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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1952.

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

By Lea Falk and Phil Davis

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THE DIAMONDS# "SHADOUR DO LIKE WHY ALL THIS

THE BOSS SAYS,

IMOR YOU,

LAKE« WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO?

FLL PROVE THAT LOTHAR, TAKE US TO DIAMONDS WERE THE BAKERY WHERE IN THAT BREAD, YOU BOUGHT THE NOT GRAVEL. BREAD.

ML WILL.

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| SNAP IT UP! WE GOT A HALF-HOUR TO CHANGE THIS BAKERY INTO A DRY GOODS STORE!

AV, 805S, WE GOT

Cert X Simone

The girl they hardly noticed comas back to the West End with a flourish...

A

London.

POTENTIAL world- beater in screen personali ties established herself in London last week-Simone Signoret, who was an office girl in Paris at the start of the war. Her success brings a lesson for British film

makers.

Cinema

# hore

have seen this SHOW

actress before

of course -

notably in ono,TALK

episode of In

'Ronde. But

now

sho

figures as the

star of two

picture #

pening

simultaneous

by Harold

CONWAY

ly in the West End. I saw both the same day; and the cumula Live, hour-by-hour effect the Signoret personality formidable.

of

was

In both stories she plays a lough-bred, ill-treated courtesan the in both she emerges as screen's most provocative em- bodiment of sex-appeal to date,

of the "extra" class, and open

val

0 £500,000 Anglo-French

to encouragement. She might so attempt the most ambitious yet well have suppiled some of the to beat Walt Disney at his own feminine spice and excitement gamid. missing from oven our pictures.

best

cartoon

For the past four years Andre 'Barrut (Paris) and Dimitri do Instead, she went home, to Grunwald (Lendon) have been seize the acting chances denied her here. Now, inevitably the preparing, a 70-minute big Hollywood offers will come in colour called Mr Wonderbird rolling in. I hope Yves Allerret, based on Jacques Prevert's Simonda director-husband will story The Shepherdess And The

"Chimneysweep. help her to resist the offers.

This tawny-haired charmer should do her world-beating from the Paristan home-front. studios, on their past showings, Neither Hollywood nor British

deserve her.

TIME AND MISS SIDNEY

Do you remember Sylvia Sidney of the large, sadly expressive eyes-whom Holly wood was claiming, back in the nineteen-thirties, as the sub- cessor to Janri Gaynor?

Simone Signoret as the courtesan of the ostly 1900's in Golden Maria,

Work has been divided bu tween four studios in England.

being recorded in seven langu and France, the dialogue is

ages. Among those speaking the English version are Peler

ment would Ustinov as Wonderbird, Clairs

ho is one of the finest actors on Bloom as the Shepherdess (sho either side of the Atlantic. But has Anouk for her French he prefers the roles of impre counterpart, Denholm Elliott sario, and producer this time. "I havo, carned a rest from Beting.'

and Aleo Clunca,

The men behind this

venture

bo

gill-edged,

[World Copyright Reserved,-London

Sixteen years ago she came to have gained their cartoon ex- Express Service) England to make alim for Alfred Perience by making advertising

sk, callot Sabotage, her shorts. In Venice their half- co-star was John Loderand million pound production

he had for "stand-in" an un- competing known Michael Kennie.

young

is

against live-action main named films from all over the world.

If they win a prize, the Disney empire may suffer a much need-

the

having it entirely his own way cartoons-and with full-length has become a little too com-

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In the new Hollywood ver- ed elt. So far Mr D has been sion of Los Miserables Rennie Ast the star. he is on

for almost two hours screen non-stop. In the same film you can sco Sylvia Sidney too, her placent in the process Competi- in the Beef Rocher or chia, Child? namo is among the supporting tion is healthy even for a minor cast, the role-occupying three genius, bricf acces o haggard con sumptive mother.

Here is a star who threatens to make the Bla Hayworth Shelley Winters efforts at X-

Time, as I remarked last Mile Saturday, can allure look silly; for

be rather cruel: Simoret has an important addi- and it has passed too quickly for tional quality-she can act Miss Sidney. She never succeed

ed in displacing Janet Gaynor: But now for the lesson-and from her silent-screen poderiat the rub. Four years ago. Simone film Signoret came to make a

The in London, entitled Against Wind. Did the Ealing Studios producers spot a star of inter- national appeal in their midst? If so, they gave no sign. It was a good little flm, but the French guest's performance made scarcely a ripple on the surface.

. AND TALENT, TOO Notice pinned outside Holly wood producer Joe Faster nak's office; It is not enough to Hungarian, you must have

talent too.

