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PETER GRAVES JOYCE HOWARD
LESLIE BANKS · MARGARETTA SCOTT
Mrs.
Fitzherbert
wire
MARY CLARE FREDERICK VALK - PALPIL TRUMAN
JOSIM 510ART HELEN HAYE WANDA NOTHA
with
Frefrol by Lori A JACKSO netflyfl
THE
THE
CAT: INSTHERSTALLS
ARE
THIRTIES DANGER ZONE
WHEN LIZABETH SCOTT. THE STAR WITH THE SAWN-OFF NOSE, WAS LAST IN LONDON, SOMEONE ASKED HER HOW OLD SHE WAS. "TWENTY-SEVEN," SHE SAID, "WHICH MEANS I AM JUST ENTERING THE DANGER ZONE."
AND WHEN ASKED TO ENLARGE, SHE WENT ON: "UNTIL YOU START NUDGING AGAINST 29, YOU CAN GET BY ON YOUR LOOKS OR ON NOVELTY. YOU DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT PARTS. "BUT AFTER THAT, IT'S A FIGHT-HARD WORK, HARD THINKING, SOLID ACTING. IT'S THE MOMENT WHEN YOU SEE THE FOG COMING UP. IF YOU LET IT ENGULF YOU, THEN RETIREMENT ON THE BEACH IS THE ANSWER. BUT IF YOU WIN YOUR WAY THROUGH, YOU FIND YOURSELF A DIETRICH OR A LOY OR A COLBERT.”
Now Lizabeth is talking sense (and to judge by her new film, is acting on it). One of the ironies of the film industry these days is that it is almost easy to become a star. Talent scouts are ranging the world for a girl with looks, personality and enough experience to jump from small parts to stardom in a couple of pictures.
Successor To
"THE STORY of BIRTH" Anna May Wong
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A YUNG HWA MASTERPIECE!
"THE SINS OF OUR FATHERS”
記仇恩山凉大
A Tale of the
Lolo Tribes in China's Remote Mountains!
With Complete English Translations!
ORIENTAL
A tall, slim, Shanghal- born beauty may become; Anna May Wong No. 2.
She is Hongkong's tipy for the girl likely to be talent- spotted by producer-director Otto Preminger when he Koes there In September to make "Transli Hongkong." with Richard Widmarkk and Miche- line Preste.
Preminger will have no easy task, for to be an actress in Ching Is considered "not quite nice."
An exception Is Li Li-hwo, who ranks as Slar No. 1. In her own country. Li Li-hwa is 26 by Chinese count (they are one year old at birth, and
How
inanz ví them will weather the thirties?
Take a handful of the_young_plars of the moment-Jean Simmons,
Ava Gardner, Susan Shaw, Jean Kent, ៧. វ Esther Williams. Nice Kirls all of and
Them- some of them actresses.
Well, which of them will you still be Seeing In 10567 I wager that some by that time
will be home with their kaltting. me do Yet
Ect through.
It is not
looks or legs,
COLBERT
1920
though that have kept Marlene Dietrich at the top. You would hardly call Colbert beautiful, or feel
there was anything luscious about Loy
It is brains, and an inherent acting ability, that helps them cross the treacherous thirties to almost permanent stordoin.
*k
As
Now back to Miss Scot. if she realises her personal battle for survival begun, za-
DIETRICH -1933
beth has changed her type anci really started acting in TOO LATE
TEARS.
FOR
Instead of
being a beau-
1!fut sulk - the girl some- one is always doing
formed Belf
badly
Paul Muni Got Himself Wrong
By STEPHEN WATTS
The square-set man in the light grey suit sut back
in an armchair and nodded his head.
Yes, he would like something to eat. Drink? Shako of the head. Cigurelte? Emphatic shake, and a finger pointed at his throat.
Paul Muni was relaxing after the first night of the most exhausting part played in London since Laurenco Olivier did "Hamlet" in its entirety.
In Arthur Miller's Broadway hit play, "Death of a Salesman" (Phoenix), he is barely off the stage in three hours. He speaks enough words to fili, half a novel. Several scenes are shouting minteles. And he had a bad throat before he started..
Не waz convinced he had done, badly. That sad smile as he took his bows was because he thought the audience was praising the play and) being kind to a visitor. He was sure? be had croaked like a sick raven) and had been' inaudible,
ly now he should know better. In he had given magnificent.
crustable performance.
Elizabeth Taylor
In The Conspirator
This study of self-deludinu! failure is brilliantly written and staged with the most supple appre- ciation of theatrical possibilities.
Ingenious is too little a word for Elia Kazan's production. It blends with the author's Intention into a powerful work of dramatic imagination. There is excess of sentiment and of words, but the plece remains an exciting. even sensational, evening in the theatre.
