THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1950.
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Home of Brave
THE FIRST MOTION PICTURE OF ITS KIND I
Presented by SCREEN PLAYS CORP with Douglas Dick Frank Lovejoy James Edwards Steve Brodie fell Carry Lloyd Bridges • Produced by STANLEY KRAMER Directed by MARK ROBSON · Associate Producer Robert Stillman Scremplay by CARL FOREMAN → Basá on the original play by Arthur Laurenti· Muslet Score by DIMITRI TIQMKIN' Released Thru United Artists
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Show Talk
SEAT IN THE STALLS
By Harold Conway |
WHERE IS BRITAIN'S VERSION
OF VERA-ELLEN?
And in I doul for all their great almoner-described to me as 'n
woman of saint-like qualities."
Why is it that British film stars are less magnetic neting ability. than the Americans?
showman-
In the fight to make Brilleh screen names world names, fine It hus probably
not acting in not enough. Personality escaped your notice that is needed, no Hollywood's annual Grand ship which does not mean a lot of starlets competing to be Tour of Europe bas now photographed at first nights. opened with Dorothy
Now there is no reason why Lamour, Ava Gardner, Bing rifish artists would not match
The follows her beatine ( detective-minded) convent Sla ter in the stage drama "Benaven- tare" and a study of Mary the
In the Cruelfixion Mother perlod play, "Family Portrait."
"No Mednia" Misa Compton, of course, was the embodiment Di that un- canonized saint, the British housewife.
I think Miss Compton is do for a holiday from haloes after
er new Alm.
Crosby, Irene Dunne, Frank Hollywood in this personality A Walking Encyclopedia
Sinatra, Vera-Ellen.... game. Look nt the immediate They are magnificently response in America to Morgot Fonteyn and Moira Shearer in circulation over here: during the Sadlers Wells Ballet they have sent the public tour."
Margaret LEIGHTON
Celia JOHNSON
John MILLS WOULD THEY CAUSE A TRAFFIC HOLD-UP IN PARIS P
Looks After Britain's
Period Pictures
By MELROSE GOWER
who
When a Hollywood pro- adventure story and ducer prepares to launch a recently returned to Hollywood period picture, a cinematic
tale of romance and adven- ture in the rollicking past, his first step is to send the script to the studio's re-
search department.
"Please check very care-
from abroad.
AMAZING BRAIN
"Any doubts I might have
a perfect illustra-fully," the producer plents. amazing brain is 'Doc' Beard.
Here was temperature soaring to ne-
tion of technical skill allled with clamation-point in London, something appealingly extra. It
Rome, Barcelona, was that "extra"
which made
Paris, and St Andrews,
(Make no mistake: most
ail the difference.
on
"We MUST be authentic."
No British producer, the other hand, gives a hoot about the research depart. West End Favouritement. In fact, no English of that acclamation has
studio has a research de- been spontaneous. Behind NO. 1 FILM personality for
a hoot this year looks like being apartment to give
about. it, of course, the publicity
Frenchman-Jueques Tati. at have been machines
Is enchanting comedy, "Jour but I
his turned out the work:
have seen de Fete,"
Wesl of the cam surprise success plenty of publicity
End season. Tut! made this LIBERTY AT 11.30 A.M. paigns fizzle out because 20th Century-Fox Prozontsthe public refused to be In-
terested).
of these visitors have Some came over to work, some to play, But whichever it is, their re
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SAIR COOLEN, DEHUMIDIFIED, OZONIZED AND PURIFIED &
TAKE ANT FASTBOUND TRAM DI ROUTE KO. 5 BUL
goin
bad about the accuracy of a one-man research department," i commented flaskin, "were thoroughly dissipated during; the early shooting of "Trensure Inland."
amazing mu with an
His knowledge, his interest in his profession, his conscientious- ness stamp him as perhaps the Greatest living authority on the customs and habits of the world af 200 or more years ngo.
Further, his enormous zest for
life" and his unflagging
enthusiasın Icet details Feenes that I venture to state would notice."
one Ampeer in 10,000
drive him to per
in motion picture
tot
"Treasing
casine Island," which was
in veaction rely
Drisco Robert
with
When a British producer prepares to launch a perind picture entirely in the open air, picture, he simply sends for
series of financial shoe Charles Relly ("Doc") nimed
a walking encyclo- Newton and Basil Syancy co- strits-his first effort at direct-Beard, ing and acting in a full-length pedin of the past, who looks
starring Is the first sea picture production.
like the late Buffalo Bill and of magnitude to be made with who drinks his ale like an out the ure of a miniature ship Elizabethan with his knees
any seen
most painstaking braced back and his stomach
tooka faced by "Doc" Beard, therefore, was the creation and stuck out.
outfitting of the "Hispaniola,* sturdy craft that carried Jin Hawkins and his companion? in search of Capt. Fint's buried
Now, after five weeks, it is spective studios stand to cil drawing packed audiences. enormous amounts of box-office Su "Jour de Fete" may stay in Roodwill by this European the West End all the summer. pacade of the stars.
