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SEAT IN THE STALES
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By HETTIE GRIMSTEAD LADY'S Henson, who plays Mrs Boon in the film version of Norman Collins' best-seller, "London Belongs to Me." is now wondering whether a supersti- tion in which she has believed all her life is really effective. Meeting a sweep on her way to Pinewood Studios, just outside London,
morning, one
shu lowered the window of her car to touch him on the shoulder to ensure good luck-and ran into a lump-post!
Koes
to
El
Screen stars have to keep Inten- sively . Stewart Granger always (London) Piccadilly Kymnasium between pictures for a course of toughening treatment, usually pollshes up his baxing, too, for all his recent roles have enlled
for at least one fight.
Fo
Due for in entirely different type of part in the gay, romantic comedy
Stewart di "Womnu Hater.
not Just
hother about boxing practive fire. But when he walked on the set for the first scene, he discovered he had to "insait" his leading lady, who promptly gave him a resound- Ing blow which sent him sprawling. The ex sequence enlled for Stewart to kidnap a bridegroom at the church oue. The angry brudes threw her shoe after the leparting ear and caught Stewart full between the shoullers!
BIANCA MOSCA MODEL
TALL
Kathleen Byron, whook latest film is "The Small Back Hoom," written by Nigel Balettin, In Just been given a model evening gown by designer Banez Mosea, in de grey satin patterned with black and vivid green mureissi. The strap less bodice has a spray of black velvet paretest on one side and an other spray is carried as a pusy,
Shopperion Studios' youngest Mar Is eight-year-old Bobby
Stewart Granger takes a Turkish bath.
per.
who sets with Sle Ralph Richardson
111s The Lost Huston." formance is completely natural, he cause Director Carol Reed, with it- Bite patience, maker Hobby feet by is engaged in a long stame of nuke. believe which has to be played ac-
oyding to certala sel fuites.
When Bobly, who is the son of the author, Robert Henrey,
cameras stop turning borvrl, the
with his while he takes mother or makes some paper boats. his favourite occupation. Then so he comes rimning back again quiring eagerly. "What do we play
grows
int-
Twu caf Princess Elizabeth'a "Heurey, bridesmaids, Lady Margaret Elphin
Teen-agers Influence Screen Love-making
By PATRICIA CLARY
AMONG other duties, a movie director has to keep up to date on the love-making tech- niques of the teens.
Director Richard Wallace says successful movies have to aim their love scenes to please the young folk who make up most of a movie audience. And it takes real alertness, he said, to keep up with their tastes.
"Yesterday's hep stuff becomes to- day's corn every few years." Wallace said. "You can't offer one group of teen-agers what the last group went for
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stone and Lady Elizabeth Lambart, visited Elstree Studios recently Ree the Alming of "No Room of the Inn," and bad ten with Freda Jack- son. They were surprised to find Fred would not smoke a cigarette afterwards. But the actress ex- plained that many movie folk give up smoking while making pictures. Nicotine tends to darken the whites of
and, though the
seldom eyes
the discernible In Ordinary life. close-up camera would photograph those of even a moderate smoker n dull grey.
"F" and "Gru" have been in grout demand at Ealing Studios while "Scott of the Antarctig" 13 being produced. Fuff is n 1- markable white plantic material which can be fashioned into fer- bergs and snowdrifts while "Gru"
is a loose falling "suow," made by freezing a special sait mixture and then spraying it out through iminense machine.
BATTLING BLIZZARDS
JOHN
0372
ORIN Mills, in the title role, has
battling been dally
his WRY Drough 80-indle-an-hour blizzards, so fiercely authentic that he has had to wear special protective clotting. He found it quite a relief at night to come out into the cumparatively of genuine snow showers Bentle The London winter.
Barzol Britain's most beautiful dog makes his stately screen debut in Tar Bad Lord Byron," with Derails Price and Joon Greenwind, He is Frate of Fitzrouge, winner of prizes. innumerable international but will be called simply "Viking"
in the Atm.
Margaret Lockwood hopes really true that seasickness is due mininly to the effect of imagination. She filtons to find out soon, for she pic- lonthes the rea and her new lare, "Change of Heart," casts her as a confidence riekster on board an Atlantic her. When the ship board series are shot, the liner will actually be anchored in the River Mersey at Liverpool, but, never- theless, Mantle still feels she will hert some psychologleal aid to get through successfully,
thefr And
the
AUTOGRAPHING PAINS CHEILA Sim was delighted when she got the part of the house- master's daughter in "The Guinea 13." for
Richard her husband, Attenborough, plays the schoolboy hero. Since then Shetla bus 4188- covered they have only one casual "These young n-goers are the neeling in the film, so on the days
she is called before keenest, most intolerant critics we when have on love scenes.
cameras, Dick is at home, and vice opinions are vitally important at the versa. box-office and because of their in- Signing all those autographed pic- tures the tm fans want is * K luence on other patrons."
Studio executives listen shudder-problem for all screen personalities. ingly at kid previews to the kids They lead such busy lives
they hisses and bous, laughs at the wrong have to do this in spare minutes, and smacking sounds at and often have some photographs places, kisses.. Then they rush to the cut-and a pen left in each room they will use during the day, so they can ting room and change the picture.
"I the kids don't like it," said dnsh off a few more whenever
arises. Patricia Roc Wallace, "you're dead. But, if you opportunity please them, you've a rapt and loyal recently signed so industriously in between scenes audience which will go out and tell her dressing-room their friends what a swell show you that she had writer's cramp when called back to the set, and needed have."
