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BRITONS GET ACQUAINTED WITH THE X FILMS
At 18 you may be old enough not to be frightened by this
man
form
of entertainment
By RONALD ROPER
be becaus0
of the most important and ab
the subject ́is one like a midnight waterfall. She go to the cinema for a good
screams well and makes love cry. The week after his theatre as it she meant nad put on The Miniver
sorbing of our time and because on the screen
number of the girls give it. At the moment this appears Story"-classed in the trado as
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ability."
Wicked women
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not succeeded Ju had
in, tracing the owner of a ginss eye found under a scat!
Magic-Box,"
inspired by "Omar
below,
For in and out, above, about,
"Tis nothing but a Magte Shadow-show
Played in a Box whose Candle is the Sun,
London, Jan. 11. Those cinema-goers who take their recreation (and education) seriously have clever and moving perform- to be the limit of her acting a "weepy" Deal manager been wondering what their ances."
One of these is given by Anne Owing to Length of Picture Ploase Note Change of Times: first X film would be like. Francis, who
began acting at Now some of them know, six and is still leaming the hard
Festival Year in Britain will Provided they are over 18 way. In this film she undergoes
not be complete without its of harrowing ex- variety -the new British censor-
hands of a On the subject of the screen's which has only just been de- own special Alm, the title of superintendent who ship certificate imposes that periances at the
to seems wicked women, it is only fair elded on-The
for Leonard The qualification, which is wel have passed through the Belsen t
Une spare a
choice was Mosicy who, having studied lines from Fitzgerald's comed as evidence that the school.
Depravity is also the keynote these three scamps. comes to is growing
up with
of "Where Danger Lives" and
Khayyam": the conclusion: "None of them Its patrons they may be "Born to be Bad." The latter is a patch on the wild women admitted to the Cameo resembling in theme the 1950- Polytechnic to see the first Five production "All About or on old days. From what I is said to be a good deal see on the screen bad girls of X film exhibited in Britain. better than its cheap new title 1951 dakes--good girls,
The choice has fallen on suggests. Featuring beautiful pretending."
Yet another aim for those
Round which WC Phantom "Life Begins Tomorrow," in Joan Fontaine, it is based on
novel. Anne Parrish's
"All who which a French atomic ex- Kneeling."
like to take their enter- Figures come and go. tuinment violently or sombre- The story is really a tribute pert and editor of a journal In "Where Danger Lives" the ly is -711
Ocean Drive," to one of those epoch-making on the subject introduces a feminine star is Faith Domergue, claimed to have demanded characters of the 1st century,
to eminent who qualifies as a fast worker police protection even in the, William
in real life. A Creole, she sign making.
Friese-Greene, young
It is the unusual British Frenchmen who demonstrate ed her first film contract at 15
pioneer who despite story of an unscrupulous his lack of success as inventor and discuss the wonders of ten years ago. She studied telegraphic news agency work contributed much to the begin-
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their languages, correcte uge Pre- ing hand-in-glove with equally nings of the cinem
her (Hugo portents for the future, The genese) and has a baby
unscrupulous bookmakers. The Robert Donat, in the star biolo- characters include a
of evli genius of the piece (Ed role, has begun with the shoot- ilies assessments
of the dramatie gist,
an architect,
two Miss Domergue include: "More mund O'Brien) comes inevitably ing
Bernhardt: but to a sticky end, Picasso the beautiful than
scene, in which Friese-Greeno not yet such a good actress," "A After all that I felt impelled expires де д meeting after good-looking lass with eyes to add a piece of indisputable making an Impassioned appeal The film comes As a Ilke black cherries and hair evidence that some people still for British films. graphic reminder of the oft-expressed fear that of the man's command forces of Nature may have outstripped his ability to control the still more potent forces within man himself. tender No doubt 18 is a enough age at which to get at grips with this issue.
But I imagine that "Life Begins Tomorrow" gets its
mainly to X
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spare a younger audience the horrifying shots of atom bomb effects. Nor are some of the close-ups of biolo- gical experiments fare for the squeamish.
Paul Holt, I notice, has bren at pains to debunk any notion that the cryptic X is another way of indicating that in less enlightened days this class of film would have been banned When he says "I hope you will not be frightened of this enter- tainment." he doesn't refer the first X film but to X Alms in general. They will not neces- sarily be solacious, he Informs deal with sub- us, but rather tects of social import which the immature mind might not truly understand.
in
The
21
death-
History, by the way, will be repeating itself soon, when St
Laurence
138 minutes to see wh fatal results)
through a
be
no
woman
(we not with opens a London conference on the Alm industry, which has reached a new low-cbb.
