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* THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1957.

Going cool-Guinness lets

his

hair down

ALE GUINNESS, *

Britain's most dig- nified film star, is rock. ing 'n' rolling for the first time.

Jean-clad teenagers

and watch him

cry: * "You're the mont. Daddy-o."

Gulness, sometimes known as the chilliest actor in show business, has turned a cool cat in ☀ a different sense.

He has been rocking around Hunstanton, Nor- * folk, tone after the rest of the little resort is fast asleep.

*

Mopping his brow after a five-hour skiffle session Guinness sald: I once did B rather stately walte with Grace Kelly And I have even managed a mambo with Yvonne de Cario. Bot this is my first experience of this sort of thing.......... It will also be my last."

#

He has to rock for his role in his new Ealing comedy. "Barnacle Bill" ite plays

reluctant naval type who takes over a crumbling seaside pier and peps it up with A skile group.

H

The Laugh

Is On

The Audience

'OLLYWOOD is fon:l

of putting on a red nose and showing how hilariously ridiculous it can bc. Indeed the parapher- nalia of movie-making - conceited stars, tempera mental directors, inarticu- late producers, ulcerated agents has become al- most a cliche of the screen. Nothing is left to laugh at.

MILTON SHULMAN

AT THE FILMS

there on contented. the screen.

The cuddling couples in the back TOW and

the Teddy Boya the front have to be given regular

tions

late,

injec

of choco-

popcorn to keep them bovinely

The Fleopit only begins to make itself pay when it hires a The blink- dazzling blonde to give the cus- ing of tomtrs & long line of leg with us horettes' their sweets and when **

series torches, the running a

of desert ple- Lures with the hers groping

for But it has taken a British

tripping in water to stimulate a thirst in film to commit the supreme

the dark, the stairs. The cinema boliers heresy by attacking the

the standing are stoked to a feverim pitch to golden encred cow of the

up and sit make the patrons even thirstier Virginia McKenna,

still. cinema business. The Small-

ting down, est Show

Earth at the the multering in the on London Pavilion actually behind, the ritual of ice- ridícules the audience!

salesmanship, the

Samples sucking of orange juice, the

of audience unwrapping of sweets, the haviour Include near-riots when the projector breaks down and rowdies on a Sunday night, a herd-like stampede to the make cinema-going an ad- exits to avoid having to stand venture for the dedicated or for the National Anthem. the dense.

Monkey house

Although this is prac- tically akin to bombing one's own headquarters or eating one's young, my only com- plaint is that the assault is not nearly violent enough,

Through its own peculiar approach to film exhibition, the cinema has cultivated a public with the manners of a monkey house.

cream

row

It only chides

A stampede

With

manages

+

b.

Margaret Rutherford. Peter Sellers, and Bernard Miles portraying three ancient relies of the silent elnema days in at- tendance at the Flenpit

this The Smallest Shaw on Earth Alm fuum

respectable bas, unfortunately, dared only quota of gentle fun. I am al- chide rather than abuse cinema ways delighted at the sight of a nudlenets. It is no amiable tale film reel running amok. about a young couple who have Virginia McKorms and Bill been left a tiny cinema o 113-

Travers, the young couple, pidated and decrepit that It is affectionately

ere appropriately harassed by known S the their capricious puble. Fleapit.

when the rival cinema burned that a film can be just us in their efforts to compete down I think Launder well enjoyed backwards AS with the

opulent, chromium- Gat, the producers,

would.. frontwards has encouraged ned Grand Cinema across the have made a more telling point

way" they soun reallso that if a low of the customers healthy disrespect for

Is merely showing hims not been roused as well. Just for what is going on up enough.

lough,

The continuous perform with its assumption

ance

and

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Rank

to

on a visit

his visible

assets

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The girl is Jackie Collins, younger sister of Joan. Her partner? Barnacle Bill, alias Alec Guinness.

And reports

from the floor indicate that the sailor is fit to rock the bout.

