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DANNY KAYE

KNOCK ON WOOD /

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My sense of the fitness of things would have been better served if I had been

By JANE ROBERTS

than cingeni: coempanies is them-

môre thitha Vadho štrenilöis of the truth.

There's a mécond, or so of nble to say that to coincide was breathtaking and the three

rileneq as the two get'in and The picture is advertingi, un with this week-end'a cele star pchfornued woll,

Ami Blyth's rithe toothy Danny looked at the array of being a sequet to "The Bitching bration of the Moon Festival beauty has never seemed to Indicators. Then as he caulle ""The Rebe", showing Demetrius the HOOVER was going to justify the pretty pretty roles ously touches a switch hare, acquisition of faith and the later

One. Thuind, Thong. Ông vào v

let us kee "The Moon lat right as Roso Made. When 7 a button there, every- Bim the trial of the mith

Blue".

4

, ffis, of the Publiciją. Dépertinent, not

she had in the past but

seems to happe we, first see Hit the * a ball. Wild —the root opens and French Canadian orphan wear- hơn brays, the It's bot very far away, me Daniel Boone has tind are you don however, as it's going to be mo

At the risk of being thought most uragiatmorous leather laughter as I did, you'd better

cynical I would shown at the end of next jerkin.

say that his stick

Chekhov to

BECAUSÛ Then later when she's lived nothing will ever amuse you. Messalipa was due, not to- the the... arma of downfall inte week. I haven't seen it yet

with the Mounties and become something that will be almost one of them comes the More subfle is his limitation of loss of Christian faith, but to rectifled before next week's transformation,

the undoubted attraction of this as Lady Jane an Englishing on the plane higisbotn Indy of tiny Virtue, film news is published and (Marjorie Man of all people) taking him front America I'll have more to say about shows lier how to dress and act London where he's to ate a P57- attributable not to the · per- :

it then.

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The HOOVER'S present "Sabaka" programme about, which I told you last wesit and in the two-day in terval before "The Moon Is Blue" you'll be able to see the British picture "Woman With No Name".

chiatrist.

To

and that his restoration

suasiveness of Peter the Fisher- man but to his waning feelings for Claudius' wife and the more if less: blatantly. comforting seductive charms of his former girl friend Latein.

like a young woman,

She sparkles no both the tom-

I've never seen anything so boy and, the demure young lady ord easy to imagine the delightfully underplayed without rather humourless sergeant missing the mark. An American an Englishman is (Howard Keel) and the gay imitating light-hearted trapper (Fernando usually painful to the latter Lamas) falling for tier, one see no painful as the reverse mund

The spectacular, skio of the ing her sweetness and the other be to an American, but by the her wildness.

merest Buzestion of an accepit story was of course played up at the most perfect imintor no dim of ancient Rome would hundrede bé complete witlidut Englishman of the way

'Preobrian Guards, milling shatis himself into d

chuly, of somehow bringing his shoulders courtiers. And Susan Hayward's crowds and gorgeously gowned forwund You comfav the caricature about it, it just is comint between the gladiators breed. There's not & whisper of many beautiful dresses were a delight to the eye. Armed on Englishman.

to justify the title of the flim was naturally very much evidence also.

I won't tell you which one of the two she chooses in the end -but I heartily concurred.

CLEVER FOOLING Very rarely do we ree a film here that is worthy of superlatives, but Danny Kaye's "Knock On Word" is in a class

The CAPITOL Lnd LIBERTY are getting not for a long run of "Rose Marie" yet another ver- sion of the old faithful, with Ann Blyth in the title role. of its own.

I'm not one of those people The KING'S. PRINCESS who breathe this comedian's and EMPIRE look like hav- name in awed worship or link ing an equally successful he's a genius with an Americari money spinner In Danny accent, so I thought very care

fully before mentally awarding Kaye's "Knock On Wood".

bim full marks for tasteful, clever fooling.

