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There Are Too Many Kings On Broadway
NE thing I wouldn't wan
to be just How 111 English King on New York's Broadway. Too many
'of 'em around.
-SAYS FREDerick cook
Henry VIII, for instance, was weeping on my shoulder all through lunch the other day About the intolerable racket kicked up next door by his own father, Richmond,
"Look," said Henry VIII.-better known to you perhaps an Rex Har- rison-between sips at his tall stem- med cocktail, a volka Daiquiri, which is something to make tho walter blink even. here"Just at tho moment I make my entrance down the staircase, the very moment I have to decide whether to chop off Anne Boleyn's head or let the whole business go what happens?
"A terrible row on this other ado of the wall. It's that father of mine getting ready to kill Richard III on Bosworth Field 51 years carlier while Richard is yelling about swap- plug his kingdom for a horse and refting no takers.
Everybody knows he doesn't get the horse and that my father bumps him off (even Henry VIII has plekal up a bit of American over here) and gets the crown himself.
Why the terrible row?
MUEEN'S ALHAMBRA WHAT I don't see is why they
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In finne of the Thousand Days. Whorf, whichever way he slices his an excallopine de veau, he tells me Shakespeare.
that he has quite definitely decided after all not to settle in America.
have la maite such a terriblo row about it,"
Before I get you as thoroughly confused as I'm beginning to feel mycolf, perhaps I'd better explain. He wins the three-round heavy
Right next door to the theatre weight confest he fights nightly with
Harrison where Ilex
and Joyce Mr Shakespeare, the English con- ftedman are nightly enacting Mr tender, if not by a lock-out, at Maxwell Anderson's poignantly least by a margin of points sufficient poetic version of Poor Anne's brief to depress this referee.
counter with
Glory-Anne of the Thousand Days Mr Richard Whort has set up shop in the bloodiest of all Shakespearean roles, his own
even more sanguinary arrangement
of Richard -some say drauge- ment, but let that pass.
They are both worthy productions (our
Mr Shakespeare is among the season's top plywrights), but for my money I'll take Mr Harrison's Henry in preference to Mr Whort's Richard,
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The version of Richard Broadway is seeing was modelled after "streamlined" offering Mr Whorf concocted for the GIs and put on in various theatres of war in Europe.
Doubtless the troops heard it with case despite the "competition of Rundstedt, Rommel and company. Now it in heart with too much case through the wall in the house next door.
Mere amateur
"That was my intention when I came out to Hollywood three years ago, but I've changed my mind," said Harrison.
Off On His Own To A Flying Start
Why? Well. Whort is dynamic. o get back to Henry the Eighth,THREE young men who, as a
To get back to frein vnny com
Whorf is virile, Whort, is sul- ably menacing. Wharf has magni- pared with Richard, but no slow-
team, gave us some of the
cent diction. But Where is still coach when it comes to pollshing off best British films are now going
T
Here's Your Cue,
Lords debate.
Mr. Wilson
By Stephen Watts
their separate ways.
At first glance It might seem a pity. Since "In Which We Serve" you have seen the names of David Lean, Ronald Neame, and Anthony Havelock- Allan on such laulable works as "Brief Encounter" and "Great Expectations."
But more British films are needed, And this senttering of the seeds of frow where one grew before.
First of the three to emerge with
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E most revealing statement so far on the British film talent will make three films industry crisis was made by Lord Grantley, director of several Rank companies, in the recent House of a. solo elfort is Havelock-Allan. "The Small Volce" is pretty well everything he get-out to produce modest without being humble, econo- mical without being skimped, pretentious without being insignifi- cant. In fact, a capable, intelligent, cujoyable picture with several ng- peets of novelty to give it a sparkle.
"Even the big combines," he said, "will have to live assistance if things go on as they are at present."
So saving British mis Is made to mean saving the big combines. This is bad and wrong.
The President of the Board of Trade should Insist that this crisis makes a change in the whole set-up more necessary than ever.
Now is the time to break the studio-to-screen stranglehold. Only when einemns are free to choose their own films, instead of taking what they get from distributors who also produce the films and own the cinemas. will you get a virile industry. And that is the task- not bolstering up wobbling menopolies,
WHY CAN'T WE BE FUNNY?
WHY are British films so bad at comedy? Except in the broadest sort of comedy (George Formby, Will Hay, etc.), our writers and directors are ham-fisted when it comes to being funny on the screen.
There is nothing wrong with the players, Two new films prove my paint.