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SONG LONG

TS the telephone in one's

home an asset or a liability? As far as I am concerned, my telephone is an enemy in my home.

I would willingly say good-bye to its horrid black face for OVET.

A telephone may be essential for business, but at home it Is a luxury one can well do without

Women know how to use the telephone briefly and for caserriial purposes.

They

would mother do their gossip- ing over a cup of tea.

I would willingly say goodbye to its

horrid black face and the MEN who

make it into a demon

by EILEEN ASCROFT

Ltd., ares the opposite view. "I adore the telephone and use It all day long." He uses It for long chats with friends as ho "hates letic-writing." What he hates most at week-

widowed slaters for their wives,

or presents

It is the men who are telephone How do other people feel about

pesta,

this black-faced demon? ----

I cannot stand the

business man who believca in "catching you before you leove for the office."

carly-bird. Author J, B. Priestley regards it as an enemy and "uses it E3 little as possible." Но never conducts business over th:0 telephone and says, would never have fallen in love with my

wife it sho were a telephone chatterer,"

I debost the young men who ring you in the middle of your bath to inquire if you really meant what you saki ni last night's party,

But worst of all are the men, in

search of advice.

By JOHN LAMBERT

CAERHAYS CASTLE, nr. St Mawes, Cornwall. ARTHUR RANK,

J. Britain's most elusive

film magnate; has sud- denly arrived here to look over some of his more visible assets.

It is so long since he has done this that even he says: "I cannot remember when I last watched one of my own films being made.'

The assets here include 22-year-old Belinda Lee, an actress he knows slightly. Louis Jourdan, a French actor he has heard about, and 25-year-old Anne Heywood, an ex-beauty queen he had not met till now. ·

BUT

Revival

UT the biggest asset le that this film called "Dangerous Exile" # the sort of costume melodrama in which the man can be lusty and the girls can he busty.

And Mr Rank-or the Big Boss as he is known hero- know all about that. He mado James Mason, Margaret Locks wood, and Stewart Granger big stars in such films 10 years ago. He made big money from them too.

And he thinks this is the sort of fim to make the big money again.

Watching Anne Heywood doing a scena for the eighth time the Big Boss patted her hand paternally and said: "You look very pretty, my dear."

1

Changed

HEYWOOD Minchad of

ends is being stranded in the lightly at his cholow

She explained:

country with

A dicey adjectiva. telephone so that you feel cut used to be called Pretty Violet off from everywhere."

Pretty, In fact, It was a useful лате to have

beauty

Kate Roosevelt, step-daughter, queen, but I grow to hate it. it ridiculous and people of the American Ambassador was so

too.

in London, says she wishes thought I must be ridiculous she could manage without go when I was naked 11 12 "It'l rather terrifying the importanco It has assumed in would like to be a flim sötrées my life".

3-mid: "Yes, if I can change my name as wall?? Sho ures it for chats with But the Big Boge, did not

friends

diebuse his and making last= seem, Inclined to minute dates, but she thinks stara problema (They may ha mon do much more chattering never is. He Just said: "I hope on telephones than women."

you are enjoying yourself in this nim."

Luckily he does moat of his

wring in the Isle of Wight, Actress Mary Une shares my Why is he never when at ble where he is dimeull to dislike of tho talkative studion these days? Mr. Hank

monster, “

They will wake you at 11 pan. at night, with hearty cries of "I knew you would be home now," to consult you about carécts for Hoght・・ Beaumont, managing thele daughters, fials for their director of. ži, BL,

contact, "but lots of unwanted :

"People" always looked · sadly cwllah and d ./colla güll seep through from

ring you at the wrong times, I'm 68and when you are that London"

aho says, "and anything worth gw you have to take things saying is much better said in mere onally,

lotter,"

--Londen Expraam Kervina,

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Arthur Rank, in hacking jacket and baggy Tycoon In muftij. A cords, steps out with Bellinda Leo (left), similarly, informal, and Anne Heywood (alias Violet Pretty) in costume ciroa Neile Gwynn