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SPENDS THE NIGHT IN THE
BY SOME UNKNOWN
· MEANS 'THE DARK ONE IS
KEEPING THIS
CHILD ILLIT PUZZLES THEY
DOCTORS
Harold Lloyd and Jimmy Conlin hang on for dear life to a chain. Supporting it in Jackie, the lion. Soveral storeys below is the street. It's typical Lloyd comedy,
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IN
RITA
SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1951
THE NURSERY IS GUARDED DAY AND NIGHT. NO ONE CAN ENTER -
YTHING "--YYITHOUT BEING
SEEN!
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
HE THINKS AND THINKS-THEN AT DAWW-|
YET SOMETHING & BROUGHT
IN HERE CONSTANTLY-- UNKNOWN OR
UNSEEN--THAT CAUSES THE
COULD IT BE
| 1'VE GOT IT. IT WHAT HAS
MUST BE THAT
MANDRAKE WHY DIDN'T WE, DISCOVERED? SEE IT BEFORE? HOW STUPID WVE BEEN!
CONTINUED-
HAROLD LLOYD SURVEYS
OF
THE
POSSIBILITIES
A MAD WEDNESDAY
Remember "The Freshman"? An two mad days. When he came to him- Tuesday ke alumnus of the college for which he play- self he discovered that on ed that memorable football game gave had acquired a bankrupt circus. This he him a job in his advertising agency. The tried to sell (picture on left) with aur- years passed and he was not a success. prising results. Then the youngest of Years later he lost his job and then the eight beautiful sisters he had loved things began to happen. He could not (picture on right) came to bail him out. remember exactly what did happen on of gaol end he discovered what had hap-
poned on Mad Wednesday.
Sake,"
and
£40,000 (AND NO HAGGLING)
for BETTE DAVIS
by Harold Conway
THE last time I saw Botto Davis
SHOW.
-In Person, as they say on the bills was in a small, West End restaurant at midnight. She was a ple- ture of dejection.
LILO
in the scrimmage
You usually don't hear much about such plucky ventures in the West End, bist this one, "The Quiet Woman," bas won & recordary place in the Pinza programme this week.
no masterpiece.
But It
In the Law. Courts some hours earlier she had lost £7,000 "half my year's calory"—as costs of an action brought against her It is by Hollywood's Warner Brothers. comes out as well as a number The Brothers thought their star of British films with a £100,000. employee, then under "auspen-or-more budget.
And Jane windswept on the slon," should not be allowed to Hylton,
act for anyone else; and the Sussex shore, has at last got the photographic break she wanted.. British law had just agreed.
That was in 1030. It is ari older, happier and much richer -Bette Davis who now returns to England.
Success story
From an early-Ufe biographi- cal sketch of Joseph M. Schenk, Hollywood magnate: “By studying at night, he be- a pharmacist, saved 800
with it built 10,000 dollars amusement park." It's just that kind of multipli- cation table I have been trying to master all my life.
(World Copyright Reserved London Express" Service.)
Miss Davis's salary has grown came up with her. In 1948 she was dollars-and Hellywood's highest paid actress at £93,000 for the year. And for her now picture here, "Another Man's Polson," she will be paid at the Hollywood rate
"I am paying her the full sum, asked; there was no haggling,"
ys Major Daniel, Angel, who Bew over to make the deal for his producing company. Since Miss Davis will also have a
financial interest in the film, I estimate she will collect in the region of £40,000 on this visit -which is pleasanter than losing
£7,000.
WHO WILL
SUCCEED SIMMONS?'
American authoress in "Another Asks Harold Conway
Bette Davis has the part of un
Poison," which is a
Man's thriller.
After the money
T
In future, if we want to watch Jean Simmons on
the screen--- the one- Preston Sturges suggest probable adventure can put in "Girl Shy," "The Kid Brother,” |
"For HeavOK'S ed the outlines. Harold his way,
time white hope of British Lloyd put into the effort
"Speedy," all silent pictures. ¶ Look out for a spectacular films-we must pay dollars
be
will
1942.
be- to Hollywood for
privilege. Well, well.
the
the
"Mad Wednesday"
box-offico scrimmage "Welcome Danger" was his all his experience of the largely
the judged by
tween the new musicals--with first sound comedy and this was situations that made us as cinema-goers of today. Among followed by "Feet First," "Movie Londoners' money their prize.
three little boys and girls (and them there will be very few
biggest of
Who steps up into the Crazy,"
""The Cat's Paw," "The The our parents of the
worth, vacant place? Is there any sume of those who saved their ten- Milky Way," and "Professor season, some £120,000 era) laugh and laugh with- cent bits many years ago for Beware." Since that film, Lloyd all opened in the West End this other youngster left to talk out quite making up
the next Lloyd venture into prr duced two features for RKO, weck.
about, to hope for? Even our
heitsbreadth and highly laughter. "A Giri, a Guy and a Gab”, in minds why we thought it provoking escapes from sudden 1941 and "My Favourite Spy" in Bergere show, with 24-year-old still nice to hope.
