1951-06-23 — Page 4

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FORMULA--

SHOW TALK

MISS CALVERT GOES BACK TO WORK

By HAROLD CONWAY

One top British star goes back to work, helping to fill the gap, Phyllis Calvert. She is partnering John Mills in a new thriller by Alec Coppell, Mr Denning Drives, North.

On her 33rd birthday last

"THEY HAD A TUSSLE-AND TORE THE FORMULA IN HALF--ED GOT AWAY WITH HIS HALF OF IT-HAVEN'T SEEN HIM SINCE!

Back to work: Phyllis Calvert starts a neid Alm with John Mills.

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

ONE HALF'S NO ↳ I'M NOT SURE I GOOD! THE OTHER | CAN GIVE IT TO HALE'S IN THAT BOX YOU BROUGHT. AND I WANTITA

YOU, CHARLIE.

UNTILI HEAR

ED'S STORY!

CONTINUED

Second Lead To Vera-Ellen Also Shines

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WOMEN WITHout Men... ExCEPT IN THEIR Memories!

Sensation! Sensation!

The whole hushed-up Fits story of today's women behind prison barsi

Caged!

SCREAMING

NETV SENSATION FROM WARNER BROSI

ELEANOR PARKER ACKES HOOREHEAD AND A BRILLIANT CAST youth long remember |

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Advance reports of the ne w British musical, "Happy Go Lovely," aug- gest that husky-voiced Diane Hart, who plays second lead to Vera-Ellen, may well be hailed as star after its showing.

Well, it couldn't happen more unassuming, Who will be Understudy of the presarlos' furs, as well as the modest and talented girl Year? I should plek Emrys performers' skates, will be #ylog and it seems a pity that she Leyshon, a young actor of pro-

Combined cost of these spec- inise who for Clements with

has already played tacles is £250,000-that's after won't be at the premiere to success at slicing scoplically quite a bit off receive all the congratula- three short - version per the

the Americans million-dollars tions that are likely to be claim for their Wembley show. formances,

Some 100,000 people per week flying through the air. are needed to All the three auditoriums.

to

#

Ist

Now, as a routine port of his job. Leyshon has learned the

But the nearest Diane will bo to the Warner Theatre will be additional 50,000 words of the

For she is Juan Don

Piccadilly Circus. in Hell scene-which year, Bliss Calvert spoke is performed on Saturdays only Festival.

playing a leading role Terence Rattigan's "Who decisively of retiring-she Mr Clements admiringly reports

Sylvia?" at the Criterion, and had had enough. That was him word perfect.

won't be off the stage until the after putting £15,000 of her

is nim Dimost over. own money into a film called

But she will make an effort Happy Now I Go (it didn't get a West End premiere) -and collecting £35,000 from Hollywood when they cancelled her third and last film there...

about 50,000 to 17

will be

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I hope they all turn up. But don't blame the if not, please

MATTER OF CHOICE What

At Christmas-tme, are the once-a-week ·

Scala odits against this painstaking audiences are asked to applaud understudy being required to Tinker Bell; otherwise the play speak those words

When the contro- in public? can't go on.

A car will bo Very long odds. I should say: versial drama "Breach of Marri- to get there.

age" is revived, the gudlence waiting outside the stage door BATTLE OF THE SKATES will have to applaud three dif- to mish her across to the cinema

where she'll the

join the crowds So West End theatres are find- ferent endings--otherwise ing competition tough, are they? curtain won't come down and outside watching the stars and celebrities leaving. Of course, Let them take consolation in ubody can go home.

Best-applauded

if a publicity man spots her, I watching some box-office throat-

ending Even without Hollywood cutting elsewhere for

the acted for the rest of the run- daresay she'll manage to get

into the theatre at that. help, Miss Calvert had saved annual skaling battle is about and during the Canadian and

FOOTNOTE: Britain's latest enough money to give up to open.

It's all right

Lough opposition. Nether

a stunt, musical has Following acting if she wanted to; but,

Wallop's I suppose though a curious ont

Across the road at the Odeon, Beli,

flrsl on the field' with to nobody's surprise, it has Melody at Earls Court,

for a play of this nature.

But Leicester-square, Danny Kaye's what do turned out a case of Hap- comes Sweden's Gloria Nord and

Liam Redmond, now musical "On the Riviera" Marjorie Wilde and the rest of will be playing. pier Now I Return. In show an American company of 140 at

The Odeon is a Rank Theatre.

