THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1951.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
KING'S MAJESTIC
Air Conditioned
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| WHY BRING HER NERE, SWAMI? YOU CAN'T KEEP HER STANDING LIKE A DUMMY, HYPNOTIZED.
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I'M ALL
FOR
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imm--I CAN'T LET HER NO, SWAMIJ DESCRIBE ME TO MANDRAKE-- AND WE 1
KILLING'S NOT IN YOUR LINE?
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QUEENS ALHAMBRA
WHAT
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JACK
DAVIES Visits
ITALY'S
one
The Whoto Blazing
Story
of the
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CONTINUED-
STEVE COCHRAN VIRGINIA GREY
STAR MAKER
"Jf {
with An
No
in Italy rates I am not," he says,
"Yes," said Barry FitzGerald, Those days are over now," she "0.'m making an Interesting 11 Me says, "I'm in love with Italy."** higher in the world of enter. emphase the pigh of he po
Aura here?. It's called Top of And, might add. is because I am a Christian. tainment than Vittorio de
the Class' and it's about a priest That is a tally different thing Sica. For, besides being one iniy 15. of Italy's top Iwo directors (the other is Rossellini), he is also one of the country's best-known actors.
SOME FILLUM!
J
1
Italian.
who inherits a forum. No, oi don't speak Eyctalian. They'll dut in a new vorce for me Fyetulan persion.
the
•
ORPHAN STAR
The star of "Never Take No for an Answer," a British fibn made The small, clin-like priest was Along with Mr FitzGerald
Italy. 9-year-old bay. jus about The last persun the Altma
are a number of
of Irish
Vittorio Mamus:a He has prab- exp.cled to see at an Italian fan actors, ancluding his b:c her.
ably had a mere eventful life than He looks it. He has a sardo, Bu thene he was, looking A: hu: Shields and Una O'Cen-
xac ely as he did in "Going My us. The kading lady
is Leis most bears five nies his age. His hair fine, strong fuce.
Way* with pipe mouth, Maxwell, who s few weeles agu
in
He was orphaned at four, at the temples. hands in is greying
pockets, striding up was making "The Woman's ta her being killed during the war He uses his hands to empha- and dowr outside Stage 2 at Angle" at Elsbe, and once was and has mothe shot during sise every point of his con- the Cinecitta Studios.
u leading lady n Bollywood trem battle. Rigor mortis had set versation. Like Rossellini
before Victorio was fed from her atory.
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His office in Rome is both tastefic and luxurious.. Which is as it should be. For de Sica carts £25,000
or more a film.
His most recently shown pro- ruction. "Miracie L Milan," а story which hovers between reality and
been table, has
acclaimed as one of the most unusual films eve
evi made.
it,
Some odd thin
things happen in certainly
FOT
instance,
There is a young negro who loves a white gir! But he
ROY NASH Round The British Film Studios)
Merle Oberon Has
One Ambition
with Merle Oberon, taking 24 ove
扫 young gambler
hours off from "Twenty- played by Richard Todd, poses
never dares to tell her of his Four Hours Of A Woman's the intriguing question whether
love because at the colour of Lis skin. Then, a miracle oc-
curs
Everyone can wish what they
wishes
come
want and their true. Immediately. the negro wishes himself white and rushes to declare his love to the girl. But she has make a wish, too,
snow black.
St
LIFE OF FATHER
Recently de Sica has pleted
lure,
another unusual
Umberto
because the
com-
-M
D'-unusual
leading characters
are an old man
girl of 17.
of 68 and a
As always de Sica has un- knowns playing those e un p
To play the title role, that of a retired civil servant who finds on his to live it impossible absurdly meagre pension (de Sica has based thus character un bis own father's experi- ruces) he engaged a Professor of ancient languages whom he found
the University +1 Florence.
at
The professor, his name is Batisti, promptly resigned from the faculty and has now em- barked on a belated career as on actor.
says
Life"
woman
to
love in twenty - four
it is possible for a at Elstree, leaned tall in back in the car which was hours. taking her on a round of visits to friends and thought about her future.
