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Marguerite Chapman, lovely star of Columbia Pictures, "preview" Hollywood's revolutionary new Pon-Blik make-up. created by Max Factor, Jr., who explains its amaring beauty. bringing advantages to her. A new cream type-glamour make-up, in unique stick form, it is easy to use as a lip- stick, and can be completely appiled in twenty seconds or

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Anything But Private

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It wouldn't be cricket to tell you where, bu! we finished reading a news item about an attraction -coming Queen's this week.

The Atein sald: "Chammur and

kerms motherhood, two thre

constlered incompatible in Hollywood, now are as happily united as Abbot and Costello, They Just go together,"

at one

MOVIE MAKERS AT SEA

Hollywood.

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1040,

CINEMA WORLD

TWO DAVISES FOR THE SAME PRICE AS ONE

¡An educator in the Blackpool district of England ro

cently announced a series of lectures for school children dosigned to combat what he consider- ed-to-be«kkollywood's Zabnormal"xersionmakines

Life.

This sort of thing can onlin-, loved me, but h dlet 3Has arily be taken with a grain of Davis portraying the role of n prim New England poetens who salt for two reasons,

can't rid herself of the obsesalon that her mother was responsible for her father's untimely demise.

' There have been and always w be a certain small but vehe- ment fringe of the population that considers such activities us the cinema, alcohol, smoking and even gum-chewing basically detrimental to the proper way

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Just so he won't feel to out of place, Bette's leading man is given the chance to wallow in his own mass of complexes.

If, as these people often de Jln Davis, (no relation to Bolte, family or by acting une interprets "abnormality" as efther by menning my devintion froin the ability), here wides through the humdrum course of every-day assignment of a returned Nava! existence, then Hollywood must hera who's ambition in life in to priesthood, but who affirm the charge with a shameless

enter the ery of Guilty." For this sort of feels that he is unworthy because aloranlity b, to certain extent of, having landvertently sent his! crew to Itx death, Must for any medium where submarine

himself had en primary purpose, like it or not, though he

to offer the participant in this captured and had lived through case, the move-goer) a means of the war. temporary escape,

than half an

cur.

For

4

The picture itself involves brief meeting between these two slightly unwholesome charactora,

This is the sort of thing you have seen before-and very uk else.

Jane Wyman has been voted "Actress of the Year" by the Film Tribunal of the London Daily Express.

The tribunal la an Impartial organisation, with no can. nection with the film Industry, and is composed of Sir Ken. of Dramatic neth Barnes, Principal of the Royal Academy Art, Bir Kenneth Clark, former Director of the National Pictures, Bir Leigh Gallery and Surveyor of the King's Aahotn, a Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Evelyn Waugh, noted author and wit, and Anona Winn, etage star and broadcaster.

Mi Wyman has donated her award of £1,000 to the British Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts for a special scholar. whip fund in the name of the cast and crew of her pleture, "Johnny Belinda." for which she won the award.

However, after sitting through what seemed hairs of a very chilly "Winter Megling," we are. Jemi-

Inclined porarily

It is not the place of the re bend our Blackpool educator somewhat more viewer to explain how it all turns Bette out. But let it be noted that nư Davin Jntent vehicle ts picked une will be surprised who has seen Most sea epics are filmed with the sort of incomprehen- Miss Davle before as the soul. on dry land with a boat builtble, psychiatrical. abnormality suffering martyr fa, an. Ideal. on rockers, and there's a rea- that seems to have been called from the case records of a pre- son. It's just too hard to make

Freudian expert. a sea picture at sea.

few dis- Hollywood had

Ever sincH Warner Brothers' with cameramen first got

Bette Davis, as the New Eng- a close-up. The glamour in this case refers comerus getting swept over-shot of Bette Davis inuist and land poetess, is an mare miscast to curvacious Lana Turner. This board and stars playing scenes meandering eyes, about 10 years than usual, and her acting. though motherhood refers to her on-the- with their heads hanging over go in

decided that, Miss Davinas fascinating as ever. parently screen shenanigans in M-G-M's the rail.

fs renowned M natural io portray any- A Private Affair."

the best-dressed "Marriage in

Then they swept back to the was

thing from 1177 alhost normally As for Jim Davis, it is difficult o Thanks to some slap-dasht found, stages, built fake boats

frustrated type ("My Mother to decide. Perhaps it would be a actresses on the British screen.

reputation editing, it true that the two geneed to roll gently over the loved me, but she died"), to the

kindness tq keep in mind that dio really go together. But they waven or knock from side to aide completely hopeless paranoic which Davis, da, a cinematic Wavy hero, achieved "not just by inspiration don't go

go very far.