On both sides of the Channel Tal has suddenly been acclaim- wt an the French Charlie
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Would Celia-?
Wherefore, it historians or Al fons and any movie boners Could we pick a group of Chaplin.
in the RKO-Welt Disney pro- MA comewhat British film stars who would
formidable duction of "Treasure Island," provoke the same curiosity in label," Tuli tells me. "Where do which was Almed in England, Europe-or, for that matter, in I go from here?" Amerirn?
Saint Again
What, another "saint" role for Fay Compton?
the responsibility will rest on the somewhat hunched shoulders of "Doc" Beard.
Would John Mills, Margaret Leighton ..und Celia Johnson
No boners will be found, cause a traffic hold-up in the Champs Elyseen? Could Robert
however, if you take the word Dorat and, say Eileen Kerlle In her new Pinewood pic-of Byron Haskin, who directed attract a crowd of fans outside o ture, "Mrs Christopher", Miss this. Technicolour version New York hotel?
Compton will play a hospital Robert Louis Stevenson's great
DAVID
LEWIN'S
Spotlight
FRANK SINATRA is tak-
ing a luxury furnished flat
in Berkeley-square for two
months.
AVA GARDNER is in mouths London for two making a film. She has her own flat, five minutes away from Berkeley-square, in Park-lane,
Early To Bed
JEAN
SIMMONS
turned down an invitation for a week. party fast
late night "No," She said. "I think it would be better if I went to bed early and prepared to work the next day."
JACKIE COOPER
be looked them.
I think I know why Jean is cutting down
un partles unil telling her friends; "I want to take it quietly." She will have called "State Secret." Margatet Lockwood's Is "Highly Dan- three months' holiday soon, gerous." but there will be no official Mr Rank, who is making the
up second, personal
believes ft will be nothing like the first.
FL
receptions pearances,
and
In future, the Jean Simmons interviews are out; the picture sessions at the studios are cut. Jean will let her screen pur- formances talk for her and nothing else.
All My Own
TO
tough. At one
of
One of
treasure.
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THRILL-DY-THRILL IT POUNDS INTO YOUR HEART! Base The Story of SEABISCUIT
who naced to glory!
A RECONCILIATION "At the very outset," Haskin, "Beard had to effect a reconciliation between some of the details given in the novel and the history of the period. Stevenson war interested primarily in telling a rattling Hood yarn. He envisaged schooner with all the romantie Implications of the word. But, as the story progressed, situa tions which had to be trans lated into actual action stub. bornly refused to fit into the very constricted space which the author had visualised as
11.eir setting.
"The earliest model nt n schooner which Beard was able
4
time he was to find in maritime records Wis
touring with his own dance-ane of about 1760-1780, a dulo band, Then he tried stage too Infe, Also, it was only acting.
about half the tonnage of the schooner described In the Stevenson story."
Thoughtfully be suma up the situation: "What is cute in a kitten Isufi always interesting in
cat."
More Worry
★ AUD
season.
But "Duc" Beard refused to let that stump him.
"He and Production Designer Tom Morohan modeled the to the
shower's Hispaniola on a three-masted other worries the freeing of
of about 17-10- craling bark petrol. That and the weather 1750." Haukin Fave been cir blows of the This was a vessel of the right continued.
Jhaensions, and
contem- Now TOCAN customers
pre
norary fully-rigged model was working out the cost of a seat in found by the tireless Beard in terms of gallons of petrol for the store rooms
of the Mari- And the car is winning time Museum at Greenwich. the car.
How easy, then. for C. B. "An the deck fittings, Cochran to have found excuses hatch coverings, and even the
1
DURING
copied
for the fallure of his play, "The valley
chimney, It closed after from this Ivory Tower,"
Were and other contem- eight tinys-the shortest Cochran
parary models.
The binnacle was taken from
a painting of u in 50 years.
"It was none about 1770, and minor detail?
But C. B, says:
of those things. The plain fact
were copied faithfully from is not enough people liked originals i Greenwich"
that. Rare honesty,
But I offer another possible reason for failure: politles.
