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JEWS
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SEAT IN THE STALLS
BRITISH A NEW BREATH-TAKER
FILM DIVIDES
HOLLYWOOD
From NEWELL ROGERS: New York
'SABRA'
Behind guarded doors, Holly- wood is completing its £250,000 plcture, "Sword in the Desert." It shows Jews killing British soldiers.
Producer Robert Buckner, who received part of his education at Edinburgh University-ho lived in England for a time-hopea the pic- ture will promote "a better under- standing among peoples."
"Sword in the Desert" is being made by Universal International, the company which distributes Oliver's) "Hamlet" in America for J. Arthur Rank..
Universal's advertising mana- ger, Maurice Bergman, said recently:
was fighting only the Britishi.
"As far as I know, we ex- pect to release the picture in Britain like any other pic- ture."
"We think the film is pretty terrifle and not anti-British at all."
Hollywood, however, Is not
There is a real Arab In the sure how British film audiences pleture. Producer Buckner will take . Even the mem- hired him in nearby Monterey bers of the cast are divided on to play the part of a Jewish the question whether British underground soldier.
ile was people will be enthusiastic, and recruited with swarthy, Sicilian- unfavourable reports led to the Americans of Monterey to play studio being barred to reporters Jewish soldiers,
Hollywood during the last week of pro- extras play the parts of British duction.
soldiers.
'We must fight'
The pleture
deals with the
Iluckner transported his cast in Dakota planes at a cost of about £5,000
San 10 the fight of the Jewish under Fernando Valley and Mojave Around nggainst the British Desert for scenes of a Jewish during 48 hours before Christ- communal settlement. Mus 1947. Illegal immigrants The picture was completed m Ko arhore under the noses Universal's back lot with the of, British offshore patrois from liming of the storming of the #ship conmmanded by Dana Britisli Karrison by Jewish Andrews, who portrays an forces, much as the United Trish-American captam of the States cavalry are accustomed blockade-running feet.
to storm Red Indians in Holly- Marta Torens, one of the newly wond's Westerns, Imported. Swedish actress Bethlehem scene
being boosted by Hollywood as "The Next Garbo," portrays Sabra, a woman broadcaster on "The Voice of Ismuel,"
Over the illegal underground radlo she makes speeches to the British.
$13,
A sample:
"A great many of you here and in England are friendly towards You have told us in private that you have no heart for this job.
"But you have orders to Well, so do we. You have occupied our country, de- prived us of our homes and our freedom. So we must flight.”
'Not anti-British'
There is little in the film about the Araba And their cause,
As technical adviser, Buckner hired
Baruch Diéner,
Diener said: "As long
A
She's Like An Orchid In A Desert Of Sore Thumbs
By LEONARD MOSLEY
When she first walks on to the screen she looks like just another lovely all-American college girl.
And then she opens her eyes, and you see she was educated in Montmartre
Her name is CORINNE CALVET. She is 24 years old and French.
Chalk her up in your mind. A rare bird has flown out of France into the old Hollywood parrot-house-und Army. Israeli, who fought the British prophesy she is going to flaunt her wonderful plumage as Ernest
around for a long time to come. Bevin is in offee, the British Government will be unfriendly to "The Sword. The Jews will like it very much."
and the sun is now being ect The production took 50 days to a show-time length for on August premiere.
col
London got a first look at Corinno at the private view of a raw, rough Hollywood picture called ROPE OF SAND.
She was surrounded by all weather entertainment—a breath- Buckner (one of his earlier the tough and all the smooth of the boulevards blowing en- bad men producer Hal Wallis ticingly among some of Holly- could dig up-ox-like BURT wood's most endearing hams. LANCASTER, sweaty PETER LORRE. and those two known screen Sneers, CLAUDE RAINS and PAUL HENREID. Corinne stands out from them like an orchid in
* desert of sore thumbs.
films was "Mission to Moscow") feels
that pictures should not be made for the purposes of politi- propaganda-"But I have felt for a long time that the news can be made dramaileally entertaining."
