1951-06-09 — Page 4

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HOLLYWOOD

England's Most Prosperous TURNS OUT

Little Working Girl Is Coming Home On A Visit

COMING home from Hollywood on vísit this month is England's most prosperous little work- ing girl, Kathryn Beau- mont.

Kathryn - daughter of BBC bandleader Ken Beau- mont-is working her way through film contract which began at £70 a week and rises to £350.

£

She will be home in time for her 13th birthday.

Accompanying Miss Beau- mont is Walt Disney, the man who is paying her all that

is not money. It young Kathryn's facem though it is a pretty face- which is her fortune, but

her voice.

Disney picked her when she was staying in Holly- wood with her mother as the ideal Voice for Alice in his production of "Alice in Wonderland" - which has been four years in the mak- ing.

When London and New York see the completed Alice simul- taneously this summer, Disney thinks she will jump to fame- and

prove to be worth

that £350 week.

She will have to do it with her voice alone. Although she was made up as a most attrac- tive Alice and acted the entire part before the cameras,

THE LIVE ALICE-

-AND THE CARTOON ALICE

So audiences who go to see audiences will not see her at Europe's 10vellest open-air

all

on the screen.

For the whole picture is in cartoon. Kathryn dressed up and acted just to insphe Did ney's artists. How she inspired them you can judge from these two pictures the live and the cartoon Alice.

Disney's next big cartoon production is to be Peter Pan, and he is thinking of Kathryn for the speaking Wendy op- posite Bobby Driscoll's Peter.

Gielgud Search

spectacle-as I hope they will

do while the lilae and blossom are still luxuriant-may comfort themselves with rugs; but they con spart their pity for the actors.

you.

As for

nothing in the, next-and then Hisastrously miscast her as Doll Tearsheet.

Hardly kind or tactful to the i wiem London had ue- claimed. What was Anthony Quasie, the Stratford director, thinking about?

It would have bven better to wait for the re- mainder of the season. For there are two good. women's parts to come-Miranda in "The Tempest", the French princess in "Honry V.

..

Will Miss Stannard Ben have the chance to shine? No, both parts are going 10 another actress In the company Hazel Penwarden. She is also 22,

Nonsense, but—

I have just been watching packed, intent audience

In I amall West End cinema roaring its approval at half an hour of the biggest balderdash and the worst acting, 1

ever seen on the screen.

BEERBOHM'S

ITALY

-By ADC-

י

Rachmaninoff's wonderful Piano Concerto No. 2, which he described in New York some years ago as the best work he ever did, is laced into the folds of a modern ballad entitled "September Song" to provide the back- ground for Joun Fontaine's new picture "September Affair.”

Only the third movement of the concerto is heard, and its theme is repeated over and over again, until, as a climax to the film, it is heard in all its glory as the curtain descends on a love story based on deceit.

The locale of the film is set in

of have Italy--at the Italy the realist Roberto Rasselini, but Occasion, the opening instal- the Italy of Max Beerbohm and ment of Hollywood's latest

Cre Gordon

Rich back- serial, "Atom Man versus Super-ground is provided by genuine and one's enjoyment is For this is the new and pro- enhance

the splendour of fitable phenomenon in the reality, which permits fleeting cinema world: the return to glimpses of vanished Pompeit

num.

favour of the old-lime serial

In a far sillier and cruder form Dan any

of those Pearl White epics of the silent days.

So profilable is it that Columbia are making it dozen E

ow serials this year.

At an average of £125,000 apiece (15 Instalments), they are cheap at the price.

of Rome in the market places, of Capri alongside Naples, and of Florenes basking in the glare of its states.

These things provide the ap- peal of the picture more than the story itself, for Hollywood has stumbled on the secret- apply for some people that atmosphere is important, too, Kirk Alyn, husband of "dead-In this way "The Third Man" pan" singer Virginia O'Brien, transcends the fallacy of its plot shares in the profit. He used to and becomes a classic, and be a small-part stage actor in "September Affair" ochieves a small American towns; now, as distinction of its own. Superman, he is paying super-

tax.

The Rebecca riddle

INSIGHT AND DARING

lingers on Michelangelo's masterpieces, refusing to break away from the magle like lover from his caress.

And

It all broods the pulse and the beat of Rach- his wayward spirit

Lover

It is adult fare, told with a bold sweep of insight and a Hard is the way for Holly dash of during which makes wood's MGM in putting for fine flavour-like the pep- Merrie England on the screen.

* French treepery ingredient in What about Titania, sleeping That Ivanhoes castle at Elstree sauce. The camera continual- in' fairy

her is still deserted after months,ly skims the warm surface of gossamer on grassy couch for a long half while the producer searches for the Italian scene, and when it hour these chilly nights? Ye Olde English Types to fill it.reaoks Florence (for instance) Titania-in the person of ballet-

Olde English? Well, Stewart it dancer. Prudence Hyman -

Granger, having Jibbed at more sleeps quite comfortably, thank separation from his wife, that

well-known mediaeval

type When the night-winds howl, Robert Taylor is crossing the Our No. 1 actor,

a fairy ocean to be Ivanhoe. John she is provided with

And Rebecca? More domestic maninoff, Gicigud, rehearsing "The blanket, woollen-apun. Winter's Tale" this week, the quartet of lovers, stretched complications here British-transplanted from Paris (where chooses the Top Star's tradi- on the chilly grass, they are born Deborah Kerr, the first he wrote the concerto) to Italy,

four tional (and most effective) en warmed-y

2,000-watt choice, is expecting a baby and where his music moves into the trance for his own Festival arc-lamps hidden in the orches has to stay in Hollywood. So mool with the easy precision "Capriccio affering the last entrance. ira pit hedge.

