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MANDRAKE The magician

THE PROBLEM IS, WHO SHALLWEUSE NEXT AS A MODEL FOR OUR PLASTIC MASKS NONE OF THESE IS RIGHT."

THEY MADE MASKS LIKE EFFACE AND PUT MAY FINGERPRINTS ON GLOVES! SO I'D GET THE BLAME FOR ALL THEIR J005 --

THEY (SAN TOETAWAY WITH THAT, I'LL SHOW THEM? WHAT THE OUCH MY HEAD!

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says: Skip The Nose

and get down to the kind of character he really is

ON HIS KNEES

Strange sight in

Paris- American director John Huston stumbling around on his knoes surrounded

short by overy French jockey he could find.

Reason? To examine the possibilities of film actor Jose Ferrer playing the role of dwart painter Toulouse-Lautrec in his forthcoming Moulin Rouge, en- tirely on his knees, with, dwar! doubles for the long shots,

Verdict by phone from Paris: "It can work. I'm almost cer- tain that's how it will be done."

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MARJORIE LITTLE

... Eight years now

T

415 is Jimmy Durante

a

HE EATS corn- flakes five times day. It is his staple diet for "energy." HE GAVE UP a glass of Scotch at night because it did not blend well with his evening meal of cereal.

HE SMOKES 15 cigars 0 day and keeps a pair of scis sors in his packet to cut the fraying elzar end from time to time 10 Casure

**clean smoke.

.

HE SINGS "Jimmy the Well- Dressed Mon," but alas...."I -wear a new rult and the next

day it is old," he says...

HE HAS

volco that rusty, and, the CAN ROES, ол gramophone recorda sounds just as good with used needles,

Travelling with him to Lon- don when I met him was the DURANTE DOZEN: the people who will also appear In his London Palladium stage net; He works 18 hours a

DURANTE *

Audianos warmth--the secrei.

to

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ON THE SCREEN NOW!

The Record Holder at New York's Radio City Music Hall! The National Box Office Champion of January!

•See it and sing!!:

Day Thomas

WARNER BROS FERGRAY/

I'll See s 55+ You In My Dreams

day FRANK LOVEJOY PATRICE WYMORE

as well as their rojatives and gets to bed around four or five frlends. and MARJORIE in the morning, which explaing LITTLE. whom he calls In off

off why he is bored in Hollywood

A to-bed-at-ten town," moments "my franceur,"

Miss Little, tall:

Durante prefers to get up at attractive, Ird-hatziki

has known, Jimmy noon. Then a a massage in bed; his Durante (tho final "a" is sound cycling exercises ed) for ten of her 22 years.

lega in trim ("For in "For eight years

we've been legs are as important as pops. going together," she said.

I have a cueling machine at A RING? YES

the theatre"), then breakfast. "Three years ago, on Christ-

200 SONGS For 30 years brought ma

he had mas Day, to ring.

Does this mean we're "raw" eggs, then a doctor told engaged?" I asked. "But Jim him to give them up. So he my hasn't asked me to marry is on prune julce. tea, and him yet. Maybe later. I hope bu

burs now. Fius, of course,

Бо

Jimmy doesn't

0

much

two

corcal.

Then work; rehearsals, script

time for soft spam. When conferences, and time out

I told him in the ehip the moon was

and he shining should come up on deck, all he aald was: 'And freeze?"

be

"Still, It's wonderful just to

around with Jimmy." There

always are

poople "Just around" with 50-year-old Jimmy Durante. He hates to be lonely. favourite Occu-

"My pation is making friends and Influencing money," he says.

18-HOUR DAY

to

compose the odd new song, He has written most of his 200

and so! special songs,

up music-publishing business sell them.

te

WRITTEN BY

MELVILLE SHAVELDOHAND-JACK ROSE MICHAEL CURTIZ

JAMES

GLEASON

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YVONNE DE CARLO

SAHARA”

But not even

a cockroach HOTEL comes Into the offices. The boys use

the place to study racing form. I think we did sell one copy

The Lost Chord some months ago,"

The simple explanation of why the Durante song business does not flourish is that only Durante imitators buy

When I sing a song I roo-in it songs, for their own work, for anybody else. It is the kiss of debt."

the

The Durante Dozen is not unique in show business. Ab- bott and Costello had a party of 17 with them. The Band of Hope (Bob) was 15-strong-

Durante plunges into his day

What is the appeal of Jim- with

the vigour of a Channel swimmer. Ho snatches him 40 years in show business,

Cross

Pas my Duranto which has kept couple of hours sleep

most of the time at the top? lunch-time before tackling He says: "Warmth. more cereal and apple ple. He the tricks of speech or any- It Isn't is the only man I know who thing like that, but because I eats the crust and leaves the really work to get the audience apple.

