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KINGS MAJIS

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THE STORY OF

WILL ROGERS

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ROGERS JR

AMD JANE

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1962.

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

MARDA FALLS THROUGH THE FLOOR TRAP OF THE MYSTERIOUS PHONE BOOTH***

THE STOREKEEPER HURRIEDLY CLOSES THE TRAP---

-NARDA-- HELLO-- NARDA--

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

HOW LONG . | I DON'T KNOW, I'LL

| MISS_NARDA L

SOPPOSED TO

BE IN BOOTH?

GIVE HER ANOTHER MINUTE=-TREND'E GOIN.

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"YOUNG MAN

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ACING competition from an antique car (48 years old) and an outaize dog, a new hopeful British screen romantic couple started filming near Pinewood recently.

The man: Kenneth More from Terence Rattigan's play, "The Deep Blue Sea." The girl; Kay Kendall, with a new, rare, Rank contract in her pocket. The film: "Genevieve," which (typical- ly, since this is British) is not the name of the girl but

of the car.

The idea, though, laiso simple It could provide the plot for a French picture. Kenneth More kas two pasions in life-old cars and prolly women, His success has mostly been Con Bined to the former. Until Kay Kendall boomes his passenger

in the annual Old Crocic”· Ince fo, Brighton,

For the picture and the pair to be a success, you will have to want the boy to want the girl to want the boy at the end. There's the snug.

SOME DANGER

Other British romantic icom attempts have failed because, po often that final embrace is just 'a waste of a close-up. No one cares if they live happily to- gether or not.

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Robert Ottaway's Show News

Is The Public Always Right?

London.

Most filma are made on the assumption that there's one born every minute.

They are manufactured for a corn-fed public. The same old faces (given dif- ferent names), the same old plots, the same old heavenly choirs these have done duty for decades.

And I think the public is tired of being treated 03 kiddies in long pants. Rita Hayworth and Jane Russell are not enough,

This belief is shared by J. P. Le Harivel, who has just written a little book called "Focus on Films," full of chatty good sense.

PUBLIC RIDDLE Published by Thrift Books at is, d., it's as cheap as cheapest seat at the local Odeon.

There's

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for

They were thought to be too approach was "arty"; or their too subtle.

CHOOSIER Mr Lo Harivel thinks the choosier public is now getting and more thoughtful. One sign a happy ending.

Is that they are not, so keen on

"Detective

Story" had Kirk Douglas stone cold in the last shol. In "The Third Man" boy by-passed at the end. But you loved them all the same.

Now I think the public is scared of many aims it would otherwise enjoy. An off-putting title, two-syllable dialogue, plot that takes it for granted we got beyond the first grade school-these may at primary

film that is no less en- make tertaining because it is adult.

At lot of people are like the "David young lady who saw Copperfield and then got the book out of the library. When she'd read it, she said: "Well, I

BO accounting public taste. That's the first lesson. They loved Ivor Novello's films

West in the

End; they were chilly towards them in the provinces.

George Formby WDR 6 WOW up and down the country, but. a flop in the West End.-

But there are a few pointers. Religious films are popular when the religion Is sincere. Pseudo-religious films, need lew crashin temples and to make them underfed llons go.

Thus "Samson and Delilah"

success; "David a

und was Bathshoba" was not.

For five years after the end of the war, you stayed away

didn't think Dickens was be good as that. He's in the same class as Daphne du Mourier."

NOTED AT RANDOM Disney ham't given up his cartcons, The next will be a drawn-and-quartered version of "Hiawatha," . George Sanders will croon opposite Ethel Mer- man in the film version of "Call Mo Madam"

Sir he mys Laurence Olivier first suggested a should sing for the movies. So now we know whom to blamo

Judy Garland's come-back anisical re-make Alm will be

of "A Star is Born." It was a come back alm for Janet Consider the couples: Pat

Gaynor, too, in the thirties, But Roc and Anthony Steel. There from fighting films. 1000 saw Janet went right away again.... was no quickening of my pulse the turn of the tide. when Most improbable Item of the

"The Wooden week.. Nigel Patrick

Jane Russell hopes to and "Odette" and for them. Valerie Hobson? Not after their Horse" hit the jackpot.

But you're allergle to psy- chilly chatter in "Meet Me To-

chiatry-in fact, you distrust it. night." Even the old regulara Even a very good fim. "Mino Wilding and Neagle aro now Own Executioner," failed to oceans apart.

mako the grade.

Another excellent Alm, "Act The Kendall-Mare combina- of Murder" (with Firedric “tion” makes" me ̈enthusiastic in Murch), kept you home

advance,

nights; it dealt with mercy- killing.

of Case Take the curious HE, the gay, casual optimist,

the Kane,"

Orson for HER "Citizen the right man

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la

tion.

"But we know the dangers," says Kay Kendall. "Our playing his to be light and must froth along. You can't be obvious or heavy-fooled in a love story of this kind."

"We know the dangers," saye producer Henry ("Passport to Pimlico") Cornellus. "Open

air romantic scenes must make the audience want the man to give up his car for the girl. Otherwise it could just be bore."

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of the most adventurous films ever made; it was also Welles's! best. But it was a flop.

"Odd Yet, six years later, Man Out" was a triumph-and it used a speedy, technique of cutting, just es daring a that of the earlier film.

TOO EARLY

The trouble was that "Kano" was ahead of its time; Welles pioneered: And you don't care for planeers. Or do you?

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Anything with a laugh in it safe at the box-om.command. anything with a "this'll make you whistle" tune "Spring in Park Lane" and "Anale Get Kendall-Your Just in case the

Gun"

un" were the box-office More couple do not bring the winners of 1943 and 1980. queues, there is another team in But first-class flma like "The the picture to help out-Dinah Fallen Idol," "Kind Hearts and Sheridan and John Gregson. But | Coronets," "Soven Days of they play husband and wife. And | Noon" did not make the first that is never so exelling-- ten of the box-office in the year (London Express. Service.)

they were realised,

Gevaert

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Clifton Wobb on Hollywood; "It's not a bit exaggerated, this yes-man business you've heard about. In fact, Lcall it the Land of Nod."

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