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CURTAIN CALL
1914 And
ALL
All That
son
a play enlled, The Man Ughter, followed by Mr Morri- Who Slayed at Home."
as a young man about town. Of course, his name Ball,
along the early Paul Robirvon, you out
neighbour, was the right type, years of this century
he had joined the Teritorials there were rumours of war, although
In September 1914, Kitchener Geoffrey hin trend Angchures, Infant care; beauty and Other countries did some
an army. Ils face was always taköy the mickey summoned
They represented appeared in every hourling, as fashion-tips; clothes; careers thing about it. Germany eat of him.
of England, with hand outstretched, he told began to produce that high. the male opinion
all the kid "Your King and background and hobbies: cooking: pets; ly efficient Army
which and in the
Various Wainen folk who, when Country Need You." Cole household-hints; "Shop-ultimately led to talk of a the time come, were to wring in helpless sym- "War Machine." She built their hands
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Chloe Mutting Post Lid., Wyndham
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ALLUME "Collection
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ACER Dhound"; book-reviews: film-a navy too, and that did SUVEL TERM Bid Babur fare and musical requests. exasperate the English now with and again, France, memories of 1870 took a hand, but in England, there were those wonderful sum- evenings mers and long when future poeta, soon to
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"An Englishunan's Home had this plot. Without warning Prussian Army invaded
East Anglin and the first Mr Brown knew about It was when il certain Sergeant Garth called on him to tell his house was to Prussian Hendquarters.
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derful to gaze upon the moon, and see the branches Atir at Grantchester.
This was
all very well, Kaiser William I might be 2 good tur but the Englishman must wake up. he must, if necessary De shocked from hig com- placency.
Lord Roberts warned the nation, Viscount Esher re organised the War Office and Lord Haldane set about forming a Territorial Army,
Now if there is one thing
Englishman could.
He ordered the sergeant out of the house and told him to go and fight somewhere else.
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Some of the lods would not lake the hint, so certain indies with houting! better to do wint around distributing white
thers,
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THE SUN ALSÓ RISES
This Is Zanuck's Masterpiece
Tonight at the Roxy, and startling realism on life as ther then off for a long run at found it.
the Roxy and Broadway Such then is the there be- comes a picture that the hind, "The Sun Also Rus." crilic welcomes. For once In his life he la able to em-
It would be trite if I joined with the crowd and said.
ploy all his superlatives Hemingway 1s & brilliant. without giving his con- science a day off.
Twentieth Century-Fox pre- seni "The Sun Also Rises. It the reader will permit me to express my personal opinion, 1 nim going to say that it is the finest example Cinema Art that has come to the screen within my genera. tion.
creative
Only a sensitive imaginative producer could have got this down in celluloid, so no matter what credits you attribute to must the star, Arst mention come to Darryl F. Zammuck
so wonderfully who has
CAB- tured all the Aner nuances of Homingway's vivid writing.
Basil. Tell me, why do you darken the top of the lamp?"
Lamplighter, "In case of a Zeppelin rald.”
Basil." I were you, Pain darisen the bottom as well.”
Lamplighter. "What for?" Basil. "In case maritie Talc."
I is not often I dare to speak
dogmatic a
manner, ut in my fashion I do know of the artistte difficulties that were countered in bringing one of
of a sub'e fenat understood periods of our time to the screen. Scoft Fitzgerald
Poor stuff, you say? Maybe, but it was topical and right fully original which is more than I cars may for most pre- sent day gods.
ways bent The camera, no pro- ducer has been able satisfac- torily
bring
ir
his stuff to the
That was the second theme To the Royally of this play. came Mr. Denis Endle
Look at the people who ne
Geleen Rimply Phylls because the pro- Christopher Brent. The typical peared in that revuc. Englishitan of foreign getlon, Monlanan, Sonny Hale, Goby ducer had not the Ralph Lynn brand of silly Deslys, and Beatrice Lallie. No the artistle sena- Complete with eyeginss; wonder the old feks talk about |sitiveness nor
wonderful showa,
by John Luff
A
Then du Maurier rubbed the lesson. Gecthey the scoffer is England. kied and Mr Brown, al-
So while most of young Eng- though courteously saluted by land are taking a one-Way the Prussian G,O.C. is taken fisket la France, this cod goes out and shot as a franc-keur, for a fortnight's holiday near
Einy Clacton. This bit in particular shook Wyncham's audience. It
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the artistie The National War Almanaë courage to dare tho face for 1916 shows me that Janu- to
with ก ary 1st fell on a Friday. On putlic theme
that re- Saturday, "Mistress Wilful," a
near -costume-play opored at the quires
Strand.
