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Entertainment

Rita

Hayworth

-who seems to be finding that Paris is tough going

PARIS,

· ERNEST BETTS writes: In a room at the. Hotel George V. full of tulips and roses, I spent an hour and a quarter this afternoon with Nita Hayworth, top show personality of the moment in Paris.

She was wearing the smart grey suit she wore in her last nim, "Gilda.".

fotel guaste 'unknown to her rapped on the door, telephones rang and letters poured in from fans and friends.

..

But Rita, who was severely mobbed on arrival at the Gare du Nord, and has licen severely photographed since, has ducked. Paris croods for a time,

She has a view about this, about clothier, about people... here it in :—

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*

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EING in Paris has made me nervous.

B Everyone ta kind, everyone is excited, and

people are always wanting to be friends. But it is different being a star in Paris from being one in America, and I am afraid it has got me down. I have had to shut myself up in my room, like Garbo.

*

The author and "a bit of Place Vendôme.

What do I think of Paris? Why they have no reason to be. They of course I think of clothes, because know how to set and they have good that is what you come to Paris for. looks too. On the screen it is not In Alnts you must not only know your eyes, your hair, your figure that what to wear, but how to wear. It counts. It is the whole Impression.

My advice to any girl thinking of It's the line, as in clothes, it you

Old age

wasn't easy for Margaret

THERE is a good reason for

the making of "Hungry Hill," showing at the Leo Theatre. It is faithfully adapt- ed from a worthy and popular novel by Miss Daphne du Mau- rier. Enough people have read the book to ensure a faithful following for the screen sjon.

ver-

Therefore all the producer, Mr Del Gludice, and the director, Mr Brion Desmond Hurst, have to worry about is that their visual version shall be redaonably careful and detalled. This they have done.

com-

Hore, then, is that old and fortable thing the "family" novel. There are two families, one rich and proud and the other poor and proud. And they feud for 40 years. And one generation gives way another in tho

progress of the

slory, which isn't a story. nt ali, but rather 11 plous resolution to the effect that families shouldn't feud. The only drawback to this happy conclusion is that, it denies the pos

lility of a sequel, which most family novelists look forward to.

In Search of Wealth

Weli then. there nte the Brodericks, who bre rich and thrusting Irislimon, and there are the Donovans, who are poor and hoity-talty. And the head of the Brodericks digs deep Into the on-

Cinema Guide lent hill that lies between them in

clothes is to go in for the simple line get me. which is Battering to the wearer. The materials are less important than the line. And no fuss, if

You get me. The same goes for hats.

In pictures It is rather different. You must wear the sult that is com- fortable and appropriate to the scene, particularly because you may be filming in the same costume for a long time, and it may have to be a bit more showy than the dress you wear in the street.

I

AM in Paris for a holiday-that; is, I thought I was. But I was soon diallusioned. I seem to have done nothing but pose in the Place Vendome or before Notre Dame, and sign autographs,

my

And after that reception at hotel, which lasted for about three hours with 300 people, and was like a Hollywood premie You

but more difficult, I

I felt tall

You see, it is different from America, .where you know everybody. I ought to be Used

to it-It is wonderful to be

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QUEEN'S—Bambi. KING'S—Great Expectations. LEE-Hungry Hill

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search of wealth from copper. The heid of the Donovans does not up- prove of this at all.

At intervals during the film some- body comes in to say "There is trouble

and at the mines"

then there is a free-for-all. And after it has all blown over Broderick says

to a Donovan "You'll get little pront from this night's work."

The film is notable for the faith- fully pompous performance of Cecil Parker, the head Broderick, and for the gallant attempt of Miss Margaret Lockwood to grow old before your gyes. Poor lamb, it wasn't easy for her.

You'll Be Seeing Stars

scen and but it in my first trip to

and it is hard to

More than forty top ranking nize it all up. It is really a strain.

Besides, I have been working stars in one picture is some- pretty hard these Inst few years, thing of a record, even for fabu- nishing one picture and then, the lous Hollywood, but that is the following week, going straight into score Paramount runs up with another.

its latest, "Star Spangled Rhythm," which opens at the King's Theatre tomorrow.

