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In

"Lost Week-end"

ON BIRNAM and his brother Wick are packing preparatory to a week. end in the country. Don is a normal-looking young fellow, but appears a bit underweight. He'. has, in fact, just come out of a ten-day spell of drunkenness.. Wick is the kindly, dependable sort. He tells Don, guardedly, that at his office he has ar- ranged with his employer for a fow days off.

"That will give us a nice, lunk week-end," he says to his brother. But Don's mind is not on the packing or the holiday nhend. When his fancee, Helen, arrives at the flat and announces that she has tickets for a concert, he contrives โด avold going on the week-end. He suggests that his brother should go to the concert with Helen while he takes a nap.

Alone. Don begins A frantic search for the bottles he has clever- ly secreted. However, Wick hos cleverly found them. The search leaves him frenzled with thirst. Discovering some that his brother has hidden for the charwoman, ho races to the liquor store. This is the beginning "The Lost Week-end."

r Not Pretty

Ray Milland in a bar scene from "The Lost Week-end"

money FILMS and PLAYERS:

of

A

Chaplin ban... Rita Hayworth divorce...

NATIONAL, ban against visit England after

tour

A Charlie Chaplin's latest the Continent and persumably on

This is not a pretty picture. starkly realistic story of the emotional anguish gone through by a chronic alcoholle who knows his weakness but cannot fight it, it s is presented without any punches being pulled.

her way home to get her announced It doesn't--and film, "Monsieur Verdoux," doesn't

divorce pretend to--look

from Orson (Too-Much- #t life urged by 325 Ohio cinema Genius) through rose-coloured glasses.

Welles. David will be Anishing "Bonnie Prince Charles" British-born Ray Milland handles

months the part of Don Birnam with Im- trying to reach Into the pockets of primula Rollo (only daughter of Sir

They denounce Chaplin for again for Korda noon. It's 18

since Niven

lost his wife, the former pressive sincerity. No simple part American film lovers, although he william and Lady Kathleen Rolle). over-acted, has no use for American citizen-.She died following a fatal fall at the

Allme, sillp.

Independent Theatre owners In Tyrone Power home in Hollywood,

this, but it isn't It is practically a one-man and he sustains it right to the finish without a false note. He deserves the Academy "Oscar" awarded him for his work.

owners.

un

Ohio have adapted a resolution that Chaplin, through his personal con- LA AURENCE Olivier is at present duct, has drawn condemnation

filming the early scenes of his the American film industry.

production of Shakespeare's "Ham- They argue .plcture

that

time let" at Denham, screen

England. First should be withheld from the new scenes to be shot were those on Alm "antil Chaplin proves he is the Watch Tower. worthy of the support of American Almgoers."

One of the best things to come out ut Hollywood, the started. yesterday at the King's, and will be on for a few days.

British Films

For Europe

An agreement providing for the distribution in Czechoslovakia of a minimum of 40 films produced by the J. Arthur Rank organisation to the end of 1948 was signed recent

ly.

The signatories were Mr J. Elbi, on behalf of the Czechoslovak State Film

Corporation, and Air Commo- dore F. M. F. West, VC, CBE, MC, on behalf of

Eagle-Lion.

The agreement was finalised at a luncheon attended Dr

by

Fierlinger, Deputy Prime

Zdenck

Minister

of Czechoslovakia and leader of the

Film Festival in London.

A similar deal was recently made |

by Eagle-Lion with Film

Polski,

the state film company in Poland.

rumour links the

"Monsieur Verdoux" cost cool two million smackers to produce.

ROMANCE A

nome of British-born David Niven with that of Rita Hayworth. David and Rita will both be

in England This month. Kita

THEATRE Directory.

SHOWING TODAY

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King's The Lost Week-End. Queen's It's a Wonderful Life, Central-Hit the leo. Alhambra Hit the Ice. Lee Rebecca,

NEXT CHANGE Queen's River Gang. Central-Black Angel. Alhambra Black Angel. Lee-Knickerbocker Holiday.