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in
all
gerdus to pre-
sent in a com- prehensible manner.
wrlier. But it is not, so if I Gay why he is а brilliant writer.
The most brilliant wrlung, In spite of what the long-ha red boys say, is writing about what you know, and see, and hear. Then put it down in a way all your own,
That is what makes The Sun Also Rises" n work out- standing. It happened, they did these things. Some of us can say who these characters are In the original. And to them adds just that Hemingway
He awards them twist. different nationalities, but we low that X did pick up + fart and Introduce her as duchess. We
know there was trouble with a bullfighter. Yes, Homing- way knew them ali, they are all there in the film.
Now if I say that I recognise the principal
NEW FILMS
ANTHONY FULLER
Zanuck has won out because
not say
To lake the
characters, it is Just the same as saying that the actors portray the parts alloted In such a mon-
ner that
they take un the Uké- ness of the ori-
Kinals.
Ava Gardner relives the part of a very unhappy woman. And in doing so, she proves she is not only an
A
lictress, but
artist--as "great well. stars one at
20 time and say
And
to work it out, it is the basis
of the new mode of writing that the "Exiles" introduced, but to achieve it in the Cinema is n forward in creative new step
art.
All I can say is that Tyrone Power, AVR
Met Gardner, Ferrer, Errol Flynn, and Eddie Alberi fit into a complex back- ground
one role where, if dominated another, whole episode would be thrown out of
character.
The small Territorin force open mouth,
People were already a shart bow,
begin perfect ning to get away from War, but
so is put up a good show assisted by tweed jacket, and 1
He before the year was slacks,
ut they be han refusst to compromise. good in the part is just rubbish Mr Brown with his shot gunpair ofite
American unless you know what purt they ap- were to be dragged right back He has faced the WAS spitomired all that
What public est, and secondly the are supposed to portray. in to reality, in parently dull and silly ass
world with a challenge. This the producer had to do hero imas our generalion, there were was io first get his cast to Or Exiles". He does not assume the personallites, apologise, he does not comment. sympathetic, contrasting, ond It ly the "Take it or leave it of complementary, then leave them The National War Almanack un ariisi. It is Zanuck's master- was advertised
the plece, theatre programmes On it, larger than the Royal Crown It will not spoil the show for Was printed the Prince of you if I try to explain the back- Wale's feathers with its ancient ground of the flirt, for I never Inscription "Jch Dien." Ami reveal plat or tell story. By this time he has though that young man, soon to cap- feathers to stuff a mattress, but ture the heart of the world somehow you have the idea he truly fulled his title, for the is not all he seems, And by was serving, as far up to the After the First World War, a the third act, after he has line as authority would permi¦ group of Americans either The Territorials, Satur-
Whether the play stimulated rounded up all the German him.
stayed on or moved into Paris. day Afternoon Soldiers as recruiting for the Territorials, spies in the neighbourhood, you
Hemingway was among them, I I do not know. Personally,
Strangely enough, my eric but I would
he was know you've been mistaken. dubbed,
should say not, Suflelent bo it
wrote his finest lines about this altogether of them, led the boys with mirth. to say that when the hour
Then suddenly came another time. They have nothing to do struck ve yours Inter, En- turn In that strange English with the tage, for as everyone. land's finest generation went temperament. The War became he had caught the war fever. In forth to battle. When war did a joke, they decided to laugh that muspiration he not only ex
well, but for arrive, it caught everyone
presses himself once in his life, he makes the wrong foot, the theatre in particular. No one knew what Mr Andre Charlot pul quite to do. In fact,
on correct forecast. "Mud friends was it one of his famous revues, "5064 obeying the behests of a mad right to carry on with amuse- Gerrard." That
rendered desolate
exone which traces the garland- was the old Kaiser, have ment when the country was at telephone number
If you were to ask me why ing of the animal from lis ad- of innocent Al- fens of thousands of the
as we they behaved in such a manner, A slogan was found, hembea..... war?