The circus, in Cinemn-

For this is why "KNOCK ON WarnerColour WOOD" 2171d Scope

15 par excellence. comes to the QUEEN'S and There In't a moment in it ALHAMBRA in "Ring Of when the discomfort of know Fear and introduces to using that a piece of bad taste is the detective story writer, about to be perpetrated makes itself felt. It rates that badly Mickey Spillane.

gerworked and mistreated, ex- Following the two out. pression "good clean fun”,

Danny Kaye, or rather his door documentaries, "Anna-

producer or perhaps his script purna" und "Prowlers Of writer (his wife, Byliva Fine) The Everglades" at the LEE, knows exactly when a situation in the western, "Silver hes reached a ellmax and it's Lode", and after that will wirely left there, None of this milking each scene dry for film come a French

"Par every possible laught that can Ordre Du Tear" (English te squeezed from it. title is "Stronger Than Love").

And finally, the last of the new first runs is "Demetrius And The Gladiators" in CinemaScope at the ROXY and BROADWAY.

So many delightful littlo in cidenta come to mind from this very long film.

The way I

in

Of the sộting, I would say that Rennie's Peter was which

Danny Michael Kayo tumes the tabits on the dignifled, quietly spoken and psychiatrist who han boch authoritative, while Jay Robin- cure son's Caligula was overplayed called in to analyse and

intent probably and him of the complexes ho's with supposed to have, by psycho-

irritating.

Suman Hayward was sultry, analysing her instead.

acheming and Susan Hayward,

Mature Victor

played while Demetrius like a sulky, pampered schoolboy which I suppose ha

I couldn't help ilkening Ernest Borgnine (recently here "Johnny Guitar") showing the new gladiators found the school, to pictures we've had of a top sergeant performing the same duties for new entrants into the US Army.

The gentleness with which he extracts the story of her love for the man who was killed in the

War.

The faint background of hatp music as he bemusedly trails his hand along the railings after leaving her.

The hilarious scene in a Lon- don pub when, still trying to elude the police, he joins in the singing at an Irish party.

I didn't find the skylarking in the ballet scene quite as funny ng It was obviously Intended to be and as most people who've seen the film in U.K. appear to think.

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He tells them of his 62 nights in the ring, he elaborated on the good treatment they'll receive if over they behave, he laments the waste of training when one of the gladiators has to be killed punishment for trying to

calle Possibly it's because coupe-he take my ballot seriously-but it "reecroots". certainly demonstrated Dahny Kayo's capabilities as a dancer.

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Possibly the funntest sequence of the whole thing is the one in which Danny is posing as a car salesman

At any moment I expected (a very puikas English one) in order to escape

the familiar specch, "All right, the attentions of a whole gang

and. mengo in there of London policemen,

An absolute gem of a dim this, FIGHT. for Uncle Caligula There's

nittle low red sports not to be missed at any cost,

I wanna be proud of val car parked outside the

Forgive me if I've treated SPILLANE HIMSELF very elegant showroom and a rather

“Demetrius And The Gladia- "Woman WICH No

"Ring of Fear"" has as its top for a little lightly enjoyed ROXY & BROADWAY: 5 Shows To-morrow gentleman Name" large

with mort

picks stare two people shows us Richard Burton in a money than Intelligence

from very the spectacle, the fighting, the mall role, before he became on Dantry demonstrate it, different walks of life who play silakiness of Messalina enor

The newest of new

it themselves. models,

They are Clyde mously after all, it didn't set. the famous, much-sought-after person he is today.

possesses every gadget imagin- Blatty, the world famous wild out to be Hamlet, able, each one operated by A animal trainer. and Micker The big names of the picture different knob. As you

cars Spillane,

Dro

to

Phyllis Calvert

the visualise, the dashboard 03

looks woman in question and Edward like the instrument panel of the Underdown (the stiff English- Comet, man of "Beat The Devil") us her husband. Richard Burton is also her husband, but in a dif- ferent sort of way from Under- down.

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Her trouble is that affer air raid she has

mental blackout, marries Burton, play- ing a Norwegian in the RAF and then finds that her pasi begins to catch up with her.