In Hollywood you work regularly, you know, in minutes by the clock and all round the clock. In most

of my pictures I have to dance, and this means

good three mor

cans rehearsing the film for a

months beforehand, from nine in the morning till 5.30 at night. After that the real work begins and you go on the set, as they do every where, at seven or eight In morning. It looks carefree and good on the screen, but, it is bord work behind.

THOUGH it is just like work being on holiday in Europe, I must say success is very nice. I have always wanted it and always worked for it. I came over here in a slow Dutch boat just to get a little sleep, and it was so rough coming over that the dinner tablo in my state room was nung to the floor three times. Well, I thought, I cari sleep in Paris, but that has been impossible.

want to ace Faris and I have been around to a few places, Just like any tourist, but whenever

there they pop out of my hotel, are, all the people who seem know me, yet only two of my ple- tures have been shown here.

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to

IN Hollywood I have met many of

your stars. Roland Culver was In my last plature, "Down to Earth" (not seen In London yet)-and what aine actor he is. And Deborah Kerr she is a real person all right,, she has a lot of charm-she impress ed everybody.

cool mer- in

They tell me your stars feel vous about making pictures Hollywood. Why? They aro won- derfully good at their job. What has Ann Todd to be afrald of, I won- der?

But perhaps it is all talk. I do not believe they are really worried about filming with us. Anyway,

Adult Theme

In "Bambi”

the

The theme of Walt Disney's - now production. "Bambi," is strictly adult, and its situations are emotional ones which confront

Fally men and women.

novel

Salten wrote the best-selling

on which the picture is based, telling in terms of appealing animal characters living in the Vienna Wald

AN ADVENTURE YOU'LL SHARE WITH THIS EXCITING PAIR! | a story which is a life cycle of birth,

Errol FLYNN, Ann SHERIDAN in

“EDGE OF DARKNESS”

th Walter HUSTON • Nancy COLEMAN

* SUNDAY: EXTRA SHOW

“PARDON MY SARONG??

growlb, love, parenthood, tragedy

and triumph.mbi" has its lighter

Of course, moments, as witness the famous twitterpated sequence, probably the most hilarious": tomboolery. Diz- ney has ever created.

"Star Spangled

for

the

occasion-Ceelt DeMille, Preston Sturges, Ralph Murphy.

The story of "Star Rhythm" concerns of the efforts of Spangled Paramount studio gateman, Victor Moore, and telephone operator Betty Hution, to build themselves up

sallor Bon. Eddle Bracken. Moore's by deco

deceiving him into believing that tire old man la head of the studio, Rhythm" boasts and Betty his secretary. The decep- among its players. Bing Crosby. Bob lont is a cinch by correspondence, Hope, Fred MacMurray, Franchot but it becomes something less than Tonc. Ray Milland, Victor Moore, that when Eddie and a group of Dorothy Lamour, Paulette Goddard, sailor pals show up in Los Angeles Vera Zorina, Mary Marli Brac friends the time of their lives at the

DICK

on shore leave," Eddie promising his Powell, Betty Hutton, Eddie ken, Veronica Lake. Alan Rochester, William

Ladd, Htudio. Bendix, Jerry Betty conceives a Colonna, Macdonald Carey, Walter idea of how to continue the decep- Abel, Susan Hayward,

for the duration Marjorie tion

of the boys! Res Reynolds, Betty Rhodes, Dona leave, as well as to put on a Drake, Lynne Overman, Gary Cros- for them with Paramount's roster of by, Johnnie Johnston, Gil Lamb, Cass stars participating. Belty's

Idea Daley, Ernest Truex, Katherine Dun- backfires hilariously in Moore's face. ham, Arthur Treacher, Walter although the show does go on. Catlett, Sterling Holloway and the stupendously, Golden Gate Quartette.

The pleture filmed in Technicolour and rich mule, is showing gat ethe |:5 Queen's Theatre..

And if that weren't enough, there are three top directors turned actors

crack-brained

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Below is d sceno, from the picture. showing Victor Moore, Git Lamb, Betty, Hutton and Eddie Bracken.

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