Even in modern pictures, Wallace strenuous massage before she could makes his romance strictly modern. move her arm again. He has just fished "Baltimore Es-
Temple and John Agar.
THE ART OF capace, with Robert Young. Shirley
MILKING
EMOTIONS:
E tricks that
THE
directors
No Sympathy
oyelki-
The
TWO JEANS
IN TALENT
SWOP TEST
The costumes and background are authentie for the period." Wal- lace said. "But the atitude of the Young romancers is matter-of-fact and nonchalant. We want them to:
moderns' under- have the youn use to start
ting and sympathy," milk emotions from their actors There'd be no Sympathy, he's
By DAVID LEWIN 1905 have ranged from an offstage gun- afraid, or the eny
.LONDON. shot to the "crying vlalins" hired Butterings and fan-peekings.
THOSE star hopes of British pic- for every moody Theda Bara scene.
Il's relatively easy to put modern
turcs, the Iwo Jeans, are, a Since Jackie Coogan 1405 knee romance in Baltimore Escapade,"
about Miss problem to the film-makers. high to Chaplin, directors live told because it's a comedy children sad stories' to make them Temple's advanced notions on woman Simmons and Jeau Kent seem
have just about everything-but not ery, right down through the time suffrage.
**But if we were of Baby LeRoy,
making The quite. The film men say: Roy, Shirley Temple and
SIMMONS- of Miles Standish," Wal- Jean
-a grand actress; Margaret O'Brien.
sale.
"we'd still have to put a an Oscar-worthy performance
to directors. an off-stage gunshot at the pre-modern manner into the love scenes "Hamlet," no trouble
But how are people going to take cise moment when the actor should or face box-olice failure."
her in a sarong in "Blue Lagoon"? be startled. That worked better in
The
Some directors still startle
silent
plctures, because noise has to be erased
110W from
with fare
Courtship
teen-nge attitude towards love
Jean
to
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the ki ponsible for a change in screen Nothing wrong with her acting, of
the is
Wallace said. elinehes which
"They
to be 19 were
course, but she doesn't always have
marathong the temperature-raising effect.
a strain on Jean KENT-she'd be marvellous
to
round trac
track. Others cajole, tear their hair, or
in a sarong. No doubt about the stand
In front of the actor making everybody and brought down the
"Now the effect she has on an audience. But censors on us," he said. A few, like John Ford, use faces. psychology,
trick is reaction rather than netion. sometimes her personality has Ford, winner of three Academy Maybe the reaction even will be the pull her neting through.
So they are going to try cut this Awards,
is a past master of what work of dialogue, like "Wow!'"
Depending on the teenagers, that talent swop:- he cails "pointed indirection." During Blair of "The Three God- may all be changed in two years.-
United Press. fathers" in California's blistering- hot Death Valley, he tricked Ward
For
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Pedro Armendariz and Harry
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of The
Jean. Kent puts the emphasis on acting
ting in her new picture. "Trottle True" the girl-appeal will be there on the ske. Jean Simmons gets
down to work next week on "Adam
and Evalyn" with Stewart Gran- cer. The accent will be on the love Interest, and "girl appeal" will be
Corey, Jr., gave performances that Fred Zinnemann, whose powerful the strong card.
after Ford walked them through a sand- Search brought him Instantaneous HOLLYWOOD'S idea for David acclaim from the public and critics Niven is to remake Leslie Howard's It John Wayne appeared in trial alike, has
been signed to direct 1935 "The Scarlet Pimpernel."
big is being written again, with orders court as the most wretched, ill-at-
"Battleground," RKO Radio's
the woman In the care criminal ever to face a judge. Rest production of the new season, to emphasise
Jane In the picture, Wayne plays a bank
Although Zinnemann first went la story. The woman will be
Greer. After all, says Hollywood, robber and saves a baby's life on
the United States from his native the desert:
considerable Pimpernel wasn't so important. in 1020 with Austrin When time came for him to plead experience in European studion
MORE British stars are wanting case, Ford told Wayne not to his
credit, he
he worked for several
for independent producers. Expect to see Rosamund John starting a new film soon-her
Itis
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use the lines he had learned. He rears as an assistant director before to make pictures bind to stammer and stutter through gaining recognition in Hollywood. In his answers to the judge's questions,
01937, he was signed by MGM and
beat
scenes
Seventh "The
Cross,"
starring
tract and gave up £15,000 a year. Other I expect to see making oc- ensional pictures away from the big groups are: Anne Crawford, Robert Newton, and Eric Portman.
"I made the scene true to Me, after directing numerous shorts, in-Arst since she broke her Rank con- Wayne admitted. "Ford gets his cluding several of the "Crime Docs by underplaying his Not Pay" series and two Academy direction. He forces actors to, make Award winning subjects, he was their actions and their dialogie tell assigned to features. the story."
· FRED Another Ford ruse is to subordi-Spencer Tracy, was his first notable
ASTAIRE'S 11-year-old nate the star to a bit pinyer. This him, but with "The Search"
san came out first in a radlo quiz results in a beller scene
programme. His prize: A course nt because established himself as one of both star and bit player work their most brilliant of the newer diree-hid father's dancing academy. hardest.
torial forces. "It is Ford's uncanny way of al- The story, by Robert Pirosh, is most ignoring the actor," Wayno based upon factual incidents of the Next Change: "THE LAST DAY OF POMPEII", "that brings out the true artist Battle of the Bulgo during World of Carmen." It will be advertised
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