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THE WEST END IS NOW PERKING UP

By DAVID LEWIN

LONDON, July 17. THE West End lu porking up. The crowds nro back and more money is begin- ning to flow. Entertainment man tell me business is up by 20 percent.

and the suburban familles want out of what you eat tell mo to see him again. Yes, they people are going to bed later. Meanwhile what's the nows any Eros really matters.

It is all good news and the around here?? street corner boys are marking their prices accordingly. Watch TOMMY TRUNDER is al ect to go to New Yoric. He will breaks, them. In the afternoon they now ground there at La Martinique nell cherries at 18.9d, a lb. By night club, where they have never The men who know say there the evening, as the crowd had a British comedian before. aro three reasons for the thickens in Leicester-squaro,

RTHUR SINCLAIR, dhat grand change: The American Navy is they change the signs to read in town and that means spend 1s, a half pound and say it is a the "Crime of Margaret Foley" actor from Dublin who makes ing on the old wartime scale; giveaway.

very worthwhile, has had an offer people are here for their holl- Even the snack bars have to go into "Finian's Rainbow," the days and the West End is now queues outside after 11 p.m. American show which Arriva and fresh to them; Eros la back and the men who make money some time in the autumn when they can find the right theatro for. 1. Margaret Foley keeps her

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GRAND NEW DANCE TEAM

WON'T ́DANCE,” em- phatically declares Lucille Bremer, GJ she sings this famous Jerome Kern melody in M-G-M's lavish new Techni- colour musical, "Till the Clouds Roll By,” based on in. cidents in Jerome Kern's life. She gets through eight, bars of the lyrics, when Van John- zon appears on the всепс. The upshot of the matter is, she does dance! Miss Bremer and Johnson are but two

name, by the way. The producers do- | clded, they would not change it despite protesta from Lady Foley. They will alter the name of

the chief character from Thomas Foley to. John, Is everyone satisfied?

TN the Bollvar Bar, where fired

I

BBC people go for a drink, they say those quiz shows (or audience participation programmes, official- ly) will go on and on and on. A BBC high-up told me: "The public likes them, so they must continue. There'll be new twists, of course." The news depresses nie.

IN the dinner spots, where for the Arst time in weeks they furn away customers who haven't boolt- ed a table, they toll of 17-year-old Erica, whose singing stopped the waiters serving. Her number was "Sadness," and restaurateur Ferraro wrote the words. Erica came here cight years ago when she escaped with her mother from a German concentration camp. At the hostel In Dorking where she lives a comi- poser heard her sing and arranged lessons. She will go to the top.

πιοχές Audrey Fildes (rhythmes - with mild). Audrey, is 24 and played with the Old Vic in the West End, Her first film part is four minutes in "While I, Live." Those four minutes will

A NEW

name

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| make Audrey's name appear in my

notebook again.

Kisses Should Not Be

Heard But Seen

You never hear kisses in the cinema, or seldom ever, because the sound thereof, according to veteran recording engineers, is like that of a cracking peanut-common to circuses and upper balconies.

the breath-taking array of LARGE SCREEN John Garfield, enfolding Joan

new

stars appearing on the King's Theatre

screen in the musical, among the others be- ing June Allyson, Judy Gar- land, Kathryn Grayson, Van Heflin, Lena Horne, Angela Lansbury, Tony Martin, Vir- ginia O'Brien, Dinah Shore, Frank Sinatra and Robert Walker, as Jerome Kern.

SHE WOULD

FIZZLE

:

HER SIZZLE

TELEVISION PROGRAMME

Nothing, of course, could be more disillusioning! Imagine Crawford in his husky arms, tenderly placing his lips to hers to make a noise like an unro- mantic peanut being pinched between a thumb and fore- finger.

