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STAGE AND SCREEN NEWS FROM. LONDON

4 girls challenge men's grip

on

theatre

SHOW TALK

by HAROLD CONWAY XJHY are our current dramatists W

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unkind to young actresses? In play after play they provide magnificent parts for the men and for some of our dis- tinguished women stars aged between 40 and 60.

But young heroines? The Bridles, the Rattigans and the Emira Willlampes no longer seem interested. So some of our most attractive young stars languish in the shade as well as those who might otherwise bave reached star- dom by now.

MARGARET PHILLIPS Wales to West End--io Broadway

overshadowed by the other play's sensational, success,

Here, for instance, is manager Henry Sherek, planning to present two of our foremost young actresses Margaret Leighton and Glynis Johns

in a West End play apleco. "Not one new piny which I have read contains a star part

But Miss Phillips scored a big for a young woman," Sherek tells me. "It looks as though I shall personal hit as a girl in a smali be forced to go to the classies, American town who falls in love

with a

a medical student. A native or near-classics.

Barrio Maugham, Pinero of Neath, Glamorgan she went disdain young heroines to New York in 1930 as a girl st didn't look at the chance Eileen Herlie 14, for a holiday; was pevented

by the has had in the Mrs Tranquerny tovival Even Shaw wrote fine parts for girls. But the com- temporary London stage has become a man's world, except for a fow importations."

PROMOTE THEM!

war from coming home. Hollywood took her over after the Williams play success

Report On

SCREEN

KISSING

By Carlisle Jones

The art of screen kissing, over the past 20 years, has progressed by deceleration

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Old timors will recall that In early silent film days romantically inclined lead- ing ladies soldom kissed their leading men longer than a "peck,"for remained In the clasp of manly arms for any length of time.

The slowing down process is believed to have boen launched by Valentinò, once famed as the Lingering Latin. He introduced the more deliberate, technique| at any rate, closely followed by John Gilbert with Greta Garbo and by John Barry- more with Dolores Costello.

All three took their time with kisses.

Photographic and technical improvements also contributed to lengthier romantics. In the early Sear of the cigeria, loving was not too comfortablë, OF not comfortable stail" Participants often came out of

Errol Flynn's Modiste Is

Flynn's with paine in the nook.

All A-Flutter

plays the crippled wire in the Marjorie Best, that famed A Life of Costumer of handsome new Lana Turner nint, Her Own, and acts everyone else movie he-males,

off the screen.. But as she had-flatter. warned her, Margaret Failure

is

SILENT CRAMP

Directors, seeking certain effects, put

their stars in cramped positions and fade them hold them too long. To- day, with special alg condition- 108, and cooler Lights, and modern garments · désigned for romantle confort, clinches and Kisses can be prolonged inde- finitely, and painichly

all

of

While the early exponenta deliberate love scenes are named above, it remained for to change the

has not got a Hollywood-type Errol Flynn is coming James Comey face.

*Eryka

In the West End theatres today, there are only four grijs

So the recently returned to home to Warners again, formula. He did it in "Public in which tho leading Fole

Cocktail and she's prancing about in Enemy" when he pushed half a genuinely belongs to a young Broadway and The

Into Mae Clarke's actress; of these, two are revivala Party, in which. She now the studio'a

wardrobery, grapetrint

Lace while she playing (Maugham and Pinero) and one are herek's plans mature, Bhaking out and

dusting Pretty

waiting to be kissed. by a Dute man.

That sensational dido upset Who form the quartette now the schoolgirl from Glamorgan off a long, long line of

for the holding the fort against male will return homo-12 years lato clothes marked

whole corefully rigted encroachment?

routine Miss Herlle, as a sur, first in Edinburgh Flynn.

of screen love, and boosted Cugnej to

the star Brenda Bruce, Betty Paul and and then the West End. Dulcie Gray. And Miss Gray is CLAUDETTE-NUN

"He just won't let any dom he stil holds. a special case: her husband

In his latest body wardrobe him but

picture, "KIES We have become accustomed i shares top-of-the-bill honours

he han Miss Best Tomorrow Goodbye," with hey in their two character to Hollywood stars coming over me," beamed

two loading Indies, Barbara here to mako pletures which while she shook

a shirt play.

Payton And Helena Carter, For the rest, talented young could more appropriately have here and examined a pair who share his unique kissing actresses plod through one play been filmed at home. Now of pants there.

technique sans grapefruit. after another in second or third- Claudette Colbert is being

INFLUENTIAL BUSSENS best roles.**

The smooth romantic tech-:

while dramatists

They will never get to the top

rushed

continue to been produced in ace to chock to see what we Buyer,

think in terms of Edith Evaria, She is to play the

back to Hollywood-for a new "Errol, bless him, is never a picture which might well have problem himself, but I alwaye niquos practised by Charles Errol Flynn, Tyrona Havo in his wardrobe, and what Power and Gregory Peck also Flora Robson, Pergy Ashcroft detective in Bonaventuro-the condition it's in, and how much have and Foy Compton. These artists, tola which Fay. Compton played will have to be nude new, or trend toward lingering loving. I agree, would inspire any writer. on the London stage. The whole remodeled." But it is time the youngsters story, and its detail of murder-

were promoted.

greatly Influenced the

Tennessee Williams, like other has been in America an holiday, and a few things. Eke that i have attention called to th

American ciramatists ist no scorner of young heroines.

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of

Tho

And thanks to the new and

sensitive and appeal procedure, is Flynn is going to star in an overly

microphone, If it's love which makes the essentially English in atmos-adventure drape onlled "Rocky love on the screen has become

quieter. Mouintalo," and Miss East thinks smackless and world go round, a romantic phere most English, of timber worries will be

That

at a Cate George Arliss Was the rovival in the theatre shoulil

"He won't havo any original proponent of the smack give the box-offices a good turn actresses, Anne Crawford, has minimum.

kissing his Just been ignged for the role of very degant clothes in this ple- while

leading 12 YEARS LATETM

the ..condemned prisoner there," she said. "All I have indles, but he didn't like to

trat about

waistline, How sensible it would have

Even, the "strong silent men” been for Claudette Colbert to io hope he hasn't galnod any

the screen, the Gary That is why Mr. Sherek 18

stay and make Bonaventure Weight, or lost a

Coopers, Randolph Scotts and hoping

to bring over Summer here; and how she would have

he traipsing wround-

such, are adopting the longer and Smoke us next year's foreign liked to do so, Miss Colbert fold been doing lately,"

kins Cooper practically melts offering for the Edinburgh me me

Ruth Roman's..lips in. Warner Festival-and with It Welsh-born

Bros. Dut that is not the on

adventure molodrama. Margaret Philips for the leading way. Now she has revisited Miss Best has the distinotion "Dallas " And Scott clinches Pumps London after 23 years, the studio of being probably the only Adele Jergens for moments on Summer and Smoke was write boomer Insist;

-Home- temale, costurber who designs and in "Bugarfoot." Both are teps by Tennesse Winions about inimhediately,

men's clothes, which doesn't the same time as Strecteur; the

10cm so silly in view of the fact Technicolour productions. (Dally Express Service) that most women's clothes

It has Broadway run was somewhat.

been estimated that:

designed by men.

10.000 kisses are exchanged annually for pictures. About She has been keeping Flynn's ten percent of them appear in breeches fitting neatly and his the inal prints.

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