Kicking off is the latest Folles] after discouragements, it is was all quite so funny. death.
The new
th Lloyd version The large majority of
"Mad Wednesday" may be star: refreshing for the fact that it classified as unique in that Lloyd Kiss the people who will see differs Hitle from his
earlier
plays himself in a sort of semi-follows hard on. "Mad Wednesday" during efforts. The necessity for in- prologue to the entire film. The
The £80,000 "Latin Quarter stilts its run locally at the King's troducing dialogue
new picture opens with the Anal of 1950" winds up this week, his style and reel of "The Freshman"the with Nat Jackley as chief comic Theatre will be secing a some extent
there is a long and painful comedian quite new to drag until Wednesday is pass water boy, scores the touchdown that musical rarity British End, in 22-year-old Joan Carson, them. No Abbott or Costel- ed.
leading lady.
reel in which Harold, as the
that wins the gaine.
Lilo (just_Lilo) as the Parisian I put my money on 18-year-
£40,000. budget about
old Petula Clark-if they don't Me, Kole" (£30,000) make the same mistake of over- working her and allowing her tackle too many things
o
(Radio and personal appearances should be out, until she, bas really got to the top.) now 10. She once
As a place bet: Ann Stephens, recorded. Alice in Wonderland, and for a lo, Bob Hope, Red Skelton Wednesday ja deliberately This isn't the first time that
It should be a lively battle, time it seemed as If acting life or Danny Kaye, he is still passed over but the days pre- Lloyd has worked with Jackio,
would be all sugary sweptness and. since there are already for her. But recently Ann has HAYWORTH a comedian whose contribu- ceding it are rather laboriously the Hon. They to the story several other musicals in town shown she can be quite Uttle.
tion to comedy in the mo impressed upon. those of us in "The Milky Way," the tion picture medium is of remember the old Harold of a fighter who used a lion for doing well, and of veto demon when the producer says.
Lloyd efforts that started be- publicity purposes.
money playgoers still have to the word-and my more interest to the
Who wil win, Broad- spend ing Improbable right from the analysts of the era that first reel.
However, this is the first way, Park, Britain Novel as an actress have be This pair of teen-agers time in Jackie's history that be Or will it just be a tie between I see little budding talent in our turned us out.
ever got official screen hilling "The NudeaTM”
studion today to 43 the gaps. for his performance. Mel
What talent there is has been Koontz, his trainer, has had the
full-blown for some time, The- Misses Clark and Stephens carry
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Windswept Jane
1
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Two young British studio quite a load on their young
technicians Robert
Baker shoulders;. I hope
and Monty Berman, went down guided well.
dians who were poraries of Harold Lloyd confronted with improbability animal for 18 years,
rather thanı with the sbeer Jackie has worked in more Larry Semon, stupidity that is today's Chaplin,
001- than 800 pictures, earning som o Buster Keaton and
con of comedy. Every in $50,000 but always simony. others. It is a debatable
la a Harold Lloyd film mously. In "Mad Wednesday last year to Rye on the Sussex coast-and made a full-length through some two TO-MORROW • point that the current crop is a possibility even if it is an be tolls
commands the same world Improbability. It is all very thirds of the picture, doing a thriller for less than £20,000,
They engaged simple and easy to follow. In number of stunts that he never BETTY wide appeal.
artist, Derek Bond, for the lead- deed, the story can be told in has attempted before. CRABLE
a few words. The telling of it As he has done so many times ing role, for heroine, they bar- Does Harold Lloyd have that must be left to Harold Lloyd, in the past, Lloyd introduces rowed 24-year-old Jane Briton
universal appeni that Other accounts are easy but a new leading lady in "Med from Rank-"I had grown sick
food parts Chaplin has?
Wednesday." The girl is Frances and tired of losing Comparing his not as entertaining,
Ramsden, and her discovery because the studios say they took almost four years
to be- can't make me look good," she come effective.
tells me with candour.
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latest effort, "Mad Wednesday," Those of us who can look with Chaplin's "Monsieur Ver- back to more thom 20 Years doux," one decision, is easy to ago and the old Lloyd Sims reach for the critic at large. can rest assured of one fact.
That same wild feeling creeps Chaplin's characters, be they up that insists that one shouti shout out loud to the bashful From the Bowery or Fifth
American boy that the time Avenue, are as much Czechs has come that he proposes to Belgians, Bulgarians or Just the girl and makes her his for ordinary typical living types keeps. as are Frenchmen or Indone- stans.
