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WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
GREGORY RATOFF Prodmed by WILLIAM PEALBERG
Directed by
Screen Play by MORRIE RYSKIND
les and Music by fra Gershala and Karl Well
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1948.
EAT IN THE
Look! You've a star
in Tony
F you have seen those two British films, "Vice Versa," and "Oliver Twist," you will remember Tony Newley. He played the part, in the first, of a normal boy and of- a grown-up กาเข whose mind, feelings, and habits are shifted by magic into a boy's body. He did it so well that he acted other players twice his age right out of the picture.
He was the Artful Dodger and what a sly. In "Oliver," know-all ragamuma he show- ed himself in that,
Well, Tony is only 16, but in his simmet spon of years he has kuown privation, and by his own'vourageous efforts DAN Overcom it. About three years ago, while he was stil at school in Clapton, Tony decided to be an actor,
He Was just an ordinary Ittle Landers had with a Cockney necent puckish face, but the Tich was un tum. He know that his mother could not afford the leek for 21 dramatic school. He also knew that, somehow, he had to get into one.
Be suited dolg sporetime Jobs One day he
lo art some money.
Take A Peek
If anyone else hand those binoculars, they would be looking at Merle Oberon. Sho's better to see than the Re. The field glasses ara a memento of her recent trip to Germany where she was on loca tion for RKO Radio's "Berlin Express" in which she co-stara with Robert Rynn, Charles Korvin and Paul Lukas.
SPANIARDS LOSE OUT ON RITA
By DON ALLAN
浦
Remember this face, says LEONARD MOSLEY
saw an advertisement for ms office boy at the Italla Conil schoot and he was off to Archer-street, in the West End, like in streak.
shooting its director came to see Miss Conti. "Hold on to that boy, But help him," he said. "You real- ly have something important Tany
She
In
got him his part in Vice Versa. She helped to get him cast for the part of the Artful Dodger. Now the determined urchin from Clapton is out in the Yorkshire Dales on a cycle, playing an impor-
Bike in A Doy, a Girl ana
British producers have given Tony the pampered path tu success. When he played his part in "Oliver Twist" there were large
no
cars to transport him 10 Pinewood Studios,
He used to get up at Clapton tree in the morning and eyele through the rain and the dark to Liverpool-street. There he parked Als bike and tok The tratt to Bucknghamshire fur his Parly morning afl. After a gruelling day's work day ifid the whole thing
In rever
THE FUTURE
They gave klar the Job. But when Halln Corti plaried to talk hot waSTATE Tony Newley spoke up.
"I don't want any wages,' he suld. "I want to be an actor-pay me by tenebing me hoay."
Henceforth Tony
"What, in was jack-u! - AK-Jub armod the Conti sehool. But in his all-hours he was alsu budding actors ile fearbest how to pose, how to use his face and bonds for
This
fact, is special about that rags-to-riches story is hard work, constant ppplication and yearl determination have not taken the boy out of Tony. He for expression; the patiently prae- is still the cturerful un
wrchire his tised elocution to disce his Cock- setioolmates wed to know. ney stung.
And, as
as each work went by, and comedian. Tony worked like shreeping tel ut the
learn his chonen eraft, Miss Conti started telling her friends about her non-paying iipit She Kot Jum Battle Balls in Bilbis
Finally
hy was
****
molto is
great version
ambition de to re
be
Yorkshire une 11 the wants ost, do it thissen, Be is making it with talent and promise,
I liope British Studios will recon- nite what an asset they have cast in » Ronk Tony Newley and ave him the op- rildren's festtuce calid "Dunky parturities he be still avidly seeke Bates," Halfway Through the Ing.
Ballet booms but doesn't pay
by STEPHEN WATTS
San
the
LONDON. simple, episodic sluey Tclosed at
THE ballet season which has Finesseo-Norwegian family, it has
the courage Lo depend on Covent Garden tremulous trivia of horne Hfe with was one of the most successful father. nothin, and four real, re- ever given in Britain.
coghistle children,
mutual
affection, and t warmth permeates the flim,
I ran for nine months, auchences “ They save little mnay but great were large and enthusiastle, two new ballets were produced, and a native company which can hold its own in Irene Dunne is beautifully affect- any capital of the world developed ink as the mother. Osene Homolka still further.
makes
a wonderful roaring chorac- formidable mele,
and
But success is not a word to be ter of the used glibly about ballet. It does not, Barborn Het Gerides, AN the Bar- for instance, embrace money. The ratur-daughter; represents the awit- season Just ended did everything ex-
ward are with endearing delicacy. cept pay.
