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TO-DAY
2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.15 P.M. 2.30, 5.15, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M. ANNA KARENINA....whose one great love was ovary- thing....heartbreak, laughter, violonco, destruction !
ALEXANDER KORDA
Vivien Leigh
RALPH RICHARDSON
Anna Karenina
LEO TOLSTOY
SUNDAY Morning shOW AT 11.30 A.M. ONLY
QUEEN'S
Ingrid BERGMAN
Charles BOYER
"GASLIGHT"
An MGM Picture
LEE
LAUREL and HARDY "THE BIG NOISE"
A 20th Century-Fox Picture
AT REDUCED PRICES!
TO-MORROW at the QUEEN'S
LAMOUR
ALAN LADD
DOROTHY LAMOUR
ROBERT PRESTON LLOYD HOLAN
"WILL HARVES
Biar Llanen - Allen, Junkin
The jet pecho atery of
two men, who Juriently.. and the woman
int manne way
ALHAMBRALL THEATRE
-TO-DAY ONLY AT 2.30=5,20—7,20 ̄& 9,20 ̃ ̄P.M.
For her demands.....a man had but two answers...
Complete Surrender Or Death!
Barbara Stanwyck
Van Heflin
Lizabeth Scott
*Hal Wallis't-
Production
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
(maligion was mine}
-- KIRK DOUGLAB-Judith Anderson
Domain Laws Aillostone-pha te Fatura Kamen
OPENS
Ray MILLAND
· A Peak T
•
Olivia de HAVILLAND
TO-MORROW! "THE WELL GROOMED BRIDE"
SHOWING
TO-DAY
MAJESTIC
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1948.
SEAT IN CHEL STALLS SS
The Brunette Beauty From Vancouver, B.C.
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"Frontier Gal," as co-star opposite Rod Cameron. Ono. critic states. "She is the most gorgeous thing ever photographed in teclinicolour."
As a child Yvonne know,' sho wanted to become an actress.
At 13 she wrote her own plays, using her girlhood friends na players in background shows.
O appreciate what a long cession in "Frontier Gal." "Song of wny Yvonne De Carlo Scheherazade" find now. "Slavo has come in the four Girl," with George Brent. years since she won a beauty Canadian
Yvonne Do Carlo's cousin, a Royal Air Force Bombardier contest and movie contract, it student, got 20 of his fellow flyers la only necessary to say that to "sponsor Yvonne and enter her Universal International,
in the Wanger contest, her photograph studio, has since spent more could dance and net, to play Salome, which was seeking a beauty who
Her early reluctance towards than US$7,000,000 on four, the European flame who settled in dancing was overcome, chiefly be Javish technicolour productions the pleneer West
cause of the concern of Yvonne's Among starring her.
more than 1,000 of the mother, Maria De Carlo Middleton, most likely candidates, whose photo- who possessed her own ambition for graphs and descriplions won them her teen-age only child. Before interviews, was Yvonne De Carlo. Yvonne was born, on September. 1, The interview led to tests, a long-had hoped her child would be a girl,
1924.
In Vancouver, BC, her mother term contract and Yvonne's starring role in "Salomo," whose release and become a famous dancer.
Consequently, her mother provid- ed Yvonne with a training that, while unappreciated at the time, served as a later stepping stone to the new star's carcer.
Yvonne in 1944 was just one of 20,000 hopeful entrants in a contest conducted by Producer Walter Wanger to find "the most beautiful girl in the world." She was chosen winner. Her first role was in "Salome, Where She Danced." After "Salome," she was starred in suc
created such a wave` of interest' in the beguiling brunette that she was immediately given a second role in
Talented Yvonne De Carlo is rehearsed by Chinese dance directrix Si-Lan Chen for her harem dancing role in "Slave Girl." Si-Lan Chen also directed sequences for "Anna and The King of Slam."
Film Showmen Give The
Nod To
To Television
By DAVID LEWIN
LONDON.
TELEVISION," said the
in our party at
a theatrical, club, "is like having a cinema in your own home."
