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We are
"UNCONQUERED" (Queen's), 4 In that, at least she was con-
Utara: Gary Cooper, Paulette sistent, Whlie
scrubbing the floor in a cesspit of Goddiard.
Cecil B. de Mille is a name to a tavern, dressed in what was with in the film business, apparently a piece of sacking, she ieckon
her chocolate-box The very mention of it stirs the maintained
Two pet hates of mine which not part of our design for living. Average Almgoer and sets him countenance,
In the film her name is Abigail.come to light now and then grubut when a whole town wins thinking of great rolling masses
acts more like a Fin or juveniles who persist in remain-national fame through its opin- of drama thundering from the She
becomes 0 swminping the Suzette.
ing juvenile interminably and ions on life, then and
Gary Cooper, as the grim-lip-mature men who persist in being intional laughing-stock and has Audience with a tidal wave of
his ped, frue
bero, Captain great lovers,
to pick up the pieces of its ro mingled emotions. That is
Gary Cooper.
i am con-mutation, For the moment 5% just
somewhat epulation, and well-earned it is. Holden,
first of my naturally inclined to be rather That the name Cecil B. de Mule Adequate but uninspired is prob-centrating on the
sceptical. "Uncan-ably the frindest way of describ-grouches. shouki have produced
It isn't the physical change to quered" is sad. It is not worthy ing his performance.
embarrassez Villainy
which with A maturity
Stewart la the young man res- of the mor or his reputation.
the ponsible for all this, and I think acceptable enough as the trowel by Howard de Silva. All an actor's admirers, but
sneering and theory that once a youthful type ho
# masculine his lip-curling,
ingenue, ambitious poll gatherer, but his beady storkig must have made always
when the star has whimsteal Oneuften even
Wyman and his his face che for weeks. felt that he suffered from frustra-achieved a wife and family.
James Stewart is a case In Lover his misdeeds tion in not having a long black
It is 50 child to emphasise his advancing
very, very ingenuous moustache to twirl and clank paint, though he has no wife or greatly.
and gives us such a dose of corn. to swirl about him.
As an Indian clef Boris Karloff years.
Onco upon time, Jimmy Jane Wyman is far more be- grunts in a surly but satisfactory Stewart Was пп ingratiating, tievable than Stewart, furahion through his Infrequen: folloping young man who turned appearances.
In some good performances show- Purely as a garish spectacle, ing him as the type whom most thickly vargished with artificial women would like because he was
y, "Unconquered" is a success As an honest drama, portraying genuine emotions, it was defeat-
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le bas quite forgotten that one ed before it started, actor giving genuine perform- wee is worth a thousand shout- ing throngs.
CHAMPION FAN
rather romantic in a helpless sort of way.
romante
•
with Jane repentance bored mo
In-
It's hard to know who bene- fits by a film being given a mis- cessful the product turns out to leading title, no matter how aur. That idea putd handsome film be. dividends to Jimmy and his
How many people. for Hollywood employers, but
stance would imagine that a lim World War intervened,
Pink Horse" and eviled "Ride the Stewart did n darned good job would be anything more than for his country as a serviceman good old blood-and-thunder Wes- "Nobody has a chance in this
for several years.
iern instead of an adult, tough Paulette declaims
become
{Inc Obviously, he had
thriller containing wilderness,"
some at one stage. She has Champion Movie Fan as select-more
but acting? Goddard
mature personality.
I think that Robert Montgo- Just seen the butchered bodies of
ok, type of mery, director and star of the family that fell foul of the In-ed by Motion Picture Maga-what did we see?
to zine, returned to New York lans. She had every reason feet repressed. She had arrived from Hollywood, thrilled in the roles,, first in "It's a Wonderful Universal International release, much "Magic sels
himself rather too Town".
of a job in his Jual capacity, in America as it hond slave, had knowledge that she had been Life granted very rare privilege To
seasoned Australian eyes. "Magic though ho le far too been cheated out of her freedom
visitors the Town" is an odd sort of story, and conscientious on actor Hollywood mud made to work as a sklvvy, for and had. imunediately previous
Arlyne
Rogers,
America's
A return to the
now
to making the above statement/studio ban against sight-seers Get-rich-quick schemes when opgive a poor performance.
was lifted on her behalf and she was given the complete grand tour.
to
Most Glittering Star Of The English Stage
The doyan of the London theatre, Sir Charles (late:"
C.B.) Cochran wrote of Gertrude Lawrenco Ty that she was "without a particle of doubt the most glittering star of the English-speaking stage. In the theatre world, in London and Now York aliko, a 'Gortië' first night creates an excitement comparable with a declaration of war or a Presidential election!”.
