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THEY KNEW WHAT

THEY WANTED CHARLES LAUGHTON gives lady-killing an extraordinarily touching Gargan. performance as Tony Patucci

Tony is a fat, ugly, jolly, childlike Italian, who owns flourishing grape farm in Call- fornia.

New Films

Jun.

Film Stars and Their Fans

By James Arthur

Film fans have their favourite Just before Miss, Crawford started stars and, just to make things even, work in a new production, she re- the stars have their favourite fans. celved it letter from someone else These are their unseen friends with in the same town.

whom they have corresponded for "Please send me a pantograph like years. It Hoes far beyond the "I the one enclosed," the writer anld. Faw you in such-and-such a picture "A friend of mine who has to use a choir has me like It-she -please send me a photogenph" type wheel of letter.

clipped it from a magzine." Joan

this recently, Jean Crawford answered

letter immediately, the Identity of a fan shh had found the name of the crippled girl) been writing her for three years but and wrote her at once. who would not sign her name. The

girl confided that she had to use

wheel chair, but becaure she knew Jeanette MacDonald receives hun- how often Mins Crawford had been dreds of letters from girls who are withheld her ambitious to become great singera.

imposed upon, 'alte name, fearing the star might spend So many of these arrived that she too much of her valuable time welt- wrote a pamphlet called "No Royal ing. The anonymous letters came Road to Song" which slie sentts.out. regularly,

Charles Laughton and Carolo Lombard as they appear in "They Know What They

shoulder.

Wanted.".

One girl wrote that the article had helped her so much she would like to muke n monthly report to

Miss MacDonald on her musical progress. The

first of every month-along with the bills-the letter arrives. Miss MacDonald's fan tells her just what she is studying and how each tesson has pussey played small

When

ring film to his credit, Ford is a roles on the screen, she received a picture-stealer.

letter from an elderly couple who He's the boy the world is told her that, although they had sorry for because he's inno- been happily married for years, they cent, hunted, and idealistically were childless. They had always wanted a a daughter. When they dist foreman-William say: "This man has a message in love with Margaret Sullavan. saw Ruth on the screen, they turned and we should give it to the He typifies the results of Hitler to each other and said, "If we had a The girl arrives at the farm world-regardless." Faithfully, persecution-with life one long girl, I'd wish her just like that,

Since

the couple then, she und glance

the over is bitterly disillusioned ruthlessly, have they given his suspicious in the excellent film version of and

have corresponded

Every time Ruth starts

they send the Sidney Howard Pulitzer when she meets Tony-but hav- novel "Flotsam."

As "So Ends Our Night," the Miss Sullavan will have to her a telegram wishing her succeKY. Prize play, "They Knew What ing given her word that she will

photograph appears in They Wanted," now at the marry him she decides to go film is now showing at the Lee shake herself. Otherwise (af- When her

ter "Mortal Storm") we shall their local paper, they send her the Queen's and Alhambra.

through with it, though she and- Theatre...

Rentle They Hpping.

write her It is about refugees on the regard her as a permanent film letters Alled with good advice and the philandering foreman are mutually attracted.

Men and women without refugee. She wears the same admonitions concerning her future.

same school- They are siways to warm and And from then on, it's that a rubber stamp-hounded from cheap beret, the

friendly." Mles Hussey said, "that I eternal triangle problem Germany without a passport: girl bob.

I know both which Tony solves by his earthy Margaret Sullavan 50 per Miss Annd Sten takes a back seat find myself looking forward to the simplicity and essential good- cent. Jewish; Fredric March as March's unwanted lover, Frances letters. I feel

Dee has nothing to do as March's well." concentration camp escapee; dying wife. The film is finely directed by Glehn Ford-political refugee.

