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•Gregor PIATIGORSKY
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ABBOTT and COSTELLO
in
"LOST IN HAREM”
CENTRAL
ATRE
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FIRST EPISODE
"HAWK
WITH
HERMAN BRIX
MALA
MONTE BLUE
SHOWING
TO-DAY
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
OF
THE WILDERNESS
A
REPUBLIC
SERIAL
MAJESTIC
HNICOLOR
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS Jr. MAUREEN O'HARA WALTER SLEZAK
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1948.
WHEN JAPS
GAOLED HIS PORTRAIT
in The Stalls
Italians don't like creeping censorship
By Joseph Baicich
TALY'S motion picture pro- Film Company defied the ban and is ducers have opened war completing the picture, which is ex- pected to become a guinea pig in the against "creeping censor industry's fight for freedom.
ship."
Young and promising Plero Germi They charge it would
future salt he was forbidden to show his make impossible the
completed flim, "Gioventu Perduts" filming of such outstanding at Youth") to the pubile. The Italian pictures as "Open City" "lost youth" are the youth of the anti-Fascist "It is an ant cra. said Mario Soldati, producer of Cortis, which starred "It is neither anti-
Foscist
Alm."
and "Shoeshine."
Thirty-five Italian film executiven signed an open letter of protest "Danicle censorship of aims. They included such well-known figures as Rossellini, director of "Open City"; of that sincerity characteristic of our
against the "impending and actual Sarah Chu immoral. It is a flm;
moral nor
the air of that solidarity,
Robert inspired by the
and best productions." in Paco
Shoeshine."
of Sien, Vivere
Olullo Andreotti, under-secretary to Premier Alcide de Gasperi, in an Christian Democrat their protests article in the had the feeling of party newspaper,
Vittorio do
Luigi Zampa,
("Live in Peace")."
"For some time,"
aid. "we have
sald
Il Popolo, replied
that
approaching danger. In the minis- to the directors. He denied terial offices a tendency has begun censorship was "Ideological" or "poli- to be shown toward renewal of the leal." Fascist practice of.
Andreotti sald "revision" of nima controlling film
real is "neither an illegal nor a Fasciat production. It is a true and of an ideological
act"
the and
because
constituent censorship
that leftists had nature of which we all recognise and He also charged
started the ball rolling in favour of DANNY Kaye, whom you see above remember very well,"
education and Virginia Mayo
executives said that post- the press "when the The Allm
pictures--which have moral safeguard of the youth were in a daydream
sequence from his war Italian latest comedy, "The Private Life of won acclaim as the best now being Involved."-United Press,
produced in the world because of Walter Mitty" tells this story of their air of sincerity-would be ren- how his portruft once went to gaoldered impossible if present trends In Japan..
political character, the Philistine assembly did not abolish censorship.
with beautiful
continue.
FILMS DEFENDED
favour," the protest sold.
HOW TO GET TO THE TOP
ADVICE FROM DINAH SHORE
"Before the war," Danny relates,
"Our best ambassadors have been "went to the Orient with a show these Ums, which brought to foreigni called La Vie Paren, In Tokyo the untions the Hving image of our suf- management of the theatre com-fering and our humanity and have down mitted some minor infraction of the turned public opinion upside law, and the entire cast was sen-la our ienced to serve thirty days in gaol. "Little by little, as the illegal cen-ONGSTRESS Dinah Shore's simple
sorship Intervenes in our produc- home remedy for the world's is; lion, slowly and almost imperceptibly is one she says made her America's the doors and windows are being top female vocalist. It's "Rely ០៧ closed upon the fresh air of reality our insphintion in stified, our work's aim withdrawn."
"Instead of tossing us into the Jap version of the Tombs," he went on. "they put our pictures into gaol Instend, and let the show go right Crazy? What do you think?"
yourself."
disciples
"Too many people are forgetting they bove 10 make their OWL The directors asked public reaction breaks," she said. It was during that tour of the "before it is 100 Inte." They sald Dinah realises that the Orient, that Danny perfected the each day brought "a new fact, a new
of the Let-George-Do-It school famous comedy technique that he threat and a new cut into the probably will retort; brings to the serven, for the fourth industry."
"That's easy enough for her to linie,
"The Secret Life of Walter Attiren, but Alberto Lattuada, carcer, a fine home. detailed review of
censorship any. She has everything: money, a
·Mitty"
was director, said his projected At a casual ginnce they'd be right. The film, based on James Thurber's aim, "Senza Plein" ("Without Pity") Dinah does have a sturdy ranch home famous book, is shortly to be had been banned by censors without in San Fernando valley; n triple screened here.
any reason being given. The Lux career in movies, radio and records,
NEWS OF BRITISH
the
STARS & FILMS
TERE are the films which have
H
gross takings:
and a bank account that has grown with the years. She also has handsome husband in George Mont-
gomery, capable of keeping her out of the poorhouse.
BLEAK MEMORIES
"But," she says, "I didn't get them from my brother-in-law. I got them by relying on myself."
Her climb to the top is dotted with The British studios will not let bleak memories-a grim New Year's been top money-makers in her go. She has now taken a house Eve in New York, jobless, friendless the United Kingdom during in Hertfordshire for her two-and-a-
and broke; the battle to fight and past few years, with
and their half-year-old. daughter
overcome Infantile paralysis as п month-old son. Her husband, child;-the-heartbreak-of-having--to- "Gone With The Wind," £600,000. Swedish ballet dancer, is staying refuse her first big time radio offer "Mrs Miniver." £404,000. "Random Harvest," £450,000. "The Wicked Lady" £300,000. "The Seventh Vell," £360,000. "In Which We Serve,"
with her.
because she wouldn't sing "fast and loud" as the sponsor demanded.
