1947-05-10 — Page 2

TO-DAY

ONLY

At 2.30, 5.15,

7.15 &.9.15 p.m.

QUEEN'S Frary's grandest action aornance

Esternational (fctures persents.

GARY COOPER · LORETTA YOUNG

in Nunnally Khuzan

Along Came Jones

vin VYILLIAM DEMAREST - DAN OURYEA

·ERANK SULLY • A CHEGA FRTISTS CORP, TRODUCTION

Produced by Gary Boone'

- TO-MORROW

She'll Gamble on Anything. BUT HER HEART!

George BRENT Priscilla LANE

SILVER QUEEN

10-MORROW. • AT 11.30 A‚M, o

ONLY

66'THE SEA HAWK”

Birral FLYNN

Brenda MARSHALL A Warner Bros. Pictura.

LEE THEATRE

- TOWN BOOKING OFFICE all

W, HAKING & CO, ALEXANDRA BLDG. GR. FL

BETWEEN 11.00 AM. AND GO0 P.M. DAILY

OPENING TO-DAY AT 2.00, 4.30, 7.00 & 9.30 P.M. (PLEASE NOTE THE CHANCE OF TIME)

Wolter Winchell

Occasionally Hollywood digs (Bleep in the rich nonth of its {talont and comes up with la gusher, of artistry. "Since Koo Went Away' is that kind of a swelluloid!”

DAVID O. SELZNICK

prasmes his Brat prodwalon slote

"GONE WITH THE WIND" and "REBECCA"'

"Since You Went Away"

sterring the greatest all-star cast on the screen ✯

CLAUDETTE COLDERT JENNIFER LONES IOSEPH COTTEN SHIRLEY TEMPLE

+

MONTY WOOLLEY LIONEL BARRYIHORE - ROBERT WALKER

DELETED BY JOHN CROMWELL • Zelmased thru Lindved Antle

ORIENTAL

SHOWING TO-DAY:

FUN! GAYESTI

TO-DAY ONLY

2,30-5.00-7.15-9.30 P.M. ROMANCE! 6 SMASH SONG HITS!

FRANK SINATRA

KATHRYN GRAYSON

GENE KELLY

in

ANCHORS AWEIGHT

IN TECHNICOLOR

with JOSE ITURBI

An M«G=M MCTURE

MAJESTIC

At 2.30, 5.20,

7.20 & 9.20 p.m.

THE FUNNIEST PICTURE HE WAS EVER SCARED STIFF IN!

Rod SKELTON in

"WHISTLING. IN DIXIE”.

with Ann RUTHERFORD

George BANCROFT

"A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture

To-morrow: “STAND BY FOR ACTION”

BEST SOUND COMFORTABLE SEATS

Cathay

-SHOWING TO-DAY at 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.15 p.m. ` NEVER HAS THE SCREEN SO. VIVIDLY PORTRAYED SO-STIBRING A DRAMA!

“LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN

IN" CLORIOUS TECHNICOLOR: Starring: "Gono TIERNEY * Comel WILDE A 20th Century Fox Best Picture

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1947.

RITA

HAYWORTH INSPIRES

DANCE BY ARTHUR MURRAY

END OF TORBA“ LOMBOKKTCHE

REPEAT FROM MEGANING

QUICK

BDAW

HOW

QUICK

QUKE

QUICK

SHOWING

TO-DAY

but I n

SHOP ZA "GADA SII?"

1) STOP

WITHOUT BIOPRO DA INTO 3-4 LID

DVICE

QUICK

KOW

There

NEVER

SLOW

oute

ONCE

99 99

ISART

was

HOW

BOW

As

NSTEAD of publishing a to Rita's father, who, ns head of of unlucky breaks held her in "B" picture of Rita Hayworth, as the famous dancing Cansino family, pictures, but you can't keep a real

always hoped that Rita would grow trouper down, especially one

ns Rita, up to be a dancer. He had taken beautiful and as talented great pains teaching her the art. In a relatively short space of time,

Rita was dancing when she was she zoomed stardoms four years old, and nude her pro- fessional debut with the parent Can act increased in tempo, her parents sinos when she was six. But, as the were afraid that Afta might be hurt in the furious pace that was being set, so it was decided that she wait awhile.

Evidently, fita doesn't worry

It might, because she's always good to look at, the "Telegraph" today gives you above a plan of the basic steps in the ballroom dance named Gilda, which was created by Arthur Murray, America's foremost dancing teacher, as a tribute to Rita's dancing in the picture "Gilda," which is now showing at

the King's Theatre.

