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The Ghosts of Ealing

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THEY PASS IN PROUD FLASHBACK FOR ONE MAN AS BRITAIN'S MOST FAMOUS STUDIOS ARE SOLD

by MONJA DANISCHEWSKY

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that

WHO PRODUCLO CALING FILME

"WHISKY GALORE "

ster of a sultra- forget.e- all puzzl

know, perhaps, langs that the carpenters had to

life make 1 inside the room. 4 1 1 feeling you have at Could not have been brought in This is the famous tabio round the end of a very whic all those Eating Aims good film when the tip-ups were first suggested, begin to clatter....clatter andalanned.

clatter

tlewa

thrussel.

"Dead of

ing in their like.

to one un- other. They were

Alec Guin- egs in some of

Nither them? the and

The

Captive Hour," his many parts "Hue and Cry. for "Kind Hearts screen saya, blankly: "The "Overlanders."

"Pass- "Scott of the Amtarelle,"

and Coronetsa," End"?

port

Fimlico," to

"Whisky That is how I felt when tore. "Kind Hearts

There and

was I heard the

that Coronela," "Blue Lamp, "LAY- skinny, wide. had been onder Hill, Mob" "Man in the eyed dirk with long legs. Ealing Studios sold to BBC TV: for it is White Suit," "The Cruel Sea." namet Audrey Hepburn

Alm?"The Secret People." The End of a very good and many others.

Ernest I remember

Irving studio.

now dead, for years the musical

Iace that George Elvin, the technicians' leader, entis "the prestige bastion of the in- dustry."

Its name has been flashed in Hights on Broadway and on the boulevards of Paris. penetrates!

at

11 1.43 the Irese Curtain. unt tame George

Many sparks

PALING has been criticised for director.

working in committee.

Bul

fu retrospiet there is a good deal to be said for the methods

sparka

EALING

STUDIOS

Sir Michauf Balcon. Knight of the Round Table . . . and (AbuTO) the

Eating "arms".

Her

"It doesn't The Ernest sternly,

men liike that. Ealing Studios.”

Director Pen Tennyson, great- of grandson of the Poet Laureate, in the war, and Mietinel Balcon, the Knight of was killed

wanted actor John Clemenata the Round Table.

At this table many

to recite the translation of a were set off to Ignite the torches poem by Callimachus "They which

were later carried to the told me, Heraclitus, they told of Eating and Lady Red Lion and

"Time, before

me you were dead. of Hullywood!

gentlemen. pleaso!" puri sa memordid service. the affection end to the discussions yot

another comedy idea

whore Formby Hamilton for Arst place in

of the Soviel Bingoer,

But go today

lied

to this prim being.

was

at a

There W08 the day when Michael Balcon SOW the Ealing star writer T. E B.

"It isn't me, old boy," be spluttered. "It's the studio that's been knighted."

Hc believed that, for to Balcon his own identity has merged into the studio and the studio's identity into his,

THOSE

The ghosts

JOSE were the days.

they are over.

Now

So come to the Red Lion and meet some of the ghosts,

There in a corner 18 Juck Priestley, sucking at his pipe. discussing the day's work. Hero is another group Sir Compton Mackenzie Richard Hughes, Nicholas Monsarrat. Sir William Walton and even Henry Moore, Gracio Fields and

George Forby Tommy Trinder. Achat Diana bozar.

and

interlopars,

They were:lrare for 'Ealing's world was largely peopled by stroom, silent men,

But Gracie Fields is remem“ bered-and Stewart Granger Clarke walking in the studio.

and Jean Simmons, Joan Green- wood, Mai Zetterling.... "Why aren't you at Ascot?”

Look at the door. A number he asked him sternly. Tibby

af small nosee

are pressed lass. They are Clarice, who wrote "Passport to

against the and "Lavender

Hill waiting to give Jack Hawkins Pimlico" Mob." replied that his producer a chear as he goes out

for a script

And here is the final visitor. ave minutes the man behind ference. Within

#plSla

needed him

con-

the producer was on the carpet. Michael Balcon, putting

do "How to Sald Balcon:

you hond nervously round the door, expect Clarke to do good work for he believed in staying away if you don't let him go to the from the place where the boys

"could

blow off steam." T800s?"

"Ah, I thought I'd and

you here...

Time, gentlemen, pleaso..

"(COPYRIGHT

Wan

But Irving declined Pert another exciting arrange the music. The reason: 111 suburb in West London sequence had been plotted. Callimachus, it seems, wux

bowildering poot who of the locals to There was

private life and ask Une

and time when people kept sco- questionable. direct you to the studios mine Umes out of ten he'll be ing a crumpled old bishop,

"But Ernest," he was told. hard put

tell you where they hatchet-faced admiral, an older-

ty duke, and a frightening spin- "ho died 2,000 years ago."

art

Perhaps the facade is decep- Uvea small converted country collage

Ad- that is now the ministrative Block. It stands on what was the village green.

studius 0921 ihu Green became a legend, In the lean years of the British Blm indus- try they were an vasis of ad- venturous ilm-making

The

desert of mediocrity.

The vote

มา a

DUT Ealing was not without

pelf-contained.

