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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1951.

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

THE MAN AND HIS WIFE WANTED THE FINEST DIAMOND NECKLACE IN TOWN: HE GAVE ME A HALF MILLION IN CASH --AND TOOK THE NECKLACE? I

COUNTED THE MONEY--IT WAS ALL THERE

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

1 HEARD

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THE MONEY DIDN'T LEAVE MY HAND--| BUT WHEN I SHOWED IT TO THE BOSS |--IT WASN'T MONEY ANY MORE~~IT WAS |NEWSPAPER--

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DAVID

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Spotlight

THE only sure-fire sent filler in British

TH

cinemas today is a 30-year-old opera tenor whose weight was 17 st., 10 b., with a waist line touching 40 ins.

Its name is Marlo Lanza, His third picture, "The Great Caruso," has been doing such re- markable business that in men decided-while it was still playing in London-to bring it back to London cinemas again next month, No nim in years has been considered warth so rapid repeat.

In America, Lanza (born Alfredo Arnold Coc0120) hos bien considering his world-wide faine-and his weight

The flist

has caused

LANZA

2

him to BATTLES

talk sternly to his sludlo and object to the story of his next Bim. "Because You're The sc

Mine."

speon has caused the stu:lio

o talk sernly to Lanza and de- mand that he loss 40 lb.

I cabled Hollywood to find out The result. The studio has this

to say "A singer of his talens would hardly be considered nor- mal if he didn't blow his top oner in while.

10

After flexing his muscles at

11

TO BEAT THE SCALES

Tolchina sales!

"Caruso" brought him around phrases, but you last longer that £30,000. ills next picture will way."

up

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1951's THRILLS OF THRILLS!

ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S

Strangers

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PRO

WARNER BROA

Everyone Now FARLEY GRANGER RUTH ROMAN ROBERT WALKER

Takes It For Granted

Nowadays everybody takes the cinema for granted. It is dimeult to Polise that only fifty years ago, il "moving picture" was still something to be marvelled at. Who made it possible? A man numed William Friese-Greene, who invented the cine-camera,

To commemorate the Festival of Britain, the British Alm in- dustry has pooled its resources. and produced a film on the life of Friese-Greene,

the

The flim, entitled "The Magic Box," centres around the life of Inventor himself, rather than on the story of his inven- tion. And what n Jife! There

Wax

enough excitement variety in I The

was threo times bankrupt) to

Sallety the most exacting of

Almgoers, Friese-Greene was an accent-

increase that by another £15,000. YOU are a West End actor

Film min believe he is worth

and you have just marked rie. Everything about his life the studio, M Liza has retired it. In Britain "The Great Carue"

Your was extravagant, varied and un- your biggest success. chcered a lunder camp a Shady is still playing in 'some town perfarmanes is

every predictable. He had an extra- Grove, Oregon, to spend his day after seven and eight weeks, night, your name is above the ordinary personality and an wood - chopping, hiking. and Because of as success, audiences 1tle in star type...and then you artistic, rather than scientifle fishing. Interim repar

on his are sicking out the carter Lanza have to leave and take a smaller outloolt on things. He was charm- iz a musical which atars ing. brilliantly persuasive in

weigh down to 16 s. 4 still falling to 14 4 b.

The problems of his new flim story about tenor who conscripted into the

army and bag to undergo "drastle basic raining" are being smoothied

Cui, 130.

Land, who go 4.000000 rẻ- cards of "Be My Love." Ands that im fame is pushing up his salary beyond anything an opera company could pay

There Are No

'Beautiful But Dumb' Girls

Says BUSBY BERKELEY For many cons there has been prevalent a bit of oft- repeated udium to the effect that beautiful girls must, per se, he dumb.

Comes

How

Busby

films, "That Midnight Kiss" and phre

"Toast of New Orleans"

From his lumber camp Ja Oregon, Lanza says: "I'm at the best trim in my life. But I'm coking forward to excrcising my Veal cords again, and giving my nching musics a rest."

someone else.

conversation-and entirely un-

And he died, with a fine sente

Icast

take pic-

"

That is your problem if your practical, nante is Hartley Power. In "The Biggest Thief in Town" Power of the dramatie, of a meeting of pulled out all the stops as the the flim trade held in the Con- undertaker who goos body-naught Rooms, London, on May snatching to ge; business.

5, 1920. The Stocktaker Last week-end he left the play. Robert Danat plays the role

his name come Raw

down and of Friese-Greene and at MARGOT FONTEYN is re-

moved across the road to Drury sixty other British stars eord.ng her ballet fe-story. Lane which will be broadcast

to start rehearsing for small parts. Indeed, the in "South Pacific."

ture is as much an ndvc. Ameries. It takes her from a

When the bills go up for that ment for British acting snewlake in the chorus to her Mary Martin has the star place tribute to the man who | latest star ballet, Tiresias." and Wilbur Evans-American pictures possible. The cast

Where docs it go from there?

operetta singer-the lead opposite cludes such names до Dame 1 asked her before she let her. Power's name will appcar Sybil Thorndike, Peter Ustinov, for a hellday cruise around the in small type beneath the e and Michael Redgrave. Greek islands. In the intervals "And, of course, although the between recording she thought musical will Fun for about it. There are many breaks, everyone will talk about Mary years, because the Fonfeýn volce-ven Martin is her show." says and precise tires quickly. Power.

more strain than

Up to now I've funked

specches us short as I declare

this bazaar open.'" ")

get

not

-London Exprexa Service)

The

It is rather startling to sce theatre, our own one of the greatest men of the Sir Laurence Olivier, play the port of a City policeman, dragged in by the inventor to watch his first de- monstration moving plc-

of tures.