Robecca may now be Elizabeth of Tchaikowsky's Tayler.

Jargon ilke "Santa late on the scene is he So

Unfair to Heather

Taylor would be

not once permitted that the hunt for a West End theatre is still going on-though Unfair to "Heather Slan Inspired way out for MGM to cheap:n the groduction.

Joan Fontaine is cast mard! I sorrowfully level Never

her anind the

ลง try-out

the charge against the directors parents, she was born in Lon-concert pianist about to claim Brighton on June 11.

Between rehearsals, Mr of Stratford's Festival season:

don, has filmed and honey her glory, and Joseph Cotlen is Gielgud can make a reflective

mooned here and, the import an American industrialist, suc.. survey of the somewhat batter-

ant point, she is. Hollywood cessful materially but morally marooned. They meet in Rome, ed "Festival" theatre-ground

misa chair plane in Naples, visii fighting

Capri to sip is wonders, against death-sentence,

discover in Florence that they let" ripped to shreds by the

are in love. critics,

Three Sisters" only now recovering from sticky start, the Old Vic en

in back-stage battle gaged kenes which Shakespeare never wrote.

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In spite of all these goings-on Gielgud has been able to collect a glittering cast of his own headed by Diane Wynyard, Flora Robson and 75-year-old Sir Lewis Casson,

Gielgud wants to get The Winter's Tale off his chest ---- even in midsummer. He has been wanting to do it for years. "After all, it was the first play in which Ellen Terry" (Gel-

great-aunt) "hed gird's

speaking part," he says, "and yet it is also one of the very fow Shakespearean plays which I have never done.”

HEATHER STANNARD

No chance to shine

Miss Stannard is the 22-year-

an

American

star. Just the Rebecca box-offices ordered.

Nilo Victory

the

Take most of the poetry,

and nearly all the passion,

as a

and

The plane

ine in which they are supposed to travel crashes, and

out of Antony and Cleopatra their names are listed among

and what do you have left?

the dead. Here the plot ex-

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The Oliviers effectively show-plores ingenuity. What should FINAL SHOWING TO-DAY ed what at the St James's they do? Return to the living, AT 2.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M. Theatre when their Cycle of and see the death of their love,

the death the Nilo ended on a high note have their love ripen? They of telumph.

It was a victory of mind over decide to remain dead, and thus temperament. Vivien Leigh, in steal their golden hour from

the shelf of life,, a flowing off-ginger wig, light-

A

Iy leaped the 22 years from the girl

Cleopatra of the previous evening. to the mature Queen.

Rather

ONLY PART OF THE WAY

The end a disappointing, for

a leap at morality conquers after a tit too light first: but later she gave us a with Love, and, Hollywood, by

itrat,

only that it proclaims virtuosity display of authority,

dares to and grief-

travel a part of the death scene. This way with absen, that ultimately dest still abide by the rusty Serpent of Old Nile possessed every infinite variety, in fact,ogans of identists like Mar

Unconventionality, exploited

shori of, voluptuouanesa and terkinak.

luxuriant passion.

the frealth, after her West End debut with the ageing Mare Antony, equal. ¡ment when its continuance will

dis-

A

fino

Cold? Not at all old actress whose nume wis on Laurence Olivier exchangett in three expensive reels, is all first-nighters lips last year, Caesar's cynical disillusion for bancock at the precise will What is theatrical job in London?

Olivier in Venus Observed."

dituma. The Balleve it or not: at the Open Sha

ly cynical was the theatrical

and very weary at provide

hurious progress to Hell atops Air Theatre in Regent's Park,, covery of 1950.

times, tr

It seemed, the wearlest Ronian of them all. Scarcely and n documentary of dact, by at Purgatory and tuma back- lying on the dank and dirty

in A ground"

Midsummer. But now we are in 1951, and

traco

of the passion-obsessed this, becomes Action. Night's Dream.

at Stratford "Venus" is not lo Antony, but in compensation

But it is uperior Betion "In 18 years - I can't recall the ascendant.

edible character study, positiveUko a collector's,: edition of a one case of an artist being off

Here was a newcomer who ly blazing with intelligence.

t to masic, and the love story apt to This, then, was Shakespeare's inoppointment of its elimex is with a cold, producer Robert had allown herself well on the Atkins tells me. "After the war to the stres What his Egypt with the exotic and softened by the holdness of its Arst shock, the actors.

to the wind theme, the rich bagents of its and Stratar done to help her on sphero blown netrees seem to get mutta the way to a Nevertheless an exciting, most locale, and. Its expert ozzar tically inoculated, need find theor. It gave her a minute colo in impressive evening.

terisations, which make even have never fält Atter in 'thoir· "Richard 11'') (which: 1. agreo

Lewdley Fumbles appear pk- „was mainly: Shakespeare's fault)

turesqua,

lves."

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