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THATS TS MY DAUGHTER MUSTA SOLD THE LOAF WITH THE DIAMONDS-- SHE DIDN'T KNOW NOTHIN

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JANE WYMAN IN THE ROLE WHICH WON HER THE ACADEMY AWARD

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The Betrayal!

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Two actresses moka a

holiday deal in deference.

www

to a principle

THE

IMPORTANCE

by

Harold

OF BEING

Conway MOTHER

DEGGY ASHCROFT maintains her strict rule:

"Home" means husband, Jeremy Hutchinson, bar- rister, and two children-11-year-old Eliza, and six-year-old Nicholas.

Celin Johnson, who is Miss Ashcroft's friend, rules her life

much the

NRMO way. SHOW

Family comes

first:

hus-TALK

band Peter

Fleming, two

young daughters

and

а

13-year-old son, also named

Nicholas,

in

Now the two stars-both the West End's top six-have donc a deal.

Miss

Ashcroft,

months in

Ave London's biggest

hit, Tho

after

Blue Sea, wants

Deep a ve-week

straight-play

hollday.

The management still want a top star-so that holiday-time does not become slump-time.

Accordingly,

Miss that

has agreed

Johnson the two holidays should be staggered this year -and she will take over in the Rattigan play next

month. These actresses are sufficiently for allke in dramatic stature

familles summer

AND

FILMS

THE PRETTIEST VISITOR WON'T OVER-EAT ... EVEN FOR MR. GABLE "ENGLAND'S prettiest visitor." Mr Ernest Bevin called her

and it was not just diplomatie courtesy. Paula Valen- most attractive asset to British ska, from Prague, looked a Alms.

But that was some time ago. It is two years since Miss Valenska's last pletore-Three Men and a Girl-was finished: no public showing has yet been fixed.

"Such a pretty face; but perhaps you have grown a weeny blt on the plump side, dear?" Faula's best friends hinted sweet- bint; last week returned from a visit to ly. She could take her surgeon-husband in Bagdad, tipping the scales at 8st- which is 2st down on a year ago.

Then Miss Valenska learned that she has lost a part with Clark Gable In his first British picture-unless she can put on 2st. In a fortnight. They wanted her to be a Russian peasant girl who rescues Gable from the sca; a case for brawn as well as beauty.

"What two weeks' solld eating?" protests Miss V. "The top's not worth it not even Mr Gable.*

Kare's whox-offices year in, year £4,000 a week terms become Casino

stars out?

дог

New Zealand Film On Korean War

Filmgoers all over Bri- tain will be seeing during the next few weeks at their local picture-theatres an in- teresting documentary on the war in Korea produced by the enterprising New Zealand National Film Unit. Arrangements have also been made for its showing by two large American television circuits.

Filmed in the late summer and autumn of last year, "THIS

IS KOREA," directed by Michael Hardwick and photo-

Beattie, graphed by Randal tells of the impact of war on that green land of great hills and fertile valleys which has

so often proved both a bridge and a battleground for warring neighbours, and on its

proud

and ancient nation of Ashermen and farmers.

Once again the melancholy

ired and queues of

panic- stream stricken refugees

to- wards the south; once-modern Seoul is turned into wreckage and

the rubble;

fatallalle Koreans try to reorganise their simple lives in ruins and caves, or in trail huts re-crected fm- mediately behind tho aring lines; and the tragedy of in- children E nocent, Hmbless starkly exposed.

the exchange to be painless to be assessed by the width-of. Teady strippe the Nudes whil who, commanded by Lt-Col

Tho-noble- prospect.

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heract has been approved by the Parnell would welcome Money alone has been standing Lord Chamberlain.

But what about the Nudes - between them.

those discrectly unclad Junos Ever since Danny

the Windmill End

The everyday life of the known, other American

either strip

Commonwealth troops, particu- merely pose al-larly the gunners of the 10th have been afraid their future tease;

So West End New Zealand Ficid Regiment market value on Broadway: will

Producers hope the Kaye salary count as Art--and escape ban- Moodie, have given such mag- between gap the public and Mr Rattigan.

nincent and their own. make

ning.

support to the United Celia Johnson should

There have been compromises Anyway, whose business is it Nations Infantry they fired a Nations of a million rounds in the most distinguished "stand- in" of recent

in Peggy years,

many cases. But they have to ban what? The Lord Cham- quarter of n

and the arst year of hostilities 3 Ashcroft, of course, is prepared to be top secret compromises; berlain deals with plays to do the same for her friend Broadway managers must neve: also scrutinises dialogue scripts well illustrated, and one of the

know.

film's

is the if asked.

the American stars hope. What keep watch on the visual part recording of a u hope......

of varicly. But some strip- bined action by Australian in- teasers-talk, too. I suggest the Inntry, South- African fighter- 15 years on. HAVE just sech a picture appointment of a Royal Com-pilots flying Mustangs and the which has saddened and mission to investigate the posi- N.Z. artillery in an attack on

course, B Communist hill position. once forgotten girl of Venus angered me; West End cinema- tion--with sessions, of Observed. She gets what

in public.