Go "Happy business, retirement can be Wembley's Empire Pool-Skat- the cast do if the applause isn't

Lovely" was made loud enough to judge? ing Vanities of 1851" a dull role-whether you

The actors want to go home, by the Rank Organisation's big- loo and aren't always so docile as Tinker first-night audiences

zest rival, Associated British. are 33 or 73.

The clashing of these two bla Bell's fans.

musicals is, no doubt, purely coincidental.

THE SCENE CHANGES Last year Jean Simmons was the hardest worked, most publicised girl in the British film industry rather too hard-worked, ab- surdly over-publicised,

Now the scene has changed-to-the opposite. extreme. It is over 10 months since Miss Sim-

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BETTY GRABLE

DAVID WAYNE

JANE WYATT

MITZI GAYNOR

HENRY KOSTER

frested by

SOL C. SIEGEL

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DAN DAILEY

My Blue

Heaven

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months since she went to Hollywood and married Stewart Granger.

The

Barbara

Ann Scot returns from Canada for "Rose Marie" on Ice-Harringay Arena July 5-at a cosy salary of £2,500 a week. By then the rival im-

Way seasons to follow,

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The Festival Label

Is Being Stuck On

To Routine Rubbish

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Michael Redgrave. But this

no

Off to Holland on July 15 goes

should cause

alorm at Stratford. He will be back to appear at the Memorial Theatre on the following evening.

Redgrave is going to Amster- dam to give a one-man show in connection with the Holland Festival. His repertoire will include speeches from "The Tempest" and "Richard II."

When Judy Garland Anished her Palladium season she went to Paris, While there she made

number

of visits to Fierre

By Ken Smith & John G. Drummond one-time hope of

Lendon. tion of Adam And Eve. James Balmain, the dress designer. two or three British pictures sits in her WE ARE GETTING more Stewart has already withdrawn During the past new Californian

than a lttle tired of seeing from the cast list because his weeks Scotland has been seeing home,

Festival label drawing

stuck on legs are too thin for near-nudity, the results of those visits. comfortable the B

Balmain created a new dress everything the entertainment and we have a hunch that Miss salary each week from her industry has to offer, from Bergman will not join this, or for each of the cities Judy is to new employer, millionaire kerbside musicians to routine any other cast, as long og she is visit in Britain. Howard Hughes-but wait- rubbish in the cinemas and Mrs Rossellini. ing in vain for a call to the theatres. studios.

For there is a mystery about that Shaw fim,

Dorte-The wine mond" and getting away with

When John Alderson visited ATS British Guiana as unit produc-

Glasgow saw her in a creation of blue and of NOTED AT RANDOM

groen tulle, with a bodice As far as we know the only Abel Green, editor of Varlely, dark green sequins, Manchester,

off to Paris

Liverpool and Blackpool will see with his own French film that was made specifically

Some of the phrases her in different gowns. Judy lexicon. Festival showpiece as a

was Parisians Androcles and The Magic Box,' an all-industry

likely uro

is now a well-dressed girl. Her to hear: "J'y

only

I'd had. the Lion, in which Jean is due picture with a cast that reads suis. J'y reste-I am Swiss and one regret:

these in London!" taking it to star-hee first Hollywood role. | İlke an editon of "Who's Who

easy"; "Le sucre-an American in Paris's

Meanwhile, Judy hasn't had to It just doesn't get started. In Films."

"Pas de deux-Pass the duck"; "Bar Ic worry about her reception in That was to be the British

Sho PASCAL'S TERMS

dus but let the einema's great contribution to "Un tour de force-a

duchess in"; Scotland. It was terrific.

"Loch Gabriel Paseal-whose last

with has even been singing the celebrations-but shooting your mother-in-low; British effort, Caesar and Cleo-

It. has only just finished and it your

Which fact, I trust, will patra, cost £1,200,000-has been for his intention

will not be screened until the The film version of "Reluctant cause a certain London critic to announcing

Festival is over.

newspaper. of making Androcles. years Months ago he sold his rights in

The earliest possible date Is Heroes" has gone on the floor wat his evening

with Ronald Shiner, Derek Farr October and our guess is that she play to Hughes, along with

and Christine Norden starting. his option on Jean Simmons's will be held up for the Royal Miss Narden

plays An Film Performance in Novem services.