Home-life stars meet
her LL right, it was just for publicity's sweet sake, but it was a trans- happy occasion. Google Withers, playing In "Night and the her-City," now being made in London's streets, gave a buffet lunch into for the arrival of Gene Tierney, come from Hollywood to star in female vil- the Bim Both are charming young women, and unless they are lain.
consummate netresses off-stage they liked one another.
She shoots
her husband,
teams up
with a crook
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Maybe one secret is that both are glamorous and both are Duryea) and ends by poisoning domesticated. Misa Tierney talks about her baby at the drop of Miss Withers talks about the new house she inoved hlm. She is a sort of Lady a safety pln.
Translated, her Christian Macbethi of Santa Monica, into last week-end, first home of their own sluce her marriage nutne Li-hwa means Beautiful stalking the California Jungle to John McCallum. He, touring in a play, travelled from Flower. She had her first with a un
in one hand and Glasgow so that they could move in together. film- part ----at---10,the lead strychnine in the other part,"
and she has always played the lead since.
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* The part sulls her. And she
*
saying: hear her
For four pictures a year Mr has worked at You can at Britain's Film
T. Y. Lee, Hongkong business most man who
Rank,
pays Bul
year. refuses to kiss on the screen.
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"No
four
Ambassadress
is China's Arthur time for free-wheeling, now you
her £10,000 #ure 27."
Eas Beautiful Flower She
three or or make love more dangerous years to go.
According to reports received Eagle-Lion's German That nose of Lizabeth's is going from io get even shorter-pressing branch Jean Simmons' tour of Germany is a triumph. A tele- hard against the grindstone.
gram from Germany stakes:-
"Simmons' tour continues to ever increasing welcome, Afler Frankfurt, Press reception in
that if
lovely Though she has figure (bust 32ins., waist 23ins., hips 33ins.) Chinese audiences Jave seldom glimpsed her shapely legs. "We don't be- Heve in that," she says.
--(Londen Express Service)
HOW'S MURIEL? Press. stated
Beautiful Flower lives in a Noct Coward, who is now modest four-room flat
every
In starring with Cella Johnson and country sent an ambassador like Hongkong, with her husband Margaret Leighton at Pinewood, Miss Sinunons all international
and three-year-old baby girl. has a perfect memory for men would cease. Im-
ISTA
"Jean's ̈charm-
the
STARS, as I said
after Belgian film festival, can be" wonderful ambassadors abroad. Now I hear that the overwhel- ming success of the Locarno fesilval has been Jean Simmons, on a Continental holiday.
Even Dr Wollenberg, sober
and critle, historian "Everybody surrendered conditionally to her charm."
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While you are lazing around
on holiday tomorrow, Michael
to put Into words Denison and his wife, Dulcie
un
But it IS her ambition to and women he has met on his
success
Jean of
Gray, go to work. They could sections of make pletures in England, be-travels. However, ho niso has a
German play romance endlessly on stage cause she thinks British alma standard retort for those people with all
film, trade public
trade
and press or screen, but they like change. superior to American, to she who make the trite opening re-
performances Evelyne So they start rehearsing a for- don't remember may be tempted by an Anna mark: "You
out days cical comedy, "Queen Elizabeth Lagoon Gold and me, do you?" May Wong No. 2 offer.
Stept Here." On such occasions Coward ahead in each town. Jean
great service flashes back: "Of course I do-doubtedly doing
for British Olms in Germany. It's an Anglicisation of a play how's Muriel?"
Editor ut Communist paper you will remember as a Jack a Benny Alm. But then it was never siny states he will
George Washington who did the British Alm".
sleeping in the title.
ERIC GREY,
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The Week's Screen Fare
There
POTATO TIP
Cockney now Kiss in the Dark (LEE) is, Royal marriage that shocked
Since a recent broadcast when however trivial, the pick of the Georgian England. It is well-
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FTER her current Alfred
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pleture "Stage Joyce potatoes, Valerie Hobson now aren't mary liveller cluding Peter Graves,
making "The Rocking Horse" Fright," Jano Wyman may possibilities in comedy combina- Howard, Leslie Banks, Marma at Denham, has been want another, dumb role like tion than Jane Wyman, David garette Scolt, Mary Clare and Winner
Belinda." Not only Niven and Victor Moore, not to Helen Hoye, and is essentially deluged with letters from frate "Johnny
who don't think she does she talk this time, but she mention Broderick Crawford.
and for the cinemagoer who likes females
still has to learn a cockney accent. They atc,
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with a new potato Up. "Serve Manila talking advertising model,
Calling (BROAD- them with soft sugar. It makes story is another apartment house owner and an
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have portrayed almost every American Alm "Night and the entertaining for its novelty and tanta on Wednesday, August 10.
the City"
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British films. Born in Czecho-' this Technicolour
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