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MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

By Lee Falk and Phil Davin

WRITE DOWN THIS NUMBER.

LOTHAR,IS MANDRAKE THERE

NO, MISS NARDA.HIM

6-3-1-3-5. I'LL WAIT IN

LOTHAR I'M IN A PHONE BOOTH-HAVE HIM CALL MES AND TELL HIM T STOP LOOKING! I'VE FOUND THE MAN --WITH THE LOVING-CUP EARS!

OUT, STILL SEARCHING

HIM CALL EVERY

THIS BOOTH. AS SOON AS MANDRAKE CALLS YOU--

| LITTLE WHILE.

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They Are Making The Pirate Picture

To End All Pirate Pictures SHE SAYS 'NO'

A

Says JACK DAVIES

ISCHIA, Italy,

When the time comes to film SK any cinema manager the scene, chief pirate Lancaster what sort of films make and his assistant, Nick Cravat, will board the frail-looking the most money and nine platform around the base of the out of ten will say: "Give balloon. me one about cowboys {}} pirates."

in

of

Then, with the festivities full swing and hundreds extras milling around, Mt Lan- caster's pirates attack.

FUNICULE, FUNICULA (R)

Out here on the island of Ischiu off Naples, Burt Lancaster's Norma Produc- THE sides of the granary fall Loncas- tion is making the pirate apart and Messrs.

ter and Cravat

their make picture to end all pirate pic-scape by the balloon which will fly (or so it will appear) across the harbour.

cost.

SUS-

tures.

Entitled "The Crimson Pirate," photographed in

In point of fact, however, the Technicolour and starring Mr balloon does not fly at all. Two Lancaster, it is being made ap-keleton: steel towers 80 ft. high parently regardless of time and have been built about 200 yards

balloon, apart, and the £250,000 'DOUBLE'

pended on a cable hung be- RIGINALLY

them, the unit was tween

make Will scheduled to be shooting on flight funicular fashion.

cight or around the island for

Even so, it will be a peris weeks.

It looks as though the lous journey and one I would be not care to make myself-even schedule will have to doubled. When Onished will for Mr Lancaster's salary.

TRI-LINGUAL

ORIGI

at ser

its

have cast, 1 should say, over HE problems of filming on half a million pounds.

THE location and

on This week, weather permit-

Perite board the pirate ship, a three ting (it is raining as I

France, are They will flm

big masted galleon, the final Ferne of the

should story. It make an unusual spectacle.

In the harbour of Ponte an 18th-century fair- ground has been built round a

1scbia

many

(about Is. 1d.) in the world, hoping to land a job grapes.

picking

Instead he has been given a small speaking part in the plc- ture as a soldier at £10 a day, and has acquitted himself like a young Olivier, whom he re sembles in appearance.

"With the money I've earn- ed," he told me, "I shall

Acting ble to get to India." still has no charms for him.

NO BATTLE SCAB

be

JKE everyone else on the unit, Burt Lancaster "works as a horse," as one Italian put it.

Shooting begins theoretically a1 6

finishes when the down.

am..

is

The girl Hollywood grooming to be a new Jean Harlow rebelliously declines the honour, She is 23-year- old Marilyn Monroe, dubbed in American magazines Miss Cheesecake of 1951.

Do you remember her in All

sun goes

When this is finished he will make a film in Hollywood and About Eve-the dumb blonde at then produce and probably ap-

the party? Miss Monroe in a "Trio"-like pear

by you to forge: all about her parly based oh short stortes

plece. James Thurber, Ring Lardner and Scott Fitzgerald,

Alm

For those who like to keep

по

wonis

"I'm blonde, but naither dumb

insists. dizzy," she

A

So

and

a note of sartorial accomplish-serious actress, that's me."

nents of fim stars, Lancaster

Why must these young ac- wears off set a fewn wind-

take themselves tresses cheater, blue shorts and piim- seriously? There is tame solls. The other day he was also fortune in being a dizzy blonde wearing a large piece of stick of the Jean Harlow kind. ing plaster on his right calf.

"Battle scar from the Alm?” I asked.

For a start it is necessary to have tri-lingual assistant direc- "No," he replied. "Picked up lors. Robert Siodmak, director a ringworm on the beach."

