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The pagan loval...savage exchements I... dangers untamedi ...of a forbidden island paradisol

MARIA MONTEZ

JON HALL SABU

WHITE SAVAGE

TECHNICOLOR

with Turhan Bay Sidney Tolar

Thomos Gomoz

Don Terry

Paul Guilfoyle

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THE HONGKONG.TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1946.

AROUND THE CINEMAS LEE THEATRE

News, Views And Wisdom From

WHEN asked to write,

giving all the news, views and wisdom of Hollywood, I don't think the person making the request realised exactly what he was doing to me.

To start with, every studio, a large percentage of the directors, and most of the stars employ highly paid lawyers who luck behind them twenty-four hours 24 day, thumbing expectantly through

the libel laws of the United States and Just walling for somebody like me

10 open his mouth too wide.

Much as I would enjoy dipping my fingers

Into the paper bag of my local knowledge and distributing the crumbs of my Information to the pigeons who are your Inquisitive friends. I shall have to be very, very careful how I set about this.

I have no wish to end my screen career making background shots for other people's prison pictures.

I

Ingrid Bergman

HAVE always made it golden rule never to knock other actors, for the obvious

reason that I am not nearly a good enough me myself to withstand the recoll. Conversely, I am ashamed to admit that words of praise, where other actors are concerned, usually flow from me like glue.

I am, therefore, somewhat Nur- prised to find myself gibbering and twitterhut with excitement over the performances of Ingrid

Cary Grant in "Notorious man and

the

This ehcock picture is really good, and the love cenes are best, the most beautifully played, and the best directed that I have ever seen on the screen.

Rex Harrison has scored a great personal success in "Anna and the King of Siam."

Beautiful Vivien Leigh is, of course, one of the top box office attractions over here, so "Caesar and Cleopatra" is doing tremendous business.

"Henry V." is a smash hit; so, ba- tween them, Mr and Mrs Oliver must be putting up a world's record for family popularity.

Leigh-Olivier

THE recipe for this is at fol- lows: Take Mr Olivier's fantastic success with the York, Old Vic Company in New mix with That the beauty and bravery of his "Henry." showing all over the United States, now add Mrs Olivier's triumph every time she ap- pears on the American screen, slowly and season with their own personal charm and power to make everybody who comes into contact

with them love them.

stir

Pour liberally, never allowing to cool, and you have the perfect mix

In ture for promoting admiration American hearts for British art and artists.

Ann Todd arrived recently and

Hollywood

by

David Niven

went to see the Kreat Broadway musical hit "Carousel."

to

After that Nigel delivered her a grateful Niven and went off to at tend some business meeting on ker behalf.

menna

She ordered a fruit salad nitt kut it-American style. That the same as an ordhary salad; com- plete with lettuce and tomatoes ond so forth, but sitting on top is some fruit. It shook her considerably, but she was undaunted and soon climbed outside it.

She is going to make a picture for Hitchcock with Gregory Peck- as nice a set-up as on actress could want, and one which she richly de- serves after "Seventh Veil."

Robert Donat is a great favourite over here, but all compliíín that they sn't see enough of his picures. The same complaint could safely bea mnde in England.

Magaret Lockwood arrived and at the request of local cameramen struck the traditionat pose of all visiting actresses--that of balancing cariously on the ship's rail display jing shapely legs and waving to soine

object far below the ship.

pre-

I often wonder what it is they wave at: I suppose it's somebody i inn skyscraper near by or perhaps i a passing seagull.

She is going to make a picture at ¦ Universal. Tint a very pleasant place to work, and inclientally the whole studio fell in love with Patricia Hoe when she was inaking a pieture there a short time ago.

Danny Kaye is probably the most sensational comedian to appear over here for the last ten years.

be

Before the war he was entertain Ing at the Dorchester in London, where he tells me ruefully that didn't think he went down well. Perhaps he wasn't so then he's terrific now.

An Explanation

very good

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Hair „pled high

brad. GALITY "GONS gets into a strictly 1916 bathing suit between AUPHEA [07 11054

pinge. 441) DARLING CLEMENTINE, 20th Con kury-Fox saga of Wyatt Karp which Brides HENRY FONDA and VICTOR MATURE back to the xereru.

just called up for service and that was that.

In England, however,. producers, directors cameramen and key techni cians were all "reserved." and So, of course, were setors-provided they remained actively employed, at their job of acting.

Some of the finest Hollywood directors were away for years in the army, and the local scene will soon be brightened considerably when the productions of Frank Capra, William Wyler, John Ford, George Stevens,

pear once more on the screen.

You will be glad to know that John Huston and Garson Kanin ap-

British pictures are en- joying a tremendous 'up- in swing

popularity

here. Wherever I go-and I don't menn only in Hollywood but all over this enormous country--I always

over

hear

the same thing. "How wonderful

to

British pictures are these days!"

Nobody in

world the

Is more violently anxious than I am that the heights of world popularity and British pictures should sour up stay there, but, on the other hand, the fact remains that, with regard rate, the British to personnel at any file industry was pampered during the war years whereas the Hollywood industry was hampered.

