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This is the story of THAT Forryto Woman.
TO THAT.
and the three mon who wetu such
fools about beri
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HE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1950.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
MY COLLECTION OF THE MUST BEAUTIFUL SPECIMENS OF ALL THINGS | ON EARTH LACKS ONE ITEM--THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN?
"I'VE HIRED A THOUSAND PHOTOGRAPHERS, JENKS, AND SENT THEM ALL OVER. THE EARTH--TO PHOTOGRAPH EVERY PRETTY
WOMAN THEY ·MY WORD, SEEF
By Lee Falk gad Phil Davis
WE'LL HAVE A MILLION PICTURES WITHIN SIX MONTIS, MYAIDS WILL SELECT. THE TWELVE MOST BEAUTIFUL! FROM THEM-ILL PICK THE WINNER
IT'S BEING DONE SECRETLY, OF COURSE. BUT MA.JAY, THE WINNER MAY OBJECT TO BEING
Į PUT IN YOUR MUSEUM-
GREGORY PECK JENNIFER JONES JOSEPH COTTEN
“Lawn McCandes”.........ducing. jealous, epean of wealth.. violene de de vind-swept praleis that gave him kierte
"Pearl Chever....... the wa sumable half-hoved #bulle by the devil se dříve man
"Jesse McCaules” ....com
ogram, ideallaci...being againm the tyranny of bit. ~ angler building for
DAVIE O. SELZNICK'S
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Scarring JENNIFER JONES GREGORY PECK
JOSEPH COTTEN
with a cast of 2500 Directed by KING VIDOR
With LIONEL BARRYMORE HERBERT MARSHALL
LILLIAN CISH
WALTER HUSTON CHARLES BICKFORD
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The property man can 5
produce anything
A motion picture property man can do anything-yes, anything.
In support of which con- tention we submit herewith Д few recent happy thoughts and masterful manoeuvres of two RKO Radio prop men, Earl "Fib- ber" McKee and George Similar "Buttercup" Gabe. shenanigans are being per- petrated daily by other quick-witted members of the clan throughout the in- dustry.
Exgo Dunny side
up Gre anathema to Robert Ryan, They tumn his stomach
sunny side
down.
But the script emphatically stated that Ryan and Clair
Says Melrose Gower
saloon breakfast scene in "Best lonely ranch scene being played of the Bad Men,"
Director
William dumped the problem in the lap of "Febber" McKco.
"There, there," soothed McKeo. "Bob'll rave over my egga sunny side up."
dozen songs, sho naked her Audience:
"Fellows, am I keeping you from anything?"
Ma'am," yelled, "sufferin'1"
hy Irene Dunne and Fred
wonh, Russell MacMurray for the new roman- the comedy, "Comid Share. My Love." Director George Mar shall decided he needed a large" bouquet of flowers. He turned to tho "Fibber," and the "Fibber" turned-palo.
And Ryan did. He ato 'em with gusto throughout an hour devoted to aiming the desired
scene. Then "Fibber" McKeo cracked wide open, and con- fessed.
Photogenic
"My cags sunny side up," said he, "are apricot halves on white bread, photogenic, too, aren't they?"
"Flowers in the
desert," he
grunted, "Okay, okay."
McKee jumped into his car, and tore off across
the desert wasteland toward the distant railroad tracks. He knew an Eastbound train was due across that desert stretch in 10 minutes.
He drove to the tracks, parked his car across them, helper there.
left his
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EBEOL
GREER
WALTER
FLYNN GARSON PIDGEON
ROBERT
YOUNG
“TIKT FORSYTE WOMAN” TECHNICOLOR,
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Here is 1950's Chaplin
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By PAUL DEHN
rolled to a
"Where,"
1
sighed nostalg!-
London.
When the train A few weeks back this same stop just short of the obstruc- tion, the cljstr brgued with Trevor should be eating cggs McKee was out on the Mojave the iratè engineer while: MaKce Cally in a week which included a Western Desert doing his chorea for a boarded it,, made, a quick deni lunch with Glória 'Swanson and
sunny side up for
DOUBLE
TAKE
Actor Rex Harrison and, his wife, actress, Lill Palmer, pose for two fellow passengers upon their arrival In: Now York from England aboard, the 88: Queen Mary, to do n show on Broadway, where they are in John van Druten's new play, "Bell, Book and Candle."
They had just completed a new film in Britain, a murder story called "The Long Dark Hall.”