Pirate," is of "The Crimson lucky in this respect. His as-

Many "serious" actresses are out of work-in Hollywood as well as in England.

40 ft. high granary in which is sistants, Gus Agents and Piero Harold Conway On

concealed a balloon built on the style of that invented by the Montgolfiers.

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Musetta, can repeat his instruc- tions in French to the gal- leon's crew, Itallan to the extras, und English to the east and technicians,

Another member of the unit who is kept well occupied the costume designer and supervisor, Margaret Forse,

is

Daily she must supervise the transportation of well over a hundred costumes from

shore

to galleon, a journey that in-. volves the use of a car and twa Launches.

Miss Purse still has a

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Charley's Aunt

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far

HERE'S Charley?

Charley and

"This is farce, remember, Let's

his not get all historical,

away look in her eye when she "aunt"in the person of

recalls how, after a

battle

attle Broadway's Ray

Key Agure on the Elstree set is a woman, watchfully knitting,

Bolger who will not be credited at all

scene aboard the France, durare at present luxuriating the screen. She is Gwen

ing which almost every

mem-

ber of the crow was thrown amid £400,000 of splendour Bolger, the comedian's wife, whe overboard, she spent the rest at Elatree.

of the day in a rowing boat picking up hats, wigs, props and other items of 18th-century gents' wear that were floating

eo-produced the criginal Broad- way show.

Scarcely # Ilne The lady from Braz is

or action undergoing & Technicolour sequence concerning Mr Bolger facial, I doubt whether her was committed to the camera, the out into the Mediterranean, best friends will recognise day I was there, withou: a con- sultation between the director her by the time this most and Mrs Bolger. MOST of the cast of "The famous of English farces "If Ray is Charley's Aunt,

Crimson Pirate," including arrives on the screen,

Mos

Noel Purcell, James Hayter, Eva Bartok, Lestio Bradley and Ellet Makeham, all of whom are still here, were re- crufted in London.

then I am Charley's guardian angel," she told me in purpose- sea ful tones.

Mr Bolger, at 47 a soned undergraduate, is act- FOR COMMAND SHOW? ing faithful to the old con- MY tip for this year's Ameri- But for many

of the local vention in his fashion; but can-star-special at the Royal Italians, who are so poor they

Performance: Patricia would regard a church mouse a million dollars' worth of Variety

Morison, now over 200 perfor-

as a rich relation, the chance trimmings make a pretty mances old in Kiss Me Kate,

of

a blege as extras has been, formidable disguise,

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Thirty-year-old Owen Kiralfy,

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The curtain is down at

the

fed up with city life, decided asking "Where's Charley?" for gence.

a long time to come. For a re- the Coliseum by 10 p.m-so she last June-to work his

time to arisch should have

Join markable situation has round the world. He set

cver this costly production. royal proceedings a

Palace well before the end.

Largely, however, I expect British talent to come into its

from London with £5 in his pocket and much determination in his heart.

INTO COLD STORAGE

"CALL ME MISTER”

at the Victoria BROADWAY: To-montw. Morning Show Ar 12,30 km.

Since then he has shone TOLLYWOOD'S Warner own at the 1951 Royal Variety shoes in Paris, worked as a IL Brother's sent over Mr Bol- show. Jack Hylton has a large. lorry loader in Zurich and onger, Canadian-born dancer Allyn part in arranging the programme "My Blue Heaven" Bower farm in Dijon. He Mcherie and an American direc- and he is actually a believer in

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they don't know when, the Bolsh-

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ANNIE 'SHOOTS TO KILL

e word of LONDON has apparently said a

They must wait on the word of long farewell to Miss Mori- Jevan Brandon Thomasson of son's fellow-American "predeces- the man who wrote Charity's sor at Coliseum-Dolores Gray. Aunt. For he holds at opilan to The Annie-Gel-Your-Gun gel produce over here the Broadway has just made her first star ap- musical on which the film is pearance in her own country. based.

Tavle with comedian Bert Lehr.. The option is good for and her And Broadway is belatedly mak year. During that time, Mr ing its own discovery about Brandon-Prongs Fier too right Dolores over to hold up any showing of the Bome of the critics had picture in this country the beard of her before. Who is this

they are de and he is insistent that it wil

3rd, 5th, 6th & 7th stage show goes on in London Blonde bombshell?

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