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per
OINA
TONY
CURTIS
LOLLOBRIGIDA
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leading man in Michael Craig and on this showing it would seem that the gamble the Rank Organian- tion took on him is going to be justified.
!
Ho me the attack and con- fidence of many more experi- enced players and transforms this modest little thriller into a fast moving piece of entertain- ment in which the suspenso really does keep one on the edge of the seat. Craig is
sailor who bears a resemblance startling
to the deceased member of a gang of gold smugglers. He is talked, by the international police, into masquerading as the smuggler in order to expose the rest of the gang and most of the excite ment comes from
the gang's growing suspicion of him.
a
Brenda de Banzic is her usual efficient peit as Madame Ballu
very shady lady indeed but Julla Arall proves what was in her first picture obvious "Lost". She can't act. However, the picture is worth seeing for Michael Craig's sake.
A Must!
War and Peace:
War and Peace has been
Current & Coming
BY JANE ROBERTS
'War and Peace' Stars
A recent picture of Mel Ferrer and his pretty young wife,
-Audrey Hepburn,
passion for the Inithless Viturlo Gassman.
I could have wished that Henry Fonda had not been quite r
gloomy in his role as the troubled pacifist. The inevitability of war and his biter loathing of its uselessness with a little less intensity.
However, it mede a satisfying contrast with the
frivolity of family the Hostov
who Rte. drank and made merry with no thought for the morrow.
At the beginning of the stoty, Gina, eyes flashing and Asts failing, defends her sick step- mother from the jears of hostile crowd,
With the "show must go on attitude to her art that is sup- posed to be the hall-mark of the trooper, the stepmother, In
You are cordially invited to a preview of THE HAPPY ROAD,
Production a Kerry
starring Gene Kelly. with Barbara Laage, Bobby Clark, Brigitte Fossey, and Michael" Redgrave to be held in the town hall of Semur-en-Auzole on January 7. 1937. We are sorry that we cannot pay for your trip, but we can tell you how to get there.
It would first be advisable to get to France by the best avail- able means of transportation: plane, boat or water scooter.
From Le lleure one hires a bicyclt and rides 18 kilometres south. At the village of Coudon one then tries to rent and motor-
then
cycle (which is dificult) and one rides 42 kilometres over unpaved roads to the vil- Here you lage of Savilion, apply
for to the police station accommodation overnight sluce there are no hotels. Next morn- ing, one attempts to rent a car. The cost of the car, if it can be
QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
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Gerard OURY
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found, may be expensive, plus NOW PLAYING
which one should be sure to carry
a tow rope since they fre- quently break down.
Finally you may get to Semur- en-Auxois In THE HAPPY ROAD you will see many of the greatest actors and actresses of our region in their first film
and rales, as Director of the Syndicat d'Initiative of Semur- en-Auzols, welcome you on behalf of our lovely elty and lis residents.
PS: I suggest you wait until at THE HAPPY ROAD plays
universally acclaimed and could surely have been conveyed use of being on the point of your local theatre, to which the
deserves every word of the praise it has received.
Anita Ekberg is the only per- nt former in it who does not her role and the settings, though Javish, are in perfect taste.
as
The battle of Borodino is
the magnilleent spectacle and The three principal parts are charge of the French cavalry as taken by Audrey Hepburn
exciting as anything I have ever the gentle, yet gay Natasha, seen, while the more intimate Henry Fonda the thoughtful scenes are equally well handied, serious-minded pacifist and Mel with just the right amount of Ferrer is the ascetic Prince.
restraint The gradunt emergence of
In addition to the three main character of the young girl characters, two others stand out, admirably demonstruled
One is Napoleon played by Audrey Hepburn, She grows Herbert Lom and the other the from girlhood womanhood Russian general Kutuzov- the before our eyes, reflecting the role being taken by Oscar Influences that surround her as
Homolka, she does so,
to
axuberant and thoughtless
ចង
Gifted Woman
spite death has taken the stage in front of a crowd of rowdie with the attendant sprinkling of more educated slummers, is being laughed off it.
The girl, unspoiled modest we would gather, spite of her looks, takes pluce on the stage and the quaint, food and wines out of this world, and the town of audience is woord from boos Semur like the image of to cheers.
Metro- medieval fairy tale. Gouyn-Mayer is going to dis- THE HAPPY ROAD, and when ever you see it, I hope you will enjoy it as much as we enjoyed our stay with the town- folk of Semur-en-Auxois.
transportation should be zonne- what easier. But we shall be delighted to have you at the and all kidding aside, and preview,
there is a simpler way to get A direct train will take and here. A
in you from Paris to the heart of Lohere hotels Gre her Burgundy
She is befriended on the way home by a nephew of the Czar of Russia-naturaily his status is unknown to her and his off handed kindness is mlalaken for her to be an expression of an attraction that he doesn't yet feel.
Vittorio Gassman is an
And The Villain
+
GENE KELLY.
Young Stars In The News
"The
Trouble
War and Peace is in the "not pert at playing the dissolute When with the carelessly gay to be missed" category,
aristocrat, but in "The Most Beautiful Woman In the World” Rostov family with their sud- den, impetuous decisions to Bo
for once he is allowed the prin- off for holidays or hold Д
cipals that are popularly sup- she magnifiernt party
posed to go with ancient lineage. DEMEMBER
Honour is defended to the With Harry"? It was an they.
