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SPECIAL SHOWING TIMES 2.30, 5.00, 7.20 & 9.40 P.M.

GARY RINGS

THE BELL AGAIN!

I his most romantic_and

spectacular adiegtore pictures,

skrang) Jaj varnost judge

to the perilous indire

PARAMOUNT Presents

GARY COOPER

In

SHOWING

TO-DAY

CECIL B. DEMILLE'S

"The Story of Dr. Wassell"

IN TECHNICOLOR

Laraine Day Signe Hasso

•

Dennis O'Keefe Carol Thurston

--- CARL ESMOND STAMTRICIS

• Produced and Quecied by

CECIL B. DE MILLE

TO-MORROW MORNING AT 11.30 A.M. ONLY

BETTY SMITH'S

"A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN"

James DUNN Joan BLONDELL

with Dorothy MCGUIRE

Poggy ANN CARNER

TO-DAY

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A 20th Century-Fox Picture

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THE GREATEST OUTDOOR ROMANCE OF THEM ALL!

Joel McGREA

Brian DONLEVY in

"VIRGINIAN"

with Barbara BRITTON in 1947 TECHNICOLOR

COMMENCING TO-MORROW.

"THE BEST PICTURE OF 1946"

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ANYONE

WHAT SHE DIDI

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NWARMERS

EVE ARDEN • ANN BLYTH

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JOAN CRAWFORD

JACK

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CARSON SCOTT

•

BRUCE BENNETT

PRODUCED BY

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1947.

INGRID BERGMAN, THE

STAR OF STARS

anco,

O

to

all the world's screen She had only alx months' leave thousands a year, talent were available and from Hollywood, so the play had to idea is, in fact, a revolution in Alm- The Rawnsley you wanted to be cast-iron one off Broadway while still play craft. It has, taken two year certain of making a successful "standing room only. The work out. It is a complete break- film, there is one infallible re- (HK) or $10,000 for every perform methods of Alm-making which cause box-office took just over $1,000,000 away from the wasteful, dlintory cipe today,

stars to languish on the set, tear their Now she has gone back to Alma hair, or take Have Ingrid Bergman ns your and her first subject

to knitting--and gin is a screen rummy, version of "Joan."

At the same time Ford Motors re negotiating to put her on their radio programme. Just Ingrid and a sym- phony orchestra, for an hour's broad- cast at peak hour weekly. nctress,. the most successful stage The only trouble now that there

star.

This gentle-mannered, quiet-living young woman has now reached a position never before attained by a

Blar.

for purposes of a, carpentier

phrase, is "Stop that hammering!" Secret of the new methods, in a As you know, while one set is being used on a stage for actual filming, She Is the most successful flm

A vast amount of space' is being used next set or striking other in the same studio for building the netrend, and she is about to stop are so few records left to break! into a position which will give her BEHIND locked doors in a London

All tirat-space, top rating in radio too.

office a man of 38 from the acting, is wasted. If Facts and figures to support this Merchant Navy has been working on drops a hammer he many wreck a large claim ore plentiful Last year a plan for prefabricated films.

love scene between Aum Tod und cinema audienced paid more Ühin It is the topmost secret of the Alm Ray Milland. $80,000,000 (HK) to see her four Industry; few people even know

where his office is situated.

Rawnsley therefore said: "We will This high-priority. character is prefabricato all those scenes, off the David Rawnsley. His plan, on set, outside the studio, and wheel which a team of 30 people have been them into position when required working, is expected to save the and wheel them off when no longer British flim industry hundreds of needed. Hommers can be dropped in handfuls and no one will care. But time and space, will be savoi. And money."

ms, a world record, For a change, she then decided to do a stage play. Always having had a hankering to play Joan of Arc, she chose Maxwell. Anderson's "Joan. of Lorraing.".

STORY OF DR. WASSELL

In "The Story of Dr Wassell," now being shown at the King's, Gary Cooper plays the part of the famous. U.S. Navy doctor who saved several · American sailors from Jap-overrun Javu in the early stages of the Päciße War. In supporting roles are (right to left above) Laraine Day, Signe Hasso and Carol Thurston.

A

A small boy. and a deer make this film

SMALL boy and a small animal push all the famous million-dollar faces into the background in this picture. The boy, Claude Jarman jun., a fair, straggly-haired 12-year-old, with big blue wondering eyes, is the principal character of "The Yearling," which comes to the King's Theatre next week.

$30,000 Worth

Of Soup

Probably the most expensive single piece of jewellery to be used in a film scene is worn by Ava Gardner for a sequence in Mark Hellinger's production of Ernest Hemingway's **The Killers."

The animal is a year-old deer called Flag, which maintains 6 shy, poised aloofness even when exposed to the indignity of being put to bed. It must, be galling for grown-up human stars when such an artless combination comes along and does things. to the emotions of technique could never emulate. audience which A lifetime of

an

*

But what a change to have the focus on something other than boy- meets-girl.

"The Yearling" is Although story of almost irreducible simplici- ty, the flm is a large, elaborate, ambitious one-clearly one nf The bauble, a diamond incrusted Hollywood's big efforts. triple bow-kunt piece, contains 30

A Boy's Year chrats and 19 appraised at US$30,000.

During its use by Ava JODY lives on a farm that is little more than a shack and a few Gardner in a scene with Burt Lan-helds in

a clearing of the Florida caster, the jewelled piece was guard- scrub country.

who scrapes a remote and un-

ed by two Insurance company men. He has ก Lather The script cally for the lovely living from this

star

and

Many brilliant camera tricks oc- company this method-back pro- Jection, process shots, special effects of all kinds which nobody under- stands. Sete are smaller, can be turned aut on an assembly line as in masa production.

said:

The Hank Organisation "We're not saying anything about the Acheme until we have a picture to show and can prove everything we claim for the method."