vent in the streets to the bloody hames. Business as usual,'
bellove in the justice of our should say, it was heenuse patch of sand where the bull the brilliant so surely do we believe that they us a generation found pours out its life There was not a lot of War cause, But for the theatre, business about it, but I { play, and the scenes were more
mention it that not only will the Kaiser that life and deals had nothing afternoon bus. or loss founded on Incidents was hot as usual, There was
the William II suffer a just fate at to do whatever with the stuff because it must contain that took place In France an immense drop in the book- frat air-raid seg ove
the hands of the nations he has they had heard at Princeton and when the Germans overran inis, for across the Channel the
outzged, but that he has in Harvard.
the They were Butt to greatest drama
curred the micat terrible venge-
gener: tion that country in 1870,
of history was
more clever is Heming- discovered that there was add the
ance of the God whose neme he that dise English touch,
he shinping. made his characters conform to
Invokes with such
Claus, They crossed Way's associating this with the sacreligious no Santa
eireum- orgiastic certain types that
hnd already freedom." A Zeppelin
the attending represented
to France to help deliver The terrible yean: of snatch dropped a few bomby in East
six nces of those who surrender Old World, their young the the various
Ing a moment's happiness at a London.
Well, the critic, B. W. Findon
their Ilves to the theory The irst partial county's situation as it slood show had not yet arrived. The blackout had
was absolutely right, but the died in the muck and horror of
sensationa taken siready
Their answer to their Bing Boys are Here" and "Chu place. The street lumps
were world had to trade in a whole France.
tutors we to live Chin Chow" were all in the painted a dark green.
age of culture, and the stags starry-eyed
their lives doing just as they future, but someone was ready
all its easy going ways, its idio
to comment with ked, and
Major Guy du Maurier was infurinted. He decided that the moment was ripe to drop a histrionic bomb shell. So to Wyndham's in January 1909 came, "An Englishman's Home."
He did quite a bit of re starch before he penned
then.
outlooks
the
on
about it.
Rut surely
Mr Charles Rock 100k over the role of Mr Brown, a typical
The Lopic of the Scene. The stage of the Al- loungers, its banal plots, to face East to exploit well-to-do farmer B
hour. Spies! J.E. Harold Terry' hombro. There walks on
a the new age which followed the Anglia.
and Lechmere Worral turned certain Mr Cook asa Lamp- First World War.
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Mr Brown represented that part of England's opinion can't happen kire!
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WHAT'S ON TONIGHT
KING'S & PRINCESS: "Operation Mad Ball"-A comedy starring Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Kathryn Grant.
HOOVER 槛 LIBERTY: "Lisbon" Mystery, romance, excitement, starring Ray Milland, Maureen O'Hara, Claude Rains and Yvonne Furneaux.
ROXY & BROADWAY: "Hell on Devil's Island”.
Starring Helmut Dantine and William Talman and Gala Premiere of "The Sun Also Ribes":
STAR & METROPOLE: "The Broken Star
Adventure In the West. Starring Bill Williams, Lita Baroni and Howard Duf.
A
QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA: "Man In Space"
Walt Disney portrayal of Man's attempts to cou- quer space, together with Fess Parker In Davey. Crockett and the River Pirates,
colourful
the Regarding They were a brilliant set in the main, they influenced Pageantry that is brought to the I do not screen. It is superb. American art, and laid the
alart
hesthetic Hemingway's foundations of that peculiar style of writing that has places But that does not prevent my ap- appreciation of the bull0ght, the American novelist In the preciating the long colourful forefront of world writers.
I
men
A scene from The Sun Also Rises; Ava Gardner and Gregory Ratoft
But
of
This flim must rank Zanuck's masterpiece. He has taken Hemingway's great book, but equally he has stamped it with Zamck's genium.
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