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SHOW TALK by HAROLD CONWAY
role,
with husband
KORISTEENOBUNGA LODGETT DET ERU TOALETNENIOR SIN CALLÆSIUNTIVIRUS 13318) After 18 years the Lord Lawrence Chamberlain has relented. John Clements co-starring
But, again, Coward will have London will soon see the to wait until the long run of first public production of "The Велих Stratagem,' Arthur Schnitzler's much- which they are playing, comes to an end, And it seems in no banned
"Fraulein hurry to do that, play Elan,"
This is the remarkable drama Danny Kaye rival
So
121
in for a year? GLYNIS JOHNS
Madness,"
"THE SILENT
VAMPS WERE NEVER AS BEAUTIFUL Film stars of today are far more beautiful than the cinema charmers of the carly silent days, according to Mel Berns, head of RKO Radio's make-up depart- ment. And the reasons, ho anid, are psychological na well as material.
---
"Today's crop possesses more personality
their appeal than yester-year predecessoTA,” he "Look at Jane Russell, Janet Leigh, Alda Vol.
bald
Joan
Fontaine or Jano Greer, Just to mention a few. Their features are no more classic or perfect, but it is their personalities which definitely tip the scalos And it is per- in their favour. ponality which constilutes true) [[beauty" In the full sense of the
word,
DREAM WOMAN
which Elisabeth Bergner The Danny Kaye fans had first achieved stage and in better brace themselver stardom In Germany, In
Their Idol'a most for battle. climax shows the harakZQLİ
formkinblo, rlva), Milton Berle, young heroine completely in about to loom large on Lan- robing in a públic lounge-in don's cinema screens. | an nitempt to shame a designing
This
comedian is now among banker and save her father from
the Highest-paid stor prison.
America and hla popularity on In 1932 aetor-manager Terence radio and TV has recently been de Marney
for upplied
putting Mr Kaye In the shade.
"There are many who will #icence to
Leave Them Laugh- produce "Fraulein "Alway
challengo Elsa" in London. It was prompt- Ing" la Milton Berlo's first film
this statement," 110 continued "Those who recall ly refused.
for Warners-who parted com-
which the seductive tangour of Theda privately before club audiences, his
Barn and Rosemary Thebe, the contract, after just one opens at the Victorin Palace. Pergy Ashcroft was the
frst iwo famous "The Show Girls' golden cos-screen's Work
those who heroine, after
will leave a lasting im- vampy, several other picture. It comes to the
Kimbali They have been de-Clara actresses had fought shy of the er Theatre on March 23 with fumes
Virginia Mayo, moreover as co- pression. role.
star.
by the French master, dream woman, She
was Danny Kaye's signed, Now, after much perseverance fending indy before the break Erle, in the style of the old sacrileglous, In de Marney's part the cen-
Roman cuirass, and have been
"The entire trend in recent moulded in synthetic rubber to
favourable to the individunt forms of the giris years lins been
growth of personality in which gives them an appear the
Ernce with women. They have expanded once of sculptured
their worlds, and complete freedom of movement.
their new As Bud Flanagan remarked to freedom han expressed itself in during a dress-rehearsal: their beauty. In addition, wo-
ho presented the play pany politely with Kaye, and "Knights of
ncr
came.
sor's bon has been lifted. Ho With nice timing, too, Danny's hopes to Ect Swedish star Mal arst and last film for Warners Zetterling to play the part in "The Inspector General-15 to public for the first time here.
follow on at the same cinema next month.
Holding that star
The film studios don't intend to let go RO easily of Glynis Johns. Her stage return in the new Lonsdale
Cast figuros
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"I wouldn't mind being a cor-men have learned a great dent COMMENCING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 Sartorial noto for Jack Hyl- poral in Hylton's Army!"
Gang revue, now Crazy play niter ton's four years' absence, was the brightest show world event of the past week.