Universal insists it is making
action
picture not a pro- A Universal official explained: paganda Alm. "It is the way
The final scene is set in a is. the story. platted. The Arabs are not Bethlehem church to the sound concerned. It is placed in the of Christmas bells. time when the underground
an
London Express Service)
THESE ARE LOLO MAIDENS!
well-
She plays the part of French girl of only too certain character. She moves Into a South African diamond town, climbs into her working clothes -and starts to count the carats.
Now there is nothing new inbout--this-kind- of-character-in- American pictures. In the end she even runs true by spurning diamonds because she has heart of gold.
'Special'
But Corinne samchaw puls blood back into the type.
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When you start breaking her down she seems Just another run-of-the-mül truïl
Tire hair has no extra-special lights. There orc moments when the face goes fat.
But then, when you start searching for something special, you suddenly realise that tho mouth and the eyes have it. It is a mouth with a permanent pout. And they are eyes with a permanent promlee.
Moreover, you feel there is a mind behind those eyes. Some- ona onco vulgarly divided the women of the world Into "dishes" and "messages," Corinne Calvet is a Dish with a Message,
-(London Express Service)
SAME HUSBAND, TWO DIVORCES
Film actress Ellen Drew time observed the third anniversary of her first divorce from screen writer by Bardett by divorcing bim again, "because he stayed oat. Iale and did not want a home," she told the judge,
They were first married in 1911. divorced on July 19, 1940, and later
They reconciled. Reparated 'again two months agó. London Express Service.
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The Week's Screen Fare
That Lady in Ermine Brett Young. It has in it all Fictured above are five Lolo maidens — or so the Yung (BROADWAY), a repeat per the charm of Edwardian Eng
formance, is the pick of the land, a village cricket match Hwa Studla insists they are
atter week if for no
and a serious theme--the life
· reason thon that it represents a last story. of Jonathan (Michael sparkle of Ernst Lubitsch who Denison), who wants to become gave us such memorable hours in great surgeon and is "OBolly
The girls are part of the latest Yung Itwa production. The Sins of Our Fathers, which is a story of a war between "The Lolas and the Hans.
Most Chinese know the difference between these so-called tribes. The Hans, of course, are the people of the Flowery Kingdom and number, by Carl Crow's estimate at least 400,- 000,000 customers.
The Lolos are numerically a small fraction of that. The Encyclopaedia Britannica neglects to tell us how many of them there are and Imlis Itself to slating that they have written language that, as the Chinese does, starts from top and goes down.
E
the
Travellers who have touched the skirt of Lololand and that extends from parts of West China - to the border,of Indo- ching tell us that they are, individually, better customers than the Hans but possess that most misunderstood, of all com-
of entertainment, as, The Lova satisfied with being small Parado and Heaven Can Wait, town doctor.
Lublisch monna galety, wit Berlin Express (ROXY) and a sharp-edged.comedy of another spy thriller. Its main manners. Here we have an ex- attractions are Merle Oberon perimental Lubitsch. Out of and Paul Lukas. Betty Grable he makes a first- class comedy actress and out of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr, a figure is about "hard men and
short of heroic swagger.
Whiplash (LEE & LIBERTY) hard women" in the Warner Brothers tradition. It is a stir- Edward. My Son (QUEENS) ring drama with. Dane Clark, is the story of a father's devo- Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott, S. mercial traits, belief in solid metal or barter at wont. They
tion for his son that goes beyond Z. Saka'l and 'Alan Hálo in the don't know what the cost of living is, but they live lands
such the bounds
parental cast. Eve Arden, as always, somely Irrespective of the wars going on all around them.
Yung liwa's Sins of Our Fathers, which starts fits run at dramatic force, contributed
virtue. It has scenes of great makes it more of an attraction.
to the Queen's, and Alhambra on Tuesday, August, 9, tells of what
The Rabe Huth_Story (AL- by Spencer Tracy. Deborah happens when Hans and Lolos are romantically
Inclined to-
HAMBRA) is another repeat, Kerr and Ian Hunter," wards one another. The setting is historical and the effort is
and explains itself. A good cultural. The film has fa li some original Lolo muale and antive
My
Jonathan ensi-is-headed by 'WWlam Ben- Breiber dances.
(KING/5)-is taken from Francia „dix and Claire Troyer.
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