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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1947.

ORSON WELLES says

I Tried... But Hollywood

Has Me Licked

By DAVID LEWIN

LONDON.

RSON, WELLES; actor, producer, director, flew into.

London from Hollywood wearing a blue serge suit, and carrying a big problem. The man who has just finished shooting "Macbeth" in 21 days (for £175,000). came here to talk over a film in Britain with Sir Alexander Korda.

"In America I think I am almost through," he told me as we drove from the airport to his hotel. "I don't think along the same lines as they do and that's about all there is to it.

"After "lizen Kane'. I thought I could night Hollywood on their ground. I lost. It took me seven more years before they would let me make the film I wanted to make. 'Macbeth' is the result. It will be pure tragedy, with no relief. The film chiefs may not te it.'

New Laurels

For Maurice Chevalier

That is my problem. I think I shall stay in Hollywood until they throw me out. THE picture "Le Silence Est Maybe after another two pletures. They or produced by Rene

have a machine. I cannot break it."

·HE'S A FAST TALKER Orson Welles looked out over Hyde Park. It was quiet and peaceful. "I like it this way," he said."

Filming "Ivanhoe" In Colour

Most

Clair starring Maurice Cheva- lier, were given three top awards at the International Film Festival held at Locarno, Switzerland.

The awards followed by less. than a month, the overwhelm- ing decision of the judges at Festival that "Le Silence the Brussels International Film Est d'Or" was the "best" picture

Не talks fast and confidently. And then he pauses and starca into space, his

hands run through his untidy hair ond he bursts into apeech again. When he laughs he throws himself into a guffaw.

Welles is worried about the re-shown there. ception which his wife, Rita Hay- worth, got here. "We're separated," he raldi. "But I still think she is grand." Then he turned to me and asked: "Is she still here? I'd like to see her."

It's

right

a

Voting at Locarno was con- ducted by newspapermen at- tending the Festival. They chose "Le Silence Est d'Or" as the best picture shown, and extensive Anglo- American film project yet plan- Paris and probably would not re-best.

I told him she had gone back to credited Rene Clair as the ned will be that of "Ivanhoe," turn. "That's tough.

director and Maurice which RKO-Radio will film in really her fault. She closes

not Chevalier as the best actor. Technicolour next summer in up when people ask her questions. in English-speaking

The picture is to be released countries England in conjunction with J. She is too shy and timid when Arthur Rank.

crowd get round her. I fought it under the title "Man About terribly difficult to get to know her. Town," A novel narration in This multi-million dollar produc- Even on the set she is shy-tucks English by Maurice Chevalier tion will be based on "The Black herself away in a corner and says will

English accompany the Knight" a free adaptation_of the nothing. Sir Walter Scott classic by Aeneas

version; describing in detail, the MacKenzie. A

"Now she will probably stick combined English dancing but I think she can act.

10 action taking place. It will be and American all-star cast will be assembled for the major roles.

directed her im 'Lady From as though Chevalier is sitting Shanghal and she acts in that. It in the audience with the movie- "Ivanhoe" has been translated has all been a great plty."

goer, explaining what is hap- pening. DINNER TOPIC NO. 1 At nearly 250 words a minute: MICHAEL Redgrave and Leo Gono, British stars, and Ram- brought Welles talked to me about films and mond Massey,

a Canadian, were editions, sets and Alm-makers. "Every dinner party solected to play the top male roles text books by almost every big In Hollywood now is devoted to one in RKO Radio's "Mourning Becomes American

British publishing house and is required reading

ing subject-British pictures." he said. Electra" in preference to American

in "You have shaken them with ideas. netors, because in the opinion schools and universities in America Their machine is too old and too and the British Empire.

Producer-Director Dudley Nichols large to cope with them. Perhaps as

into Italian and other languages 港

German, alnco

French, Spanish,

It was first published in

conf

in 1810, It has sold

ever since and has been

out in various

a310

last

red any

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of

of

the sixtles more than do most

American launders

Ivanhoe" is not the first joint they will meet your challenge-but they resemble New Englanders RKO-Rank effort. Now nearing re- perhaps they are too fat to be stir

"So Well Remembered," which was fimed in England summer with an Anglo-American Welles became emphatic: "Your cast headed by John Mills, Martha machine here is getting large.. Don't Scott, Patricia Roc, Trevor Howard lct.It kill your ideas too." and Richard Carlson.