Miss Jolins tells me there is a probability of her taking part in Pinewood's Somerset Maugham "To" production. the--sequel-to- hly sterilag-and- dollars earning "Quartet.
don't blame the Λίπι people for wanting to keep a share of Glynis Johns. The studios, for once, inve done a really good job of talent- developing and the girl who went to them na tle more than returned
n promising juvenile hag been
As a top-rank comedienne.
If she does go into "Trlo"
the work will not interfere with Glynis Johns's delightful per- formance IA the Lonsdale comedy. That looks like run- ning for a year.
Topsy-turvy
Film producers remain faithful する the topsy-turvy trudition. It is Wonderland all the way for them.
DS
Twentieth Century-Fox, recompense for that little mat- ter of Irene Dunne and Queen Victorla are hastly casting British artists for the roles in "The Mudlark."
other
They have now cast an eye
ncross the Atlantic on Peter Sinclair-British radio's "Cock of the Nerth," who has been naking a success in the States.
They are considering him for part of John Brown, the Balmoral
who for 3+ years acted as a kind of per- soan-and highly individual- bodyguard to the Queen
the
London Express Service
THIS IS ANOUK
4
This is Anouk, the new 17-year-old French dis agree that Peter Sinclair
covery, who plas the part of Anna in the Ronald would be a good choice for the role. But how typical for an Neame production of "Golden Salamander" from the American company to pick a novel by Victor Canning. Anouk, who co-stars in British actor in America tu come all the way back-to play the film with Trevor Howard, is one of the most
talked about newcomers in British films.
for them in a British studio,
Star's return?
I hear from Gertrude Law. rence, now
York, in New that she Is "trying madly" to Arrange a London stage season this spring
Margaret Sullavan in
a film on cancer From Frederick Cook: New York
dies.
Miss Lawrence has not yet settled on her London play. "I did not catch Nool Coward In: New York
"but 15 she says, expect he will now cast his new Is cancer a sultable sub- on a second honeymoon, play, "Home and
Colonial," ject for a film? Can it ever, without me."
in any circumstances at all, Coward, after waiting months for Get irude Lawrence (he wrote the play for her), has changed his plans. Kay Hammond gets the
Α
correct
guess,
about diet and exercise and the care of their bodies. They have learned the art of making the best of their good points and minimalsing their bad ones. IL had been said that a woman is only as lovely as her complex- ion and that is 99 percent true.
Classically perfect features do-not-in-themselves constitute beauty in a woman, Berns feela, "Without personality of a good complexion sho could be very
be
be
tive today red and unattrue-
"A
time Koes On, new cosmetic discoveries will made, women will learn more about the art of proper care of their bodies, there will be new treatments and stars of tomor row will be even more nitrac- tive than the stars of today.".
RADIO REVIEW
By MICHAEL SYDENHAM
Every morning I crawl out
room
upon
of my bed, slagger to the bath- and gape pathetically myself in the mirror. Every morning of my life I pick up a razor nnd drape savagely around the potholes of my face. Never does it occur to me to stop doing this-t la sheer con- vention and force of habit. I have sentenced myself to do this. and heaven alone only knows why?
WHEN QUANTRELL'S' GUERILLAS RAVAGED:
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Final Showing To-day: 2.30-5.30-7.30 & 9.30 P.M. the same way I listen UNIVERSAL'S MOST EXCITING FILM OF THE SEASON every week to my favourite programme,
"Take it From WHEN YOU DOUBLE-CROSS A DOUBLE-CROSSER.. Here" Whether or not the shows happen to be funny for that particular week is quite immaterial, for I still tune in week after week to laugh at appropriate latervals and criti- cise violently afterwards. With- out "Tako 1 From Hero" my listening is not complete.
There are numbers of people all over the And
Colony who do exactly the same-whether for
I
never Margaret Sullavan has be entertaining? If you had given a better performance. put these questions to me think you will want to see it. yesterday I would not have And will enjoy it. had to ponder long. And I
o Sunday Symphony
Concert,
a serial pinay or record request programme.
