1947-04-19 — Page 2

TO-DAY

QUEEN'S

ONLY

STAN.

OLIVER

LAUREL HARDY

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1947.

A 2.30, 5.1. STAGE AND SCREEN:

7.15 & 9.15 p.m.

GREAT GUNS

MARCH OF TIME

ADDED! "ATOMIC POWER"

OPENING

Denner DURBIN

Produced by

FEUX JACKSON

with

TO-MORROW

Gone KELLY Christmas Holiday

he VC SOMEISET MAUGHAMS

RICHARD YAHORE DEAN HARENS GLADYS GEORGE_DAVID BRUCE_GALE SONDERGAARD

TO-MORROW AT 11.30 A.M. ONLY

Yvonne de CARLO in

"SALOME, WHERE SHE DANCED"

IN TECHNICOLOR

with Rod CAMERON

Albert DEKKER

AT REDUCED PRICES!

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DAILY AT 230 51o 715 & 915 PM

DAILY AT 210 520 720 & 920 PM. CENTRAL: Extra Performance at 12,30 P.M.

SHOWING TO-DAY

ADVENTURE GALORE

WITH THE

REIGN LEGION OF THE RAF!

Bolgian, Czoch, Grook, Pole and all the heroic rest avenging tho fate of their conquered coun- tries...living the fastest thrills

on earth-in the air!

Now the Story of their Glory is on the Screen.

INTERNATIONAL SQUADRON

Warner Bros.' Hir

tarring RONALD

REAGAN

ne his reckless, romantic best!

OLYMPE BRADNA · WILLIAM LUNDIGAN

IDAN PERRY-REGINALD DENNY

Directed by LEWIS SEILER

Gorana Kester Kary Trieus & Kenneth Genet VSvarstad

ADDED ATTRACTION

"PLEDGE TO BATAAN

IN TECHNICOLOR

""

ORIENTAL

SHOWING TO-DAY: 2,30—5.20—7.20—9,20 P.M. MUSIC-MAGIC—LAUGHTER-ROMANCE AND THE BEAUTIFUL GIRLS FROM HOLLYWOOD!

MOST

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Ziegfeld Follies

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SPECIAL MORNING SHOW' TO-MORROW AT 12.30 “TARZAN AND THE AMAZONS”

· IN TECHNICOLOR

SIX ACTRESSES ARE FIGHTING IT OUT.

BY LEONARD MOSLEY

F you are one of those people who think it is horrid for women to fight, you will be pained to hear that half a dozen or so of the most beautiful and *talented young actresses in London are all but scratching each other's eyes out at the moment. It is a professional battle, with no hair-tearing involved, but none the less fierce for that.

The Voice: The Feet: The Dream

FRANK SINATRA, swooner-crooner, sings six songs in his latest picture, "Anchors Aweigh," now at the King's Theatre. Gene Kelly plays the part of his sailor buddy, while the heart-throb is Katherine Grayson, beauteous screen nightingale. "Jalousic" is one of the songs she

sings in the Mexican cafe scene.

TWO STARS IN TROUBLE WITH U.S. CENSORS

JOA

By ERNEST BETTS

OAN BENNETT and Gregory Peck are both in trouble with the U.S. film censorship, Joan for taking a bath in a picture ("Don't they know we always wear something in the tub?"), Gregory for his part in "Duel in the Sun." Says Mr Peck: "The only form of censorship should be good taste. No subject should be taboo if we want the level of pictures to rise."

GAB

ABRIEL PASCAL sends me Evans, and I'm simply livid it I'm

a cable from the Metabolic called Miss Evans, "** Clinic (one where experiments!

are made on the way the body TORY

which does not umuse us.

works) at La Jolla. California: Abbott and Costello are to pro-, "Contradict all rumours that I duce a burlesque of "Hamlet" next signed any exclusive contract autumn. with Mary Pickford's company | for my Shaw pictures. Only contract approved by Bernard Shaw is that I produce and direct "The Devil's Disciple in Hollywood this year."

C.

COCIRAN

0

went 10 suburban muzale hall to sample a singer for his new show, "Bless the Bride. She come on with microphone. Sald Cocky: "What's the good of this? I wont to hear someone sing." And hie walked k.

LESLIE HENSON is returning to

the West End stage. We haven't! seen Funnyface since he appeared

in "Henson's Gnieties" in 19-415. Now he comes back to the Saville | Theatre at the end of April in a re-. vival of that choler old muster,

1000 And All That."

CRITICS punned the Jane Russell |

film. "The Outlaw," and 230,039 people saw it at the London Pavilion in 10 weeks. Now June challenges the critics again in a seemly plece entitled "Young Widow" with allurements of sex-appeal, and no posters to unger Parliament.

no

ADOLPHE MENJOU, who began

career with Chaplin and Valentino, and is now very

rich, Is writing his memoirs.

WHEN "Oklahoma,”* the

big

swingy American musical comes to Drury Lane". Theatre with do

American *playern-biggest In- vasion yet-there's to be a swop of U.S. and British players so that none of our chorines will be thrown out of work.