MICKEY HAS OUTGROWN

ANDY HARDY

Mickey

Rooney, the one-time child actor, has finally outgrown "Andy Hardy" and is making a dive Into mature dramatic roles.

In his latest picture, "Killer McCoy," he turns into a dangeroux ring fighter, a top contender for the world's lightweight championship,

This fighter isn't much like Andy Hardy." Mickey admitted. He's more like a grown-up version of the kid i played with Spencer Tracy in 'Boys Town'."

that

Mickey's performance in picture won him a special Academy Award, one of the many milestones in his life as an infant actor, child actor, juvenile actor and now full- fledged star.

The energetic actor started his carcer at age one by crawling out on a vaudeville stage, to join his parents' act

MILESTONE NO. 2

·Milestone, No. 2

came when

at

six. he became the comic

character Mickey McGuire on

strip

the

screen.

Rad

became

Motro-

Six years and 78 pictures-later

outgrow that hame

Mickey Rooney,

In 1035 he signed with Goldwyn-Mayer. The contract has lasted half his life and resulted, in

44

TWO

I pletires, among them the Andy Hardy series that began in 1037.

years later his first big. musical, "Babes in Arms." he team- ed with Judy Garland, the girl whose pigtails he used to dunk in the inkwells at the studio school,

His third postwar picture. "Killer McCoy" has excited him as few of the other milestones have done. He worked out daily for a month be- fore it started, training just as a title world champion would for a defence. Y

biggest trouble with

MY

tho fight scenes, he observed, "Is that the other players don't want to hit the star

mado

-His years of acting have Rooney-a-perfectionist HoInsist that the blows he gets be the real thing."

I

"New Englanders of that day in Nichols,

stock

and around Boston," sald

were direct descendants of English and very like Englishmen both in appearance and speech."

Nichols.considered-many.. Ameri-. can actors for the, rules of General Maanon, his son Orin, and the Clipper caplain Adam Brant, but turned them all down to give the parts respectively to Massey, Red- of grave and Genn.

Of the American-born players, rejected for the Eugene O'Neill's drama of New England, Nichols said: "They are not costern but midwestern types both in

. appear- ance and speech.

He-changed-the-subject: "I must- tell you about the time I introduced Marlene Dietrich to Greta Garbo," he said. "They had never met those two great screen artists. brought them together. While the world

stood still they talked smail things. Then I drove Mar- long home. There lene pause. Marlene, turned to me and said: 'You know, Garbo hasn't got such large feel"."

was

Д

UP AND COMING'

YVONNE ROB is one of the newer faces around the .29th Century-Fax studio in Holly- wood. The promising starlot was scen recently in "My Darling Clementine.". The swimsuit she wears in this pose is a for ery from the frilly dance half costumes of the_last_ocnturz.. which abo

wore in her flim ¿debut.

coveted roles

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Headed by Dana Andrews, Merle Oberon, Ethel Barrymore and Hoagy Carmichael, the company went to Lake Arrowhead for 30 hours of shooting exterior scenes, but instead had to devote 72 hours to them:

д hoovy fog blanketed the then an inch of know fell, |...... roying the midsummer look needed for the story, then the fog returned. But the location did prove there are only two kinds of California weather usual and un- usual.

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JOHN Wayne dreamily surveyed

the mountaina as he and Laraine Day were travelling by car to a location in the High Sierras for the picture Tycoon"

"De fun if I had my rifle and we scared up deer or a bear, wouldn't 17" he said wishfully,

Just then a bull rushed out of the. underbrush and crashed headlong into the car, The occupants were startled but

bull uninjured. The

slowly stored belligerently... then ambled away.'' ..."

"That's what you get for wishful thinking," Laralno- told Wayne.

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