Try it with your partner. It's very easy after a few practices. If Rita Hayworth ever thought that she could wholly abandon her danc- ing career in the flims for straight dramatic parts, she and her studio found out differently when stories that "Gilda" was being made rench- ed the public. The singing and dancing sequences in the film-s of the most provocative ever made were not part of the original plan. They were included after great fan- pressure from many of Alta'z admirers, Including a host of men in the armed forces, who requested that she be allowed to do some lorrid dance routines,

-some

any

Riia's modern fan following may be said date from her small, but in support of Cary Grant and Jean Arthur widely acclaimed part in "Only Angels Have Wings," as the alluring wife of Richard Barthel- mess. Soon afterwards she made another step upward by taking the role which Ann Sheridan hod re-

the

By this time, she was ready for her triumphant performance as sultry Spartist charmer in 'Blood and Sand." It now gave her a great following.

about fast or tricky dance routines tused, in the James Cagney-Olivia more, and neither do her de Havilland picture, "Strawberry parents. Not after her nerve Blonde." wrecking performance In "Cover Girl." when she danced through a dizzying chemical cloud and down a mountain path that was as steep and tricky as a toboggan run. Hita eventually rejoined parents net and soon became the toast of Agua Caliente, where they were appearing. Motion pleture scouts, venturing south of the bur tier to see what they had been hear ing

ber

about, look an instant liking to

La Hayworth and she was signed to do a dancing turn in the picture,

"Dante's Inferno."

The im was not a success, but Undoubtedly, this action on the Rita's debut was, and she Was part of the fans was very heartening given more important roles. A series

Star's Beauty Depends On Right Lighting

By PATRICIA CLARY

all."

a

HOLLYWOOD. — A movie sinister. A that, general type of star's beauty depends on the lighting and he'd turn out to be kind of lighting she gets, and Pretty boy and not a bogey-man at su, says a lighting expert, does n

Irene Dunne, or any sharp- housewife's.

featured star, requires the reverse treatment.

Most women can't arrange to be illuminated just from the front, for instance. But they can tint their lamps at home a light lavender or pink.

She was then assigned as dancing partner to Fred Astaire, in "You'll Never Get Rich." Astaire called her the best partner he had ever had. This teaming was repeated about a year later In "You Were Never Love- Her"

musical, "My Gal

Sal, and another

and another picture sandwich-

ed between.

Currently, Rita is departing from the type of musical like "Cover Girl' and "Tonight and Every Night" in which she has been sensationally successful, to appear in drama.

Ritn is delighted with playing a Jemme fatale

"Gilda." The characterization is vastly different from anything she has done before.

12 GIRLS

READY FOR

ANYTHING

Sweetie Pie Look "The flat light coming in front Twelve pretty girls, all under softens her face,'

Directional fighting the kind from banded themselves into a "stunt Richardson said. [23, tired of humdrum jobs, have any direction but In front-em- team" for movies, writes phasises sharp features and throws sindows and puts even a

Daily Mirror reporter. pretly

Betty

a

Most of them are ex-Service girts who found jobs as waitresses, typists and showgirls too tame.

"That works better than a beauty course," said William E. Richardson, New York lighting expert. "It's the woman of that type in the bogey- They go anywhere, do any- most altering light a woman can man class herself." have."

But directional lighting is just the thing-crash ears, fall off gal- Candlelight isn't as flattering as right kind for the baby-faced stors, loping horses, organise rough- you might think, he said,

Grable and Jeanne Craine house scenes, act as "stand-ins" The only reason people say it's It has to be used carefully so they for

star's in dangerous becoming is beenuse they can't see don't lose their sweetie-ple look.

sequences, anything by 1," he said.

kind No

of lighting can help On or off the screen, he advised

actresses like Marjorie Wonen to stay away from overhead character

Main, he said, but he added that -lighting-It makes them look us. though they had a couple of black they all look alike, anyway---

I met them at Shepherd's Bushi And no kind of lighting can hurt

rehearsing a re- (London) Studios relie eyas, Only the child stars get by

Actresses Je Ingrid Bergman.formatory rough-house scene In before the cameras willout distorted features.

"Good Time Girl," Arthur La Bern's the famous story on the lines of "Cleft Chin" case, in which Jean Kent has her first big star chance.

Dressed in gay-coloured stacks and Jumpers, they were, throwing cach other over tables, pulling hair, scratching, gouging fighting like wild cats.

Not Sultry From Front Richardson Just spends his spare time giving free advice to the average woman, who, he says, pays no more attention to lighting than to pay the monthly bill. His real job is to keep Buch stars as Martha Scott and Miriam Hopkins lit-properly.

He revealed that Lauren Bach!! and Lizabeth Scott would lose that sultry look if they were lit from the front.

"You'll have to sneak up

them

behind

with spotlight or their features turn out to be indistinguish-

and flat," he said.

able

Humphrey

Their mutual co-star,

Bogart, needs the same kind of light, |

but for a different reason,

"His lighting comes from the sidu

or behind because he wants to look

Ivor Novello's

£1,000 a Week

By ERNEST BETTS

Tennyson Jesse, the novelist and playwright, won't like this column. She is writing the Chalk Pit Murder Case in the Notable British Trials serles, a. task that absorbs her.

