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AT 2.30, 5.15,

QUEENS ALHAMBRA 7.200 9.30

.P.M.

THE BRIDGE IS NOT STRONG--

★★★ A SEAT IN THE STALLS ★ ★★

Voted

Alec Guinness Britain's Top Is This Where

Film Star

Al

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By DAVID LEWIN

Gunness. 37

means

Vera British film side.

18:1: whe HYATT money l

the box usually does NOT get kisser of e than any other in pictures, is Britain's top artist'. That is the opinion

im star today. His

name

WHEN THE

MARTIANS

CAME

A high. Bhearthly wall that pierces the eardrum like

Bestain' film show me who run the cinemas.

E 1 The de rational

cohpeting with

Elly

Rita Hayworth

Came In?

**AND THE RIVER

IS FULL OF CROCODILES!

'Miss Most Inept' Shows 'em

By KEN SMITH

In between her youthful "romances," Elizabeth Tay- lor has fitted decoratively across our screens without Įraising more than a ripple.

Three years ago, Colum- Indeed, a bunch of Harvard students, perhaps o ia studios, after building University lavish sets for a new filmed her

itle inelegantly, last year dub- The most inept per- "Lola Hanson"-found that mer of our decade. their star had walked out

But they're going to on them. Rita Hayworth eat those harsh words, for in Thad set out on a jaunt half-Paramount's "A Place In The

way round the world

which comes

to London with Sun."

scon, Elizabeth Juras in

ofumination for an Oscar award.

have to

voodi's best Cummess who has Aly Khan which ended 111 performance which has won her

pfore approazend ji

he men's box offer paste is

1 pace

→ [marriage in the South InFrance.

!!! Sund JUN before Hymp

Naway

hulday. expected unything like 1 hardly ever get the girl

really

That rrally started something Columbia suspended her tract, and

Incidentally, Elizabeth's superb acting is matched by CO-SLAPS

Winters

Mont- con- Shuttey

and then thousands of gomery Clift who also get Oscar women's clubs throughout

nominations iny ms

country called fra boycott on character actor

her ms. "Maybe it's because I'm woj a mummantic lesi the usual

this

IN

style that I won'

I'm

LOVE INCIDENTAL

been Fagin in

Guinness--the disguises has "Oliver Twist.

the

Rita got back from her trip earlier this year, and Colum- bia relented, welcomed her Not so the powerful women's clubs, how- which can have a great influence on the box-office.

ever

THE now Terence Rattigan play, "The Deep Blue Sea. will probably have simultaneous openings in London and New York

Starving here will be Peggy Ashcroft. while On Broadway Bette Davis is angling for the role.

a shower a tnecessarily Jong whol of the Krem Galaxies winking in Outer

It is the first time a star wh with open arms quick Space, a

sequence is not a "romantic hero" has

came out on top. showing Defence Headqunn

man with many ters all over the world fling

So Columbia waited Now into panic by the approach eight characters (including a the glamorous Rita has started

FRANKIE SINATRA and of an incandescent object woman) in "Kind Hearts and Olming in an as yet

Ava Gardner plan to make untitled known around the hair partnership work in more flying at 4,000 m.p.h.and nets," and bank clerk in picture,

"Lavender Hill Mob."

studios simply as "The

than just the love-match sense. Hay- The Day The Earth Stood

His nearest approach to Mmworth Story

They're Still is off to a flying start.romance was a love scene with

negotiating for Columbia think the picture Broadway musical in which they Joan Greenwood in "Man in the will reap a handsome profit be will star, AND they want to put Nindly two minutes later, White Suk." In his latest Alm. cause it is a romantic drama it on first in London. passes the winning post as the "The Card," he does get the much in the mood of "Gilda," best and most exhilarating piece girl--Petula Clark-in the end. the biggest moneyspinner of science-fiction that has been "But it isn't the main plot," say company have had in years, in the

WHEN Herbert Wilcox ar *

Anna Neagle other

return Almed during 1951 or any

from Guinness.

which Rita was teamed with America. they will start history- Jean the screen's

He started work in an adver- Glenn Ford and which was liminary work which barring 1926.

on the Tech- Larg's tising agency, lost his job, lived directed by Vincent Sherman, nicolour film that

version of "The in a Baker-street attic with jam The new film will have the Beggar's Opera," sandwiches for lunch, became same team. !! would be child's play

Two people normally conner- an understudy in the theatre, 11. becausT

Only fly in the ointment nake fun of

ated with the thr re will have whole fantastic story is nothing went to the Old Vic, and was that Virginia

Van Upp,

who their first film assignment-Pet hailed as a star

when he came, scripted "Gilda," walked Sut child's play anyway.

out Brook, as director and Chris rently because What? Michal Rennie a Mar-out of the Navy in 1946.

could pher Fry writing the Scrre- establishes not see eye tian? Landing alongside the

to eyn, with her play. sole's over White House in a Flying Soup

the script of the Expert John Gielgu to star new picture Plate? Accompanied by a Robot

with an American female lead. called Gort who can melt tanks with one flash of his white-hot [eyes?