Dinah followed her own dictates
the
grade.
assaulted New York's
In few weeks-Miss-- Zetterling. Anishes playing the poet's Italian mistress, Teresa Gulecioli, in "The and made £330,000,
Bad Lord Byron." Then she will
citadel after college, sho start work on another Sydney Boxinanced herself not by borrowing production, "Portrait of Hildegarde."
"Caesar and Cleopatra, £250,000. "Henry V £200,000, The first three are Hollywood pro- ducts; the others are British.
Rains is likely to
•
When she radio
nt
from her parcats but by selling the photo equipment into which she had put her allowance for years, PRITAIN'S most beautiful bal- From her first small salary CLAUDE missed to mar Brian Fed-uired Molta Shearer, WNEW Stars Snell, nistry, at with Ann Toild in the film of ILG. has finished her first picture, "The didn't hire a teacher but made re-
"The AT 2.30, 5.20, Wells's story.
everything she Passionate Red Shoes," and is now hard at work cordings of Friends."
again in Covent Garden. She re- Then she studied them dispas- Ronald Neame, who is to direct cently took a busman's hoilday by sionately, teaching herself by dis- | 7.20 & 9,20 p.m. the picture at Pinewood, sent the seeing her Arst "Tristan" percarding the things she didn't like in
script to Claude Rains just before forminnce.“
her own voice.
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KILLER BOGART IN HIS BEST HIT!
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ALL THROUGH
THE NIGHT
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GRAND OPENING to-morrow
LUSTY....LAWLESS & BAPTIZED WITH FLAMESI
ERROL FLYNN
DE HAVILLAND in
SANTA FE TRAIL
with RAYMOND MASSAY DONALD REAGAN
TO-MORROW EXTRA SHOW AT 12.30 P.M. ONLY ---
Humphrey Bogart in “ACROSS THE PACIFIC"
Christmas. A cable arrived saying She says she hopes to resist nll he was delighted at the prospect of offers to make another film for some playing the part. The matter in time-ballet still interests her most. now in the business negotiation
stage
not mean
aang,
UGLY DUCKLING Dinah, the girl, came in for the same self-reliant treatment.
"I admitted I was an ugly duck- ling," she said. "Then I faced the mirror and tooleed at myself coldly. Illusion of beauty by being charming and well-groomed that was
Im- more portant than a baby face."
She worked the same way on her selection of numbers. She went ngainst her musical adviser's Judg
Last time British-born Mr Rains IRK Bogarde, docs Almed in England was for the much-. D. anything to flim-goers-yel. But I decided I could create an debated "Caesar and Cleopatra." he is the British: studios newest bet PATRICIA Roc is being put to work for future box-office queues.
former Bogarde,
diplomatic again by her Rank employers. Since her "mutual disagreement" student, call-boy, scene-shifter and resignation from the "Sidney Gilllat photographic interpreter during production. "Londen Belongs To Me," war, got his first big stage part Instant to "rely on myself" and record | her only dulles have been making personal appearance.
Waters,"
Me." It
in the short-lived "Power
"My Mama Done Told Glory." Now he is starring opposite Kath-boosted her stock another big notch. But Pat has now been assigned to
And those, she said, are the batch "Esther Ryan In a Gainsborough leen Sydney Box for sereen version of Sir Hugh Walpole's adapted from George Moore's story of reasons why she says:
"Rely on yourself." last novel, "The Killer and the about horse-racing Slain. She will have a strong role life-below-stairs." opposite Eric Portman.
•
Swedish film THAT miniature
star. Mal Zetterling, arrived in Britain a year ago to make one ple- ture--after her own country's max- terpiece. "Frenzy," had given her on International reputation."
THEATRE Directory
TODAY'S FILMS
QUEEN'S-Blue Skles (Bing Crosby,
Fred Astaire, Joan Caulfield). KING'S-Mother Wore Tights (Betty
Grable, Dan Dalley)
•
LEE Carnegie Hall (All-Star
Musical). CENTRAL"Hawk of the Wilder- (Herinan Brix, Monic Down To Earth (Rita
Blue).
ORIENT. Larry Parks),
CATHAY--All Through the Night
(Humphrey Bogart). ALHAMBRA -Blue Gkies. MAJESTIC-Sinbad the Sailor (Dougins Fairbanks, Jur,, Maureen O'Hora).' STAR--Aelfon in the North Atlantie (Humphrey Bogart, Raymond
Massey).
und Victorian
-Patricia Clary
TOGETHER IN NEW MUSICAL
¿FRED ASTAIRE and Joan Caulfield are two of the stars in "Blue Skies,” which is the Easter musical at the Queen's Theatre. Bing Crosby also takes a lending part in the picture, which is a cavalcade of Irving
Berlin music.
SHOWING
TO-DAY
KINGS
IN OUR
FAMILY DAD WORE THE PANTS
but
Mother
Wore Tights
Color by TECHNICOLOR_
Starring
BETTY GRABLE
DAN DAILEY
Mona Freeman Connie Marsha!!
Cred
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traded by
WALTER LANG LAMAR TROTTI
Pay by kumar Scams « Bundan the dark hp Milan Tateng
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