American world
they
are
one neglected A bull's-eye
Pimpernel is too elusive
SAYS ELSPETH GRANT
for Mario
By JACK DAVIES
Mario Cabre, the hand- some young Spanish bull- fighter who hit the head- lines when he was filming with Ava Gardner in "Pan- dora and the Flying Dutch- man," has just been ac claimed by the Spanish
The slick and heavily illus. My 16-year-old nephew lution, rescued aristocrats from Press as "the most ... ver- zines of today snéer even. at says "The Elusive Pim- the guillotine (some of the satile personality of the
trated popular Ameriena maga-
Horatio Alger as
120
author
Since his return from London
who once was and was resid. Pernel" is terrific. That is specimens here exhibited seemed year." And no wonder.
scarcely worth the trouble) hla considered opinion. It The world of Harold Lloyd Father Finn is forgotten and
need not be told again by me. 1. SILENCED Tumours that largely American. The Buffalo BI is replaced by a is not mine.
Hopalong televised
Cassidy. characters who help people his
The loss is America's. excursions into the more *x- freme possibilities of all the
La
he has
You all know It and because
firm-making softens bull-fight- you do it could, I think, have ing nerves and muscles by top- Despite some glorious
done with a more zestful treat-ping the bill of matadors at the Harold Lloyd reminds us of colour, superb photography, ment than it receives from Plaza Monumental in Barcelona, fund satisfying Spain's -- most Istage are American characters, were not quite yet the distent { tumes, it seemed to me -** Emeric Pressburger, who are still twirl a cape in a bull's eye world that is reputed to bo a the era, when the Americans exquisite sets and fine cos- Messrs Michael Powell and tent audience that ho tan
people they are today, aloot
of its outstanding oot perhaps because Bulgars, and Greeks who have
technicians charitable
but with the best of them. and removed in
2. PLAYED the title role in never travelled abroad to any efforts to see us to a new Uto general lack of pace-some Indifferent story-teller.
the Barcelona extent have never met them. pla with the aid of Marshall, what jaded.
I wish they had spared us "Don Juan
presentation of Tenorio," which, Point Four or Protective
To my mind Mr David Niven scene (quito unnecessary) in with decor by Salvador Dall.. "Mad Wednesday" was ready Athomb Pinna. Harold Lloyd
the usalan baths, for while. it WDS
one of the most discussed for release in 1947. It was still an old-fashioned American overdoes the foppery and pratile was amusing to see that steam theatre attractions of the season.
and
as such, a refreshing one of Sir Percy Blackeney and his In those days was produced by 3. CO-STARRED with Bian- [shelved. • The reallaution magy
performance cannot compare pouring cold water on hot can- qulla Amaro, a Spanish musical... have suddonly come upon the
-MHT:
with that of the late Mr Lealle non balls, it was more nauseat- comody, star, in a Alm,
Una distributors that the seven men
Howard, who played the part in Ing than amusing to see a num-Cubana en Espana" ("A Cuban In the roof-behind every mjani
"The Scarlet Pimpernel" in lying about in the nude but for played the romantle lead...
ber of stout, elderly gentlemen Woman in Spain'), in which he at the front right still
Harold Lloyd has long been 1935.
foln-cloths. Mesars P. and P. In his spare time- Mario has more in a mood to sample the recognised as one of the in Hollywood version of what they dustry's
My nephew, however, thought also commit a soleciem in re been composing dance tunes and greatest bird missed.
with an international reputation, lary is a Uttie limited), and the "Prinny" gambled with his pals touches to, his "Poetic; DIBNA, putation, Mr Niven terrifle (hia vocabu- ferring to the club of which vries and putting the unishing but actually "Mad Wednesday"
which he wrote when "Pandora" The I
months and yeas here is only the 10th feature length excitement of penetrating Sir.
Niven makes · a very per- It is dedicated slipped by and the trend has comedy in which he has op- Poncy's various outlandiah dis
king dashing gentleman would turn Bonable Bir Percy, Miss Mar withoumission of Frank with making
Bar will be published at.. elegant, Lady Blakeney, ** *
1.400 end of „moved, baciti to- pecking fonture, Grandma Boy" happy macka
Juck Hawking a good Prince of the your tyres all relles, from
which he produced himself as a
Wales (especially in the spank Mario an
plans,ue to follow | Hollywood Ing coach race on the Brighton his poems to tempd of everyday: He in 20 cost of 12,000,000 In Locood- SPARE US THUS mirites of Harold "Blood kise ins youre he played in Dr The story of the wilty and Road) and Mr. Cyril Cusack's from where, I gues we'll be
every catastrophies that
Why resourceful Englishman who, Chauvain✨le effective though hearing a great deal more about. every concalvebla: tru
at the time of the French Revo- overdrawn,
"this, energetip young, mBISA MONT
be
shifted. It is); mund" that, the pearlted
19.
guises, and guessing where than took a”. It is Brooks's was on location in Spald
(no
pubile's, biste in-entertainment: Full-Torigth, comic up next kept": "him - entirely garet Leighton in a lovely and Sinatra) 10 Ava.Gardner,, and
nyes, through cycles. We may the
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