back for their stories working he San Fernando Veverly Hills or dar" (1020), Mary Webb's "Precious Bane" (1924),
OUT
In
UT ef eight hours' work a day on a fm, British directors alm to get one minute 45 seconds actual screen time. On the "So Evi! My Love" act at Denham, director Lewis Allan. trained in
Hollywood, two minutes seconds.
10 averages two
In America, screen-time from day's shooting is as high as three and tushall
director minutes. British David
MacDonald, making "Snow- bound," with Robert Newton, says he has reached that time by "really working Yast." His averag
1
minutes 15 seconds a day.
On a big film, screen dime £1,000 a minute.
THEATRE Directory
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means
TODAY'S FILMS
KING'S-Piccadily Incident
(Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding)
(Bette
QUEEN'S A Stolen Life
Davis, Glenn Ford) LEE-Sensations of 1046 (Eleanor Pawell. W. C. Fields, Sophie Tucker)
ALHAMERA-A Stolen Life.
MAJESTIC-Piccadilly Incident.
Jack Holt, one of the screen's most andsome and vielle heroes 20 years go, confesses that he mourns the lambur he has sen die.-
Mix Advertised
"I remember when Tom Mix was teen everywhere in a pure white
car with his name printed on the ide." Holt said. "He had Tom Mix' pelled out in lights over the gates vay to his home, and the Nothes he wore made real cowhore blush. "In the old days stars gave in more o exhibitionism,
"Holt Bald. "They played in public, fought in public nd sometimes loved in public and they did everything colourfully, Whether discreet or not, it certainly
made for glamour.
"Nowadays, it seems like stars are more conservative about their pri- vate lives than some other people. They work hard, slay home nights Ind save their Press.
money.United
ANTI-TB FUNDS
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Ten peroint of the takings at the King's and Majestic Theatres during the showing of "Plecadilly Incident" will be donated by the film's dis- tributor, Mr Harry O. Odell, and the managements of the two theatres to the Hongkong Anti-Tuberculosis. Society.
The picture, which brings back to the Hongkong screen after a long absence of Anna Neogle, has been on outstanding success in Britain and the United States. It won the Daily Mail Award earlier this year.
Somerset Maugham Story Filmed
"THE RAZOR'S EDGE," Darryl F.,Zanuck's production of W. Somerset Maugham's latást fiction success, will com to the Queen's Theatro next Hook. The picture, stara Tyrone Power and Gono Tiomey. Other leading refos are 7played by Horbort Marshall, Clifton Webb and Anno
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HE THINKS LOVE IS THE FIFTH FREEDOM! (But she shows Thim some new man-trapping techniquelį
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ARTHUR WAYNE
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A Lady Takes a Chance
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