STEWART-PERFECT

COMMON MAN

ABSENCE at the war has The

demonstration

Built high above the floor of one of the studio's largest stages is the black stone Castle, gloomy and for- bidding. where the Omeers of the Watch stand on guard.

have

It is on the Watch Tower that some of Shakespeare's most famous lines are sald, some of which passed into every day usage.

Taking part in these early scenes were Esmond Knight as Bernardo, Michael Godfrey as Marcellus, and Normal Wooland as Horatio.

L

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LOYD BINFORD, chairman

the Board of Censors at Mem- phis, Tennessee, set #record banning six fins one month.

by Binford's grievance against wes- terners is that they teach young how to shoot, so he banned gun duels in "Santry Rides Again" and "When the Daltons Ride."

He had no objection to French fim

men

the

Hemingway's

but

the

sexy cut Marcomber Affair," now playing on Broadway, so much that theatres in Memphis refused to show it.

He called it "sexy and sala- CIQUA."

FRENCH actress Pat! Belars was

at

told when she first arrived 20th Century Fox that she would have to reduce.

She pared off 15 pounds and was rewarded by being cast as one of King Charles II's mistresses in "Forever Amber," a role in which she wears billowing 17th century dresses.

dono

a

DEX

goer

frus-

not changed Frank Capra. through the life of Stewart in He comes back to film-making small town he hates. Each time he with a bedtime story, full of wrong. All his dreams are plans to leave something simple faith and tender trated by calls of duty. whimsy, which has the daring to proclaim that it's a wonder- AI ful life.

Similar

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Harrison, the British actor, is known in Hollywood as perfectionist. He therefore ex- pressed no surprise when assigned a picture called "The Foxes of Har last. facing bankruptcy row at 20th Century Fox studios. through no faull of his own, he Harrison, for purposes of the role, contemplates suicide on a Christmas has been given special tutoring in Jumping, dancing, singing

feating at cards. The flm is

absence has changed Eve. James Stewart, but only a little. He comes back a shodo finer drawn, better looking, maturer, more con-, him in

Then his guardian angel takes the first of three he has made here

hand, ahows him fidently expert in the use of

how his, all the little, kind, loving

which Harrison has hesitant charm

things

kissing he' has ever done have affected star. Irish

scenes. The lady will be his co- Common other people, what his circle would O'Hara,

actress Maureen for the purposes of a Capra be like if (as he says he wishes) he sugar-coated morality.

had never been born. Wonderful #

And still the perfect

"It'

Lite." now showing at the Queen's Theatre, is

a real once-upon-a-timer. Its text

South

WHEN Samuel Goldwyn sent his It is an affecting fable, for the "Gorgeous Girls" to good reason that Stowart really is America on a good-will four they is that wealth lles in friendship, a ikeable. recognisable man, but met pome that, what looks like fallure may be at times the sentiments run

Latin American mil.- really success, and that heaven will too thick and sweet, the fantasies

rather lionaires. protect an honest guy.

become just too cute.

-One celebrated the girls arrival by plane at Lima. Peru by shooting a revolver. He was gaoled when he sobered up,

Clarem

.

Ain the person of Henry Travors.- Ja gentle but

Stewart'a guardian angol Wonderful life.

Another in Chile disguised him- self as a waiter, and served the girls a seven-course dinner.

The girls promised Goldwyn,,to accept no dates.

·

MICKEY Rooney, being sued by second wife, Betty Jane, on financied grounds, is planning to file 4 counter-complaint, charging Belly Jane with cruelty, it looks as if the Rooney's are in for a sordid court Betty

battic. Nineteen-year-old

an

now

Janc, mother of Mickey's two sons. is asking the courts for financial settlement. She declared that Mickey Induced her to agree to annual, allotment of $35,000. Betty Jane says the signed the settlement under the impression that her husband's annunt salary wus only $84.000, but learned Intez, that be earned $440,000 a year..

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JOHN Mülls, British star of "Great" Ji Expectations" and, his wife, delt England in the Queen Elizabeth on June 25 for a visit to New York and Hollywood,

"Millis" wit pend his first two weeks on the East Coast making personal appearances at major cities for the premiere of "Great Expecta- Полк."

"After completing personal: Pappearances the will teave New York

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