WAS
But when the incomparable[ Personal parcels are the second "G. L."
came recently to the large-scale manifestation of her British Broadcasting Corpora- uncompromising enthusiasm for à troop tion's microphone in the North Britain: the first
tour under the American sorles "Britain's entertainment
ENSA auspices of
which look Pleasure Parade," she did not her the length and breadth of the talk theatrical shop so much United Kingdom in 1944, from the as the "personal parcel service" frozen Orkneys to the embarka which is the reason for her! tion
camps outside Brighton on current trip to Britain.
June 5, the eve of the invasion of Miss Lawrence has been in Europe, and into the battlefields charge of the American end of of Normandy in the middle of this scheme for the last three August.
enllata Americans years. It
BBC
Gertrude Lawrence
Da
up next year
She followed with a tour of Paolo warfronts for UBO ENSA's American She also took in counterpart.
her stride Stage Door Canteena, Red Cross driving, blood trans- fusion schemos, books for woma vloemen and . host of othar wartime charities.
Although now Anglo-American by taste and habit, she is still a British British citizen and her
of
sympathies Are D matter heredity. She was born in the London suburb of Kennington in the shadow of the famous "Oval, and as a child of ten decided that she
was irrevocably destined for the theatre when a penny-in-the- slot machine on Brighton Pier pressed on her a card printed "A Star danced and you were born- Shakespeare
From gentéel poverty she pull- ed herself up by her bootlaces playing small parts in pantomime, In the German morality play "Hannele," and. Reinhardt's "Miracle
later
one night
standa foster parents of British families in the provinces, and eventually for periods of five months or over, Charlot revues, London's West and raises funds for parcels to End and thereafter such various old people in alms houses, chil- roles $15 revue, sephisticated dren in hospitals and folk in need comedy in "Private Lives," musi- of short term rellef; adopted
cal fantasy in "Lady in the Dark," familles receive 516 or 10lb and straight tragedy in "Behold parcel each month depending on We Live," with fame abounding
each
family.
on both sides of the Atlantic the size and needs of
By raising funds through per
concerts and appawrence
mee has been in Instrumental
getting about 17,000 parcels sent to Britain and what she considers even In important, ercating friendships and great understanding."
with ali
the
WORSTED WOOLLENS &
Two or three years ago I saw a youngster called Wanda Hen- been rescued in the nick of time
drix in a very Door Charles some from
irate Indions who
was so pro- were preparing to give her the
Troubled since the war by an numerous radio programmes and Boyer flim. She slow death.
had been unprecedented avalanche of tour- having a lavish party given in her mising that I waited for Yet,
Abe
She then had a juvenile_part through, and in spite of the fact isis, the studios have been tightly honour by Atwater Kent at his next role with keen anticipation, that she was as she said, "in this clumped recently for all but the palatial estate, she visited the in a Bing Crosby film for Para- out, All Faramount, Republic, RKO, Co-mount which again stood
girl wilderness,"
Technicolor most distinguished guests. up to fullest disadvantage major film producers agreed Miss lumbia, 20th Century-Fox and and now, as the Mexicon showed her perfectly painted lips, rouged Rogers fell within the latter cale- Universal lots and was a guest at who hovers round Montgomery, the homes of George Burns and she shows that her talent is far average and her per- cheeks, blackened eyelashes and gory.
In Gracie Allen and George Mont-above As a result, Miss Rogers,
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DANNY KAYE, Hugh Herbert, J. Edward Bromberg, Felix Bres. more sart, Ludwig Siessol and O. Z. "new! mutual Whitehead need no makeup to of music in portray professors Samuel Goldwyn's RKO Radio "A Song Is Born," production, but the seventh professor, who is a real music professor,, does. He is Benny Goodman, who 'tea" ches at Juillard Institute of Music in New York.
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NO--BUT THAT-- THAT BEAST TOOK MYCAB-HE WAS IN SUCH A
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INGRID BERGMAN's "Joan," p Sierra Pictures production in which she is starring for RKO Radio release, is not a pleturla. tion of the play in which sho scored
on Broadway. The
written by Maxwell And Play
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was a modern story using play-within-a-play technique. The motion picture is a straight blo- graphy-of-Joan-of-Are-over a two-year period which ends when she is burned at the stake.
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