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ONE OF THE GREATEST DRAMAS.OF ALL TIME!
with the dining car steward, grabbed dowers from tables left and right, Jumped off, drove his autó from beneath the nose of
second sight of Chaplin's City Lights," revived at the Rialto. "Is the Grand Holly- wood Manner?"
I
the bellowing engineer-and 10 Where the great stars of minutes later deliverci the whom younger people than needed bouquet to Director will boast to their grandchild- Marshall.
ren7 Where the masterly situations that will make others George "Buttercup" Gabo re-
laugh and cry as I cried at cently completed his duties on Swanson and laughed at Chap- "Crack Down," Arst movie ever Fin? platted around motorcycle
racing, and 'from there joined The week provides its OWN Director Altrea Werker's staff answer with "a Robert Cum filming the Dana Andrews- mings comedy, "Giri Of The Carla Balerda-Claude Rains Year" (Leicester-square), and
what picture, "The Gaunt Woman,”
may possibly be Judy Garland's farewell
perfor There's a scene in "Crack mance in "If You Feel Down" calling for Bill Williams,
Like
Steve Flagg and their motor-Singing" (Empire). cycles to be thoroughly mud- Two of the situations in "Girl splattered. But the mud make Of The Year" are as funny as up looked phoney-as, indeed,nything ever thought up by it was. To the rescue, then, Chaplin.
came "Buttercup. He created
a fat, flat mud puddle.
Slapstick Scenes
"Now," he cald to B and Steve, "get back there 30 yards, those machines rolling and hit that puddle at 40 miles an powerful auxiliary outboard-
hour."
Masterpieco
The Arst is the sight of Mr Cummings trying to helst sail on a small yacht of which; a
taken ir-
motor Has already retrievable charge.
Tho second is a sequenca
Plante129
ח!
They did, and the resultant showing Mr Cummings and
involved ac- effect was a muddy masterpiece, process-terver
Quick-Change Gabe hasn't been asked usAct on the variety stage.. yet to perform any miracles for "400 Lumak Woman," 1x he is, While the quick-change nctor
in bowlider- you can wager he'll take the remains rooted Lank in stride. On one occus.onment to the stage's centre, Mr he produced 300 anglo worms Cummings and his companion on short notice by watering a dash bindly from wing to wing, likely spot, thrusting an electric reappearing wire into the ground and shock-Napoleon, a Russian moujik, a ng the worms to the surface, tall Edwardian lady and Henry Once, also, be waterproote IV in full armour. three waterlogged ducks which, Jesconaca from generations o desert raised
ducies, hau
involuntarily
AJ
Nothing in the picture (which recklessly purports to be a life
up
developed no all glands to prostory of the American painter,
George Petly) quite comes tect themselves.
to these two sequences; but "Buttercup" preters, however, the sequences themselver to talk about, Harry D'Arcy, come up to anything in the former prop man, now an as-history of screen slapstick. sistant director. Не was the Joan Caulfield beautifies a best of them all, avers Gabe, cast to which Elas Lanchester so good that one director once lends distinction, went out of his way deliberate-
ly to stump this resourseful gen- She's Plumper
jcman
or Judy Garland (about whose exquisito performance in "Meet Me In St Louis all
"Tomorrow," the director told his assistant, “I'll stop Harry cold. There's nothing in the script about boxing gloves, Contemporary aungoors will gu bousting to their graves) it all at once I'll ask him for a
must now be bald plainly and pair."
unmaliciously that she has got plumper.
.
It so happened that D'Arcy, just behind a scenery flat, over- heard the plot. Next morning he handed his helper a pair oi boxing gloves, told him to climb
to
I suppose this may be ono of the things which have re- mado her unhappy in life. for though a singer
cently "cal
the electrician's parallels surmount plumpoons, a which ceiling every movie set,inger-and-dancer may not and watch for his signal,
Miss Garland, then, should
be told that she has p quality
In mid-morning the director of sweetness which almgoers will continue to love in hoc
suddenly turned 10 D'Arcy: "Got even if she never dances again me a pair of boxing gloves in
¤ hurry."
thrust
sald
"You Feel Like Binging”. (the story of showman Gene D'Arey, Kelly's love for a form girl) t a hand collingward, her signal to feel like dinging brought it down holding the because she still sings as gafly 'as she didi and lier costume can stop trying to w designers Many's the time sunshine has disguise the undisguisable by Jeen cast across a director's day d-ossing her in unsightly stripd
Movesta
of gloom by a helpful prop man and collars the size of angola'
of the boatlift wings, 'Reminds ona potres entertaining our (fight
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