This probably sounds peculiar to

Favourites Back

MONG

the actors, old favourites (but by 10 means eid men) have now been demobilised and have finished top-class

wili productions, so you soon again be seeing Jimmy Stewart, Robert Taylor, Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Melvyn Douglas and muny others.

All of this adds up to healthy com. petition, and without that we would

all be sunk.

Just imagine if Mr Austin and Mr Morris and Mr Rolls and Mr Royce had not looked out the window one

hampened to be in New York at the i volt, and I can almost hear you or day and said, "We con all do as well

child.

time. We had supper together the Orst night she was there, and she was dering another furious half-pint to steady yourself, but it happens to as full of enthusiasm as

She had spent the day window be true. shopping, stepping inside, being ap- palled at the prices, and stepping outside again. Then in the evening she and Nigel Tangye, her husband, tors, cameramen and technicians were

You see there were no "reserved film occupations" in the American industry. Actorn, producers, direc-

DR. W. R. INGE ASKS

ARE FILMS IMMORAL?

ja

A widespread the result of an intimate question- THERE

naire conducted in America. The opinion that some of the conclusion was that "our young men popular American films are hav-are becoming ing a demoralising influence on young women less so."

T'he figures would astonish 1

our people.

It is said that instead of giving

more moral, our

Frenchman; they certainly prised me.

21 In

cogency. when we shouldn't 1?A

sur-

We have come to a time when a pleasant and decent picture of

hns lost its traditional authority they suggest human relations,

We have begun to

sny degraded and corrupt society.

tempted, Why tre which sexual licence, brutality and cruelty are the chief features.

When wr consider how much good this new Invention might do it it were conducted by high-minded. producers. It is no wonder that the popularity of these fims, if they deserve this condemnation, is cau sing regret and even alarm.

Wild West

Are we in danger of learning from Amerten what is least worthy of imitation in this civilisation?

The lure of the Wild West is no new thing: Some of us con member

TC- Phineas Barnum

and glorification Buffalo Bill. But the of the cowboy cannot do us much not harm. Our young people linve

to of learning much opportunity ride buckjumpers, or of Imitating the celebrated Dillinger, who was so handy with a gun.

As for cruelly, which unfortun- ately does not appear in any list of the deadly alns Issued by the

it is still for us tho

unpardonable offence.

Churdy

one

films,

Long may it remain that the

So for we may

this incriminated Hollywood though they con do nobody any good, are not likely to do mischief in Englind. But we may be more doubtful when we think their possible influenes upon morall- ty in the narrower sense.

in

much

of

Our laws try to bo rather careful from this protecting the yoting

Indecent pho-

lund of corruption literature are tographs and obscene forbidden.

can prevent the confirmed smut-hunter from inding what he wants; but the man with the muck-rakte must not be allowed to obtrude his wares.

There is no reason to think that the Americans are loss moral than we are, but I was impressed by

The passions grant dispensations more easily than the most acroni. modaling director.

as Mr Ford!"

fed

"like the male film stars are horses in the morninit, everyone neighing after his neighbour's wife"; and though Hollywood is not typical, broken marriages seem to be even commoner in Amerien than now are here.

Uplift? No!

they

The best film I have seen (1 very Yarely go

to a theatre) was an English production. The Ghost Goes West," and I

onco saw German film which was admirably put on and acted. It was severely proper-and. rather dull,

We must not be too censorious about the popular taste. People go to the theatre to be amused, not to be instructed or elevated,

It is enough if the performance contains nothing base or cruel or dirty.

a

The But which I have named is fair example of the innocent fun which our producers should aim at providing, and they have shown that they can do it.

Lauren Bacall, who took mavin audiences by storm. In her Alim debut in "To Have And Ilavo Not," is co-starred opposite 'Charles Bayer: In Warner's exciting new drama,--"Confidential- Agent,” which will be shown at the Lee Theatre next week.

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Song to Remember

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TIME IS NOT RIPE

"GASLIGHT”

CHINA'S SHIPPING

New York, Nov. '1 ̧ (UP).—The There are at present 205 shipping three. Latin-American nations most companies with 403 vessels with a nctively seeking the overthrow of total of 207,883 tons in China. the Franco regime of Spain 'decided Or this number 63 are in Shang- here. to-day that the time is not ripe hal and the others in Canton, Teing- to introduce a motion in the United tao, Tientsin, Foochow, Holhow and ather ports. The greater number of Nations Assembly asking the 51 mem-ships is owned by the China Mor-. bern to break of: diplomatie and chants' Steam Navigation Co, which commercial relations with Fronco. have eighty-five vessels composed of nitteen which survived the wor and The conference represented the seventy newly purchased including Governments of Mexico, Guatemala phins of the Liberty and Victory and Venezuela.

types, freighters and landing craft. The fotel tonnage is 129.100 tons.

China has built nine ships herself :-

Mr Louls Saillant, Communist Secretary-General of the World Federation of Trade Unions, cabled and received sixty-nine from Allied to-day from Paris to Dr Trygve Lle countries as gifts.

General Secretury and M. Paul

Spank an President of the UN

Assembly, demanding "some quick, Franco affair makes the peoplo effective micans of putting an end to worldwide to wonder about the the Franco regime." He said: "The effectiveness of democratic princi apparent Importance of UNO in the plus.”.

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