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King's An artist's impression of one of the most dramatic scenes in Warner's drama, "Johnny Belinda," coming to the

The picture stara Misa Jane femal: And Lan Theatres next week. Wyman, who won the Academy Award for the best

acting performance in 1940.

Award Winner Coming To Screen Next Week

Showing simultaneously at the Lee and King's Theatres next wook will be "Johnny Belinda' with Jane Wyman in the role which has won for her the coveted Academy Award for the best actress of the year. Directed with

CINEMA WORLD

Sad Eclipse For Judy's 'Steady' Boy

An Ermine, A Hussar A Nightmare And A Dash Of Legs Dream House

Teen-age love, singing, dune- You Ing, music and laughter are the main ingredients of "A Data With Judy", coming next week to the Queen's Theatre.

ani

ivacious Jane Powell is Judy. The Beckett Scalty "steady" boy friend whose love Hite suffers a sad eclipse

when the older man hoves into view in the shape of Robert Slack... tull, dark and handsome mad all of 24:

Judy's

Taylor.

as

ziri

speritt knows thinks she does.

Xavier Cugal and plus Carmen Miranda, move in on the sung and dance sequences, and the ery Carten atts and abets with Cunt in providing Little love interest of more mature vintage.

see

(If not, turn lika Betty Grable, don't you? immediately to the Finance and Commerco saction.) But if, like mo, you adoro that glorified version of the shop assistant's dream, complete with multi-toothed smile and shape- ly underpinnings—hove you bean sharing my views over since those delectable instruments of locomotion were continuously obscured in the "Shocking Miss Pilgrim”?

a

and

Builds A

In her own delicate and entirely feminine manner, Myrna Loy is one of the screen's best comedians.

"Mc

Teamed with Cary Grant and Melvyn Douglas, each with their own special brand of humour, we have a telo which makes Blanding Builds His Dream House" (Roxy Theatre) the most hilari- ous comedy we have seen for many a long month.

Blanding-Cary Grant-is one those American adversing of men who sit up nights thinking ham called of slogana for "whom."

1

He and Mrs. Blanding, other- wise Myrna, live in a cramped Manhattan apartment where man can't even get a peek in his own shaving mirror,

a

If so, perhaps you can sym-jerimine) found herself in a similar Elizabeth

her own day, domineering elder sirter, is the pathise with the feelings of us predicament in

sophisticated

who Grable fans when we descend- and solved the problem by fixing ali the answers...ored en masse on the newly- the conquerer with a squashy kiss a poinard simultaneously. his band opened Roxy the other day 10 which the gentleman of that time

latest super-duperfound singularly penetrating. the

Ermine," That Lady in

Both the living principala haye simply fabulous Technicolor all this in the back of their minds, example of what Hollywood which keeps any fancy clinching can do to a legend if it tries. down to a minimum. There could, of course, have been quite a bit I immediately identified myself. of bedroom anties, and when we Quite the best spot in the

as was expected of me, with the noted that Ernst Lutitsch (before the inimitable Carmen dushing captain played by He, too, passed away) had both how is

father taking July

(Wallace Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. (who, by produced and directed this ple- Beery) in hand and teaching him the way, gave us a cross between ure, we anticipated that in splic to do the tumba. She wears

ne of his father's jumps and of American women's club merals mop and Fred Astaire practising) who is there would be sparks of the aid hat like the top of a

raising pleasantly severnt hure gold chains as big as puzzles as the audience by the subtle Bre understanding by Jean great

CIT incidental lure of a becoutiful shocker filters. as any la mayor's... but

1 Reem to remember painting and its present-day rein- Negulesco, Miss Wyman's outstanding per-

she do thumbn

Wallace looks mure like a babyenation. (Yes, La Grable: how happening with Maurice Cheval formance as the deaf and dumb form gir!

elephant than usual, but no one did you guess?)

lier, Jeanette Macdonald, etc.. but The hindsome pair are very then, that was a long time ago. has made screen history.

we did have a Of COTH SY thes

Mind you, family are much to the foreground all the The story could have been Tand graff former, with little time can say he doesn't try.