But it's always been considered such a distinction to write for, this series that nobody's ever been paid much for it How shall I break it to her that Ivor. Novello will car will get for hard slogging over in a single day more than

criminal records in months?

she

be

DI

West End authors are coining huge sums today. Of them all, I should say Ivor Novello la casily the richest, for soon

his new play, "We Proudly Present,"

of at the Duke opens York's, while "Perchance to Dream" and The Dancing Years" dip into barrels of gold round the corner, Ivor is earning (not gettiḥg) £1,000 a week.

After this, I should say Emlyn Williams, whose plays havo been running right through_tho, war, pretty high on Mr Dalton's Hist.

much higher, I should sny, than Noel

Coward. Next to him i

placo

Terence Rattigan, who inst year pald the Treasury £100,000 of the taken at. "While the Sun

Shine

(£824,600 in 1,000 performances),

Yes, it's a notable trial for Ten- nyson Jesse writing so well for sa

ifle.

United' Press.

Cinema Guide

SHOWING TODAY QUEEN'S--Along Came Jones, KING'S Glida. ALHAMBRA~Magnificent Doll CENTRAL—Magnificent Dall.

NEXT CHANGE- QUEEN'S Silver Queen. ALHAMBRA--Dead Man's Eye, CENTRAL-Dead Man's Eye.

They work from 9 to 5, earn 50 shillings a day rehearsing and 250 day "shooting"

Three dazzling little brunettes, Peggy Hughes (ex-Land Army), 22, Monica Whitney, 22, and Terry Blackmore (ex WA A F), 21, began the team 18 months ago.

SONG OF BERNADETTE

JENNIFER JONES In the part of Bernadetta Sonbirous in the film “The Song of Bemadette” based on Frans Werfel's novel which comes to the Queen's Theatre next week. The pictura won the Academy Award,

woman

like

KINGS

* AIR-CONDITIONED »

At 2.90, 5.10. 7.15 & 9.15 p.m.

Gilda!

COLUMBIA FICTURES pratraži

Rita HAYWORTH

Gilda

Glenn FORD

GEORGE MACREADY-JOSEPH CALLEIA

Sclay by Marion P

WIESINIA YAN IPP CHARLES VOOR

ALSO LATEST BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWS

* PLEASE BOOK YOUR SEATS IN ADVANCE *

TO-MORROW MORNING AT 11.30 A.M. ONLY

“DESTROYER”

Starring Edward G. ROBINSON with Glenn FORD

A COLUMBIA PICTURE

Marguerite CHAPMAN

AT REDUCED PRICES.

ALHAMBRA & CENTRAL

DAILY AT 2** 5** 7** & 920 BM CENTRAL:

DAILY AT 23 5!* 715 & 915 PM. Extra Performance at 12.30 P.M.

-SHOWING TO-DAY-

SEE...the hiss that

SEE

·SEE

changed history!

...Aaron Burr's in- famous rebellion!

..........the revenge-mad terrorist mobs!

THE

Magnificent

STORY OF DOLLY MADISON. ...The most whispered about woman of the years!

SEE

the kiss that

SEE changed history!

the most magnificent screen entertainment of the year!

- JACK 1. SKIMBALL and BRUCE MANNING závere

Ginger David

ROGERS NIVEN

Magnificent Doll

Directed by FRANK BORZAGE Original Story and

Screenplay by VINE STORE

and

Burgess MEREDITH

SHOCK METHOD

| breathing.

On the basis of 15 patients treated, hospital officials said they could point to statistics proving the value of electro-narcosla over older methods. Markod Improvement Patients who have falled to re spond to Insulin are now showing "marked improvement", as a result of the now method, Harris said.

Dr Samuel Reznick, a pioneer Los Angeles-Electro-narcosis, the field, elled the case of

TO AID GI MENTAL CASES

aWorld

a now treatment for victims of War II schizophrenic who had been months. Acutely mental diseases, has been com- hospitalised six

disturbed, the patient heard voices bined with electro and insulin and was violent, irrational and un- shock to give patients at the co-operative. Ifo failed to respond to Sawtelle. Veterans Administra-elther electro or insulin, shock.

"Now, after 18 eloctro-narcosis ton hospital a better chance for

treatments, he la quiet and rational,” recovery.

Reznick said. "His memory has re- Dr Richard L. Harris, chief medi- turned, and, if the present rate of. cal officer, said the veterans hospital improvement is maintained, in 30 here was one of two institutions now days he will be given a trial visit to employing this method.

his home hospital attendants are necessary in the treatment feels no pain or dis- giving the treatment, which sonslata

comfort

Within two minutes after of passing a carefully, regulated flow the current has been turned off, 'he of electric current through a patient's is conscious and able to talk), After. body for a perjod" of seven to 10 resting 10 minutes, he walks, "to" a minutes, Harris said.. Oxygen is ad-shower and is able to resums normal ministered at the same time to aid activity.

Two doctors, two nurses and throm Reznickk said a patient undergoing