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"Foxfire" is the taming of

Jeff Chandler by Jane Rus- sell.

And what n starling, bad- Miss tempered animal he is, Russell, who playe

Current & Coming

BY JANE ROBERTS

The New Films At A Glance

the or

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a wealthy young woman from

east coast fashionable America meets him while holiday

on a ranch "glumming** in Arizona, It's one

of those ranches where it would not be unexpected to And even the horses having their toc-nails pain ed, and the falseness of the

life is quite obvious to her.

EXTRA MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW |terested in his job and as deeply

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"SANDS OF IWO JIMA”

A Republic Picture,

Inwardly bored by it all, she mcels a good-looking young mining engineer, deeply in

gonscious of his Apache

blood. c's not allowed much chance to get away, by the whirlwind tactics of Jane Russell, and very early on in the picture they are married, to the disgust, background- naturally of her conscious mother.

of Jane Russell's weli In spite of conveyed understanding of her husband's tender spot about his past, he doesn't respond as well he should. Perhaps she 118

that she obvious makes it too realises that he has a problem that needs sorting out.

his His undoubted ability at

doesn't extend as far as cominon sense and his male pride kicks ugainst the idea of mutual

Job

case

help. He like a sulky young boy refusing assistance in anyone should think him weak, that and too immature to see

i would take more courage give in and accept it.

to

Shut out of his life, Jane Rus- 10 sell turns, in her innocence his friend. On her side It's part- ly the crusading spirit again he DRINKS!—and

partly from an honest desire for friendship.

A Chastened Dan Duryea

SHOWING

"20.000 Leagues QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: Under the Sea". Jules Verne's tabulous story is given a face-lift for present day minds. It is well presented and

James from the adventure point of view, gripping. Mason, Kirk Douglas, Paul Lukas and Peter Lorre, HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Waterloo Bridge". The love story of two people from different walks of life. Vivien Leigh and Robert Taylor.

KING'S and PRINCESS: "Foxfire". A love affair between A half caste Apache Indian and an American socialite. Jane Russell and Jeff Chandler.

NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "The Big Combo", Crime and detection mixed with brutality, Cornel Wilde, Richard Conto and Brian Donlevy,

ROXY and BROADWAY: "The Virgin Queen". Bette Davla is once more Queen Elizabeth of England, Richard Todd is Raleigh and Joan Cotilas is Beth Throgmorton, lady- In-waiting. Esex is conspicuously absent.

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The

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"Passaro Home". A good British picture telling the story of a modern Captain Bligh, Peler Finch, Dlano Cilento and Anthony.Steel. QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "A Streetcar Named Desire". The full gamut of human emotions, Vivien Lerch and Marlon Brando,

ROXY and BROADWAY: "The Story of Verdi". The dying composer looks back over his life, In Ferraniacolor and with the voices of Tito Gobbj and Mario del Monaco.

for to bow the knee and attraction

cach other prepared

public assurances of his is entirely physical and there give devotion, his heart is elsewhere, are many brawie and reconcilia- Although I have not yet seen tions, but these she has learned the plcture, I have a very good to treat philosophically and to idea of Bette Davis' portrayal of come lo terms with the rough which Elizabethan rage when she dis- slum neighbourhood in covers that her gallant Sir they live, Wolter has been making a fool of her with her provocative lady-in-waiting. played by Joan Collins.

Into this

love nest comes

Hico a college girl", as I believe the American expression to be, or seeing the Marilyn Monroo substitue, Sherree North on her meltic.

up

However,

once I'd got into the theatre and become used to the somewhat obvious mako- that made both girls look as though they were running a It began to be fun. tomperature,

Cummings rubbery mouth is not my iden of the ultimate in male beauty

Rober

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sense of comedy

perfect;

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most

timings hypnotised

the girl original subject around which to build a farce, but I have to admit that some of the scones had me laughing to the point of hysteria.

weren't They

new--people have been hit on the head 16 they come through a door by someone who thinks they're often someone else sufficiently

for it to have ceased to be funny many

yours

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why should it be so hilarious when it happens to Fred Clark?

students of Expolled Americas college Have been hidden away by well menning friends

entral an ambitious father can Imagine that his Son is stil being educated, many times before, so why

so funny when it happens to Orton Bean?

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just don't know the answer --all I know is that if "low To Be Very, Very Popular" may not be the funniest, or the best produced, or the slickest comes pleture this year-if it on a second time, try to RCD it. It's a sure cure for

miseries!

Retrospect Of

A Dying Man

the

Verdi is a dying man when Vivien Leigh. She professes "The Story of Verdi" opens herself to be disgusted with the and the picture takes the sordid home and her sister's audience into his past as he brutish husband, attempting to slowly reviews his triumphs, Richard Todd is the adven- turn her against him. Slowly turer who is credited with hav- however, little stories about the sorrows and struggles. ing been responsible for intro- sort of life she has led in the It attempts to show the in- during tobacco into society as intervening years trickie through fluence of his private le over well as of being gallant,

or anu we begin to see the turmoil his compositiora quick-witted enough to fling his and twiligin in which her mind cloak across a paddle in the in- really lives. terests of his future.