For

"M.tropolis."

saw

Fritz

the

10 the

don't care, I lapped it all up with a credully I have not en- joyed since, at the age of nine, I ran half a mile to the paper shop for news of Falcon Bwift's third attempt to wrest the serred.

from aktion perpetual hunchback called Migzomar.

PERILOUS MOMENT

of

3

was

which The poll him as a top money-taker Conducted among British cinema- Owners by the American Alm

Motion Picture trade magazine Herald.

defy any normally con- stituted adult not Lo behave ternational list

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A LONDON FILM PRESENTED BY ALEXANDER KORDA & DAVID O. SELZNICK

jenniter JONES

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★TO-MORROW ★

"DUEL IN THE SUN”

likewise.

Around The British Film Studios

A

010-

Thriller For Marta Toren

ANNA-1, BETTE~2 The top woman star is Anna Neagle. In the international Bette Davis section she beats and Betty Hutton.

After Alec Guinness and Anna Neagle, among British artists, the showmen vote for Jean Simmons, Michael Wilding, and Trevor Howard. Top of the in- are Bob Hope, James Stewart, John Wayne, and The.c 1 grant you, cue Albett and Costelle. perilous

The film which took most when belief

at British cinemas in wavers, as Mr Rennie steps from money his Space Ship and addresses the 1951 was "The Great Caruso," Washington Populace in impec- with Mario Lanza.

The most

"New Garbo" successful British film was the cable English.

But this is almost instantly Aksar Sim comedy "Laughter they pin on explained by his statement that in Paradise." It is followed by young Swedish actress with the Martians have been moni-Worm's Eye View," with Ronald

since Shiner, and the hospital drama a melting turing our they were first inaugurated by "White Corridors, with Googic smorgasbord accent.

Wi hers.-London Express Ser- Marconi.

moment

radio services

By ROY NASH

is a label every fresh

glance and a

Just now it is being applied to Anita Bjork, the NEW YORK'S CHOICE "A Streetcar

Named Desire" sensitive young woman with chosen by the New York the looks of a Nordic god

late,

Thereafter, even the most cynical grown-up must capitu- Į

believe everything (cven

v.ce.

the

bit where Patricia Neal was

the

best

actress of

Julie."

18

Now we are to see If a Bri- tish studio can raake better use producer Raymond Stross of her talent. Next February bringing her over to star with Claude Rains in # Georges who Watched The Trains Simenon thriller "The Man Go By."

I look forward to her visit being

for Miss Toren besides

an

helps Gort to revive Mr Renade's film critics as the best Alm dess who gives such a strike an actress of great though as corpse on an electronic

of 1951, and Vivien Leigh-Its ing performance in the film yet unfulfilled promise is sota), gather as many children as he star-as

Strindberg'sM88 individualist, "Why cannot one can lay his hands on and whisk Assocated Press.

be an

being actress without them all off to Marble Arch for

sexy?" she asked soon after thumping good, planetary

her arrival in Hollywood. holiday-real.

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Colour By Taskalonlar

Produsel and Directed

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OKEILA KAM

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Does it help or hindert remember asking this question” of one of Miss & Blo Garbo predeceso haired Marta

For Pamela penting dyes and

voice

Pamela Brown is a distin». stand why Humpirey guished stage actress whose ("Birocco) and James Khron ability is seldom matched by her parts in Alms.

13

"her the screen.

No ordinary newcomer,

her

surely. would have stuck pretty neck out by posing such a question in a community where sex appeal is frequently regarded as a synonym for bus

Her British tim debut will be in a role as sultry as any she has had in Americs-a girl

in love with her, dares one of

Last time we saw her on the When 1 spoks to her about screen was in "The Tales of this new Garbo business she who, tired of having men fai Hoffmann" in which cuts made was visiting London after them (Mr Rains) to kill har. her appearance ยธ the boy finishing her first American Nicklaus

puzzling

left.. many movie and had not long flmgoers

Stockholm dramatie Bchool There were plenty of enig. where Ingrid Bergman, Mali

Terence Morgan, who won matic glances and no one can Zetterling, Signe Hasso and Rank contract for his nexfar- 1:ok more intriguingly enigma- Viveen Lindfors--all "new Gar-mance in "Encore," will star

sigolficance of the character. Learned to act. wpy never någnertelvide

tic than Miss Blown-but the bos" in their early days also with, Phyllis Calvert in "Man-

dy at Ealing. HARD TO LIVE DE TO : Their roles: a husband and a great compliment to wife trying to save their more be compared

to.77

Now Mias Brown is

that

again with give more scope for her dis-said, "but mandagi sozlageysk

Jive Not

has

role

finetly feminine charm Peula Tanqueray in a fim of Pinero's

of the pictures" sho The Second Mics Tanqueray,ould not have made al

fande in Hollywood ince then rehearsing thoroughly before they face the caster.

qast

Colvert long ago

had thought of

the lold me after the studios will not. mypings, retiring.

than ten years in filma. any

Tot hor "Mandy" is second danern, producer Roger Frous They have how Mos pictufe in six monthe witch lock hopes to have the Pingro Toren's beauty do proat advan- mesne that in these loan deyə play "off due foor" at River- toge, but they hats not givin in Brithen studio" Miss Calvert alde in a fortülght-

her much chance to set;

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