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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1950.
A SEAT IN THE STALLS
Leonard Mosley Tells How
Two volcanic stories have their Italian premiere
"VOLCANO": THE NIGHT
THE BABY WAS BORN
known
דיי
It was
quite a night for and rays, with "almost a mean- all of us
in the Flamme ing look at the audience:
Just wanted to show you that I Cinema-otherwise
could get him if I tried."
Magnant's performance is, of
Sho pures, magnificent. plunger lato her seenen ke
s the Theatre of Flames-- here in Rome. Not all the drama was confined to the
screen.
A
A hungry
figer shredding raw meat.
And what a wonderful actress Anna Magnani had been the is to watch and listen 10. having the world premiere She has a voles as bash us A in "PANHANDLE" of her new film "VOL- mouthful of iron aling, and a CANO"-the torrid tragedy body that is beginning to show of down-to-earth love she signs of thickening.
Somehow, these uglinesses planned to make with Ros- compound into their exnet op
her full of sellini, until Ingrid Bergman posites and nake
tremendous sex uppeal and an came along.
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Down in the stalls everyone tnormously compelling person
ality. Premier Gasperi of Was there,
brought
Italy had
half bi
Melodramatic
While Magnani is on
the
So
Cabinet. The British and Amerl- can Ambassadors were there, and the rest of the seals were heavy with most of the society and tereen everything is fine.
with the sequence:r ton, are Jewellery in Home.
hero-villain, who Bruzzi, the his antee new line in hand- some suggestiveness
Everyone, in fact except Magnani herself,
The high-point of the even- Ing was to have been the ap-
Wifat spoils the Alm is ita the stage pearance on
of the neoasional essay into novelettish great netrees to receive
melodrama and a sequence nt cheers or the disapproval of the end, photographed in blood-
the house.
the
But half an hour before
"Volcano" was due to begin the
rumour ran through the house,
"Anna cannot face it. She has decided not to come."
red
colour,
of the Volcano An
ruption.
·Ingrid as a Lithuanian displaced person at a
an
Italian
11 may mirror the mood in camp in Italy. Later she marrica which Magnani made the fisherman and goes to live on Stromboli.-AP
but it
bit tua 4 ณ
highly coloured to keep the film on a was true. One queak level of artistry.
baby from Ingrid Bergman's jupset her plans,
It
At Ove o'clock that afternoon
1 telephone call gave Anna the lest inkling that this was not going to be the night of nights she hnd expected,
fre
The doctor on his way to
Picture.
"STROMBOLI": PARALLELS
Ingrid," said the mine. POP OUT OF THE SCREEN
"It is an irgent enll."
Magnani immediately can-
celled her plans to make a per-
was suffering from a crirla.
Second crisis
And in the Fiamme cinema there was a crisis, too.
go
that she cannot get
She is rescued
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By MICHAEL SYDENHAM
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by the local paper that is full of items to A
to
Roberto Rossellini picked room so sonal appearance at her own up the telephone in the Villa out. premiere, and moment the Margherita, the clinic in nos, and rots down to a bench of interest merely to those
with him When the nervous Rome where he is staying esive
people in the particular with Ingrid
Bergman and comes back she has his savlugs
In this Colony there their baby son,
and asked her blouse, vntkugh to take uren.
her away,
are four main "dailies" that for me.
But she has to wait weeks for devote a
lot of space "You have heard all
about an
an opportunity. And then the
small items that could only our child," he said. "Now I second real-life parallel comer. The Alim "Volcano" just
hould like you to see some Ingrid has been watching the interest those who live here. would not
right,
In America where Radio Three times it
fishermen at a funny-Ash hunt, broke down and the thing which is also mits,
bloodthirsty and amazingly stations are liberally sent- audience was left murmuring you can get me past the crowds i
the where graphic ht the gates, I will let you be
thetered around each State, and staring anxiously nt the The first critic in the world to men her husband umiong
thelm Ingrid and I them-plunge spikes into the every station has its local before tittle lacks of these thrashing, mon- daily newscasts; in England wrong and Anna spoke in the completed just
Roberto WAS Dor
born."
strous fish and drag them into the BBC has its regions. Voice of
her
Alin sisler,
An Geralding Brooks, the innocent cinema 200
later, in a private the boats,
All of which leads to the yards away from Ingrid is rickened, slags point that Radio Hongkong dupe of the local Lothario.
"Finally,
Jagrid's heavily curtained bed- hore, followed by her US- when the end cane, room window, Rossellini at band. Turning on
she seems to forget its title as Amma's
closest friend, Brizo beide me and anxiously awal says harthly: "You had better soon as it starts to bread- jAvingo, eame on the stage.
ed my judgment on what he now, I am going to have east. declares is the most important baby."
blank screen.
Once the sound track went
"Everything has gone wrong Tonight," he said. "This is not the real film of Amu Magnani. You will ade it on 'n future oc- carion,"
Elemental
comes
sro
hour
I have ever made." tromboli" is more
than
that. It is going to be a world-
sequence
מונג
Malevolence
The only items that are pure-
ly insular and are contined to
the Colony are a brief resume
of the sports results on a Satur-
Just like real life boli blows up. For ten visitor to our shores i Inter-
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FRED GINGER :
ASTAIRE-ROGERS. The BARKLEYS of
wide rensation, with a gasp or The shouts from the islanders a shock for every tim-goer why crow more contemptuous, This day evening, a Friday evening THE SCREEN'S MOST POPULAR DANCING STARS ARE has followed the affair of Ingrid time, however, her hustland te concert in which the artists are #ntle with her. Her det: r-
all residents or visitors here, TOGETHER AGAIN BRINGING YOU NEW SONGS, NEW As for me, I won't say that and Roberto,
mination to leave him weakens. aud ["Volcano" is one of the top-
Saturday Roundup in Bight films
Then the volcano on Strom which the odd local celebrity or DANCES! IT'S A GLORIOUS MUSICALI which have bren made in Italy during the past.
tremendous For this queer, savage, nnd ire few years.