The man on my right was a film producer. He glowered, then made come reference to box-office takings, and added as if to console himself Anyway, there are only 35,000 this
The eence holders in
their
The man on my left was one of the television team from Alexandra
Tele Palace. He glowered, too. vision men get angry when programmes are thought of as "con- ned" in the same way
films. Television, they argue, is a live art. That party was two months ago. Today, the woman could repeat her Significant Remark without fear of making enemies.
NO FIGHTING
05
with artists like Jack Hulbert and Bobby Howes.
Television plays with stage and screen stars are already of a high standard. The success of Margaret Lockwood was a fine example of the benefits to both sides of a film- television axis.
.
THEY WANT:
While in high school in Van- couver, Yvonne studied dancing to plense Mama. To please herself she becante netivo in dramatics, Follow- ing graduation Yvonne, who by then had become more enthusiastic about dancing, studied terpsichore at June Hoper's Vancouver School of Dance, a place that has sent many store to the Ballet Russe.
Developing her acting with the Vancouver Little Theatre, and with participation In church plays, while she was studying her dance steps, Yvonne got her first Job-as a dance entertainer. Other terpsichorean jobs In Vancouver followed.
CREATED OWN NUMBERS
IN 1041 Yvonne went to Holly- wood for six months of dancing, and appeared at
night numerous clubs and theatres. She created her own numbers: tap, ballet. Spanish and South American offerings. But she remained firm in her principal desire to be an actress,
Thant
Then her big chance and blg dis appointment came in 1942. year Paramount talent scouts put her unler contract. Dorothy
Lamone had refused to do any more sarong roles, and the beautiful Yvonne, with her perfect figure and ability to dance, sing and net Wos considered as a "good bet" for the Lamour kind of roles.
But Dorothy Lamour made peace with her studio and continued in sarong roles. Yvonne was left the uncelebrated Job of appearing in test after test with male prospects for important parts. Seen on the screen only in "bits," she became known as the "most tested girl in Hollywood."
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Finally came the 20,000 to chance that clicked in "Salome, Where She Danced." A long-term contract at Universal-International studio followed and starring In a succession of pictures around her figure and personality.
roles bullt
KEEPS HER FIGURE YVONNE speaks French. Shake- speare, Greek mythology and books about the theatre are her Her hobby is favourite reading. collecting records-symphonica and operas preferred.
com-
Her perfect. fair-skinned plexion, is attributed by Yvonne to drinking a lot of water and exercis-' ing in fresh air and sunshine. She neither drinks nor smokes, and seldom attends parties. When she entertaina she prefers a small group of intimate friends. ----
Gal"
But the Alexandra Palace people would like still more than the film the film men. They could use
Yvonne is an excellent rider. She newsreels to supplement-and, per- hans, in exchange for-their own. hng ridden her own horse to win And Mr Collins would like to be rodeo prizes. She did her
own able to televise new Aims instead thrilling riding in "Frontier
Slerras of the vintage affairs now allowed ❘ and "Slave Girl" at High to him.
and Utah locations. This eques- trienne activity is one means by On the film side, Mr J. Arthur which she remains happy, healthy tank has prepared to make use of and slim. television. In the cinemas he con- trols. Relays from his studios at Sydenham, Southeast London, to alx West End cinemas were to have taken place some time ago. Though the experiments have been held up, it is certain that eventually he could relay variety shows and plays to cinema audiences.
and
If the experiment_succeeds, the Government's Television Ad-
By watching her diet, avoiding starches and exercising daily, Yvonne's weight never varies from 117 pounds. She is five feet, four inches tall, has grey-blue eyes and brown hair. She has never married, but her name has been linked romantically with several men.