She has beauty, fame, lovely thes, a home in the Holly-
wond run. many distinguished
Binks behind her.
"But are there." I asked, "any
Yvonne Scatchard
still you
Both he and the girl, an un- known nomed Maria Casiglia,
thelr director, "give ambitions magnificent interpretations,' Sosalisty?" Italy now has two more pros- Jective stars.
as
NOT FORGOTTEN
De Sica's
next Alm will be an actor.
play He will the leading role in a comedy, "Good Morning, Elephant."
Miss Oberon's answer: "Yes, though it has never happened to me."
his
For the n.x; year and a hall he was the problem child of an rphanage wild, villaincus, argu- mentative and almost uningnage- ahic
a her Then along with two Italian children, he was adopted by the American-born Countess f Berkeley, H was at her Italian home that Anthony Havelock- Alan and Mrs Paui Gulbeo (he wife of the author of the film) As saw him
I am told he gives a romarkable Scorer perrmance in the fim,
or later, 1 expect, he will be vis- ng Brien. For Lady Berkeley the chatelaine of Berkeley Cack, the oldest inhabited home n: England.
NOTED AT RANDOM
N.ne ou of every en of these "wonderful Dalan m ayors" have the dialogue spoken for GLAMOROUS OXONIAN
them by less photogenic types. Newcomer who ᎥᎦ earning
A Naples cinema adver- verbal bouquets
from producer icing a film presented by "J. Ivan
director Arthur Crǝnk. Foxwell
Only Bri- Victor Saville for her work ish Abn un view in Rome is "Twenty-Four Hours" 22- L'Incredible Adventurn di Mr
is
Holland""Lavender Hill Mob" year-old Yvonne Scatchara.
to you.
Only British play in the town is The Cocktail Party."
Brought up In France, daughter of British
the parents. Miss Scatchard has one distinc- tion rate among aspiring, young film actresses. She is an Oxford with honours, casily the Bachelor of
BA
• most glamorous Arts I have met
She was spotted for films at a students' show of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art where she studied after leaving Oxford, and this is her first picture.
Nobody was more surprised than she when they told her she had won the part--us French girl who runs off with Fi commercial traveller. "I jumped about so much in the test I looked as though I had St Vitus dance," she told me.
to have
Rippling black hair and A thoughtful look came into sparkling sea-blue eyes
make her slanting eyes. "Yes," she the top half of her face resem- aid. "To make one more really ble that of Constance Smith, the wonderful film and then say Irish beauty Hollywood snapped:
Hours" up after she had a small part in
The Mudlark."
"That's enough.'"'
"Twenty-Four
Will
that picture? "Can't tell until I've finished it," she said.
"Very difficult making a fim with an elephant," he said, add- ing that he hoped the Elephant Boy himself, Sabu, would be available to play an Indian Inim the picture.
ANOTHER CONTRACT
Paid
this compliment over
colour
There's a stereoscopic film system being developed in Milan which they say will re- volutionise flm making. Sylvano Mangano, the "Bitter Rice" girl.
expecting a baby Biggest box-offier draw throughout Italy a comedian Domed Toto. He's quite un-
cisewhere.
Advice known
to tourists: When in Rome don'! do as the Americans do --it's 100 expensive.
THE GARRISON
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ONE WILD OAT
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AT 8.30 P.M.
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·
NOV.
smiled her thanks and added. In any case, she has a
con- "But the bottom half looks like tract for another Hollywood Bob Hope."
remark AT ST. GEORGE'S HALL this autumn so it is too It doesn't, but Ston for her 10 think about shows Miss Scatchard to have
BOOK NOW AT retirement.
a sense of humour, She'll need it in the film business.
Because of de Sica's pre- occupation with poverty-all the above-mentioned Alms are "Twenty-Four, Hours" appeals concerned with penurious char-to her because it has a romantic | acters he has often been ac-background-Monte Carlo-and cused of being a Communist. | the part she plays, a spinster Is he?
in her late thirties who falls in
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