Kanin the early These three tramp wearily NO, NO, NANETTE Garson sequences are richly comic, the from frontier to frontier, and Anna Neagle and Roland Young from a young man who has been writing final ones intensely dramatic you see the constant fear of ar- sing "I Want To Be Happy" beside a The girl, played by Carole and if the "moral" seems to be rest in their eyes.

swimming pool, we have it again Lombard, whose rather hag plugged, rather strongly, well, But this film isn't all tragedy, from Miss Neagle as she rides

commenting profusely on the roles sho gard beauty suits the part per- it's a good one for these times, There's cracking fun when blcycle, and "Tea For Two" has its

plays. Incidentally, he tins.completely fectly, knows what she wants- any way.

March, searching for his inside- Incidental place in the story.

But mainly this is musical changed his mind about her receptablilty. a. home and someone to worry

Ge many wife, turns barker and comedy no longer and its presenta- A photograph lie saw of her in one of the Adrian-designed costumes for her new about her once in a while--and

thought-reader in an amuse- tion as a farce about a girl who fim inspired him to write: "A wife who makes trouble for herself by trying dressed like that certainly would make a she accepts her unknown suitor,

ment fair.

and writes.even more frequently than asking him to send her a photo-

And there is, for connois. to rescue a susceptible uncle from fellow feel good." lle is in camp now

Strangely enough, the stars, busy graph of himself.

her univesit montargins. seurs, the acting of baby-faced his amorous entanglements lacks the before.

they are, actually come to expect these "No, No, Nanette" is showing at letters from tried and true

denis.. of looks, sends a picture of the Hollywood moguls sit up. They twenty-three, and with no star- the King's.

He falls in love with a waitress in a San Francisco cafe, but is too shy to speak to her, so he persundes his fore- man to write to her, proposing marriage.

Tony, conscious of his lack

ness.

SO ENDS OUR NIGHT W Remarque writes a book THEN Erich ("All Quiet")

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

as

"Craig's When she starred in

Wife." Rosalind Russell received her first letter

her ever since. In the opening letter. lie said he had just seen the film and added, auch certainly wouldn't want a wife n as you were in that picture."

After each him he has written to it.

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This decision has been taken by the Government after a Anding by the Rand Riots Commission that there was a good deal of hostility by botli public and soldiers to police- men not wearing the flash.

The Minister of Justice recently told Parliament that of 7,532 pollee- men of all ranks in the Union, 4,407 the orange hnd qualified to wear flash.

The flash is regarded as a test of loyalty to the Government of Gen. Smuls. It will continue to be worn by the Army and Air Force,

Social Notes

BY KEMP STARRETT

YOU KNOW A PIPE ALWAYS, MAKES ME ILL!"

BUT WHAT CAN I DO

THE WATER DOESKT · AGREE WITH YOU....... -

WOR THE FOOD..HOR- -

ARS.GEO.P.PLIGHT, OF SKITHTOWN, IS .ENJOYING A PROLONGED VISIT

WITH HER DAUGHTER AND SON-WI-LAY MR. AND MRS. JOHN R."TUMBLEWEED OF HERE.

AR JOIN ÒFRIENDLY, WHO JUS BEEN ON AN EXTENDED BUSINESS TRID TO HOLLYWOOD AND ENVIRONS, HAS AGAIN HAD TO POSTPONE WIS

RETURN HOME DUE TO UNEX- PECTED COMPLICATIONS.

"IF YOU THINK I'M ALL CURED, DOC, YOU'RE CRAZY

AREIBERT KIDNEYFOOT SPENT THE WEEK-END-MOTORING TO NEW YORK: AND RETURN,

HRS.ARP STRIVER ENTERTAINED, AT BRIDGE OUI FRIDAY.KAS ALWAYS

A MOST EN OYABLE OCCASIONS

D.YY YOUNGIANCIER IS VERY SLOWLY RECOVERING, AT THE LOCAL HOSPITAL, FROM A RECENT ILLNESS.

· Ladım Studimie

MISS VERA WILLSTACK IS CONTEMPLATING A RETURN TO TOWN AFTER A CROWDED SEASON IN THE DEEP SOUTH.

AR.ARELARD SLUMP HAS ACCEPTED AM LAPORTANT POSITION WITH THE CITY EN

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