officer, which should help Tion

TC- manager for "The End of eruiting....El

Elspet Gray, who the River," he fell in love with plays Miss Norden's role in the the country, Well over a year CHRISTOPHER FRY, who restored the poetical drama WRAF meer who isn't in the Forming

stage version, has a part as go he deelded to go back. called company to the stage with The Lady's

play at all. Complicated, isn't Argosy, and accompanied only Not For Burning, and was to have begun Observed, Production

Venus it?..

by cameraman Reg Hughes; he 1s being tempted in

March; there

is no sign yet

revisited British Gulana, filmed ginning.

away from the theatre by an "Casing American Alm company.

there for ten months. hitches,"

round They travelled the studio vaguely. say

The proposal 18 that Fry This although Britain's Robert

light, roughing it most country light, Newton and James Donald should write the script for

of the times in the forests, on story lown over especially were lined Order of Release,

based on the life of John Ruskin, up long

together with ago, George Sanders. Mr Donald has to be made here later in the

Mr Done of year with Macdonald Carey in capable of being emotional-the cuff" They had no script just returned

the lead. It may be wishful watting.

So Jean sits in her home being betting that he will refuse,

thinking on our part that we are ly devastated, "Caged" is and no

They returned home with forty while her husband Granger,

Condition of sale: that Pascal ber, should be producer. A Holly- wood director is needed to work der Pascal; the vocaney has under still to be filled.

Mrs

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is kept busy in rival studios. American cinemagoers' newest favourite. While, too, there are scarcely any actresses of top-star rank left working in British Bette studios.

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On June 15 at Wombley the.

all-American Roller Skating Varieties of 1951 made

the Cavannahs, across rapids and falls, living in weird villages. are Much of what they shot was "off

show business, and arene is bow for a six-week season.

There is nothing new in £100,000 Ideas. fixed

entertainment on the grand the film for you.

Claude Langdon, hos also thousand feet of silent alm and scale was old when Jericho

inverted £100,000 in London COME HOME, INGRID

You may be shocked, but you sold it to the Crown Film Unit.

Melody at the Empress Hal Trench was fell. will also be profoundly impress-Film editor Terry MOVE IN the

reverse ed. Moreover the Alm throws n antrusted

cutting and But if we owned a chain and advanced bookings indicate with direcilon

for searchlight on

sound-track- The is possible

a problem as shaping.

of cinemas or a string of that the half million mark in Davis, who

has been sociated with the American social music, words and effects had to theatres we would be look- attendance figures will be reach. approached to pay Lady Mac-xystem that will assuredly come be built up from scratch, and both in a London theatre this as a surprise to many in Hong-was planned at the same time as ing with savage disfavoured in no time at all.

the lm WAS given its Kinje, kong

on the growing popularity autumn with Godfrey Tearle or

the Lutyens wrote Leo Genn as Macbeth,

This is not a tender alm.. On Elizabeth

of leo shows, roller-skating anticipative eye at a target Cameron the

million customers. James That would be a box-office the

the contrary it is brutally direct music,

revels and stadium stunts. words. д

This show combines musical miracle and Miss Davis is re- and revealing. It shows how The completed Atma The pantomimes on ico

comedy, ballet, ice skating. ported to be enthusiastic. But rich, supposedly super-civilised

Its through

in-called "El Dorado-runs half Wembley..and the Empress Hall acrobatics, music-hall sketches again we are belting it community,

drew nearly one and a half and most other things in show will not happen.

humanity, can destroy every-fan hour. Recently it was given. thing that is fine in one of its its first showing to a hard-boiled million customers last winter business in an acting area of foot, and we WE HEAR that Ingrid citizens,

audience

at the and caused the biggest slump in 20,000 square of flum men

business Lori- would not have been a bit suf Bergman has received an

They Christmas show Acting in "Caged" is, superb, British Film Academy. formance in the full-length Man] "Come home all is forgiven" to a point of being overpowering. approved of it in no mean terma don's theatres buvo over known. prised if the F.A. Cup analiris There two stadiums are now had trotted out to replay. five and: Superman-an intellectual message from Hollywood and Warner Bros have pulled no by giving it, hearty round as well as a physical achieve that M-O-M. hope to star her punches and the picture leaves applause, I suggest it is a fim sot to attack the midsummer minutes of the Final in the in-

terval market. in their forthcoming produc- Lagupting memories.-5.8, in@ut.

to watch gut for, th

The Alm world is a topsy- turvy one; Mr Rank-who sold the remainder of the Simmons contract to obligo her and Hollywood will probably agree

with me.

10,000 MORE John Clements puts in a strong claim for Actor of the Year honours with his marathon, eer-

once

Hole already cocking

an