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FOLKS TILL
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1949.
SEAT IN THE STALLS
FREDERICK Cook reporTS ON BROADWAY & HOLLYWOOD
The tunes roll out the dollars
come rolling in
BROADWAY'S HIT SHOWS HAVE DEVELOPED INTO A MAJOR EXPORT ITEM FOR THE AMERI- CANS. AND THE DEMAND CONTINUES. HEADING. THE LIST OF LEGITIMATE PLAYS BORN IN NEW YORK AND NOW MAKING NEW FORTUNES OVER SEAS IS THE TENNESSEE WILLIAMS DRAMA A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE.
Second comès Born Yesterday, the Gar- son Kanin comedy with Pygmalion undertones, which was to have closed a week ago after 1442 performances, but was given a last-minute re- prieve as it has been doing such business.
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This play not only won wartime Prime Minister as fame as a writer for Kanin, freak attraction. But the sum but carned its star, Judy formance in The Philadephia total of Sarah Churchill's per- Holiday, a Hollywood con- Story is thoroughly professional. tract.
If she is no Katharine Hep- burn, she is stili far ahead of the 1940 counterparts."
Coupled
with the film
her triumph in All Over the Town-- New Yorkers liked her immense- ly even if they did not think much of the picturethis maices her sure of a Hollywood role any time she seriously thinks of one. NEXT-JAMES JOYCE Preliminary work has started on one of next season's theatrical Edwin Armstrong adaptation of occasions, a
Padraic Colum- James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake.
Streetcar has been pro- duced already in Belgium, Holland, Mexico,
Italy, Sweden, Denmark and Greece. Productions are listed for London, Paris and Vienna, Poland, Switzer land, Portugal, Australia and Hungary aro also angling for the rights,
Born Yesterday has done well In Switzerland, France, Italy Czechoslovakia, Greece, Hol- Innd and Austria as well as London shortly at Tel-Aviv.
It is to be produced
Among the goldmine musicals, Oklahoma continues to pour pounds sterling, pounds Austra- Kan and pounds South African Into the grateful Rodgers and Hammerstein coffers. It is
e also running profitably in Sweden and Denmark and touring the far Pacific bases.
Annie Get Your Gun, another now among the missing on Broadway, can be seen in Fin- Iand
and New Zealand, Den- mark and Norway as well as in the West Erid, Australla, Paris and South Africa.
The London theatregoer has been luckier than the New Yorker lately.
There has not been an opening here now for Reven weeks, unless one In- cludes Howdy, Mr Ice of 1950 (where at least the customers can persuade themselves they feel cool) and Cabalgata, a Spanish musical extravaganza which is more of a vaudeville show than a play.
But last Friday saw a big theatrical event-the Arst night of Miss Liberty, the Robert E. Sherwood-Irving Berlin musical. It la going to run Kiss Mc, Kate and South Phelde close In popularity.
CHURCHILL TRIUMPH
In the summer theatre the big
news 13 Sarah Churchill's tremendouLS.
Another Klustration of the way the "export trade" is booming Armstrong (who is to present it) has already had inquiries from
London, Sydney and Paris.
AVA GARDNER
is in the Great Staner; it tells
eambling in the 1960'
It will be a big production, sets, a big orchestra. Expected with a large dance group, lavish
personni suce cost £02.500. The Americans are discovering that she can get.
Nobody has yet asked for any money, but backers have already produced £5,000. Tipped for leading paris: Surah Allgood and Barry Fitzgerald.
As the trade paper Variety (which speaks plainly, even when it hurts) saya in the nicest tribute yet: "They came to MR RANK'S SECRET Princeton, New Jersey, to see the 'daughter of Britain's famed
Another package of 70 J. Arthur Rank Alms is being
The Week's Screen Fare
Rope (KING'S & LEE), an Alfred Hitchcock thriller, is the pick of the week. It is the story of two young men (play- | Grand Opening To-morrow at ed by John Dall and Farley
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Granger) who belong to મ modern school of thought that has had some vogue in recent years. They believe that the gentle pastime of murder is re- servet for superior types like themselves.
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GREEN-EYED RHONDA
She has arrived
for sale on the New York ter iluston, Frank Morgan.
Another hit here,
television market.
opening The Rank people are guarding shortly in London, is: Portrait the secret of just what pictures of Jennie. Vals brings the are in the package. The price music of Debussy to the screen asked is zaid to bo about for the first time. £75,000.
Jones is Jennie.
This is not especially high, but the local television stations have been going warily lately. on feature pictures, proferring shorts.
Jennifer
THE NEW STAR... Rhonda Fleming, after 25 years in Hollywood (she was
born there) has gained her secondl THE NEW FILMS... triumph. First Bing Crosby put her into A. Yankee at King The Great Sinner, which Arthur's Court. Now Dub Hopo Christopher Isherwood helped stars her in The Great Lover. to adapt for the screen, is a Rhonda is a green-eyed red- period piece about gambling in head, hitherto relegated to "ad- ihe 1800's, with Gregory Peck venture" epics. But now slic
ns a man destroyed by his pas has arrived. When you soo her slon for the tables. Others: Av In the new film, you'll under- Gardner, Melvyn Douglas, Wistand why.
Newsreels
need
a shake-up
By STEPHEN WATTS
Films arrived the day an audience ducked in terror as a train came rushing at them on the screen. So the newsreel was born. Now it seems to be on its deathbed. the hand-loom in relation to the spinning jenny. In As television grows the newsreel becomes more like America some newsreel companies have already gone out of business.
tic parady, absurd and rather exhilarating.
But
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before progress strikes the deathblow over here the newsreels are in trouble. Mr Sidney Bernstein has drop- ped them from his 55 theatres with the blunt statement that his audiences And them dull. screen
For this the newsrais' have only themselves to blame.
