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WE HHH

"Why! Penelope ! Haven't scon you since Alamoin !"

ERIC COOK

RAY MILLAND'S COLUMN.

One man I try

to avoid

'M n movie fan. Back home I go to the

movies at least once, often twice, a week. The stars I like to see best are Ronald Col- man, for his polish; Ingrid Bergman, for her naturalness; Humphrey Bogart, for his rebellious.

ness.

If Ray Milland is on the bill I stay away, I never see myself in films unless I have to. I don't like myself in pictures.

Knowing how the wheela go round has disadvantages. The average movie fan might not notice a fractional fault in synchronisation when an actress is singing. He mightn't observe one slight gaucherie in an actor.

and my Big 3

in pictures

BOGART

Little flashes on the screen, result | COLOUR of reflections from the camera lens, for outdoor subjects: Not for is a wonderful medium might escape him. These things drama. smosh my illusion, bring me slap out the imaginative adventure created by the film back to the stark realities of the set rigged up in

corner of the studio.

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I'm such a movie fun that I resent this more than somewhat,

What I Like

FANT

ANTASTIC pictures are the ones I like best. I like to see the 10- sources of the cinema exploited in

BERGMAN

COLMAN

quality to a high degree, Marie Tem- A great English netress had that

pest.

Colour distracts the attention when it in used in films requiring close

Some actresses replace the tack concentration on the argument and

of this quality by posing and pos- dialogue. When the eye is led away turing. All the horses in Hungary the mind wanders and the thread is would not drog the name of one

example from me. I merely register| that I don't care for the "mannered" school of acting.

Iost.

There is a lot of discussion about how much of a Alm's success is due to the actor, how much to the direc- for. In my view, the responsibility breaks even. One thing is sure. A bad director cannot help a bad actor. Name the men I consider the best film directors? I dare not.

some priglund adventure of the mind Personality

which would not be possible on the stage.

For

that reason I enjoyed "A Matter of Life and Death" at the Royal Command performance. For that reason I remember Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit" as one of the best films I ever now.

Crossing from New York I Uked "The Magle Bow," with Stewart

Granger, so much that I saw it twice on board ship. The music in that picture was as good as anything" T have heard from the concert plat- form. That story of the violinist- compaser Paganini is just another warning to Hollywood that British; plctures are enlching up on us.

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LIKE nearly everyone else of any

F.

I were asked to pick one quality -looks, voice, figure, what have you-which I think essential if a film stur is to please, I wouldn't know.

It ig impossible to analyse the charms of a lovely woman; equally vain to dissect the components of a great movie star.

It's the sum of the complete per- sonality that alther appeals, or fails to appeal.

If there is any one test, It is the

ability to get that personality over when sitting atill, and doing nothing,

actor

Another Year Of Hunger For The Germans

By Daniel Deluce & Godfrey Anderson

BEATEN

Germany. after ter fed: nome repatriation of almost six years of war and prisoners; some reduction la occupa over a year and a half of allied tion forces, and a "partial solution". occupation, faces a new year of

of the displaced persons problem. hunger, disease and unrest,

Most of her 60,000,000 people are on self-sturvation rations.

Black markets

prey on them: poverty drives many, to crime and tuberculosis, rickets and other all- ment's are widespread.

The Relch's land must help to sup- port hundreds of thousands of occu- pation troops and nearly 1,000,000 aliens.

Food still is the German's grovest problem. Over 40,000,000. are on Allied chority in the United States and British zones.

"Normal" dally ration is 1560 calories, compared with the 2000 calories the health administratora deem "a minimum sufficient, to main- Lain nutrition." No early solution of this problem is in sight

GERMAN TRADE- American and British oficials seem ogreed that "incentive" loans should be given German, trade to enable the By Allied estimates, more than country to export its products to get 4,000,000 German men, who are a means to pay part of its own food needed to rebuild the country still bai, are prisoners of war,

Military government officials of the United States and British zones nee this outlook for Germany in 1947:

Continued slow starvation diet for millions; "Irreparable damage" to children's bodies unless they are bet-

ICE QUEENS IN LONDON

They say that although this might reduce the Allied burden, it is not likely to improve the German diet

inuch.

The United States, Britain and France, occupying Western Germany, give a monthly physical examination to record the decline in public health from chronic malnutrition,

Tuberculosis is spreading al a stog- gering rate. The growth of venereal disease rates since thu surrender, blamed partly on the Allied garrison armies, is described as fantastic.

