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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1949.
ASEAT IN THE STALLS
FIRED INTO A WEEK JOB
By STEPHEN WATTS
FOR £1,000 A WEEK ALL THE YEAR ROUND, WITH BONUS AND EXPENSE ARRANGEMENTS WHICH WOULD PERMIT OF THRIFT EVEN IN ENGLAND, MR DORE SCHÁRY, AT THE AGE OF 43. PRESIDES OVER THE 29 FILM STUDIOS WHICH MAKE UP THE DOMAIN OF METRO-GOLDWYN- MAYER IN HOLLYWOOD.
How, you may well ask, did this relatively young man attain to this pinnacle? Did he marry the boss's daughter? Whose nephew is he? Does he know where the body is buried?
Strangely, the most effective thing he ever did was to be fred.
This Schary in a writer by original trade. He wrote news- paper columns, plays, publicity
Cella Johnson. For quite long stretches, it is her, flim..
Another healthy 'algn of get-
for Admiral Byrd. His first ing out of the rut shows in films. with titles like "Ho "Floodide." The Clyde ship- Couldn't Take It," "Comin' yani scenes are real and
fan- Round
The Mountain," and cinating, and the background of "Fury of the Jungle, were
around Glasgow, with hardly loaded with significance, whining
trams and raucous
But eventually he became the dance Jall, the grey-stone 10p producer of RKO films. respectability of the suburban Then millionaire Howard villa, and the ruthlessly genuine Hughes bought the studios. And accent and idiom lend robust- ns Mr Hughes likes to make ness and some novelty to a fints of "The Outlaw" type, and bonal little story. Schary had by now risen to heights like "Crossfire," Schory found himself, vulgarly, out on his car.
Both films are his So Schary went to MGM, where the good, kind Mṛ Mayer (who needed a producer badly) gave him the aforesaid fabulous contract.
But the mills of film-making grind slowly, and Alms 'Schary mode for RKO are silli coming
ul.
It seems a pity that n Alm which has 10 much should merely argue that there's nothing a poor boy can't achieve, given some luck and the love of the bass's daughter.
Gordon Jackson's remarkable gift for "ordinary chap" sin- cerity, the fresh charm of Rona Anderson, and two outstanding vernacular performances from Elizabeth Sellars and Jimmy Logan do a lot to help out.
Lots of talent
One of London's speciollsed
You will notice I have cinemas, the Academy, is show- already praised three new girls ing an English-language pro- in two films as gramine for the first time in 18 years, it both nims were mnde under
tutelage at
pr IKO.
hig
Dame Edith's debut
There are hopeful hints
more than promising. That's one of the mnost significant things in British finis. There are plenty inlented young people around, whatever else may be
incking.
There is Moira Lister
(who
the film air. A really imaghia- has been over in Paris discuss-
tive and artistic British diree- ing with Orson Welles the pos-
A £1,000
NEWEST LOVE
TEAM
Cheta, whose monkeyshines highlight the Tarzan films, is teamed romantically with Jimmy, in the latest Sol Lesser production for RKO Radio release, "Tarzan's Magic Fountain," which introduces Lex Barker as Tar- zan. Cheta is the one on the... well, one of them is
Cheta.
JANETTE JOINS THE STARS
B
RITAIN has a new child film star-
ten-year-old Janette Scott. But Janette insists: "Perhaps you had
tor. Thorold Dickinson, whose sibility of her playing Desde better not call me that until the film is work we see ton rarely. has
mon in his "Othello"), Iy
been given his head in filming fazell, whose yet unreleased shown, and it is a success."
Pushkin's creepy tale of Czarist "Paper Orchid" is causing her Janette has been playing the leading society "The Queen of Spades" to be talked about in dini trade
JANETTE
I dare say it helped to live circles. Beatrice Campbell, who part in "No Place For Jennifer" for four months. And Russian-born producer in has lately been sought by itally-nobody except Leo, Genn, Rosamund John, the stars, and Anatole de
de Grunwald, for the wood.
the film technicians knew.
atmosphere of the filra is au- Even in the bad "Lord Byron" Here are some facts about and I don't believe that any one thentic and magnificently sus film there are highly commend- Britain's newest flm stor;- would take any notice of her lained. Dickinson has guided
abio
performances by Young
She lives with her parents in Just because she is my daugh- Dame Edith Evans in her screen women we are lucky to have. Leinster-mews, Bayswater, and ter. debut with marked understand- like Joan Greenwood and Mal is in Class Primary I. at St She met Bob Lennard, cast- ing. The scene in which the, Zetterling, who, already stabilsh: James's School. A tutor gave as a centenarian countess, L
start for world market.
'NO HELP'
ing director, four years ago
a job for myself. Then four months ago when Mr Lennard new ilim was working on the he remembered Jan and sent for her."
frightened to death by Antoned here, are certainly potential her school lessons between film when I went to sec him about i
shot 1er mother is actress Walbrook is terrifyingly good. There is young Salts Ann Thora Hird.
At times Dickinson leans llowes, there is Carol Marsh... ttle heavily on n technique ir alms me based on talent we which derives from the pre should take account of (and Hitler German cinemu, but take heart from) those things there is no denying his skill and in which we are rich.. style.