Google Withers shows the highest skill as a comedy actress in "Once Upon a Dream." But what feeble stuff she has to act
On her record as a serious actress, plus this new departure, she is
Two
un-
TWO of the roots of plat are con- ventional enough-escaped con- victs and
post-war neurotic
husband. But they are handled with
sense and discretion.
Strained husband and wife (James Donald and Valerie Hobson) find themselves imprisoned in their Welsh country house by the Goolbreakers whom they, mistook for ordinary road crash Vietins. Two children strand-
a world star of the first order. And she grows more attractive with every film. She is well supported, especially by Grimik Jones and Guyed by the crash are an extra problem Middleton, but I ached for them as they bent their powers to paltry material.
PEER'S THREE-WHEELER
HEN in "Slient Dust" Sir Seymour Hicks is brought in as comic But the 1 relief. There is no doubt about this veteran's abilities. producer's idea of a slotous scene is an elderly peer riding a tricycle What snobbery!
Incidentally this picture demonstrates again the wealth of talent there is in Britain. Nigel Patrick (whose sply performance was the only good thing in "Nonse") is a young actor with real character and Beatrice Campbell, when an unkind camera gives her a chance, is a young woman of beauty and promise. Whatever else wo Jack, it isn't star material.
resource.
very
for the convlet leader (Harold Keel). The situation in taken quietly. At times the tension is not quite as taut as it might be, but the approach is 4 war of right. It develops into a
Donald works nerves.
gently. sublly to break Keel's nerve.
"make him lift the siege
and Fun for This requires
pinying expert lo be convincing. and it gets it. is д Keel, making his film debut,
different character from the very sweet-voiced here of "Oklahoma.” lic makes
a fine menacing villain. Donald is excellent too, and Miss Hobson, though somewhat harshly photographed at times, combines in- telligence and elegance in that al-
own. A new director, Fergus Mc- Donell, makes a good start."
MUSIC IN THE MOUNTAINS NOMEBODY in the film business hins dubbed "The Glass Mountain"
"Minter's redemption." George Minter is the man who entered imtructive way which is peculiarly her production as spanser of the notorious' "No Orchids for Miss Blandish,"
Certainly he has leaped laudably far away from brutality and suggestion. He now presents a definitely "class" film, not strong in story, and over-sentimental, but well acted, credilably made, and intro- ducing a new star of more than passion Interest. She is Valentina Cortese. a movingly beautiful Italian. There are some lovely scenes, In the Dolomites, and for bace there is a composer-hero (Michaci Denison) whose music makes his success plausible. But I wish Denison and Dulcie Gray, who, married in real life, can portray young married love better than most, had not been made so whimsical. They are too inteligent and attractive a pair for such synthetic sugar.
CARY
HIRE PRICE IS HIGHER
NARY GRANTS protegee Betsy Denke (she was on the London stage in "Deep are the Hoots") is complaining that her employer, David Selznick, is askinut £19,000 for the loan of her services to other producers, Ile pays her £125 a week, which would give him about £14,000 proft
· GRATEFUL TO TRACY QEARCHING my imemory, I cannot recall Spencer Tracy giving any- thing remotely like a bad pere förmance. Not only does he rise above the doughler moments of "Cass Timberlane", but, he per- sistently lifts the film to his level. should be for which it (and we) grateful.
The inerndicabic marka of the on, routine novel are on the film. You know full well that the widower the girl (Lana
on a one-pleture toan. Her frst Alm, opposite Grant, is bringing her fulge will not it in with his i
good notices in America.
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Turner) who country club friends, that the small- town snobbery will get
Ret her down. VERYBODY connected with "The Passionate Friends" is to be con- that Zachary Scott is the bachelor of
grafulated. It is in the class of "Brief Encounter,” and that I regard
the group amply to supp
supply an ex- us the best of David Lean's distinguished list of films,
for Miss Turner's amorous There are some dreadful whim--
CONGRATULATIONS ALL ROUND
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The casting is Inspired. You feel fond players should always make thoughts to wonder temporarily, you feel this) that nobody but Ann Tedd, Cinude Rains and Trevor Howard could all their roles Erie Ambler) in outstanding-apt, economical, delicate.
half BO well. The welling (by ales, romu stupefying cliches, but
Tracy's face (that remarkable gift
The direction, despite the choice of a complicated flashback-within- of making you me into his mind) #ashback technique, is pretty well faultless. Lean's artistry, his use of and tre solid ability of Lana Turner the cantera, how lovingly like a painter's brush, now sharply like a carry the load with admirable con- microscope, has never been more sure. At least three scenes have au ceniment of any strain emotional tension that had me rigid in my seat. And Miss Todd performs have felt..
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