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Sir Laurence Olivier, who is 1. Over lunch he was co heavy (not to have it understood that he now on a tour that will last tended that I felt it sinful to leis as fully occupied off the stage months, hus been taking tablets there As for sustaining theor screen as on it

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to keep himself awake. He told conversation, it was necessary for There are letters to answer- me that they are efferilve, but me to blow on the embers more "Oh, mares of them" There are singularly failed to prove it. thun once.

callers to be sera; contræets to be "Yes," said Sir Laurence. "No,"discussed, new play productions sal Sir Laurence; unt when in visualised, more thms considered; my ignorancé I inquired, thinking | public appearances arranged; that at last here was a tople to charity demands to be met- Two of London's

largest art filcker, it not a blaze, of "Masses of those,"

Interest, "Is that Stewart Granger It means, often as not, an cinemas, the New Gallery and over there?" he said nothing at 18-hour day, "And when do you the Tivoli, have been showing all.

go to the pictures?" I asked in Paul Rotha's thirty-five minute The certifled truth in that Sir default of encouragement to dis- scumentary. "The World Is Laurence Olivier has for

class a more serious tople. many

Sun- itich." brilliant, and at times months been one of the genuinely day was the answer to that. quite terrifying. picture of overworked cluzens of this coun- it la the anly chance the

The hard world crying out for food. M

cure of his dny Oliviera ket to ree new Alms. while black markets

12-hour Sometimes they see three or four. lus been an exneting flourish stretch at the Denham Studios, all in a row. on a and pelers BOAT.

Sunday. 1 There are where he has just put

the best think he said their record is five. shots of Fiorello La Guardia ton touches to his

He is not the toll fellow those "Hamlet speaking, with passion tandl.

lying im cameras had deceived" rome humour) before delegatça of the other 12 hours, he con-

me tuto expecting. He is of the Food and Agricultural igres that for too long no mure

much over medium height. Organisation, and of Sir John than six have been dedicated to Royd Orr. its President, But what his favourite dramatist calls what sticks the mind is the the "chlef nourisher in He's series of pictures of starving) What produced more tume-There are the lines of children in the Far East and in diate results than his tablets was constant Europe-children who swoop my suggestion that he does not brow. like a swarm of Bles on any re- match the long working day of fuse bin; children crying with his flim hoss, J. Arthur Rank, bunger, their bones sharply who starts in his offire at 8.30 protruding from famished bom, and finishes at 11 p.m.

Is necktie knot gets lost un- der the right point of his collar. dies; and children with joyous

and he will haul it back with an faces waving and shouting as It disconcerts Sir Laurence, as, Impulsive two-handed movement aircraft drop food at Inst by it does others prominently en- that looks like the prelude to parachute.

gaged in public self-expression, self-strangulation,

Ivast,"

Disconcerted

Surrender demand. A scene from "Prince of Thieves" show. Ing at the Central Theatre.

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He has the clippert and elegant detion that is commonly thought 10 be palle school, but is Royal

Arturo de Cordova takes a pirate role In Frenchman'a Creek," Ho makea u dash. Ing buccaneer if too "gallant” to be a Captain Kidd.

Academy of Dramatic Art. His A NEW BOX

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It is relained in his "Hamlet" Veil" has begun to shoot an 36" Coloured Furnishing film, which, tu descend from the unusual new picture called the sublime. will

bave cost even | “Quartet." This couslats of

more money than his "Henry V.", four short stories by Somersei though it is not In Technicolour, Mangham, linked together with "And after Hamlet?" I asked, a commentary apoken by the "Any more Shakespeare Mms?"

The solie appeared at

author, to make a two-hour at the car-

entertainment. ners of the mouth, hovered for

An each alory Foment, then disappeared as if sontaing, as much material as ik | switched off from within.

usually to by found in a full- "No," he anid, and I could not length Alm, pleture-goers will, be sure whether it was a decisioh Mr. Box claims, be getting the| of late, economic or his. What quintessenco of Maugham, am auto of is that the bottle of whose original effects will not tablets will go overboard on his be apollt by padding. First tale. "The Colonel's Lady," has Cecil Parker, Nora Swinburne and Linden Travers as its lend- |ing players. In the subacquent stories...the actors inelude. Mal Zetterling, Swedish slar of the, British film "Frieda"; Valerie: Hobson (Estella in "Great Ex- pectations"), Angela Baddeley, Mervyn folins and Basil Rad- furd.

first day out at sea.

REGINALD found

SHADOWS BEFORE

THIS TIME FOR KEEPS. Stars: Esther Williams, Lauritz Melchior and Jimmy Durante,

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Thonour of Gen. Charles

Goulle and the Fighting French. and based upon the best-seller "A Thousand Shall Fall." It tells of life in a Nazi prison Story: Not very original, of camp, and the final escape of the complications in a romance, mis- survivors. The working out is understandings and Injured Unusual In that practieni all the pride, but of course provided lending performers nre killed only to give scope for saine, stun- before the end. ning water halicts in which Miss Willams Is ᎠᎦ bewitching as ever, for Jiminy Durante to give

Ava Gardner is exercising dally

Of

Now that women are turning back time in their styles, Cary |Grant, as n dopper: advertising writer in "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House," will wear shirts with detachable collars and cuffs in white-reviving style

a howlingly funny performance

Esther's self-appointed guar-to keep her perfect figure in shape dian ever on the alert to keep for the biggest role of her career, (the 'wolves' from her door, und that of Venus in "One Touch- for Lauritz Melchior (operatle Venus" which Universal-Internation- popular in 1928. +arius) and Johnnie Johnson al are making from the stage bit Temoner) to entertain withi B which featured Mary Martio, Arst-class musical score. And Though they have Yvonne de Carlo

of course true love straightens and Maria Monter, their own itself out in the end.

ponents of the body beautiful, they have borrowed curvaceous Ava from Maro.

PRINCE OF THIEVES,

Stars: Jan Hall, Patricia Mori- son, Adele Jegrens and Alan Mowbray

Story: The Robin Hood legent, as romanticised by Alexandre Dumas, who appears less con- beerned with Sherwood Forest thon the amorous escapades of his hero. Filmed in elnecolor the action centres around Robin Hood's attempts to rescue the Lady Christabel (Miss Jergens) from an unwelcome marriage with the 'caculating': Baron Tris- tam. Lively battle scones pro- vide a stirring finale, -This is the best of good clean fun

DANGER SIGNAL.

Stars:

Faye Emerson and Zachary Scott.

Story: Based upon the Phyllis Dottome novel of a girl who be friends and falls in love, with, a bad hat and then discovers he is letting her down. Finally .ho meets a terrible death. Melo- dramatic, the plot is well de veloped and' skilfully handled by Faye Emerson, - an actrexa Angular charm and persuasion. Scolt's role is not that of the routine villain, the deep-dyed Legree: he is capable of genuine, If short-ilved, nxuber- ances which suggest quite the contrary, 'and thus inake the theme thoroughly aceptable..

THE CROSS OF LORRAINE

Stare::

Jean Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly and Sir Cedric Hardwick,

Story: Nothing to

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Keeps. CENTRAL Prince

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