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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1951.

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN:

SO THE ANTI-GRAVITY. PAINT WAS ALLA KOAXI NATURALLY? WHO COULD BELIEVE SUCH AN IMPOSSIBLE IDEA”

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

A HUNDRED YEARS AGO, THEYZO "RADAR, SELF-GUIDED MISSILES~~ HAVE SAID RADIO, AIRPLANES, AND WHO'D HAVE DREAMED OF THEM? IMPOSSIBLE TELEVISION WERE IMPOSSIBLE--*| ANYTHING MEN DREAM OF IS

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KEN SMITH Discovers

There Is Yet Hope For

The Girls Who

Went

To Film Charm Schools

THE

THERE is yet hope for the unfortunate girls who went to film charm schools.

They entered school thinking they would win scholarships to stardom,. but at the end of the last; term, though they had do- dress- glamour, grees in

sense and how to appear in

public, they knew little

about

I could give you a list of

names of starlets who may

never reach stardom. True, they have all made film ap- pearances, but I doubt if any of them

were

given schooling enough to lead to

NEXT WEEK THE HAUNTED FARM.|

Gary Cooper

Likes His Dip

---

Au Naturel

Says Ben Cook

Someday, Gary Cooper says, you may think it quite natural to go to the beach, shuck off all your clothes and trot into the surf without bothering to WHEN the Baby, that's one of the re-

rain sends slip on a pair of trunks. our cricketers of the He does it now when he cords I shall want to break.

FILMGOERS, say's

bir during broadcast can find a beach that isn't Hollywood, spend 7- this summer, the gap will be

up

with other 000,000 dollars a week led by Hamish Menzies, sing-cluttered

Ing and playing the plang, sweets and popcorn. And I'd always thought that There's one man who's look- to a wet sum too much sugar came out of ing forward

on

Hollywood anyway.

mer.

Harold Conway's Show Talk

HARRISON (the man who attacked Hollywood) gets Hollywood's prize part...

"I do not like Hollywood

a successful acting career. very much. I honestly don't.

To them all I

recommend care if I never

the words of Susan Shaw, ex-fornia again."

see Call-

charm school girl, who has Who said that two years just finished a five-week tour

ago? British actor Rex In Harrison.

in "Peter Pan" "What an ex- perience! I learned more those five weeks than I learn- For whom is Hollywood ed making 20 alms."

now reserving its biggest

full-length picture only two characters? Harrison of course.

with

Rex

Susan is under contract to compliment-the star role in the Rank Organisation, and 1 asked her if she'd like to Alm for six months and act on the stage for the rest of the year.

"No." she said,

frmly.

There is nothing' the film

"Nine months on the stage, capital respects more than and three filming."

Has the stage experience won her any prizes? Well, managements are sending her plays to read.

EVERY PICTURE....

a hearty attack from one of its stars-so long as the attacker can still bring in the money.

THE HARRISONS marriage in six stages

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PHOTOGRAPHER Cecli Beat- --Aa-a-money-maker, Mr Horon has had to walt more than

two

people.

"Once you've done it you realise what you've been missing" he said. "It's like first eating avocados."

"Civilised people have been going swimming that way for centuries, anyway."

Cooper realises it is not exactly a universal praetlee nowadays. He thinks it may be some day. About the only thing that holds people back now, he said, is the Cear of being caught.

DIFFERENT NOW

"We're still in a hangover from the 1880s when a man couldn't look at a woman's ankle with- out blushing," he said. "Take a look at any beach today. You may note the progress.”

Cooper did a little missionary work while he was in Florida recenlty on location for "Distant Picture

Drums," a United States being produced in Technicolour

Warner

Bros. distribution.

for

He had the whole crew heading for the beach whenever they could give the slip to the leading lady, Mari Aldon, so they could take a dip au naturel.

Even Mari got the idea. She

it a try Rave

on the beach at Naplas with a

a pair of husky wardrobe women for protection. "Swimming, to me, Is like flying." Cooper said. "I feel free and unencumbered when I'm in the waler. Wrapping mysel up in sufts that weigh me down spolls the Illusion,"

Of My Aunt"

rison the heart-throb of Bri- two years for his first play, "The The Poison Pen

to get a NOW that the "If you tish and American audiences Gainsborough Giris,"

Now, only alike-is still highly dependable. production. 50 you're a are over

His own share, between stage weeks before its pre-Broadway grund romantic hero"

and screen, is about £50,000 a opening

In Brighton New York idea is sweeping Hollywood,

wants to see it before the West

The 13th Letter (Roxy In Hollywood's first two- End-two important parts re- Ronald Colmun is being bad year. gered by scripts which ask the

will main

un-cast.

and Broadway) is a Holly- hero to fight ducis before he character Alm, Harrison

have to hold the customers' ut-

arc They

the puinter's wood remake-in French- gets the girl.

tention for some 90 minutes, daughters the Gainsborough Canadian setting - of a with only his wife-Lilli Palmer girls themselves.

sharing the screen with him. Two attractive candidates will French film which for Eng-

consumption Miss Palmer has considerable be rehearsing on approval but lish

might think, with no contracts. Only if they have been aoting talent-mare, I

(but wasn't) than her husband. But it is have lasted the course and satis- Harrison who is being relied fled the author, producer and called "The Poison-pen of

the parts be My Aunt." box-office support. His manager-will for salary, I imagine, will be one of theirs.