The slogan on the walls pro- alaimed it as "The Studio with the Team Spirit." So it was.

But at times the making of films by vote led to indecisions,

to compromises, examination lakon to extreme.

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Then there was the, day when Balcon received congratulations on his knighthood.

THE VIENNA STATE

OPERA

REOPENS TONIGHT

T

ODAY heralds a new

chapter in the tale of Vienna's music-sym-

By GERARD BOURKE

bo

Twentieth century "opera represented In Wozzeck, the Viennese composer,

Seats costing up to £70 cach the war was interrupted by the that enabled nese--more than ten years,

In have been sold out for many theatro's closure. It was not an easy team for and back to the war.

Boxes have been re-

ita chiet, Sir Michael Balcon, to drive. He himself had

momenta those days, each morning months.

served for famous musicians The State Opera buliding it

af self-doubt, immortallied by after an air raid, the Vien- associated with

an incydent in the middle of nese used to examine their festivals.

a heated script

cor.kernet.

by

Alban

Bits faults. It has been con-bol of gaiety and romance, operti "Fidelio," first performed cet in the Vioms of that time. Behoven's Ninth Symphony, nourby and his rarely-heard The always reserved in Vienna for sidered by its critics to be too of pageantry and grandeur, go at the

Theatre an der Wien. Herr Woman without a Shadow.".

important musical occasions, For today the majestic Raab, the Austrian Chancellor, The Cartman composer's works

completes the 1st.

The Vienna Philharmonic Or Vienna State Opera, on the has declared that tonight's per- have always figured prominent-

formance of Beethoven's peaen ly in the repertory of

chestra, the oldest permanent Ringstrasse, reopens.

in freedom will officially mark Vienna State Opera under such orchestra, will play with the

Indepen- experts as Clemens Krauss and

company as always. It was, It has been a long wait Austria's newly-won

dence.

Karl Boehm, whose plan for a

of this great during fact, the survival Vien- self for the music-loving

complete. Strauss cycle.

organisation through the war Dr. Joseph Krips to re-establish the Opera: Com

any only a month after tho former gala self, designed by Von Slecards war's end. Some will contain burg and Van der Null, in free

GINER SETTING trorri prowar romantic style in contrast to the Opera House to make sure loading singers

First they gave “paty "Excuse me, chaps, wait had escaped unscathed. daye. From others elderly con- strict classicism of the period. ductors, will watch" Dr Karl was completed at the time when

in almost ove wash my hoods, Or

And so it did, 'until one day Boehm, director of the theatre operas by Verdi and Wagner Incking

auditorium Soon the ghosts of

at the close of war, conducting both born in 1813 vere vying from a proper walk on the green, in the five in March, 1945.

from the rostrum they once for favour..!

adegimie heating, but not The kind Vienniso were so musical splendour.

small Significantly, the last work occupied.

Viennese theatres There had been Sir Michael Balcon's office with performed

appalled by the under-nourished .appearance

the winged salons. Then they moved to the beohives, in Wagner's sombro The Twilight

That Red of the Gods."

was just of the

horses surmounting their state istorie Theatre an der Wigg before Hitler's tolal war policy, The foalival celebratingą the Opera that feeding, bags op There, in the theatre, kailt by pub over the road.

In for a final closed all German theatres now era will last a month, and peared around their necks! Schikaneder, librettist of. Moz Come with mo

they art's The Magic Flite," will include works closely asso- after a clated with

spent the ten yours pending re- Eight, moglbs later,

construction of their true bome. night of heavy · boribing, the past.

Their saváral dowalem totin com- homeless, they still presented Goethe included-havo placed missioned by the Khedira of unrivalled productions And In "before, all others, was chosen. Egypt, which Verdi, himsel the interim they, recruited many

at the very simple notable now, ginger,

ot

studio stages, in the canteen, in

the rectory-like garden behind

its roses and its

the salcon bar

LDI

walks round, the studios and let July 1944,

us meet some of these ghosts.

Bevan.

NEW ERA

Vienna's

floodlit

Viennese emerged from shelters and

・thoir'

The second evening will BED war-damaged

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the

GALA PIECES

So Vord will be represented

Variou

and

homas do no smoker pouring Mozart's "Don Giovanni for by gala performances of his showed musicistis Syroad that THE

UIE year is 1038. A voluble from the fire-razed intelon of this opera, which many people lavish "Aida," originally

young. Welshman, already their beloved building. portig, laying down the law in the canteen.

"To" he tells his table

**was the greatest

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SOLD OUT

Much of the exterior

Filamentarian in our history, intact, but only the fan

· Fox,“ Winston white marble stairwaX

back-haided oned and broken, rett A oni? It could be--for

|Ride: Vierma's heart was Decks in. Aneurin Bevan ed and matted only

few wooks stint at the before the arrival of dos, ne teclinical adviser on Armor:

tor

great conduisted the theatre'sfrét opening night in 1609. It is the place

bly work by Mozart-bom

rears, ego next, airy sateringers of Nnberg.

in the fest

to be appointed hambe

The Werner operw con-spectacular, mlé

based on

the medieval

[clark" furned.

Today, back the "altadel

Wetterbeen opera,, the colppany

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