But this passionate pry into strangely stirring pleture har serech you enn Lee Nature at its
real life that most malevolent with lumps Furn colony as rich in history the private lives of the fisher- parallels with folk who live in the lee of the will startle you.
of fuming rock tying through as this and for one which at the nctive volcanoes in Southern It opens in n D.P. camp in the air, lava crawling over moment is in the limelight
Ingrid as where Italy has all the
a houses, and steaming and hiss the world's news this is indeed elemental Haly
Lithuanian refugee, quillies to bring it world-wido
agrees to lag Into the sea,
n sorry position. There are now Italian ex-soldier- The terrified Ingrid comes back }, some teng of
thousands Euccess
and the only way.
she can escape to And her home ruined.
troops Its story is the sitple, one of
She dashes up the mountain, here
who
would,
am I an experienced trull from the from the camp. She does not Naples
hin love bordelles who
to reach a village on the other sure, welcome a series of talks, or even feature programmes, on They back to her island home to and
sail
for the side of the island and get a volcanic island
for example the history of infaluated with her sister
Stromboli, boat to the mainland.
But where her husband is a fisher-
the volcano
the is wailing Island, or the customs of
Chinese peoples. Such a series her. It first parallel for what is mat--and the
nouscous puffs from its
would not I feel, be a failure, with real life pops out of the pants
crater likely to
fale more prove a jurious than death, sho Arst screen.
For on the way they flowly begin to asphyxiate her. but could prove entertaining, seduces the young man and as the Isle of Volenno-where She tries to retreat, but is lost instructive and interesting.
Rossellini's former Anna Magnoni, rushed through warsh, a then, when that fails, kills him.
friend, in the clouds of
of smoke.
Further to this I would sug- this tremendous, carthy,
gest that once or even twice and
lim-week there could be a unyleiding film which makes Maguaul's
quarter- pedition which is photographed
hour news broadcast devoted. I hate that place," she says,
production getm
like n nove- with more grisly reality than
lette-ends with the most
(entirely to news of purely local JR- anything I have seen in a life, vehemently.
or Far Eastern interest. time.
On Stromboli treft Ingrid markable parallel of all, runs into trouble from the For Ingrid, tormented, perse-
Only a few days ago I heard the forces around for the first time of some in- the young man, when Lingnan start. The islanders dislike her cuted by
fur what they consider her her, is lost seen standing on the cident on the border some 20 immadest dress, her loose lip of the crater, staring wildly miles away, relayed by the ways.
up to the sky as she desperately BBC some 9,000 miles Left alone while her husband cries:-
local boy.
To save
her from
Highest points of the aim are ur rival di Ingrid looks at R dramatic shark-fishing
R
exit
And the seduction scene of
releases him from her embrace
Bergman For
Britain?
is nt
And
that
evening
the
away
This la surely unnecessary in nt sea, she flirts with a local "God, please God, help my this enlightened agel Ότι boy, Village Kossips watch tnnocent child." her. When the husband comes back, they sing rude Neapolitan songs at him.
Miserable, desperately an-
Roberto Rossellini and Vit-xlous to get away, she tries torio De Sica, the directors sex-appeal on the island priest reponsible in part for the cur- and is scornfully driven from rent Italian film
the house. Her husband 'beats ter and-nalls up the door of the
renaissance,
will be chifting their activities to England it negotiations be tween them and producer Sir Korda Alexander summated.
arc coa
No specific stories are being divulged at the moment but there is a possibility that ingrid. Bergman, who recently com- pleted the much-publicised and as yet unreleased "Strombol" in Italy under Rossellini's direction, would star in one of the projected pleturen he would in England for Korda's London Film Productions.
dlo
our
De Slea, noted here for "Shoe Shine" and the current succeES, "The Bicycle Thief." is dia. cussing deal "similar to the Rossellint arrangement," man said. While no starting | duten have been set in either enac, "chances are," he added, "they will go into production within the year!!--
-London Express Service)
Ingrid and her “Stromboli” husband.
Bet thirty
a
Wices De
the
voice
and
An-
tion of the Duty nouncer aro sorely taxed by having to put on about 20 Dance Records a programine by one of our own dance bands would be far more entertaining,
February seems to be herald- ing a number of changes in Radio Hongkong: Peter Beadle whose production of "The Im- of Being Earnest" portance uugured well for the future, left for England in the "Dunera."
you Peter.
Good luck to
Christine Shore
from
Welcome to who has taken over husky-voleed Sue Dawson the programme "Record
variety
Roundabout." If popularity can be judged by the amount
received, maii
of
then Record Roundabout is first on the poll Some 700 letters were received last week,
Tomorrow evening the Gar- tison Players broadcast excerpts from Gerald Savory's household comedy "George and Margaret" currently produced by Erio Hodgett who in England is well known in amatour dramatic circles as a careful and conscientious producer.
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