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The

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BENJAMIN DISRAELI IS ONCE AGAIN A SCENE-STEALER

The "Mudlark," selected voice, which the Queen Mother those we have of the Widow mothered by her is ably filled by Andrew Ray, the quintes- by Their Majesties the described as "lovely and low- of Windsor,"

sence of wide-eyed Innocence. King and Queen for last pitched." year's Royal Command

Wide-eyed innocence To the motherly and sentimental Saya one London critic of

in the audience, he will endear Film Performance, 'did not Miss Dunne's presentation of The part of the legendary himself and they may come meet with the whole this, "...now

and then she rpudlark who wanted to sit on away convinced that he was the hearted applause of the film speaks as though her mouth was the Queen's throne and to be Beatest actor they saw. critics of the London press. full of cherrica." It is, nevertheless, a film out of the ordinary and has a charm peculiar to itself.

Irene Dunne's performance as Queen Victoria does not deserve even that much-belittlement. It is an able, perhaps a memorable It deserves a place on the "must" list of the performance. To such as have film-a-week cinema-goer. It not heard Helen Hayes or Anna Neagle, it may well be some- is a debatable point that it thing to look back upon. Then deserves a place on the list again, it is particularly the "Old M165 of the

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judgment of the majority overlook for the later scenes the of London's film critics one brilliance of earlier ones, of the best films of last year.

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Irene Dunne, at 40 still one of the most attractive women in Hollywood and regal in her On its credit side are natural self, remains regal as distinguished performance the

Queen Victoria by Alec Guinness as Dis- though padded both in the

the hips

elderly

and on

raeli. This great actor, with cheeks

achieve as close a portrait

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his activities largely con- fined to the British stage und British films that we hardly see here, literally steals the picture with seven-minute speech on the Reform Bill in the House of Commons that makes up for much of the ornate dull- ness-with which the story is unfolded.

As

one fim critic wrate, Hhere is the matter of the script and In this case it tells the story of the ragamumin who caused the Queen to come out of her self-imposed retirement in such a slow and ponderous manner that I cannot imagine why it wasn't cut by at least 20 minutes."

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with this dgree

statement, it would be even more of a prob- lem to put forward a concrete suggestion on how the story--

been more rapidly could have

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Not lively history

a

It is not very lively history that is being presented and the film medium, though it is suitable one for flashing more enlourfully before the eye the pageantry

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historical the episode or for bringing to cor more vividly some of the great speeches of history, could have hardly the same success in the attempt to recreate mood as would an essay by Lytton Strachey OT Philip Guedella.

a

Legend is dealt with and

there Ja considerably more Koence for its presentation. Much of the tale has to be told In the dialogue and, if it does not sparkle like Strachey, it en tertains and is not ponderous,

to

as

Alec Guinness as Mr Disraeli

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Even then, it is largely a matter of opinion and it is the opinion of the flim-goer more than that of the erle which, "A spread by word of mouth, makes | OF or breaks the best-laid efforts of Hollywood, producers.

There is a good reason why

who everybody

wants good Ame screened in Hongkong, though they may not be as good as one hoped they would be, should not miss "The Mudlark."

The best films have little chance at the mercy of a cinema- coing publle that would rather- tec u Bequence. from the life of Dillinger than one from that of Queen Victoria and seven minutes of the rotile of machine. gun fire rather than seven. minutes of Alec Guinness in Disraelian speech.

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Andrew Hay, who takes the part of the 11We scavenger who went- led to see Queen Viciarla in "Tho Mudlark" meets Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth At the Royal Command Performance of the Alm. At right, as he appears in the role.

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Reverse angles on Irene Dunne

Irene Dunne is considered the typical American

It must be said for the author woman. All her education

of the screen play, Nunally has been in private schools Johnson, and for the direc tor, Jean Negulesco, that where and she has never

been

they exceed patience by anything but an actress.

about 20 minutes, a great writer

liko Dickens can exceed it for

a longer period through a novel·

the larger part of sparkling narrative.

which la

The same holds true of "The Mudlark" There is the nece shy of explaining the Queen's retirement. That adds dull dia- logue to the scones between the Queen and Dinnell,

After that of Alec Guinness's Darnell, the next best portrayal is. Finlay Currie's blustering and at times humerous John Brown, the elderly Scot who was the Queen's faithful servant through her days of mourning, for Prince Albert,

Courageous effort

Ineta Dunne does courageou ly by the role of the Queen, Even Americans know what Queen Victoria, looked. Eko” sha told the prom and I was as aware) de anybody that I do not book in the leor like her.

show but hasn't She was graduated from the Broadway Chicago College of Music with found one suitable honours and received a dia- She turned down roles in mond award for her singing, two stage dramas she thought" Her greatest successes have would flop. Both had long been in dramas and comedies, runo,

She believes one career in a marriage is enough. Her hus- band, Dr Francis Griffin," is a dentist

Most Hollywood stars work their way up through low bud- get movies. She has always been in "A's

She has been ill only three days during her entire screen career. She is president of the St. John's Hospital Guild

Her friends are pelected caro- fully. She met Penny, her put cat, in "Penny Serenade."

"I am happy in Hollywood," Bie

admits siya. She

che Refinement and discretion are misses the response of a live her: best known characteristics. She gave Dr Griffin her phono

audience.

number, the first ilme she met. One of her best performances

Wild animals frighten he him, at a party, vind

... WILS in Anna and the King of Her weight is 115 and she is Siam," with "

‚alender." In "The Mudlark" she and white elepha" monkey portrays plurp Queen Victorin Travel is her favourite diver

Some British critics objected sion. Before

making Tho

to carting ber as Vistoria, King Mudlark" in England in 1950

hadn't George VI and Queen Elizabeth she

been abroad chose this picture for the Con- since her honeymoon in 1934. mand Performance. !!

or most thorpioni. At the Command Performance final yg Shakspeare is the the Royal Family, and, most Her first role was Mustard Beed

Midsummer In "A guests wore black. She was in in white

profices Showboat Two day, Her: Joes An Her

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