IT'S THE"" OWN FAULT
MOMENTS ONLY Exhilarating is the word for the witty writing of Erie Link- later, but his comle spirit has been much diluted in "Private Angelo" as transferred to the
by Peter Ustinov. The result is a film of delight- ful moments, no
Custome
Scenes at
the
in Eng- land, which occur at the begin- ning end, are evidence of
and
I looked at the two principal Ustinov's akill and humour. It British reels last week I must
ba mny confirm Mr Bernstein's judge.
significant that he does Highlights of the Alm include ment. a thrilling rescue at sca in sub- much as before. A royal visit
The mixture was very not appear in those scenes
When he nets and directs as zero weather, a plane crash, a to provincial town (small well, something goes wrong. His thrilling escape in frozen waters; girl ond crowning all, some of the Henley Regatta at great length. what in worse, his playing is presents bouquet). The Angelo, the soldier who runs away, is utterly un-Italian, but, most awesome close-ups of Wimbledon, but not the finals. James Stewart is starred as storm fury.
A fete in Italy. on old preparatory school teacher who Arst inculcated
of his pupils, The east includes Cedric Hardwicke, Joan Chandler and Douglas Dick.
Sir
curiously off-hand. One forls uke ticking off the clever young man for carelessness.
Give My Regards To Broad-
The other had the Wimbledon them with the idea and is call-Way (ROXY & BROADWAY)
TRUE AND FALSE ed in to witness the, prowess one of a long line of Holly- Anals, but Henley again, and an
The Italian scenes are often wood spectacles immortalizing extremely pedestrian record of
per the Western Union fleet exer- beautiful, but they vary from mitting the film industry an- vaudeville troupers and
cises, with bbviously staged ple- the intensely real to the palpably other chance to dig up forgotten tures of sailors and girls ashore, fate. One spurt into liveliness topline vaudeville acts.
Field-Marshal Montgomery re- comes when Angelo falls in with Interwoven into the song and fusing a drinkt hardly comes un- a British commando composed of
the usual warm, der the heading of trews.
desert types. human story of a stage family Television, or no, newsreels played by Charles Winninger, could surely prolong their lives Fay Bainter, Dan Dalley, and with an infusion of new ideas, two comparativa newcomers.raaybe of new blood.
Give my Regards New Theatre
to Broadway
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Linklater comes up again with Barbara Lawrence and Janet must be some young film men novel "Poel's Pub which is There the filming of his pleasant early Nigh.
sense and some wisely being run as a second feature. It is a mild, bromidle, refined mistre.
Troops To Have
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.GÈNE THE GYMNAST
Metro-
Sympathy goes out to Derek If the old, oft-Almed swash- Bond, who is as good as possible buckling romances Ille "The as the poet, and grateful thanks Three Musketeers" must be to Joyca Grenfell, for a Low In common with other Hong-made again. then
.richly funny moments. The Broadway Theatre has kong organizations, the Yung Goldwyn havo tho right 354 dress circle seats and ac- Hwa Motion Picture Studios in iden about how to do it. commodation for 306 In the back Kowloon are endeavouring to With lots or redblooded action, stalls and 104 in the front stalls. There is a Dairy Farm fountain and cafeteria on the ground and first floors.
old age.
Static nudes are the attraction
..
provide entertainment for the rainbow-blooded Technicolour, of London's Windmill Theatre. are garrison of the Colony and more than a hint of tongue-in- There are no nudes in "Murder visits to the Studios have been the cheelt, and no reverence for at the Windmill", so the quality arranged.
of the rest of this odd entertain- It will show 20th Century 1st Toyal Leicesters and from if the Musketeers had had more Murder is the word,
It would have been better still ment-stands nakedly revealed: First parties will be from the Fox, RKO-Radio and London the Royal Military Police. The character.
Company
Here they are dim producilons.
troops will be shown all the creatures, exlating only in the Opening feature is the mica latest equipment at the Studios shadow of Gene Kelly's vivid, Give My Regards to Broadway and will be given a chance to bouncing D'Artagnan and lined up for early showingt|
"shooting". In pro- are The Snake Pit, Apartment ce omo for Peggy, That Lady in Ermine, Melody Time and Horn
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A GREAT-WALL SUPERB PRODUCTIONI MISS PAI KWONG YEN CHIN in
FORGOTTEN WOMAN”
A CHINESE PICTURE WITH MANDARIN. DIALOGUE.
BCD
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FOOLISH BUT FUN the stage in
Joan Greenwood, last seen on an intense. play, "Frenzy," transforms herself in- to an enchanting comedienne in though
"Young Wives Tale", Memory is deceptive, but A Song Is
18 Studios are Chinese-owned, the Kelly seems to leap from even
This lightest of
of domestic organisation is completely west-higher balconies than did The comedies, wandering Into farco, Special attention was paid to ernised and there has been co-senior Fairbanks, to bound into but it seems better than it is has a sprinkling of funny lines, acoustics when building the operation auditorium and the lighting authorities and various
between the Army the saddle. with even
More with Miss film gymnastic zest. scheme, sound equipment, seat- directors for many months, es- H ing and air conditioning are of pedially in riding scenes when into something close to ballet.
sword-play scenes develop and uncompromising portrait of the latest type.
a foolish, feckless, affected puss horses have been borrowed from
and The theatre is owned by the the Royal Artillery,
The uncompromising Ameri- Infuriating ingratiating, from Henry Q, Leong Estates. In order to show their ap appearance of Lana Turner Wayne, Joan Haytheras, and
can accents and scenery, and the very attractive,
Excellent, too, are Naunton precation of the help received the volupted over Derek Farr from the British Army, thead take the whole romp visli have been arranged. further into the realm of fantas
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