At talks on both sides of the At- lantic recently the flim men decided
television cannot that since
be killed, they will co-operate with it on two fronts. They will try to get television into the cinemas, and they will help to provide the best alm-stor
entertainment for home viewers.
visory Committee permits, it should ANGEL AND THE Television is pushing Into be possible within two years to give people's homes at the rate of 2,500 a regular service to chema screen sela Д month. By mid-summer from either Alexandra Palace there will be a viewing audience of Sydenham,
Film producers in 250,000 within a radius of 50 miles Fil
The Republic picture, "Angel And America- The Bad Man," which is coming of London. By 1950 television should where 175,000 home sets are in use coon to the Central Theatre, stars have spread to the Midlands and the have already given the lead to John Wayne and Gail Russell, who North The
big-scale co-operation. Three film play as-a romantle team for the first companies have tested large-screen time.
ormchair would then be 2,000,000.
audienco
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BAD MAN
*
SHOWING
TO-DAY
KINGS
AIR-CONDITIONED:
At 2.30, 5.15,
7.20 & 9.30 p.m.
THE SHEBA OF THE SAHARA!
UNIVERSAL INTERNATIONAL prosants -
Yvonne DeCARLO George BRENT
SLAVE
GIRL
TERRIFIC
IN TORRID
TECHNICOLOR
BRODERICK CRAWFORD • ALBERT DEKKER
· LOIS COLLIER • ANDY DEVINE
ARTHUR TREACHER • CARL ESMOND
Original Screenplay Written and Produced by MICHAEL, FESSIER and ERNEST PAGANO »Directed by CHARLES LAKSORTÉ A UNIVERSAL-INTERNATIONAL PICTURE
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5 SHOWS DAILY
AT 12.30; 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.15 P.M. FINAL EPISODE
The daredovit of: "Dlek Tracy" pitted against
the screen's horror man!
SOS
COAST GUAR
RALPH BYRD
BELA LUGOSI
PARA AL
MAXINE DOYLE
AREPUB
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LIGHTNING
·EPISODES
KING'S THEATRE
TO-MORROW MORNING AT 11.30 A.M. ONE HOUR OF ENTIRELY. NEW VARIETY PROGRAMME
The man who pays £2 for his cinema television, and as a result It is the first flim to be produced Bcence in England gets up to 30 are pouring more money into
week. Hollywood-radio link-up.
by Wayne since he formed his own They hours
programme-timo
organisation. Much of the picture Norman Collins, the 41-year-old The same thing will happen here, was made in the Arizona desert, Answered boss at Alexandra Palace, considers It will take longer but cinema tele- with Impressive outdoor scenes the his job is to entertain every member vision will mean the biggest change against which the
story of Call of the family.
in idens for mass entertainment Westerner's love for a Quaker girl is NEW STUFF
cinco "talkies."
unfolded.
Ila belleves in using original material for bl shows. He does not want to televise radlo scripts,
AT 2.30, 5.20, neither does he want to use his film television apparatus like
7.20 & 9.20 p.m.
ARE YOU A MITTY?
Arms
Can you daydream yourself Into the
of the most beautiful girls in the world?
1.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN
DANNY
presents
VIRGINIA...
KAYE MAYO
and THE GOLDWYN GIRLS
THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY”
in TECHNICOLOR
**IMBORISIKARLOFF FAY BAINTER
ANN RUTHERFORD
camera,
Break down a typical week's ser- vice and it works out like this:
Drama
up to
Variety Sport and outside
Hours
4.
broadcasis
3-4
Topical features Music and ballet
14 1
Women's features je
Filmert newsreels
a
The rest of the time is made up by showing old films, and by extra outside broadcasts..
Future plana
include
dally: children's hour, and Norman Collins wants more programmes with ap-. peal to women, who are his, maln afternoon audience.
There is to be more on-the-spot television reporting. Already hn. BDC puls out Its own 'television newarċel twice a week! If alma" to change it daily!"
Improvemerits on the variety elde are coming, too. Soon £1,000 encli will be spent on 90-minuto
Tevucs
wild h
|| DOROTHY "LAMOUR "plays", a:={dangèréas game in
Harvest." action thriller? In which she is starred witli & Robert " Fresion (left) and Alan Ladd. The flira, hiiss Lamour's Brst- siraight dramatia role in many years, is due tomorrow at the Queen's Theatre.
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