A health official said o "large pro- portion" of postwar babies in Ger- an cities have bone deformations for want of vitamin D.

Black markets and traße in narco-

cities.

By James R. Chambers Queens of the world's ice- skating rinks, practising for the ties and alcohol flourish in many world figure skating champion- ship meeting in Stockholm from February 14 to 16, have been giving London 13 taste glamour and skill.

GENERAL POVERTY

For example, an average Dusseldorf Poverty is the lot of most people.

of worker is paid up to 30 marks

week. He cannot afford potatoes at five marks n

marks. So he lives on

Seven Norwegian girls and apples at 19 pound or black market.

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one each from the United Statek bread. He may wait in line for 12

foremost and Sweden

hours to get it. are among the

The Dusseldorf police report skaters currently marked increase in crime. The poor attracting attention as they cut steal from their neighbours. They dazzling and intricate figures on wreck wooden signboards for fuel the ice of London's indoor rinks and pilfer produce from farmera. and receive instruction from Oberhausen.-Associated Press.

Recently, atroin was held up at British and foreign coaches.

The American champton is 21- year-old Gretchen Merrill of Boston, POSTSCRIPT.-When an

Massachusetts, who is being coached Hights a cigarette on the scrcon. 1 by Jacques Gerschwiler, Instruelor in the audience like to light ene too. to Britain's former ice-sitating queen, In an American cinoma I am not Cecilia Colledge. The Swede is Maj allowed to do so. That is why those Brit Ronninbert and the Norweglons

Liv Borg. Bjorg little ashtrays on the seats of British are

Lohnner, cinemas give me a delightifid sense Ingeborg Nilsson, Bjorg Vanbym, that i can do a forbidden thing with Elise Hagen, Lilly Gran and Margot out fear of the consequences. "So far Walle. I haven't found an answer to the

problem of what to do when someone

on the screen pours out a drink.

Sce you to-morrow.

Bay Hulland

According To Culbertson

(Copyright, 1946, by Ely Culbertson)

The East-West team in to-day's | with considerably more honour tricks age I am enchanted by Disney, deul had a legitimate complaint than are usual for such biris But he makes a mistake in Intro- | agoinst Lady Luck! ducing human characters. It's the

animals we want.

A new character in animated car- loons is having a big success Hollywood. This is a wise-cracking rabbit callod Bugs Bunny. crazy creature's cute,

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you had to be shipwrecked on a desert island with three films --not forgetting the projector-which would you choose?

I would take "The Maltese Falcon," "Going My Way" and "Colonel Blimp."

But maybe it will never happen.

Do books make good films? Some-

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It was an unfortunate action! In- stead of being shut out as he un- questionably should have been- South definitely came in at the four- level with a hand that might have been slaughtered, had he failed to find the right sort of support in his however partner's band. Obviously. He was luckier than he had any right to expect North not only had ex- cellent spade support he also had strengli where South needed it most, in diamonds, and even the singleton club to cut down South's losers in that suit.

It is fairly evident, of course, that LC18 West's double of four spades was not as sound as it might have been, but with two, defensive tricks, and with no length in partner's hearts, West's decision was not too bad, He could scarcely bid hla weak club suit at the five level, and pasting over four spades was not completely satisfactory. South made the con- trnet by guessing to finesse for the diamond lack.

times. The story is what counts.

I East had started out with one East, a strong player, felt that heart, West could have come in with A flim company in Hollywood have bought Wendell Willkie's One World, after his partner had passed it was a club bid, and then, of course, East worthwhile to reduce his own ¦ would not have sold out short of five It remains for someone to buy the chances for reaching a slam in order clubs. It must be admitted, how- rights of the prospectus of the amal- to keep the opponents quiet if they ever, that it was very bad luck to gamated cinemas. Or perhaps held the spade sult, with. some dis- have South make his "stab" bld and current bank, report,

mond strength. Henco, ho pre-empted and such support!

NANCY

That'll Teach Him

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In addition Lo practice, these skaters are scheduled to give ex- hibitions. They are not permitted to enter the British contests but they will be able to estimate what competition they will have from Britain when they watch the formances of Daphne Walker, Marion Davies and Jill Jood Linzee in the British Empire Championships at Wembley Stadium. These are tho girls on wham Britain places its main hopes lor the world cham- „pionship—Associated Press,___

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