Dinner for two become an actress's accolade This is a re-issue of Hotel Du the romantle lead at this year's Nord, the last film AnnabellaHEN Charles Chaplin comes

most enchanting of a French W

this autumn, Edinburgh Festival.

to London The production:

Christopher screen stars-made before go he will probably bring with him Hassall's verse-play about Per- kin Warbeck. The role: a Scot-ing to Hollywood 15 years ago, his fourth wifeDona, daughter

Her performance was fine of playwright Eugene O'Neill.

today. then; it still seems so

In preparation, Mrs. Chaplin British for cooked a dinner

John producers

and Roy their recent Boulting during Hollywood visit. Menu: roast

Yorkshire beef and "Just like mother's

cooking."

At least, that is what in revues and variety: the LCC meet acquccessful com-

On the way up again:

Stannard, the I Heather

has

foors

tish noblewoman.

TV-why worry?

stage -

that thriller called

the

Latest TV play to be snap- London ped up for the

psychological Night of Fourth. Lee Ephraim is bring- from ing actor Paul Lukas Hollywood to star in .

Do you remember Lukis Hungarian-born, suave, enigma- tic? He has not been on the screen recently, but that is 'be- the cause he was busy being Broadway leading man of Call Me Madam. This is one case where a Hollywood actor is not taking a

a London

part only be cause he is out

why were theatrical job. gers ever afraid of TV? It is fast becoming their happlest humiing-ground for new plays. Viewers seem quite ready to have a second look at a good plece.

ning.

Departure....

sco it soon.

ANNABELLA

... Fronth without loers.

they report.

They

tell

The Boultings were the first outside Chaplin's studio peopie to be given a private showing, In its rough version, of his new

Limelight. picture, me the film runs for nearly two hours: that Charlie ap-

the pears on

sercen without make-up for the first time in a considerable part of the story.

In their old-style miming Chaplin and

Comic highlight,

011

opinion: scene between

But it is for its stray shots of bewildered, unhappy huraani- ty, of devastation and desola- tion that the film will be chief- ly remembered, particularly the Jost striking picture ឆ Korean peasant crouching in cornfield and looking appre- hensively up at planes dying overhead. Even the corn seems to flinch as the swift shadow fashes across the of death screen.

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Too young DRITAIN'S newest film pro- digy-Mandy Miller, eight -did not Bitend the West

of has End premiere

first ber The disgrace is that sho

m picture. never seemed one in a On the way home soon:

she is far too young yet to America's Julle Wilson, made since.

Annabella was 24 when the go to the pictures even her She began in London two years big money of Hollywood tempt own mys Mandy's father, BBC tgo with a cabaret flop; blossomed

What has she done producer and square-dance in- into a top-rank stor of musical ed her.

winding up since? Divorced her third hus structer David Miller. Mandy's

Canadian-born ma!

mother agrees. comedy is now

pald with cabaret again, three mes band, Tyrone Power;

In other words, this child- London with her the artist she was at the begin- visit to

grown-up daughter; been trans- whose remarkabie pretence

dest and struggling

Au We train our attractive young formed into a screen nonentity being deaf and

dience visitors well, don't we? Miss by a series of bad roles in poor speech had the premiere

not being in tears-is

all, Wilson thinks so; she hopes Alms.

Annabella should come home treated as a "prodigy" at 11h she is now ready for Broad-

She had lessons right through it Sh way, with a West End pollsh. and speak French again;

the making of the flim, returns may not be too late.

to her Pinner school after the A stitch in timo

to ban holidays and will not be a

lowed to see her own screch thea- On the way back to Lon THAT LCC decision

-strip-tease arts in

performance for a year or so.. don: America's Dolores trea

for which

control from they

No big studio 'contract Gray. She brought UB

talent January

will place show Mantly; no more

until 24. 8. I'LL SEE YOU IN MY fima

DREAMS.. and personality on her

Arst producers in a quandary.

she has got on with her feasons "defined

That visit: in return, wẹ gave

the, M. Yellow sky for a few terms, For nobody has yet the reputation and a passport exactly what constitutes strip sensible, way to bring up child #T, A. C. Meet the Invisible

tcasing. Gypsy Rose Les, who stars-in-the-bud-it stops them❘n, W. Twee ɑrows to Brooklyn Now I expect to sca dr has been appearing in a Lon-

en-] 8, 2. Gentleman's Agreement for.. Dicycle ThieveR. Annie Get Your Gun girl top- don variely, hall recently, wi Eetting precocious; it also

10, E. UP. In Arma plug the bill at the Palladium, presumably quality for metro. Bures a longer acting te probably next month. Misa pollton banning next year **** (World Copyright Reserved-London | | Gray wants to go there; Mir though the spoken part of her Express Service.

....and arrivat

to Broadway success.

her

them.

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