A picture to restore your faith in Good ballet An that elegant uh, a lut of the tie things downger of theatres, the Royal enrich Hie. Opera House, is a national asset, 1 wish all State grants to the art were spent as that which keeps alive this invaluable institution,
that
"My Brother's Keeper." an utt- pretentious British pleture, tells a sensible, compae! story of a man- hunt after two escaped prisoners. } keeps moving and rings true JUST over a quarter of a million except for some conventional Fleet
people went to the ballet. An Street caricaturing. average of 1,750 (or 85 percent of Jack Warner does extremely well capacity) pastel £900 at the ung- in a noisedmeny part and some uitive fest every performance, youngsters-Jane Hylton, George Krosa revenue of £135,000.
Cole, met David Tomlinson-are To that should be added the bar highly commendable. anf buffet takings, for Covent Gar
then is one of the few theatres "If Winter Comex" comes about where the interval drinker has de ás close to English Df as did its satisfaction of knowing the pennies matural ancestor "Mrs Miniver." of proft on his whisky are gong Switching the year from 1914 to | into the kitty, for next years pro- 1939 canned take the old best-
ductions.
selfer Dy less dated, ony Jess
But ballet is
West
chestra of the Size and qunty
with
expensive to put damply contrived, un. Each new item in the reper- Walter Pudgeon provides * toire est DIS Intach s many a tweedy shoulder for feminine con-
End stranght play.
An or Adences, and 37eborah Kerr,
her impercable bemfy and Sin- NEVILLE, Spain-Rita Hayworth's cluding rehearsals,
required costs £150 an hour, cerity, gives the story more than it many Spanish fans have heard
gives her. sad nows. The famous actress was born in New York and not im Seville.
The Woman in White" twists Wilkie Collins's Victorian chiller For years a lively controversy has existed here over the birthplace of current great house-filter
by renouncing Artistic enterprise. violently out of shape, and for all Rita, born Margarita Cansion, and whe Most Spanish movie-goers
The only would be to sacrifice quality (which
to make way.
TIPPY would be fatal in the long run)
Sleeping Beauty"
un empty seat.
tir
is the skill of Eleanor Parker in which, dud role and all Sidney Green-
her as a Spanlard from Seville.
claimed after 175 performances, has yet in street's urban malevolence it is no
this show
The 211471 who shattered illusion is her grandfather, Antonio matinees. Cousino, who arrived here by plane
native and
to finish his years in his city.
even
al mare
But Sadler's Wells will not stand "The
lean on its established has
hits.
show
than
mildly mneabre
of the Ram.” which Hollywood-England setting. that Susan Peters (erippted in read life and bere playing cripple) is an Impressive actress. All that synthetic Cornish fog seens comedy with to have clouded my memory: I cad Throat-lump-producing qualities. A recall nothing else except tedben.
Cansing at 93 is Hvely and spry The New films and walks with the grace of a born dancer, A
"T REMEMBER typical quick-wittedt and proud with the music of the Gypsles In his volce.
Andalusian. "I sentimental
He speaks Spanish with a strong Sevillion dialect and despite his wany years in America, almost no English.
Taught Her to Dance
In te njadest runny which he oe- cuples in the home of relatives there are pictures of Rita Huy worth and her only child, Rebecca Welles. Over a bed hung two Spanish guitars, one a magicent instrument 87 years ok.
ed.
To the guitar, he said, Rita Hay-1 worth danced her first steps with her grandfather as her teacher, She learned rapidly, because she, too, is #true Andalusian, descended from generations of dancers, he explain- Rita Hayworth is the most popu- lar Hollywood actress in Spain, us much for her Spanish origin and dancing ability as for her face and gure. After the showing of her Ilm "Gilda," all Spain was swept with a Gilda eraze. There are now Gilda shoes, Guida hairdos, per- fines and an especially pretty girl is dubbed a "Gilda."
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Adviser to Hollywood Antonio Cansino gave his Oral dancing lesson 70 years ago. Since travelled with dance then he has troupes all over the world, served as dancing professor at the Royal Opera House in Madrid and per- formed before royalty.
In recent years he has served as
a technical adviser on dancing for Hollywood studios and has con- granddaughter
tinually helped his
with her Alm routines.
He has no plans for returning to Asierlea.
came
a
back to Sevillo for decent glass of sherry and to talk my head off," he says, "and
alay here until I've had enough of both United Press.
MAMA" is
Burt Lancaster, who scored in "The
Killers,"
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Lizabeth Scott, of "Dead Reckoning" fame, ara teamed together in "Desert Fury," now showing at the Queen's Theatre. John Hodlak is also featured in the film,
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