Just

here I'm afraid the psychological angle got a bit out of hand. For a sensible, men- tally balanced girl such as the script writer intended Jane Rus- sell to be, to how such obvious doubts as to her sincerity in her husband's mind, without realising sire

was doing it, seemed nulve, to say the least.

Dan Duryea is the doctor

and friend,

given

fairly sympathetic part for once, he does hard-headed

lot with it. Gone are his grim-

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Not all his works. bave been successes and as each peak of lay or sadness in his life has been reached, it is identified with an opera, sometimes good,

sometimes poor.

Italian

nomes are

mone of the

When the vet hiding her past is finally torn down it is too Raleigh has always seemed to

bit of me to have been a

M much for her sanity and the opportunist, but pitiful picture of this fading

The cast is entirely as he and Joan Collins supply woman being led away ngainst

love interest in this n background of indifferent and faced, woman-slapping hablis of the

from comes

two Vory well previous pictures. He smiles. ChinemaScopie plece of history, chrugs from all but her sister familar to me, but the singing

explet he has been treated will remain in my without making it look wolf-ke

mind or a known operalte voices-Mario long time. and he even remembers to take more kindly.

del Monaco and Tito Gobbi, The ambition of Essex led of his hat off in the presence

There is much of the realistle

It has been photographed in him to the

block. The females!

last Italian zimephero in this film,

Ferraniacolor. He is much more of

"The Virgin Queen" The seedy, broken-down quart- real scene of A

Raleigh and his Beth ment has been photographed in persen than Jaff Chandler, and shows

with the all its squalor and the noisy,

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his problems, more deep-seated sailing to America and insoluble than Chandler's blessing of the Queen, and in brawling, dirty street ruming

Under the are left in the script writer's those scheming times you must past I could almost be walked "Too Dimeult" tray.

hard-headed on, so clever is the camera work. Sea" continues A sultry have been pretty

successful looking piece called Mara Corday to have managed to keep it on But it is Vivien Leigh's per-

run at the Queen's, Empire and that commands the Alhambra over the week-end is given him as a sop when it your shoulders. Raleigh managed formance

and becomes evident that Jane Rus-

continuc probably to preserve his until the reign overall attention. of James I..

She is by turns wheedling, antli the middle of next week," biller, coy, self-pitying violent

This is good family, stuff, sult- and terrifyingly frightened. Kim

able for children and adults, Hunter is a perfect foll for her and even the strong performance of Marion Brando fails to sur pass that of this English actress.

selt isn't going to fall for his line-but I's pretty conclusively shown that she's not going to hold him for long and I was left feeling quite sorry for him.

In spite of the outdoor loca- in as

tions of

of much of this picture, it is more of a conversation piece than an action drama, so when you read that Jeff Chandler is once again portraying a Red Indian, don't expect to see Jane Russell tied to a tree and Jeff Chandler brandishing a toma- hawk in her face.

Hollywood History

Lesson

Brilliant Acting

By Vivien Leigh

"A Streetcar Named De- aire" was written as a play by Tennessee Williams & man well known for his out- spoken approach to the more seamy side of life and for

his forthright opinions.

It Was Very Very Funny

I'm not going to apologise for reviewing "How To Be Very, Very Popular" after

I have never seen the play, it's finished, because I feel but it is difficult to see how it it had too short a rùn and a could have been more

lot more people are going to hibited thon the film.

want to see it.

unin-

the

"The Virgin Queen" has

The picture is frightening in

Allowing for personal taste- not yet been previewed but is hopelessners and in its no-

and after all, even a critic can the outline of the story may plance of evil. It draws

picture of

be forgiven for this would of bace feelings, cun-- help as a guido,

ning stupidity and the triumph say that it's one of the cheeriest Queen Elizabeth is going her of male over female. If it were Alms I've seen for some tinte, autocratic way when Raleigh not for the superb performances Crossing the road to the Roxy in dark-as, In common with some of Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, crosses her path

with rehomes that Karl Malden and Kim Hunter I empire-building

many of pictures this

their

the fake her fancy. It's not only could wish I had never seen it, one wasn't previewed to his plons for increasing the so norbid is tho

subject,

press and it was necessary to material wealth of England that Vivien Leigh and her sister nee it ofter its general releaso

thrilled I wasn't particularly Her Majesty however, Kim Hunter are the last mem- please and he is not left in much bers of an old southern family at the prospect of spending an doubt as to how far he can go whose lands have been rowly evening viewing the rather,

Miss Grable "making -or perhaps it would be truer dissipated by suceccaively de dumb

a

Áo tuy "how near he may endent generations. Kim has

left the home and married approach".

In common with many of her Pole; the finds a ecrtain rough courtiers, although Raleigh is contentment with him.

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