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April 19 1941.

Movies

New Moon

Jeanette MacDonald and

The music is tuneful, the

Nelson Eddy co-operate as stars are in good form, the effectively as ever in this action is occasionally thrill- new screen version of the ing and the staging is in the usual opulent M-G-M_man- famous stage success, "New ner. However, the drama- Moon," last made ten years tic canvas is overcrowded ago with Grace `Moore and and the footage overlong

MARY LEILANI Lawrence Tibbett. The pic- and all but MacDonald-Eddy

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Period romance, Fair- aristocrat of the France of banksian adventure, a desert Louis XVI who escapes to island sequence, America after having been "Shangri-la" whimsey and a spot of sentenced for a political bedroom comedy are all offence. He becomes a ser- crammed in with vocal ac- vant to Marianne, a French companiment.

woman with estates in Mary Boland provides Louisiana and they fall in welcome comedy relief as love. They quarrel when one of those fluttery aunts, she learns of his past, but and sound support is con- are reconciled after heroic tributed by George Zucco, measures on the part of the Grant Mitchell and Stanley hero.

Fields.

Mr

Mrs Smith

Alfred Hitchcock's first The remainder of the action American-made film comedy, revolves about David's attempts "Mr and Mrs Smith," is now at to win back his wife. Ann' thinks the King's Theatre. In situa- David's partner, Jeff, an old she is falling in love with tion, it resembles somewhat such friend whom she has retained as motion pictures as "My Favour counsel to start divorce proceed- ite Wife," "Too Many Hus- jngs. But the Smiths are even-

Last performance To-night at 9.15 p.m. At K.C.C. bands," and "The Awful Truth." tually reconciled,

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Although the Smiths are happily Under Mr Hitchcock's direc- married, David has made the tion, the story provides several mistake of telling Ann that, if situations of sophisticated bilar- he had it to do all over again, ity. he would not marry her.

The playing throughout is ex- Subsequently, the Smiths learn cellent. Robert Montgomery is that their marriage is illegal band. Carole Lombard acts the bland, engagingly casual hus- through a geographical technic- Mrs Smith, nee Ann Kraushei- ality, and when David fails to re- mer, with verve and dash, and propose immediately, Ann ex- Gene Raymond manages to take pels him from their luxurious quite a bit of over-stuffing out. household,

of the sympathetic family friend.

Son of Monte Cristo

Nelson Eddy and Jeanette Macdonald as they appear in "New Moon", showing at the Queen's and Alhambra Theatres.

Stage and

Films will Die in 15 Years

By Frederick C. Othman

United Press Hollywood Correspondent

At a time when the Balkans Monte Cristo, played by Louis are in the headlines, there is Hayward, and after a few adven offered at the Lee Theatre a tale tures, be rescues her from a shot-recently that the stage had not produced an outstanding star,

of romance, statecraft and duell- gun marriage to the dictator and ing with wit and blade set in a marries her himself. mythical Balkan kingdom. · Hayward somehow lacks, the "The Son of Monte Cristo," spirit or the dashing abandon we however, falls a bit short of his lot to live up to John Gilbert, hoped to see, but then, he has a old man. The elder Cristo Was Douglas Fairbanks, and Robert a thrilling, swashbuckling, hero, but his heir is considerably Donat, each of whom played a colourful Count of Monte Cristo. Joan Bennett contributes little The story is about the grand to the film except her beauty. duchess of a European prin- The dictator is superbly played cipality who is having her dim- by George Sanders, who gives culties with Bismarck, the Czar, the best performance of all, and and a dictator in her own coun- further confirms the opinion that. try. The duchess (Joan Ben- he is one of the few good screen nett) is aided by the son of actors living.

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of Monte Cristo"; now Joan Bennett,

Charles Coburn, the distinguished American actor, charged

male or female, since 1926. The movies have made only a few and they, he said, for the most part have not been great per-| formers, but outstanding personalities.

"Unless something is done to the process in Hollywood takes give young actors proper profes- too long. sional training," he said, "I

Forlorn Hope predict that in another 16 years "That leaves the schools as the stage will die-and along the only places where would-be with it will go the films." actors can hope to learn their

He said that universities, high profession. To-day, it is a for- schools, and colleges are spend- lorn hope. Unless we do get ing millions of dollars for magni- real talent in the colleges to ficent theatres and equipment. tench drama, it won't even be

"And what happens" he asked, a hope to-morrow."

This kind of talk is liable to "We find amateurs teaching amateurs how to be amateurs. offend a lot of people in scholas Now it may be fun for the tic circles, but that's the least. Coburn's amateurs on the stage to scamper of the 62-year-old around behind the footlights, worries. He defies, any school with an amateur in the person of to produce a single great actor a lady from the English depart- turned out by it during the last ment as director, but it's tough decade and a half. He hopes he on the audiences.

has raised an argument, and figures that is his only chanco

College Shows

"I would say that 98 per cent. of getting started on a campaign of all the stage shows produced to save the theatre from extinc-

in America to-day are performed tion..

Started at 12 He wore an old-fashioned

on school and university stages. The audiences who go to these shows cannot get interested in bathing suit as he talked about this in a Coney Island Polico the characters. All they can station on an R-K-O sound say is 'Look how cuto Maggie stage. It seemed a little incon- Jones is in her wig, or "My gruous, but he was earning his doesn't Joe Donks look fine in

Iving in the profession he knows whiskers.'

best. He was starring with "What I can't understand la Jean Arthur and Robert Cum- the fact that a great university mings in the comedy, "The Devil will go to any length to obtain and Miss Jones." Sam Wood ablo scientists In Its medical was directing and all hands were school and fine scholars for its in an argument with the cop, law courses, and will casually Regis Toomey, about Coburn's toss its drama courses to the right to parade the board walk Engllah Department, or perhaps in a bathing suit.

to the Professor of Public Speak This kind of thing was easy ing.

for Coburn, who began peddling With the revortory companies programmes in a Savannah, Ga all gone and the stage confined thentro when he was 12, became only to Broadway, there is no the house manager when he was. place for youngsters to learn 17, turned to acting, and kept it acting, except in school. On up all his life.. He knows his Broadway, & show has to be a job. His worry is that there ampah hit to earn profits, pro- seem to be no young people In ducers can't take that time? to those days trodding his path. coach newcomers. The movies The path itself is almost can't feach them, dither, because obliterated.

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