Gabor-sister

PRISONERS AGAIN

British

camp

in

A good play about a

prisonera-of-war Germany-Albert, R.N. has fust petered out after a short rur. The all-male cast lacked the necessary box-office seine.

One man is not dismayed- American Alm-and-stage actor Jose Ferrer. For months Mr Ferrar has been walking and. acting painfully on his knees us. the diminutive painter Toulouse- Lautrec in a new British picture, Moulin Rouge. He intends in vesting part of his salary for this ordeal in a West End stage production of Stalag 17-a play д German camp for about American prisoners-of-war,

The vente che pare to Life......an the reuman who give it level

SOGUT, CALM I Voordat glemme

JANE WYMAN

VAL THE

LUE VEIL

窗紗紅浪

Quoted to me by Hungarian Magda

of the decorative and talkative Z-Zso Was any more percipient, at Shepperton Studies recent during a morning in her com- 1y. Magda in the non-aging pany at the studio? Not in the of the Gabor Sisters. She was lenat: the newcomer struck me content with marrying a million- as agreeable-but just a trifle sire. dull. So--with appropriate

"Perhaps that explains the chagrin. I must now accept meaning and sisterly grin she

gave Zsa-Zaa as she quoted.

23, T. Bugles in the Afternoon CHALLENGE TO DISNEY

26, F. Hunchback of Notre Dame If Mr Ferrer headed the cast, 8. Belles on Their. Toes Cockily competing for first prize at the Venice Festk- himself I should say his invest-

some blame too.

For what

opportunity British Alms and British columnists-missed here! Simone Signoret was then not long out

"I refuse to be frightened off," says Ferrer. "Our own play has been running successfully for long time in New York-and London audiences aro no intelligent than American oues."

27, M. People Will Talk, :21, 8. MY FAVOURITE – SPY.

3, T. Bright Victory

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A Tribute To Britain's

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moving

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Hour

what

מם

they this trend for

follow in understatement)

and Jack Hawkins, the stern but human "Tiger" in command, is simply excellent.

It is one of the happy at- "Pimpernel" Squadron does is a do not so badly (to tributes of the British triumph, studios that they can, and should have done. Far from it. They are natural and realistic; often do, make a film both they make mistakes, exceptional and

Many of the past are ex-RAF. Michael Denison, Humphrey while quite omitting Both and one can feel the comradeship Lestocg, Dulcio Gray

and overstatement and senti- which apparantly grew in the Veronica Hurst (another new- mentality. "Angels One real manner of war-time crews, comer to watch) are only some was 'shooting of those who do so well. And Five" is probably the finest when this team

down at Kenley

old of course, there is the author. film to have been made Hurricane base in south-east Wing Commander A. J..C. about the war in the air, and England. They are happy-go- Pelham-Groom. this is said with both the lucky and serious in a way that

elaborate is exclusively the RAF's rather more "First of the Few" and "The Way to the Stars" in mind.

To make this picture of pilote, realistle ground crews, the 'ops. room masterpiece in

it was, a bit of a memorial to our nation's finest understatement, it is none the and so on, less moving for this and the lack problem to and the real "stars" hour should be made and shown of sentimental go. After all, the the Hurricane, aircraft them in this, her colony, in Battle of

Britain week. selves. England possenses only finest moments of the war were two which are airworthy, so some hot fught

with molodrama, re- had to be borrowed

from the dundant words and excesses of

Government and, a' emotion. They were glorious for Portuguese

not do few non-flying mock ones put their simplicity; one did

together! things with the idea of being. heroic, but because those things had to be done it an enemy of Infinitely superior forces was to be kept away from one's home.

That many people and their actions became heroic in the course of filling this necessity made them no less so for their being without fuss-In fact most often unknown. -

These are the sort of moments that the Associated British team theis ex-Air Forco officer produsers John · Gdango, and Derek Twist have put on the screen. Not that everything the

'A PROBLEM

Newcomer John Gregson, n young foot, builds a strong foundation to his film career as Pilot Officer Baird, a dour yet sensitive, over-loon, text-book recruit, who "puts up on awful black" right at the beginning. and has to live it down as well as the unfortunate sobriquet

Septle", which his inillats "T.B.) acquire for him. He makes an- ather good-intontioned blunder later on, and so by these ox-||| perlences learns wisdom,

front

Tom Gregson la a runker in the salary of young Brilish stars. VHis comrades too

The ending to this picture is not a happy one, but the only ono possible. It certainly shows, what "The Few" were really like, and it is fitting that such a

SUE DAWSON

Paula

HAD ONLY BEEN HALE WAY TO LOVE- UNTIL

YOUNG PAULA

ANA WAIS-KENT BAITH.

ALEXANDER KO

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