A STORY TOO

"Rose Marie" must have been

Kirk Douglas

Likes To Live

His Role

Some notors may be able

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Wire Tapping Frowned Upon

In Films

This Spillante, gentleman who frankly admits that he's the best writer in the world, is the creator of the Mike Haminer storles, Spillane's success story is an amazing one. From the publication of his first novel “E The Jury" his books have sold more than sixty million copies und have been translated into "eleven languages.” I'm sorry tö

The telephone is the most say I've never read any of them. Mike Hammer, I gather, frequently used prop in mo- is a very popular detective tation plotures, and telephone America.

company people worry about Against a. background of how it and its related equip circus acts, "Ring Of Fear tells ment are used on the screen.

one of the first musicais to have to "walk right into" of the sinister happenings that In fact, they, worry so much

a really mealy story to gugment various roles, give con- the excelitnt songs and although in this new version the story is vincing performances and changed beyond recognition from then leave the characters as the Jeanette MacDonald-Nelson they walk off the set--but Eddy alm, it's still strong enough not Kirk Douglas.

to sustain one's interest,

As this picture is billed first and foremost as a musical, let's look at it from this point of view

suddenly overtake the famous that R. H. Vickerstait has the

show. Clyde Beatty calls in the tilla of Bell System Representa mystery writer to find out what's dive to the Motion Picture and

Foleyisdom Incastries. He's a og on and, who's doing it.

Pat O'Brien, whom we haven't expert on the wire tople of

phono apparatus. soon for some time, is cist, as the "breezy setors who can the manager of the circus, convert so easily to different roles. Douglas prefers to get in

the

Douglas says he isn't one of

to start with. As a musical f mood of the rule, even if it]

St.

feel it failed, for whenever the means living is not new to wES ETD

principals or chorus burst into

This

out d

Vie inthucts actors, actressÉS, deobor and producers: frs toīdi. phono usage. He had worked on: VIOLENT HOURS

hundreds of fins, both for "SILVER LODE” is the story theatres, mandi taleelaion, and now, 0% a viðlent three hours in a is working on a crime, syndicate conramity in the productions of Green-Rouw. toll in tan with- 1870% when the entire town of

Tork Confidential, "

BELOW people Vic

Ulies our. Inasius how to

explained. "Diulling or ouavising te mali znay secto, simple, but there's a right.

song, the musle appeared to his P2" for which he began, Sliver Lode in. draws into

terfere wit the action of the story.

a by reading countless western man's fight to the himself of novels, cowboy, era histories and; a.

murder. charge brought

Men my responsibilty to i

In spite of having a really several hundred western pulp neodrant him on his wodding | a lovely volce, Ann Blyth's gos-magazines. tures while singing were wooden

fectly still to deliver her songs.

for

Douglas spent wooks sparring

which i aple of

a

phono, people are al-

It must

be

and stereotyped and she'd have in local gyms and associating Everything seems to point to way to do sooty things, for Best done better to have stood per- with Aghters is

Prize

na preparation de sile, the dinotné int

cito Heʻa supposed to have stolen two 1. "Champion" Three weeks were devoted to years eviously ip exactly the as an On the other hand, Howard leasing proper fingbring on same or that he deposited when through the forest and forming with a Hom" and many dis-just about the same time. The shown in

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with

just exactly players with top babestean that he did it. The pret how to pill up in the Fort still singing the cussions

plugs and flip keys. Mounties' marching song made Harry James were an addon fra en Sliver Lode (accord

This correctness applies to all me hot and cold with embarassal aid. ment

their behalf — they

Lett) is also the types of

PBX, manual looked Incredibly silly and even

and even period telephones,

WIRE TAPPING TABOO sirf in Lizbeth --Webb,

delicate point can arise Tölja Paypu knd Das fren time to time, Vie said, and building the company has resolved not

to censor anyja,

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Kool and the Mounties riding the, trumpat: for "Young Maniho. fest – rode into the loway-at: Maya, Intored 1peration,

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THE ONLY WAY To make hit as Act to their horses lowered their heads the Holo credible Dought I be the self-consciously, -

even put in time trying to lens how to be a meneret, assignm

The only man who scerned at hear home while singing was Felped

the happy-200-

nando Lamas,

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lucky trupper with whom Rose "Man without a S DN

Mario Colls in love,

| covered a ¦ comparipipákbri

tory of western: plőflecting six weeks.

The Totem Tom Tom song was omitted from the version. I sOW He asked studio, experia questa

there's a very wild aborialstat tons of cowboy psychology.in dance performed by Joan Taylor Mitt effort 10 11am kleit i usuni as a Red Indian girl but no reactions: Ikes me djallkan... He song, although: a. listed i de tried to speak their Press Book and the sume, gdes short, live the character

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the bogkking of the film. It

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In the beginning was startling.

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