hussar glimpse of Miss Grable's legs as in his quite com gred that Carmen is time, as the Hungarian sordid in ather, less fastidious in his life for love and affection,

and the who takes over the castle in fur og the knee, but peer on I know very much about building hands, but Jan Wyman's porta a pillar of strength

his life in his attempt to avenge rest of the the chiefly, concerns battle, and the countess who has could, that was as far as I got even a doll's house, let trayal of the afflicted Belinda daughter's time of trouble, losing out for father's scalp

tubeen done out of the first night attempts megabled her. is inexpressbly moving

as Belinda's "save" him. Still, everyone of her honeymoon by the onset Agnes Moorhead, beautiful m its utter sincerity.

vives to hve happly, we assume, of polite, pre-1914 warfare. Her Supported by a perfectly chosen art, is at her shrewish and caus

ancestress (she of the painting in east, this unusual and extrageous-tie best, but has a heart of gold ever after ly different lm will remain on beneath her waspishi exterior,

and

of the most unregable as well as the most discussed.

an isolates The story is set on prestert in the barren furning country of Noen Sentin where the Muggle for existence lasts dally, from dawn to dusk.

Behind the story lies a revealing picture of the narrow insularity of mind to be found in any isolated communities and the luck of charity displayed towards those in trouble.

Belinda, the farmer's disek Chinese Crew

is drudge and maid-of-all-werk. Because she is deaf and dumb. she is assumed to be half-witted as well, until the kindly young village doctor takes an interest in her, tenches her lip-reading and sign innguage.

Lew Ayres, with his quiet cham is ideal as the doctor who is first to show sympathy and give her

help.

For Taiwan

their

A

Scandinavian Film Planned

she does

Alias The Wolf

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So when Mr. Blanding decides to build a dream house way out in the country, he really spreads things himself, aided, but not always abetted, by lawyer friend Melvyn Dougins, otherwise the "Woir his Wife used to Know at College."

Blanding doesn't really

int

Mr.

alone a of drenin house, but lots of sparkling fun is had by all, and Mrs. Blanding is Anally carried over the threshold of the half-finished love nest and straight on to the delight.newly varnished floor.

However, traipsing about in bare feet, and her left hig toe is rither cute

This epic is unlikely to break many records, but one must ad- mil that the

19 colour the music is tuneful, the cast is very cheerful about the whole The Alm sparkles with fun and thing, and it's good escapism of laughter as the Blandings try to its kind. To be fair, various mem- settle down. in their unfinished, The three Scandinavian film and actors from all the lers of the audience may mean unfurnished and extremely chilly are to participate in different things when they quote abode. But love survives in spite countries Norway. Denmark countries

na a film that and Sweden, are joint-What is hailed

will be best able to carry Nanhe poster blurbs as they come of all hardships, even when, they What it did to have to wear fur coats over thei nway-"Ooh! ¡y to

film based

sen's ever-topical, message to a

pyjamas. the life of Dr. Fritjof world which is still suffering me.... Nansen, the famous Norwegian want and anxiety. explorer. humanitarian, and

flìm Detalls of the

are at being discussed with author of the "Nansen Pass-present

Odd Nansen, the late explorer's port" for stateless refugees.

Production date has not yet

on

make

A cavalcade of Chinese flim stars and technical experts is

Syle similar to that employed son due to leave Hong Kong an or about April 10 for Taiwan to in "Scott of the Antarctic" is to shoot parts of a picture on life bo used for the making of the been fixed, among the Lolo tribes of Sze-

Charles Bickford, as Belinda's chuan. father, gives a fine and impressive |

While outdoor filming by the

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HELICOPTERS AID FILM PRODUCTION

Helicopters are becoming at routine aid to Alm production.

Warner Bros. Pictures, having

"Joanti recently used one for Belinda." starring June Wyman and Lew Ayres, are again em- ploying such a plano for "Task Force," starring Gary Cooper. For "Johnny Belinda," cameraman boarded the hellcop ter to get aerial shots of Nova Scotia and California.

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