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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1950.

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Co-Starring YVONNE KEEPING CHARLES

De CARLO COBURN

SCOTT

JOHN

BRADY RUSSELL

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WILLIAM POWELL AND BETSY DRAKE

**Time wounds all heels.”

New Fox

Fox movie at Roxy, Broadway

Rating: ★ ★ ★.

"Dancing_In the Dark," which comes to the Roxy and Broadway today, takes its audience deep into the heart of Hollywood. Deftly combining a disarming sense of humour about the movie business itself, a warmly ap- pealing, story about a faded movie star who shines again through his daughter's eyes, and a half dozen notable song hits, "Dancing In the Dork," filmed in Technicolor,, proves to be fine entertainment.

Gary Cooper in "Bright Leaf"

Bating:★★

"Bright Leaf,” starring Gary Cooper, Patricia Noal, Lauren Bacall and Jack Carson, comos today to the Queen's and starts tomorrow at the Alhambra.

As Brant Royle a devil-may-care Southerner, Gary Cooper returns to his home town to court again the aristocratic Patricia Neal, whose father, played by Donald Crisp, will have none of him.

Cooper launches a tobacco em- pire which ultimately ruins Crlap, and while he marries the girl: tá never happy with her. Only Lauren Bacall, another beauty f shady background who loves him, and Jack Carson, playing 1 medicine show barker who de- cides to settle in the Southern town, remain loyal as the empire Eubsequently crashes.

The main fault of this drama, so for as flavour is concerned, Is that it soon drifts away from the aura of the pungent tobacco in- dustry and becomes just an old- fashioned conflict between + love-crazy 'man and a pitiless girl. Except for a few scattered glimpses of tobacco growing in the fields, cigarette machines in operation and a tobacco auction taking place, this could just as well be a drama of a love-blight- ed oil or steel tycoon.

man

And the fault of "Bright Leaf" as a drama of a greedy thwarted in love is that it run too much to the conventional and is too long.

were

YVONNE DE CARLO AND

SCOTT BRADY Some family!

Tongue-in-cheek Western comedy at the King's

Rating:✶✶

Furthermore, although Mr. Cooper dɔes 4 commendably

hit the skids, William Powell netresses, are spotlighted to full which propel him to his doom, As the one-time-star who has most persuasive of the younger strong and vivid job as a man wracked by agitating passions delivers an excellent portrayal. advantage. The role gives the long-time starrlet coached on to stardom by tormentor as

Miss Drake plays an aspiring Putricia Neal plays his female

though she a rich opportunity.

sturict

Comedy and music have lis Emery Slade conveys the Powell. Mark Stevens, the pic some sort of vagrant lunatic.

ture's third stur, plays

Her eyes

in been added to the theme of pop and gleam glamour of a once great industry Drake's Press agent boy friend crazy fashion, her face wreathes an outdoor drama in ***Tic

gure and the stabbiness of his

in idiotic grins and with great spirit.

she drawls Gal Who Took the West" and deciine. Haughty but proud, caus-

Southern Further casting highlights of [with a

accent tie bul witty, this is the figure of

that the net result is a very en- Include Adolphe rounds like a

dim-wit travesty joyable motion picture. hud made the picture a lonely mar who himself roundly disliked when he Menjou, Jean Hersholt, playing It is hard to perceive how this was on top, but who has since himself as head of the Motion Pic- could fascinate anyone. gotten his comeuppance, inani-ture Aid Society, in his first screen,

Iold.

Miss

appearance in seven years; Sid

As he crack's in the picture, Grauman, director of the famed Grauman's Chinese Theatre; "Time wounds all heefs." 'The

role of the heel may sound un-Randy Stuart; comedian Walter synipathetic, but Powell makes of Caliett; and Hope Emerson. the man s recognisable a human being that we come to feel deep- ly for lint,

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The Technicolor móvic which is now at the King's Theatre, stars Yvonne De

"Night Without Carlo. Charles Coburn, Scott

Stars" begins

Brady and John Russell. The latter two he-men carry the action. Yvonne and Coburn bandle the comedy.

and

•

Miss De Carlo proves a smart comediennic, entertaining

keeping pace with the Coburn in sparking

Casting news: Danny Kaye to star in "On The Riviera" for 20th Production of "Night With- with production out Stars" has now begun at is superb in it; immensely starting late in the year.. Lana Pinewood. Starring David For- easily

In his characterisation, he Turner and Ezio Pinza will head rar and Nadia Gray, it is be-veteran varied is

sardonic, wonderfully the cast of MGM's wryly

"Mr. Im- ing produced by Hugh Stewart laughs. moving, sharply acid, tremend- ously poignant he is, in short,

Kets

anything the occasion demands. " tale of a mythical king- and

And he is great.

off"

directed

by.

Keefe Brasselle

Anthony The curvaceous Yvonne also role at MGM in "Stand- Pelissier, who has written the James "Whitmore, another screenplay from a novel by handles her musical sequences in But Powell's completely win-new discovery, also given star-Winston Graham.

grand style. Her Frankie and Johnny" number, is a riot of ning performance is only one dom by MGM in "Loco Motive"

Many of the leading parts in harmony and laughs, and one of reason why "Dancing In

Doris Day and James Cagney the film, which is set in post-the best musical moments we Dark" should be seen. The many will team in Warner's "The West

war France, have been given to have seen on the screen. talents of Belsy Drake, one of the Point' Story,"

continental actors. Among them ore Maurice Teynac and Gerard also in a comedy vein, is another "Clancy Lowered the Boom," Landry

the

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Marcel

arcel Penein, who is One song sequence.

now well-known on the British screen-his recent Alms Include

"Golden

One of the picture's chief

Salantander" and "So cherins is the way in which it is So unfolded. A magazine writer, pro- Long At The Fair" is playing bing into the history of the

a blind man.

O'Hara family of ploncer Arizona,

Lovely Nadia Groy, who gets most of his facts from three

starred with Eric Portman

and old men in a decrepit saloon. The Fly," has one of the lending character of there, on the

But the tria

'60

Guy Rolfe in "The Spider And

pseudo-opera feminine roles of the year in singer played by Yvonne, "Night Without Stars." For this each relates the story in his own tho will wear clothes specially way. The film fades back to the designed for her by Fierre Bal- late '90's when the central char- main.

acters take over, against the David Farrar, whooo recent backgrounds of cactus forests and parts in such films as "Diamond distant mountains. City" and "Cage of Gold" have The singer is brought to ploneer been inclined to type him as д Arizona by Coburn, wealthy land- sereca villain, is playing a more holder to appear at the opening of sympathetic role than usual. It his opera house. His grandsons is that of

of a British ex-army and heirs, Brady and Russell,

officer who goes partially blind, dislike each other intensely, When but later recovers his sight. both fall in love with Yvonne, it June Clyde, who played im- appears their smoldering feud portant parts in many pre-war will envelop the town in a mur- productions, returns to the screen derous battle. Yvonne's womanly in "Night Without Stars." wilęs save the day.

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