Nor'easter, and painted some Ir According to-M-G-M, marriage is anything but a private affair, pretty ocean water on the back he did in "In This Our Life.

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Husband" and is now TODAY ONLY AT 2.30; 5.15; 7.15 & 9.15 P.M! busy organising a wardrobe for ther next film "Portrait

Black".

Turhan Bey has been a little shy about air travel ever since the death of Earl Carroll. So he wouldn't fly to New York until his astrologer, Carroll Richter, tire signs, ward assurent him perspiration" for favourable. Then, just to make real life he was a member of the means endless consultations and

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This time, Belle varies the Coast Guard. The services never fittings and many patient hours sure Richter would concentrate each standing in her room while the on his divination, he hired him to pleture is all about one of About the only ones who bother pattern a bit. In "Winter. Meet- did get along well with

experts try out various detail make the fight with him. those war-time

"My Father other. marriages that

ideas and Recessory styles on runs the entire gamut of dimcult to make sen pictures at nen nowing, it's a case of

her long-suffering person.

ies and irisunderstandings before

are the mall producers who can't

pay the overhead for a backyard True Love wins out hi the end ocean. Such is Lindsley Parsons, (Whint makes it all particularly obnoxious is both the bad Laste of who filmed Monogram's "Tuna the scenario and the equally un-Clipper" on a real tuna boat sail-

fortunate fact that no one in the audience.. if they Iadn't been

real sea. ing over

Going to re had its problems, familiar with Hollywool's Speciut but they weren't all new to Par

a half

Coo

Pertaining

ing To Happy

End-

ons, Ho spent two

and

in the Navy during the war.

riage one chance in a million of ship to son a lot the same way working cut in the first place)..

Fortunately, there is nothing you'd take a battleship out," Par-

~Wollit have given the mar-you prepare to take a movie

new about this old plot

the

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Irresponsible Lil Turner meets, falls in love with and mar- ries John Hodiak, an equally in- sipid Air Corps Lieutenant. Be- cause of the teachings of a much- married mother, Lana

Sona said. "For one thing, you to be darn sure you have every- thing you need and have it in the be- most compact, efficient way. cause there isn't much room and you can't go back for what you

forgot."

A tuna boat's quarters are! enters the ramped, and Parsons could take alliance with al the "let's-get-it-long only a few key men besides over-with-attitude" of a 16-year- the actors. They had to be able old girl who is going to spend the

to get alang together during the

day shopping with "Mother. She two weeks at sea and they had to

feels that marriage, us a neces-be able to work hard under dim- sary evil, should not interfere

cult conditions.

with her pre-marriage routine of cocktails and Casanovas,

In view of the fact that her

the

One of the biggest problems was how to shoot scenes while

was moving without camera ship

BETTE DAVIS

Two.....

husband was due to report for sicking up the sound of its en- OPENING duty overseas

shortly after the wines. Parsons built what he called wedding, everything might have baffle boards" over the engine! turned out all right. But at the outleta to deflect the nose from last minute Hodlak is discharged the sound equipment. from the services and is assigned

to vital war Jobs in the States. after all, that is what the plot

calls for.

This rather complicates Lana's original plans, since she now has "Marriage Is A Private Affair" to make a quick change from won produced by Pandro S. Ber-

dull

the role of a light-headed de man and directed by Robert Z butante to that of a more res-Leonard. In view of their past *pectable and, to her, much more vehicles, it couldn't, have tippen-

home-body.

ed to two nicer guys. Needless to say, she finds this sort of thing rather hard to take. And when and fame, in the person of Jumes Cruig, comes along to help her over the dull spots, then the misunderstandings really begin.

There's not much, one can say about such goings-on. There are those who claim that beautiful (7) creatures like Lana Turner don't have to know how to oct. but perhaps that is not quite fair. She does gel, across one very rentiatie bit. She handles a baby as if sho'd much rather be wrap- ped around: a cocktail glasa, nnjd;

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