"The Magic-Box"
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"The Magic-Box"
not, however, full life-story of Friese-Greene. "The aim," saya Donat, "is to present a picture of the kind of fellow this in- spired, kindly man was, and the way fortune evaded him."
Many of the
best-known in British people
Alms have some small part in it, Olivier Jas been allocated only two minutes-in the role of a City policeman. Film charities have first call on the profita of "The Magic-Box," After that
the
stars will draw half-salary. In a production in which it is re- garded as an honour to have a shore.
Anna Nengle's decision to play Florence Nightingale in a Herbert Wilcox film to begin at Shepperton early in the Spring La welcome news for the industry as well as film fans. This will be her seventh "woman
of history" role, the carller characters being Nurse Cavell, Nell Gwyn, Amy John- Odette, Queen Victoria
and Peg Wolfington.
Another Davis) takes pity on one of her
Incidentally he undertakes, in our interests, to be alert to the danger that the film exhibitors Let there
mis- sphere of female activity. A 500, won't be as keen as the critica understanding when I hail kind-hearted stage star (Bette to disabuse the public mind of
film called "All the idea that X really
stands & new
fans and gives her shelter in that Eve" About
the her home. Greatest Woman's Picture. of all time.
for "Naughty."
Feminine depravity
Oddly enough this week
as
I know that most
femalea ligent
It takes bor
Motra
notable decision is although she is coming home to make her third film, quite s Uime ballerina
Shearer is but the discovera eventually not leaving Sadler's Wells for that she has clasped a leech to 500d. intel- her bosom. emerge ersatz
The story of the rise to fame with
Harrington.
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For the Festival of Britain she will be seen again on the stage, but in the autumn the expects to take about three months? leave to act in
Goldwyn pound the In this she will co-star with Danny Kaye, who is duo ot gr who uses the brains, the London Palindhum in May boules and regulations of her and who incidentally friends as slepping stones
Eve
of
isn't story of an
looks as if a trio of ordinary from the average releases come near to qualifying end-leaves-cutie epic as X films. All deal with feminino depravity and are not dry eyes and floods of in- pathetic-looking what some of us call entertain-dignation. But this
of a that sort We have seen in "The Snake Picture. Pit" what the side of some
ment.
Woman's
American mental hospitals can I sat through its two
be like. Now comes "So Young,
So Bad" to introduce us to the hours and 18 minutes worst kind of American reform brilliant dialogue,
theclour, "Hans Anderson:"
is innocent-seeming
fame and fortune.
of
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Though lots of other charac=" brittle ters swim into this film it 10
exciting, aften hilarious duel between worten wo all
school. According to producer drama and inspired cyni- really a tense, Harry Danziger it is based on cism wih growing pleasure two kinds of
fact.
.
If you have got the impres--and not only because of know: The generous, open
sion that adult offenders in what was on the screen.
USA are pampered, it should be It so happened that I now if
-ban seen Moira's Glm "Rod Shoes" four tires.
and The Barber of Seville'
Coming In Italian hearted woman-at-the-top and
Film Version the nice-looking but minded girl who is trying to Music lovers who enjoyed the
oust 'her!
mean-
a corrective to note that Camp: umounded by women, a mix- bell Dixon puts on record:
flm versions bi “Faust and the of handbag
nasorted have seen for myself the cal
aly females. What' entranced ΥΠΟ Bette Davis, as the middle-Devil" and "Paggiacet" have an- lousness of otherwise kindly Kema
Fascination aged star filled with the spirit of other treat in alore when the Americans to low-breakers-was the pop-eyed
a month or with which they followed the giving, manages the miracle of Leo Theatre will screen men sentenced to a
of
Seville" next week. six weeks for minderocanours antics of the ploture, and the retaining her attractions wille Barber
broken shell Rossini's famous comic opera working at El Paso in chalo- gurgles and grunts with which looking Hke the
was produced by an Italian com- greeted enchi eally at of an calon egg. Hangs, for example. So he is not they
Anne Baxter. 15 Битеть as pany and stars the Rome opera prepared to contradict Mr their sex.
one of those girls who are as singers. It features excellent Danziger,
acting singing and some commendable
Dood as to have become to For "All About Evo" Just treats in sperance to a TUR
of about takes WOMAN to pieces apple-until you come to the malor crime by teenagers both sexes, Bo Young, So Bad" on a slab, Uke a new bug up weevis, will horrity British hublle. for vivisection.
"If the Bm should be popular
Ita esiting is" the thonty,
here," says Campbell, it will but it might be anywhere, gay
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