C C. A. Lejeune, fim critic, truly noted of this fm, "If it does nothing else, it does at least prove that the art of acting flourishes in England." (Lon- dion Express Service).

Stars Don't

Like To Be Tied

Το One Studio

Says JACK DAVIES

*of the reasons When I was under exclusive

By Command PREDICTION: 1።። Carol Margot Fonteyn said: “I stack- Reed's "Third Man" follow- take regularly. There is no point up. "Outcast of the Islands," for in continuing to dance unless November's Royal Film Per one maintains a standard--and fermance, improves. If I felt, after sicek- aking. I was staying on one level ter too long not getting higher- I would retire."

Because of her injured aft Berkeley to declare flatly their left foot more than their fret (ballet dancers always use that there is no such right) Margo, Fonteyn will not creature as a "beautiful but dance again unil Christmas. "And then I'll not be satisfied thumb" girl. Before pre-with

my performance unlil senting his arguments, February or March, It takes a however, let us, as attorneyslang time to

back to say in court, "qualify" the standard." Berkeley man as an expert will she turn to directing balle! K Fenleyn retires, what then?" on this subject.

er teaching? Busby Berkeley is known as Says Ronwyn: "I shall "the Ziegfeld of Hollywood." teach am not unselfish Since 1930 his name has been enough. When I stop dancing Fynonymous with motion picture everything will be over. Ther musicals. For two decades he will be nothing left. The

One ideai has been the creator and director way for a dancer to dle would why J. Arthur Rank was contract to one studio I get no of musical numbers on more be at the final curtain of ballstable to tell his shareholders choice of the roles I had to than 40 outstanding cinema pro-at the peak of her career."

play," Linda Darnell told me company had the other night. "I was sent discovering more screen beauties could hardly

like be

that turned the corner and made a script and told when to report. than any other personality in Ballerinas have

a' hable

of a profit is that it no longer to the studios to start filming the Dim colony.

hanging on fer a long time...... carries a long list of con- it. Berkeley's current chore con-

A Word Is Born

tract players. cerns the productien at RKO Radio of a lavish Technicolour A CHARACTER from rim In 1948 the Rank Orgain" Fox to make only one film a

sation had around 100 stars, Almusicnt,

-{is way into -a Broadway."

stars, and guide As singing and sober dictionary

near 10

character approval. And I can make as daneing pupils he has such stars | the American language. The players and starlets under many pictures for other studios is Tony Martin. Janet Leigh, latest edition of Modern Ameri-contract. Since then the list as I

I like Ann Miller, Gloria DeHaven, can Usage lists the word "beive-

Linda had the choice of ap has been cut mercilessly. Barbara Lawrence, Eddie denetho man who knows

bearing in a dozen different Bracken, Bob Crosby and 12 everything-created in dims by Today only 16 artists alms, including one with Clark

Chitton, Webb.

(including Alec Guinness, Gable, before she decided A belvedere," according to Margaret Lockwood VITAL INGREDIENT

and come to Britain and star, in this "Agiri can't be beautiful and choleric, acidulous old man, given

dafinilion, is "A waspish. Jack Warner) are on the "Saturday Island." be dumb," says Berkeley, "be to extolling his own achieve payroll. And most of them the best story," thereby proving She chose le "because it hid cause intelligence is a vital ingrements at the expense of less are paid by the picture and herself intelligent as well dient of true beauty. That's gied individuals."

not weekly. particularly

beautiful alone in cutting down their con- The Rank studios are not

HANDICAP PLAYER Playing opposite Miss Darnell tract Ists to a minimum. In In "Saturday Island" Is Donald The movie camera, explains

Hollywood more and more atars Gray, an ex-member of the Berkeley, in kind to hip lines. FORGET those Ted Ray are becoming free-lance play- BBC tepertory Company, who, bust curves and features which

belleve, will make programme catch phrases: ers or are tying themselves to a Inck something in the way of "He's lervely, Mrs Hoskins..studio for only one picture a presence felt in the film world symmetrical perfection. It will Or, "What, young Dr Hard-year,

despite the handicap of having pars a tip-lilted nose, or a too castle.... When the Nay show, Look, for instance, at the cast lost his left arm during the war. wide mouth, without a demerit Ray of Sunshine," returns in lists of some of the current films Like other Umblcis ex-Service But it stands for no tooling November the characters and on show in

men such as Douglas Bader, from the eye

their catch-lines will be rested.

In "No Highw

none of the Donald does not allow his losa correct decision. It was stars, Marlene Dietrich, James to affect "an uncanny knack of looking Tommy Handley's method for Stewart, or Glynis Johns, is He drive

a car, is a good Into the eyes, and pccurately keeping a show fresh. Ray-under contract to Twentieth tennis player (well, he beats the Intelligence and filing Tommy's old Thursday Century-Fox, who made the me, anyway), and, says Linito,

they

reflect. It a night spot-follows the old mas-picture.

fine actor, an opinion which ako extremely bensitive to ter's rules.

The same company's "People is evidently shared by their vitality, magnetism and per- He remembers what other Will Tolk" has only one con- producer, Donald Hosc. For Mr sonality qualities which are comedians so often forget: "Leave traet player, Jeanne Crain, in a Rose intends to star Donald Cisential to beauty, and which them wanting...they may say lead role.

in one picture a year for the find their primary expression What a pity the programme Most successful actors prefer next seven years-d decision

Man't the same libput those to have, no studio fjes,

which I. entirely approve, alley

ductions. He is credited with A pause smile-hen: "that their

"Two Tickets

hand-picked, beautiful showgirls.

to

has found

true, in pictures. Wobb, who takes "belvedere" The lame brain or the bird wit very personally, objects to one can't

'make the grade with the word only in that list: old.

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the man argues,

ONE-FILM CONTRACT "Now I am under contract to

I have story and director

year,

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