Political
ank
"EVOLVED"
plays
So mh of the film's action Alnis seldom
into the takes place in and around Long bring money FORESTALL people box office. Hollywood learned John Silver's galley (a klichen, who say: "But haven't I NO seen that somewhere before?" the lesson fast. It soon changed to you landlubbers) that "Doc" tock special care fitting it up. une
"I Married a It isn't entirely the buffeting SOMERSET MAUGHAM writes Communist" to "The Woman on No drawing of a cocle stove of nn introduction 10 the Mr Fier 13," playing down the the period was available, so the
passion.
from
4 some critics gave "So Long at
Know-Al the Fair" which has
episode in his Aun politics and hotting up so dis-HOW-AI
"Creatures of Circumstance." tressed her, but rather those
Saya Maugham: "I believe it remarks about "over-selling
It a story of my own invention.
How They Go Simmons."
For years people had been Lut I wouldn't like to take my
path on it.
how I think I might WATCH
In their comment.
самс
Which Is Which?
MARGARET LOCKWOOD
the pirate's
THE
galley stove жая evolved." In the picture it is a simplified version of the type of stove used in ships of o slightly later perfed, with all special gadgets removed.
of English be handied or
Take Any Easter Tram Car or Happy Valley Bur
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THE SCREEN'S ROARING WITH JET-THRILLS THAT HIT YOU FASTER THAN SOUND!... AND THE FEARLESS SKY-JOCKEYS WHO TAKE THEM TO THE TOP OF THE saying: "How wonderful that th
parody a statement by Dr OLIVIERS go to Hollywood. Jean Simmons should be such an Johnson and say that it a story Not for them the rush and The original Admiralty exciting new starf"
in good is unlikely to bo tincertainty that attends the model at Greenwich could not Then suddenly the
If it's new-and
new It is normal departure voices were harsh, eritical, rough unlikely to be good.
photographed, stars for America,
wherefor Beard spent a Sun- When RICHARD TODD went day afternoon sprawled on his The Inet is we story-writers
there
make have come too late into a world Strikes Twice" he knew little sketching the model from every "Lightning stomach on the gallery floor too old."
about the story In advance. angle. Visitors, Haskin report- TUYLLIS CALVERT is for- ed, found him the most later- funate If she sees more than a csting "speclmen" in the
of dialogue before she in Burcum
"Doc" Beard Is 57 years old SIR
LAURENCE and but his eyes have a youthful finished one.
in "Mr Roberts" looked familiar. VIVIEN LEIGH have seen their twinkle, Ils rounded shoulders Miss Lockwood has an Ameri- It appeared simply as JACKIE script not once but three times. are usually covered by an old can leading man DANE CLARK. COOPER.
WILLIAM WYLER ("Best Years overcoat, which he wears cape- Miss Johns had another Ameri- Hemember him? He was the of Our Lives") brought the fashion. He carries a gnarled can, DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS ten-year-old who appeared in final version to London so that cane, which resembles ап Jun.
the WALLACE BEERY Alms, Olivier could approve, And Irish shillulah, with all the Miss Lockwood meets the local around 20 years ago. Now Miss Leigh has just agreed to splomb of Sir John Folstall. police chief "sympathetically Cooper is 20 and trying to
the "Streetcar" script.
He smokes cigarettes and oc- unsympathetic" chap played by forget that when he was a child MARIUS GORING. In
As for directors, they have casionally a sex ateenth century Miss they called him a star.
two of the best In Hollywood. clay pipe. Johns film JACK HAWKINS
la almost nothing more This is the way to insure for There la had a similar part.
dificult for child star than success. The soldiers searching The
for growing up successfully. Even Glynis Johna spoke Vosnian, The SHIRLEY TEMPLE, who did soldiers hunting Margaret Lock- manage it, warned her daughter wood have another home SUSAN against following in made" language.
mother's footsteps.
PARKER
IN WARNER Bros:
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SPECIAL MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW AT 12.30 John Payne. * Maureen O'Hara Randolph Scott in “TO THE SHORES OF TRIPOLI”.
Remember?
is making n film about an escape from one of those
European dictator States.
THAT NAME on the list of Americans coming here called. GLYNIS JOHNS has Just with TYRONE POWER to act
But
Today's Quip
TED RAY says: "A man knew was such an egoist ho was always me-deep in con-
-(London Express Berulco)
Could they be the same filmat. Cooper, wifen he was out of versation, |No. Glynis Johns' plelure was the child class, found' the going
"And when he gets that clay pipe between his teeth, and tonkard of ale in his hand," concluded Director Haskin, "he looks more than ever Like Falsta stepping from a page In one of. "Doo! Beard's own well - thumbed volumes of Shakespeare,"
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