The Most Beautiful Woman
last, ladles' intimate secrots are Alfred Hitchcock production As she feels the first stirrings in the World:
kept and stifter upper lips are that surprisingly enough had of love for the unhappy Prince Gina Lollobrigida has preserved with all the reclitude little appeal for the average cinema goer in Hongkong, al- whose wife has died in child- birth there is the indication of many obvious attributes but of royalty.
I should not have thought
though it was one of his wit- the putting away of chiklish
tiest comedies. things and an awareness that that a voice competent to life is not always going to be sing operatic arias was one
In it was a pixle-faced girl The villain of the plece la the Shirley Maclaine you วาดบ carefree.
of them.
girl's singing master. Wo are recall her again in the Marlin The gathering war clouds as When
saw the preview, Napoleon's armies get ready to while making the voluminous asked to believe that she does and Lewis comedy "Artists and attack Russia bring a change in notes with which, during the not realise he is falling in love Models" and although her role
does her first
with her, in spite of his gusty was much less important than nush
of enthusiasm
that in the Hitchcock picture, decorate my notebook I thought sighs and burning looks,
When he tells her that he she showed once again her I saw that her more difcult songs were attributable to a wants their relationship to go talent for comedy. lady whose name began with further than that of master and Maria. but couldn't be quite pupil she opens her eyes wide
with astonishment
her outlook again as
New Films -At- A Glance
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SHOWING
HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Folies Bergere**: Manica). Eddie Constau». tine, Jeanmaire, Dances arranged
by Roland Pelit. KING'S and PRINCESS: Peace": And Tolstoy's Alrama of old Russia. Audrey Hepburn, Mes
Ferrer, Henry Fonds, Herbert LAIT, Order Homolka, METROPOLE and STAR: Trapeze": All the thrills tha dreus. Gina Lollobrigida, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster.
and ALHAMBRA: Secrets": o! British
thriller. Michael Craig, Brenda
de Banzie, Julla Arnail. ROXY and BROADWAY: "Ramsbottom Rides Arsin":- Comedy. Arthur Aakey and one of Bri- Sain's top popular singers
Frankie Vaughan.
COMING
HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Camille': The Greta Garbo clamic. KING'B and PRINCESS: "Back from Eternity": Adventure in the Bouth American Jungle. Anita Ekberg
Robert Ryan, Rod Stoler. METROPOLE and STAR:
Vilare: Drama, QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA:
"Baby Doll" ROXY and BROADWAY: Tha Moet Beautiful Woman in the World": Life of an opera" - mar Who shone fifty years agó, Gina Lollobrigida,
suro.
and
She's under contract to star then maker Hal Wallis and has been
In the trailer, a volce who is flounces on her travels to show put into "Hot Spell" as Shirley quite patently paid to publicise that she can do without hira Booth's daughter a film on the pleture sings the praises of leaving a trail of broken hearts which work should som de the lovely Lollo to the skies and behind her, adds with on almost personal This singing master, pops in
sung.
occiir
completed.
London.
an
pride - "And what's more she and out of the film wearing a can the
sing."
vengeful expression, causing the Whether or not it is Gina death of one of Gina's admirers
Irish
actor Eddie Byrne, Lollobrigida's voice is im-
formerly with Dublin's Theatre It is sufficient that and doing his best to foll the material.
producer's plans for happy the lighter songs are sentiment-
Royal, has been signed for ending. ally melting and the more In addition, the number of important role in the Copa Pro- serious operatie extracts are misunderstandings that
duction, "Seven Waves Away", Mal dramatic and to a fairly un- critical lover of opera, vel between the girl and her lover starring Tyrone Power,
should please anyone who likts Zetterling and Lloyd Nolan,
Byrne har been cast in "Seven a really complicated plot.
deported I lost count of the changes of Waves Away" costume of the singer. Some are racketeer whose true lovely, some hideous. The comes to the surface when he colour is inclined to be harsh shares the plight of 25 other novivors in an overloaded life- and Gina Lollobrigida eings most
same boat following the sinking of a of the songs with the gestures every time. The pie luxury Bner. Byrne's most re- fure, however, should please cent previous role was as Victor
music lovers.
Mature's brother in "Zarak" starring Mature, Michael Wild- ing and Anita Ekberg.
For the rust, the story is frankly melodramatic.
Nearly everything possible happens to poor Gina Lollo brigida
before the final rush down the stairs to the lover she has spurned and at times tie bathos is laid on so heavily it is embarrassing.
Boos To Cheers
However, the fate and igure of Lollobrigida are ao captivat- ing--whatever some of my more cynical male friends may say--
On Publicity
Stunts
that it is possible to treat it as TJERE is a letter. I received, an adult fairy story with the II signed purportedly, by Gens Impoverished little back streets Kolly. It's one of the more Hallan pursuing her aristocra, civilised places of pubileily put de lover-purely for love, of out in praise of a. fim and I courre-to the final happy end- think worthy of an accolade ing.
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