TS at the Critics' Circle luncheon: (1) Jack Hul

bert "We're at our best when we're * in a jam, and as were always in a Jam we're always at our best." (2) Dame Edith Evans-"I like to be colled, Dame. Evans or Dame Edith

SUPPOSE

that American show man who told me that Arthur Rank could buy up the American talking big. Latest statistics on Mr Alm business if he wanted to Was Hank's good fortune make the crack look less foolish. He han major Interest in more than 80 companies,) total ussels 01 £30,000,000, 645 einemas and nothing to drink! He is a teetotaller.

Cinema Guide

SHOWING TODAY

QUEEN'S Great Guns. KING'S-Anchors Awelgb.

CENTRAL-International

Squadron.

ALHAMBRA —International

Squadron.

NEXT CHANGE

QUEEN'S Christmas Holiday, CENTRAL--Mummy's Curse. ALHAMBRA—Mummy's Curse.

For these ambitious creatures are jostling each other for the honour-which is now going begging-of being acknowledged as the best actress of their time.

Now when I go on to nome the Mesdemoiselles Elleen Herlle, Mar- Karet Rawlings, Pamela Brown, Margaret Leighton, Freda Jackson. Vivienne Bennett as being among those who are involved in the fracos. let these brilliant young people re- strain themselves from runhing me with indignant denials.

де

They may say they are doing 11 in the cause of their Art. An old cynic like me says it is because they sense a quickening in the air, feeling that a Moment is apprunching In the history of our theatre which will bring one of them fame.

THE HEIGHTS

How any student of the English

hus it come about?

theatre will tell you that,

though

the past ten years have produced some great acting, the heights have been almost exclusively scaled by the men. Richardsons, Oliviers. Gielguds have taken the place of the older generation of

of netors.

But where have been the sucers- Borg to Edith Evans, Flora Robson, Lilian Braithwaite uncl Sybil Thorndike, who, unendingly brilliant though they continue to be, are no In their first flush of youth? longer

They real burgeoning began. think, with the appearance of Eileen Herlie In a play by Jean Cocteau called "The Rogle has Two Heads."

Now Miss Herlle is no stranger to the stage: she has long been accepted as a good actress. In play about a lovesick and

lonely queen, which one play-goor called "n Cocteau and bull story,"

," she spoke and acted us if a toestu had been sounded.

To those who had seen her in the past, she was like a gilder suddenly airborne and serenely triumphant in her new-found element. It was magnificent, electric acting.

to seems

war gur

Over at the Old Vic, before the curtain went up on "King

Lear" producer sald "to me: The

have hardened actressen. They aren't ploble any more. They don't seem to be able to dig down to their souls, 21012 realise that there's more to acting than tremor in the voice and a heaving bosom.

Alter

seen Margaret Leighton come on as Revan, fear nut Gloster's eyes, uml then turn round, stretching, voice thickening in reaction to her sadism, you could almost hear his mind changing as, {by the, end, it bad done.

WELCOME

ND, in the other theatres, there

AN were other exciting perform-

ances coming up: Vivienne Bennett in Shaw's "Back to Methuselah," finding new subtlety and guile; Margaret Rawlings returning to the stage in "The White Devil"

with new depths to

voice, her lovely giving frightening reality to her portrayal of "the"sex-freedy Tudy "of Webster's play: Freda Jackson "No Room At The Inn," her sleazy modern counterpart.

in

Now, I do not say that any one of those performances yet achieves Preatness, though some of it is great acting.

Birt these young women have lifted themselves to a new plane these past few months. They know it and are fighting hard to achieve

mure.

Deanna & Chum

Reunited

What amounted almost to a fum- ily reunion was held one day on the sel when Deanna Durbin's current Universal picture, "Christmas Holi- day, was being Almed,

Deanna was visited by Barbara Read. who played her sister In Deanna's first picture. "Three Smart Girls.'*

Miss Reud now is married to Sergeant John P. Crawford, an as- sistant fight surgeon in the Army Air Corps. Having forsaken pictures several years ago, Miss Read now is working as an artist.

Her visit to Deanna on her day off marked the first time the girls had seen each other in four years.

"Christmas Holiday," which pre- sents Deanna In a dramatic role. comes to the Queen's Theatre to- morrow.

HOLLYWOOD DIRECTOR IN CHINA

RAMON NAZÁRRO, Columbia Filmi director, recently visited Shanghai to shoot authentic exterior scenes for his now film.' "Assigned to Treasury, ", which donls with the narcotics trade, He in pletured here (Afth from right) with directors and actors and actresses of the Central Studio' in 'Bhanghai, which he toured.

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ANCHORS AWEIGH

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JOSE ITURBI

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HOWARD HUGHES'

during PRODUCTION

The Outlaw

introducing JANE RUSSELL

JACK BUETEL - THOMAS MITCHELL - WALTER HUSTON

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Ronald Colman As A Killer

When Ronald Cotman starts work.first time, a killer with a mental In the flm "The Art of Murder

In May, he will return to the type

of role he played early in his career.

Unt of a dashing, romantic characler,

aberration.

The story, written by Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon, Ins a New York theatrical background. Michael Colman will, for the first time, Kanin will produce the picture. portray an actor and, also for the Associated Prosa. ****?