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starring

MICHELE MORGAN - HENRI VIDAL, MICHEL BIMON Screenplay & Directed by Alessandro Blasetti

English Language Adaptation by Marc Connelly & Fred Presburger Breed on the novel "Fabiola" by Nicholas WiseMAA

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1951.

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

I TOLD YOU THE LADY WHO WAS IN THIS

BOOTH LEFT--WITH AMAN.

DON'T PANG U2 PLEASE SEE IF THEY'R STILL IN SIGHT--BU DON'T CALL THEM!

THERE THEY GO--LOOK KINDA *COZY,TOO, SHE'S AWFUL PRETTY, --NOVONDER THE FELLA ON THE PHONE SOUNDS SO WORKED UP

DAVID LEWIN'S Spotlight

YEP-THEY'RE JUST WALKING DOWN THE STREET

ARM IN ARM. NOW IF YOU DON'T MINO--

By Leo Falk and Phil Davia

SWAMI HYPNOTIZED BER! THEY ILDE, GONE BEFORE I CAN GET WAIT LET THERE. AND THAT ME THINK- DRUGGIST'D BE NO MATCH FOR SWAMI WHAT'LL I DO?

WELL--?

CONTINUED

TWO EVES GO STAR CHASING

You'd never know it from

the news.、、

but X

still stands...

...for A KISS

FILM

ILM showmen will have a special preview at a Piccadilly Circus cinema of one of Hollywood's top three pictures of the year,"

The film is Place in the Fun The stars.

Montgomery Clift. Shelley Winters, Elzabeth Taylor. The showmen will de- eide whether they should book it and when.

through a love affair with wealthy society girl.

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at-

To realise his dream be tempts to murder another gir. in the factory when she tells him she is having a child. His path between the two women

the electric chair leads to after he has been convicted for a murder he wanted-but fail- ed-to commit.

There are signs of a strug be rau tell them something Ale for screen supremacy

tween two of Hollywood's most boosted young women: Shelley Winters and Elizabeth Taylor.

ni-out "Place in the Sun" advance It is a sizzler.

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There is a kissing sequence JĮ close-up between Mont- pomery Clift

and TYHO

which will memories of the old Gllbert days.

Who comes out the better Winters Elizabeth Well, Mass

has the evoke drama,

But Miss Taylor gets

And Garbo. That Kiss.

kisses are often remembered longest.....

The Hollywood censor has clamped down a time limit on Six- fm kiss since then. teen seconds is the longest per- matted now. The latest super- charged sample needs Jevonus to make its impact. The average screen kiss is a more five seconds).

No Party

IT WAS LINDA DAR- NELL'S birthday on Octo- 132 ba 16. She is 31. She

a

bad

no party. Instead, she was in a London nursing home with an allack of jaundice.

It is not only that kiss that makes "Place in the Sun"

At the end of her British provocative, stand-out picture.

picture, "Saturday Island," she had a bad cold. "And I play Itte with the current Holly-

a nurse, too," she sald word vogue of looking back- word for plots, it goes

At the nursing home she is to the known by her married name, Twenties to a Theodore Dreiser Mrs Marley. 416.1 "An American Tragedy,"

le story. Its story is of a ndured boy who works in a factory and tries to hoist him- self into the Cadillac belt

The other two: "People Will Talk," "Streetcar Named Desire." My view, anyway.

They Talk...

ON THE screen the Peter * Lawford technique is something of a cross between a young Cary Grant (his model) and lazy Douglas Fairbanks.

This is the final stage of the four-picture, 138-second kiss from Montgomery Clift, . . . It could make Elizabeth Taylor a star.

London Express Service

Kipling Would Have Been Amused

Says SUE DAWSON

Shades of "Soldiers of graduated to the Army and is taxed beyond lengths per- the Queen, my lads", and grew bored, is easy enough, missible in a film, and amusing Stewart Granger in a most But although he is as much at hough it is to see part of the

as he ease in this part $10.00 yd. unusual role. They only acting B. G. Bruno, the mil- knicks-one is not quite hapX was regiment parading in frilly say "suggested" by tales lionaire in "Happy Go Lovely," about their source. As is, it is

debutante antural Niven enjoyed himself the

worth and there was more of the sacriace.

tein Pindenny is a character books'

$ 6,00 yd.