R

OBERT DONAT is to play the lead in "Precious Bane," film Paul Soskin's had in low for two years.

He is getting a director from Hollywood-Robert Slodinak

When he was asked: "Why from America?" he looked deeply at his questioner and said: "It's a senal- tive story, you know, needs Imagina- tion and, that certain touch."

Siodmak's a fine director-he made "The Spiral Staircase."

•

JOHN LODER, Hedy

Lamarr's

husband, has had an operation for removal of a sword tip from his thigh. He got the wound two years ago in a film 'duel.

PRETTY Virginia

Mayo finally married her one and only by friend, actor Michael O'Shea.

She became bride and grand- mother-in-law on the same day, for Michael's daughter, Mrs Willam Rosen, had a son that day.

O'Shea was married to his first wife for 20 years.

STAR QUOTES

CECIL B. DEMILLE

answers this question:

CECIL B. DeMILLE

•

As the great naster of Alie cinema, across

whoso desk must

have

passed millions of photo-

graphed

samples

of beauty, what in your opinion are the prerequisites for the making of effective photo?

an

to drop the expensive bauble in a rewarding land, and a mother who chief interest is in "motion"

and

mention.

soine

plate of hot soup to evade arrest by has a drudging life and, having lost pictures, but I'll try to answer your pictures, not photos or "still" Sam Levene, who is after the "hot" several. earller children, jewellery. A waiter whisks the plate almost sourly reluctant to lavish too personal ideas on the subject you

is question because I do have Jewellery from the

the table

much love on the boy. tries to cool it off in the kitchen, A year in Jody's life preses. He that I believe are called for in the Here are the prerequisites In the script, Levene subs the nequires a pet-the deer-for which making of an effective photo. water and the 30 carat pin just as he has longed; his father nearly dies they disappear in the kitchen, und of snakebite; he goes on a bear hunt; Pase them so that they don't look

Think

first about your hands. Burt Lancaster claims ownership in he suffers Intolerably when Flag order to save the young lady from proves

pesed but so they show grace. Study an incorrigible crop-spoiler the hands in whatever photographis arrest

and has to be destroyed, But just to nuke sure everything These

of the stars you can find and incidents are shown with will learn how important your hands you 15 under control, the walter who touching tenderness which only are in taking 41 juggled the $30,000 jewelled piece occasionally

Over into "Glamour" in still photographs is good picture. from the table to the kitchen was sentimentality. As you watch you nehloved with a raised shoulder, a

оле

Spills

or gestures

the insurance company and yourself looking at the expand-slightly tilted chin, a satin drape operatives. The other was standing ing world. its loveliness and its

any one of 1 dozen items by just to watch the first one-and cruelty, through the eyes of the that are werth studying. These to keep an eye on things in general growing boy.

things, too, can be learned from --to make doubly sure that nothing

photographs of the alars. went wrong.

of

CZAR'S CADET

·COMPOSER

Whether the first laugh in "Song Scheherazade,”, (Central and

THE

You Feel Bettor

THE sub-tropical landscape', pro- vides wonderful colour-pictures,

the

the

Stand On Ono Log If sometimes a little self-consciously arranged. But it is difficult, that

For full-length posen, keep this subsistence-level life has been hips slightly sidewise toward cleaned up a bit, painted over in mera. This takes away from the places in brighter colours than life's. broadness of the lips and gives

Good as Gregory Peck is, for slenderising effect. It is also effec instance, he seems shado too hand-ive to stand on one leg, with the Jane knee of the leg nearest the camera come for the scrub farines,

swung slightly forward. Paulette the wife, but even

her carefully ungtumorous Керреагалесе cannot bara Stanwyck tire expert at this, result. being an exquisitely wholly hide a slightly out-of-char- the

curved figure. In their photographs, acter prettiness,

Insist on proper relouching of any that faults in your portraits.

(Alhambra) was put there delibernto. Wyman is admirablo' und`moving as Goddard, Joan Caulfield and Bar-

ly you will have to decide for your- self.

It is 1865 and in a Carist battle- ship in the Mediterranean the cadets are in

But, over all, is lined

a flim up for roll-call, The camera

nrul to the fair freshness

enchantment comes French face of Jean-Pierro

makes you feel better, Aumont ko and ke rapa out, "Rimsky-Korsakov

The argument in that the f Russian composer scribbled some of his best work while in the navy, under the unsympathetic command of that fino old Russian draracter-Brian and inspired chore by the slinky| QUEEN'S The charms of Yvonna da Carlo,

R

Donlevy,

"At one point the ecomposer

THEATRE Directory TO-DAY'S FILMS

Razor's

of

Finally, don't stor the above suggestions because they seem "arll- ficial," They are used in Hollywood every day with great effect. And don't think producers and directora are not susceptible to an attractive photograph that shows the subject knows something about this business of creating a glamorous impression. I cast Miss Goddard as a slevo girl in my now picture, "Unconqueror she was capable of glamorous ap because of a photograph that Deal even in homespun taiters. CENTRAL Song of Scheherazade Many of the stars to whom I've Yvonne de Carlo, Brian Don- offered opportunities in Gims first lovy Joan Pierre Aumont). caught my interest with a photo- AGALMIAMIRA-Song of Scheherazade, I graph.

picka

up a violin. Miss do Carlo dancen few steps to the speeding motos and myn, “Why-it's just a béon bumble-bee."

It should not take you mure, thom ano guess to know what M. Alimont. la ddling.

Edge (Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney), KING'S The Story of the wall Nicholas Nickleby (Cedric (Gary Cooper, Laraine Day), Hardwicko).

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IRENE DUNNE REX HARRISON

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ANNA AND THE

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