REGULAR
LISTENERS
CRISS
Each regular programme over Commencing To-morrow: All the same, one hopes that batch of regular listeners who Radio Hongkong has its own would have added that if "No Sad Songs For Me"
does tune in each week and who anybody did make such a start a trend. And it may when their particular favourite for there are signs already that is for some reason advanced or
Most repellent film I would not be found Hollywood is taking an interest retarded feel that the Pro- of all sounds
among the audience.
in human ills as well as human gramme Secretary has cheated | frailles. Filma coming up in them. Now 1 answer differently, clude "The Outbreak," which is The most pellent Found Without saying specially what it all about the bubonic plague One man I know never misses since Richard Widmark first was about, Columbia Pictures in New Orleans; "The "Killer | "Opera Half Hour" and when unloosed his maniacal giggle in Induced me to go and see their That Stalked New York," which recently its timing was altered "Kiss of Death" recently had "No Sad Songs For Me." Mar is about smallpox, and "Never suddenly for another "more im- workers shivering on the set of garet Sullavan's first picture in Fear" a story of infantile para-portant" programme. he "The Woman on
13." Pier
six years which will be coming lysia.
Rinai Talman, Broadway
to the West End shortly. It is
and
most human thoroughly decent pictures put on celluloid.
recrull playing a sadistic killer,about cancer. And I rate It ono
that of the warmest, voice to laughter to bubble up from his lie achieves a sinister by pitching it in a low ever key so that you see him laugh Laraine yet barely hear it.
seems toes. quality
Day. with whom he shares some of his scenes, shuddered visibly the first
GLAMOURISED MULE
wpa
very rightly most Indignant. Any Radio Slation depende for the greater part of its listening public on regular feature Just to show that it is
they should still and
be given other pro the same old Hollywood; a mule priority over any named Francis has just been gramme. 'signed up there on a £50-a- "Musle Lovers' Hour," cath week contract with all the Friday, is a programme that has the biggest listening public in the Colony, Yvonne Charter,
KEEPS HER SECRET
Margaret Sullavan is married' usual options: civil engineer A young time Talman to
(Wendell Corey) and has a Francis at the moment is gel-who arranges and Introduces school-age daughter.
In the ting the full Hollywood glamour this programme, has the happy
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BURT LANCASTER
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Coples of
opening scene, she learns that treatment in a specially-built knack of making you feel the PHOTOGRAPHS After 15-year-old Joan Evans instead of looking forward to air-conditioned bungalow stable is sitting beside you playing had her hair cut in the new the arrival of a new baby cho on the Universal lot.
records on your own ritmo
The
of ina fashionable shingle bob to make must
prepare to
phone. He has been given false teeth troducing classical music-which her look 21 for her role in "The months' time. The malady has to all an ugly gap: shoes that is no easy task oven to a trained taken by the South China photographs Edge of Doom," Samuel Cold-progressed too far for treatment.
add a couple of cubits to his professional-seems to be to ulm wyn picture for RKO Radio dla-She keeps her secret for Ave
stature; artificial cars of a more at being objective-and not Morning Post and Hong Kong tribution, it was discovered that, months.
scene in the film, a photo-
Tolograph Staff Photographors graph was needed of her look-
are on view in the 14 again. The photograph
Morning Post Building.
only thing that
for
Ing
patronising.
fetching shape than his owa, During that time her husband
John Loveless is wasted broad- Francis is 13 and a native forms an
attachment for his of Missouri. He starts a trans-asting his stories on a Sunday
(Viveca
afternoon when many people are figures pro-assistant
Lindfors).
tour shortly
either asleep or not listening onyhow-why not a short story. could be done will one day fill the place in her publicise
reading session on Thursday evenings immediately after the ---(London Express Service), opening of the station!
minenily in the story, so the Margaret realises that the girl continental A Alm about
was to put a wig on Joan, re- husband's life that she is about Burma war in which he is πονο her high hecia and to leave. She grooms her as her featured player. makeup and take the picture. husband's second wife, goes off
to the
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