?

from Rudyard Kipling. you feel that there the more not an auspicious debut, nor is

amused.

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$ 7.00 yd. which is as well. Kipling,

think, would have been natural Niven to enjoy. Cap- A little

strategy planned by Colonel Grost The Naughty Ninetier-Boer but restricted.

who is sout And now, what seems to be (Frank Allenby) War era, but in India. And the

technical hitch. Much in with his 28th Dragoons to join Rullandshire Infantry

Brunswick, over bristles

made in the trailer and adver-

whom he is celebrities Walter Pidgeon is Colonel Brunswick, lisements of the "glamorous Senior Officer. The tricky situa

Gynt, only

ilon which arises is intensifed Norwegian, Greta David Niven hig devoted feminine principal in the all because Ackroyd has becu

made adjutant, Captain Pindenny, and

cast, who mile

makes sergeant to split that trio

do which the coldiers three themselves--

the aim her' dobut in

make nothing but or the "Queen's hard targnin",

trouble. "Crenshaw." the did Colonel privately

Brunswick is ordered to send This is puzzling, for as the film

of big bost men to to them-areas. dl was shown in le preview, one death refers

the lugulshed

trap of British was not Introduced to this ex Amatra, and when his pala 20, Fort which de Tommies, as could be found, quisite creature at all-a huge Ackroyd deserts to join them Robert Newton is Private chunks of the pleure had been and becomes 鼈 hero in the pro Jock Bykes, Cyril Cusack is cut, Perhaps that was merely

Finally Ackroyd Private Dennis Malloy. a temporary offer, and all is now

demoted to a private Stewart

#gain;

30 Granger la Private

vate well, allough the malagement all ends happily. But one gets Archibald Ackroyd

appeared to know nothing about the susplofon that something ingenious, debonair leader of the cu at the time

else has been cut. the three, and as Cockney as If it is the same, she fa

sudden Unless

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British-born Peter Lawfurd, whose father is a general, brings back to Britain the style thut Hollywood has moulded. He displays it this week in the im he is making here. "Hour of 13."

а sure

When he was a boy Lawford went to Hollywood for hla health. He stayed on to work in a car park, and as a cinema attendant. Now he has the lightness of touch that makes tim

thing for ** Juvenile lead"-maybe with ng or dance thrown in.

The trouble

is," says 28- year-old Lawford. "I want something more substantial, and ail the time people expect me to behave in the same slight way that my parts call for on the screen.

I

"Everyone talks because have been out with Ava Gard- Or Lana Turner back in America. But when I phoned other girls--and failed--no one mentions that at 1."

Quick Work

"KOBDA'S quickie" is the studio name for the Aim which Sir Alexander Korda is to direct himself when he gets back from his Greek island holiday cruise.

The film is "Home at Seven" ---drama of a man who loses his memory for 24 hours-with Ralph Richardson and Margaret Leighton, Korda will shoot if in three weeks, just to show what can be done. It will be the fastest British first feature in around 15 years.

Korda said he was giving up directing four years ago, after be made "An Ideal Husband." That took 11 weeks to shoot.

'Top Charmer'

COMPETITION was severe to show Elizabeth Taylor around London when she filming here.

Was

There were two ready

and willing guides. One: Tab Hunter, an unknown American actor playing opposite Linda Darnell in her picture over here. Two; Michael Weding, who met Miss Taylor when she was in London a couple ot years ago.

Mr Hunter presented himself

Michael

on his off days at the studio tu take tea with Elizabeth Taylor. So did Michael Wilding.

In the end it was Wilding "Top charmer in ai- most any

town"

according to Marlene Dietrich-who got the job of guide. He took Elizabeth Taylor to society bal's and West End clubs. Tab Hunter, who could hardly know Lon- don as well as Wilding, left far behind in the running.

was

Both men saw Miss Taylor off at the airport during the week-end. There was a good- bye kiss for Tab Hunter, But Michael Wilding scored three.

Even in his film "Saturday Teland," Tab loses Linda Dar- nell to a British actor.

-(London Express Service)

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