The rest of the time he was

with me organising his troupe, tackling overnight and be admired, But

You can

have a Success the Customs, asking about to get audience

warmth--and JIMMY EDWARDS ("I hear love-you have to be in the he is great").

business for years and years.'

Durante's attacks on words as they are spelled in the dic tionary come naturally.

HIS WOIDS

The Female Of The Movie

Species Is Deadlier Than Cagney And Others

enthusiasm

Ain't

Picturesquely, Jimmy Duran to phrases it: phoneying them wolds. I never got to the top form in school, and I don't spell so good olther.

talking

"But the day I start the Queen'@ English-back I goes to the piano

I asked Durante what keeps him going. He thought for a moment; then

Work. As long as my voice

sold

simply: and my legs hold out I'll to around, laughing it up."

By MELROSE GOWER

that "Hell The father told his young wild offspring: "My boy, never hath no fury like a woman

scorned." raise your hand against, a

In Metro's "Scaramouche," woman."

Stewart Granger calls on And so the lnd grew to Eleanor Parker in the mess tent manhood, kept his nose of a caravan of travelling play- clean and discovered, when bounces pots, pans, skillets and-

era. A jealous woman, Eleanor

in 20th

P.S. And forgive me for mentioning it-Mr Durante also has a fairly substantial nose. (London Express, Service);"

he became a picture star in a water bucket off his hapless comes home somewhat befuddled 1952, that Dad really know head.

by Brewater. Judy Holliday his broccoli. If he dared to Tyrone Power plays the title promptly proves she's his better raise even his voice, much role

Century-Fox's half by stretching him with a less his hand, against & im't diplomaile enougit in his Robinson couldn't emulate.me

"Diplomatic Courier." But he stiff ictt jab that

Sugar Ray woman, she promptly attitude toward Patricia Neat- knocked him galley-west,

And in "Tho · Happy · and so she lays him out by Linde Christian erganoously Which Is by way of introdures pasting him a neat rap behind thinks Lous Jourdan ing the fact that Hollywood the car with a telephone. That anoaked into her beardern and lovelies, while retaining all scene should have been in kissed her. What does the do? thair glamour, are getting tough "Sorry, Wrong Number," what? She sneaks to his bottroom er on the screen with of "What Prics Glory" Jimmy leewater over the sleeping inno- endr Also' in Fox's current veraton and dumps an entre pitcher of passing hour

Cagney with "Grapezult Jimmy Cagney for pushing that got his grapefruit into Mac Cleric's face.

They're getting even

Portrait of Jennie

借影淚痕

20 years ago in "Public Enemy", note in fat as

18, §. VALENTINO

17. Bài Song of Echoheraradh, 20. T. Rio Grande,

21. W. Darling, How Could You 21,The Man' of Eufel Tower.

| 23, X, Qur Very Own, 2)

24. The: Aforast "Stary.

finally: cent

has

has

comeuppance from the Universal - International

Corlane Calvet just finished "Scarlet Angel," a halibut in which Yvonne De Carlo, with Fredric March for booting with a wine bottle,

playing a New Orleans⠀⠀ dance Carole Lombard in "A Star is Rita Haywort, and Glerin hall queen, picks the pockets of Bord with Don Amocho for Ford are the stars of Columbia's, an honest aco, captain, Rock

Alice Faye En her

whammer” qelih a ple in his in Trindad."" Irked by Hudson. He catches up

Beautiful.

insinuation that he's › beon; her. Anally in Ban Holywood Cavalcada, pulta botating pound with another but a lot of god that does Brod Crawford dog slapping

Rith clops, Glenri silly. She smitts him dizzy on two Judy Holliday all over a sound thereby repaying lim for the decisions. As the -stage-in "Worn Yesterday," whamming (remember?) that its Against All Flare studio, Maureen In recent months eight major, he gave her six years ago in O'Hare beats the whe

whey out of filmd have been before, the “Glid van fam

Errol Finn. comitees, in each of which the In another Columbia ploture, Varium: et mutably semper heroine has demonstráted wil The Marrying

Ako Bay femina wrote whe old Virgil.

SHE DANCES! SHE SINGS! SHE MAKES LOVE! SHE PACKS 'EM'IN' WITH "HOTEL SAHARA”.

with

Potor USTINOV Sensational for his róla

of “NERO" in "QUO VADIS'I David TOMLINSON ● Roland CULVER Directed by Ken ANNAKIN

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