Says Ronald: "If only they knew that I find it more and more difficult to walk round the room."

once

ACE is also-beginning to tell on Bing Crosby. He has just

turned down $135,000 for 30 perform ances in Centda because:

"I can't afford the exhausting time with the Press and my fans."

upon

the biggest individual items, it Who are these young hope- the biggest, in the picture's fuls? One is a promising actress cost which is likely to total who has had some unlucky breaks in the past year or so. close on £100,000,

Subject of this screen experl- The other also has a name and ment

Four-Poster"

reputation to lose, τόπι 私 play which had

BUT THE PASSING of ortish run in London last

AS a

in the early thirties he storm ed Shaftesbury Avenue

hero romantic great Autumn Crocus and The And The Fiddle,

was

It deals with upsets in and about A small-town hospital when anonymous letters vic- hospital's timising one of the doctors start reaching all and sundry.

The treatment leads not so much to tension as to a pica- REMEMBER the time when it sant puzzle, in which you have the years seems to have la

to year, It will show the Harrisons

balanced fatal to meet your Alm

half a dozen neatly made no difference

Way back in six stages of marriage-from heroes off-screen-unicas Francis Lederer.

you suspects to guess from. For wedley Kramer, most inde- Nowadays it is just the reverse,

night to death.

Ronnio were prepared for disillusion? good measure Michael

is twice bitten by Linda Darnell, Stanley la pendent of Hollywood producers,

time, Lex Barker, honeymooning in and likes it the second Cat is determined not to cheat on the London recently, talked as much thus killing another old

pro- The whole film will be sound sense as he talks screen confined to one set-the bed nonsense in those Tarzan roles.

verb.

The acting is efficient chiefly

of interest In two room; and not one subsidiary. Now comes Burt Lancaster,

Mr Lancaster has been boring respects: the debut of Constance character will be introduced.

If the cinemagoers of two me for the past year or so with Smith, an Irish beauty who Continents grow weary of the his dead-pan-tough-man parts. may

This month-18 years after

-he reappears In Shaftesbury Avenue In Collector's Item....

as a great romantic her.

and

Dept. of Odd Quotes:] Harrison features, that is going Talk to him off-duty-and he do well if the Irishness is

not groomed out of her; and the

Warnke BrOS. PRESENT

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The Enforcer

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No. 1. One young to be just too bad for all con proves more entertaining than second debut of Charles Boyer ON WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1951, at 9 p.m.

Q

British nctress to acerned. Including Mr Kramer, second: "We plan to get ried just as soon as he me....."

mar-

0

asks

in-London:

"In Hollywood

and

from

all his film roles put together.

bearded like the pard, More candid, too, than he can ALEO GUINNESS sald fare afford to be in studio time. My making the change-over well to Hamlet last Saturday, as favourite quote from Lancaster-romantic leads to character, Dept. of Oda Quotes; philosophically as the Prince

you

just Too late have some

BAD IS GOOD No. 2.-A Folles

Ber- himself

critics begun to praise his per- daren't make an entirely adull- chorus girl gere

formance; too late are audiences minded picture, it would mean plaining to the stage manage decking in. The theatre is assuming that all your audiences What man "A why she was late:

booked for another show-just were adult-minded too. was following me, and he was "Hamlet" is beginning to pay optimist assumes anything of their success to bad luck are walking slowly."

the kind?"

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MARGARET

ກ.

his keep.

LOCK- So Guinness sets off on a WOOD, invited to star much-needed holiday.

The

On

Where

start rehearsals of a new West

•

TWO men

the од Prince of Wales Theatre hill in London who owd

Peg-Leg Bates, a man who dances better with one leg than WALT DISNEY'S Cinderella most men will two,

two, and BUI in Another Man's Po has he chosen to go? Denmark. film has doubled and trebled the McComb, the magician.

script. But not to brood at Elsinore, sale of ice-creams in cinemax,

Baica lost his leg in an ao- son, said: "No.

"I just hoppen to love the coun-

reports Wardour Street with cident and thought his dancing docm't ring true."

was finished. But: "It was, the Bette Davis, asked the same his return, Guinness will some excitement.

This, explains the trade, is boat thing that could .... have |End play. What play is a secret ecause of the sbpormally, large happened," he told me, “although

number af adolescents newly aldn't think so at the time,

than at the moment though my own attracted to the box-offices by make more money now guess is "Colombo," the Jean

the picture"Its value in this over I did." Anouilh parable of a

modern

dern direction is of inestimable value McComb, until mix

months *WARNI

tago Columbine.

to the industry in general” ago, was all set to be a doo- KATHRYN GRAYSON If this guess is corroot, he has

a duodenal ulcer

Ja to make a

record deliberately picked another ex So now our producers know tor... But /with her two-year acting part for himsel the where they stand and what to forced him to give up study Kate, play has both interested and aim at. For them, the crucial ing for his finals and ho took question of the future is liable up conjuring instead, Today sing in puzzled Paris. Mr Guinness to be Is your picture lee he's a member of the Magid Circle, and, in all met for a tope her bath. The song? Baby It's man look sántler but "ho fa 4) creamworthệt Bik

***(kenden, Express Merelang of-the-hill-career, Colà Qutelde.

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