(London Express Service)
A young actress,
Yvonne
Mitchell, looks lovely in the period clothes, and acts with n
gentle power reminiscent of
A Headache Searching
For D.P.'s
When they make a cont
of arms for the Hollywood casting director, they'll in- |clude, prominently, an as-
pirin bottle.
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Thora said "Jan got no help from me. It has taken me 18 years to get even small parts in the West End and on films,
£400
LAUGH
Widmark gives his daughter first olimpse of London,
By DAVID LEWIN
The Laugh came to London the other night. But its
Thora went on to make the speech made by every mother of every child star: "I am de- termined to see that becoming a flm actress playing leading arts at ten is going to make no difference to Jan, She stays a schoolgirl Arst-and the star part can come afterwards,
Jan's pocket money white sha made the Alm was raised to 18. Od, a week.
Her flim money goes into trust for her when she grows up. Sald Jan: "But I am go- ing to get a holidny on the Riviera in August-and Daddy's
going to
to pay for that."
In her im Janette plays the part of a little girl whose parents are divorced. Bob Lennard ex- plained the part to her this why: "A little girl who has two homes but who only wants one,"
Jancite transinted. "Do you mean a little girl whose parents are divorced? Oh yes--I think It will be fun,"
-London Express Service}
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SCREEN Red owner, 34-year-old Richard Widmark, does not find Danube," a story of post-war laughing funny. Vienna. The qualifications: thin
and half-starved, of German or
Richard's laugh-It is like a hyena's has brought
Austrian ancestry and speaking him (lm fame in a year, and a salary of £400 a week. no English.
Now where, in the new land of milk and honey, is a ensuing director going to and a half- starved child?
boy.
actress,
That is not bad for a college professor who carned about £10 a week 12 years ago.
screen."
Widmark is in London with By the time Janine Perreau, the healthy little sister of his wife, Jean, and four-year- another juvenile
got old daughter, Ann, to make a the part, the casting office was film about Soho. But he has off rounding up another 1,500 never heard of, the word sply, southern Californians who look-although that is the part ed starved enough to pass for will play, Internees in a D.P. camp.
Well-fed.
he
And, of course, he will
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Unfaithfully Yours (ROXY brings Rex BROADWAY) Harrison together with Linda Rex plays an oging, Darnell. Richard has few illusions about it. On the laugh temperamental symphony cen- he says: "Fancy having that as a trade mark. It is not chretor beset with the problems The office got in touch with
of a straying wife. news- much to put alongside Laurence Olivier." and refugee agencies
Linda Darnell plays the wife papers. Letters poured in. One On himself: "How would I describe Richard Wid-in a comedy-thriller that will youngster answered every quali- mark? Pretty mediocre.. And what an ugly face the be remembered for some top fcallon but one. He was man has. I was horrified when I first saw It
around tho on the notch gags bullt
difficultles of committing a per- HARD TO FIND
fect murder. A good support- What are the mechanics of uing cast includes Rudy Vallee, £400-a-week laugh?
Lionel Stander, Barburg. Law- "Simple," says its owner.rence and Edgar Kennedy. "Just breath control. You clore The Wake of the Red Witch' the teeth, laugh against them (LEE)
is adapted from Gar and the result is hollow and land Roarit's famous
novel sinister. Anyone could do it" ten
is a story of men who go to sea He finds it an odd thing that in
! ships and ກ. shipping the such an obvious device should healthy refugees killed before the end of
The picture, "Night and the City" be talked about so much.
South magnate's a dime a dozen.
Sea Empire. were cmacialed onos the script re- "It is always happening
John Wayne and Gall Ruscil quired had to be plucked
"Things like that are always head a cast that includes Gig off way he anys.
movies. I Widmark is tall, fair-haired, happening in Skid Row,
The secret of getting them to with a soft voice and an
smile, He as I came up.""
hax
The Three Muskcicers look real was picking men with casional shy
When the false teeth.
studio made the fastest rise in Holly-
& ALHAMBRA) snatched out the choppers, the wood.
the first time, 12 years ago has Ilo did not extras looked as if they hadn't
the
adventures aceking big ichard Widmark stayed in inson of
of parts in pictures. He was act is-a-night bed-and-breakfast D'Artagnan.
Milady do caten a month.
For the same picture the cast-ing in New York and working house off Tottenham Court-Winter as any that have pre- ing offer Also unearthed in radio, (only one of them rond. His first contact
ceded it and enters its second with dozen young men 0 feet sinister programme), when a Soho: buying fish and chips for week. Quito understandable inches or more tall. They were Hollywood unit came to
the supper. Now he will have when the fashion show · in- elty to make "Kiss of Death." to play Russian soldiers.
modern flat in Lowndes-square, cludes Lana Turner, Juno Ally- Widmark Was tested, and Mayfair.
son and Angela Lansbury and then. It happened for the first After "Kiss of Death" Wie- there ume. I laughed because I mark made "Street with No swordplay.
is swordplay and more thought the laugh fitted into the Name" "Road House," and "Yol- Heavenly Souls (KINO'S part I was playing. It was un- low Sky. His latest: "Down & scripled--but they insisted on
It unearthed characters witit beards. It classified a hundred- assorted accents.
Now it's working on another order
"For "The Red Danube," the order read, "Call threa Corpses.United Press.
that
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When he came to London for | {52nd a popular a ver
keeping it in when the picture to the Sea. In Chips." -
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