1

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over

of

Just why microphones do such unflattering things to kisscH," Heralding an advance of far-body seems to know. But they reaching significanco 'in the do. Somehow, the sound of oscula-

tlon (as a rippling stream mass entertainment field, the

small pebbles) records and repro- RCA Victor Division of tho | duces os a crackle, harsh and Radio Corporation of America brittle. Thus the

ardent

typa screen lover-like Garfield, Errol and Warner Bros. Pictures, Flynn, Charles Boyer, Dennis Mor- Inc., announce the signing of a gan or Gable-always attempts to kiss silently. Sometimes he doesn't contract for a joint programme succeed. When he doesn't, the of research on large-screen tele- disillusioning crackle is promptly vision.

deleted from the celluloid.

Eye. Over Ear Harry M. Warner, President of This seemingly heartless surgery. HOLLYWOOD. If it is all Vice-President in charge of produc-planter

Warner Bras, Jack L. Warner, according to Ollic Garrelson, д the same to her fans, Lauren tion, and Frank M. Folsom, execu

recording engineer for Bacall would prefer not to be tive vice-president of

Warner Bros., is absolutely neces RCA in sary. called "The Look."

charge of the Victor Division, made. The eye takes precedence The title, she declared, is

the joint announcement, calling the the ear when it comes to over tender flattering and all that sort of thing. co-operative arrangement "an, his lave scenes," he

We explains. But from here on

torie step toward the out-well-she

development

found, by long experience, would like to harvest a sheaf or so of large-screen television in the that motion picture audiences tako of renown for what she can do as motion pleture industry.".

love scenes more seriously than an actress rather than be

famous The research and because her electrifying gaze has

experimental any other kind. They accept the

hook, programme, It is predicted, will be llusion,

line and sinker. certain effect on male customers in as important as the first, tentative They thrill with the hero and they

than 20 years ago, efforts to put sound on film more palpitate with the heroine, and they New types of do this in utter and absolute silence, black-and-white large-screen tele hypnotised, apparently by the power vision equipment have been de-of love. veloped by the RCA Engineering "The kiss, therefore at least un- Products department in its Camden, til somebody Invents a way to re-

cord it properly-must remain J., plant.

little children are supposed to

theatres.

very

There are at least two other people who agree with her-her husband, Humphrey Bogart, and her current director, Delmer (who likes to be known ná "Just Delmer"

Dover.

Right now, Daves, with the full assistance and complete. agreement

N.

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In addition, RCA will provide when company comes--seen but not of the menace man, is attempting technical and research Information heard." to guide Miss Bacall away from the and the assistance of engineering "look" business in "Dark Passage,"

in which she co-stars with Bugart. Personnel and field engineers.

He, you may recall, way the original Jack L. Warner has assigned Col. recipient of the look which caused Nathan Levinson, head of the her to be called "The Look" in the studio's engineering and technical first place.

research staff, to direct the

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Straightforward Role perimental programme for. Warners, | KING'S-Till The Clouds Roli By. "In this picture, ald Daves. As a ploncer i falling pictures, | QUEEN'S Heartbent. "Lauren playa 11 straightforwardCol. Levinson has made many Im-LEE-Road Show.

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"NEXT CHANGE QUEEN-The Stranger. KING'They Met In Bombay

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of honour and a determination to help her man out of difficulties."

Aid that, be added, is the kind

of a girl Bacall really is.

Commenting on the folat pro tomme. Folsom drew a parallel be- LEE Adventures of Martin Exten tween Warner Bros. foresight ALHAMBRA This Love of Ours.

CENTRAL-This Love of Ours,

with

Miss Bacall, notwithstanding her undertaking this pioneering work deep desire for change In his and its early achievements Arlonic stature from the materint sound' nims.

to the artistic, so 'to. speak-wants everyone to understand that sho is

grale Indeed

that

folk bothered her anything as tho result .performance in "To

of her debut Have and Have

She realises that it is far better to bé A "look" than a nothin'. She also knows that tags like The Voice." "The Body." "The Face," at cetera, did no great harm to the persons to whom they were attach- ed.

It is just that I afrald the fany continue to call me 'you-know-whut, It will handicap my career," she explained. "No- body wiH expect me to act. They'll Just expect me to look. And, that „isn't acting!”.

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