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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH; SATURDAY, .NOVEMBER 15, 1947.
SPOTLIGHT BY DAVID
LEWIN
Lena Horne's 'Belief'
WHA
LONDON.
THAT Is it that puts Al Jolson way ahead of all the What is it others who sing so nearly like him?
when that put Sophie Tucker in a class of her own there were hundreds of other torch-singers so nearly like her?
Inle London at the end of October came a girl with a simple answer to these questions. Her name is LENA HORNE, 20-year-old coloured star who is now America's No. 1 blues-singer.
"I
Her simple answer-the one
Word BELIEF stand out there on the stage believing in the words I sing......Stormy Weather.....Can't Help Loving that Man.Honeysuckle Rose...... understand what author was trying to get across when he wrote them......and that's the only way to make the people out front belleve in them too."
She mlled her brilliant smile. "Sometimes after five or six shows, a day words cease to have any mean- Ing. You get that blank feeling-and that's the time to pack up and go home."
has For her two-week stay here Lena Horne *brought with her 24 evening gowns, 1,600 cigarelles "for
her friends," a song called "Smoochie," and a phrase "re-bop"-which is the current US. term for "impromptu jive."
She brings to Landon more this. though. As all people. have seen her alms know, she brings a style of singing which is by
Henry V man is to make Alice in Wonderland
by ERIC BENNETT
NE of the brightest back- branch line muttering over
ONE of
In
He was
film industry is, leaving Britain to make an English Olm France for an American com
the
then an officer In Signals Corps, with a vast technical experience of television and Aim
means couldn't
Lo everyone's be-the
puts a wag
taste.
new
than
who
no
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"elementnt" "quality about her style,
a primitive quality, a total
absence
of inhibition, the kind of confidence
and self-assurance that pulls "the
last drop" from a song.
Does this expose her to the danger of burlesque? Of course It does!
But then so are The Ink Spots
fo
exposed to burlesque; so was Harry Richman, Jolson, Sophie Tucker. So are all the world top-liners among the torch-singers.
that ride over "You've got danger, ays Lena Horne, who has that ridden over it so well so far
for she is being paid £000 a week
the London appearance at The script he was working on and let Which, in my opinion,
Casino. association It is about a quarter of what they queer way to treat a
eventually produced, in with Laurence Ulivier, in spite of genius at a time when our in- tremendous oppositkin, was the big pay her in New York. dustry needs all the brains can command,
pany.
is
it
picture,
it
The name of Dallas Bower may not be furailiar to you. used to meet him on a blacked-
train on out
a slow Essex
Two Ps know their
queues
work.
money-spinner "Henry V.",
which
is expected to top a gross of £2,000,000 by the end of its Ameri- can run in addition to the £250,000 1 odd it has made in Britain.
You would have thought that, after the colossal success of that show British flm chiefs would have
riveled Dallas Bower with a ball and chain.
Bill Powell Comeback
WILLIAM POWELL. has been MGM for languishing at golden
occasional years,
doing an "Thin Man" film in order to the cus-
with
But no. Last year Bower, Massine, was working on tests for a keep himself before
m verion of Berlioz's Faust.
Bower had developed a revolu- tionary technique for this picture, hut in these tax-ridden times periments are shelved.
tomers' eyes.
Then he decided to break away, and moved to Warners.
This move has brought him luck will mean new wave of popularity.
CX-
and
Now he is to direct a coloured film of "Alice in Wonderland" for the skilful American puppeteer, IAME
characters the
THE Archers, as Mr Michael Bunin.
Powell and Mr Emeric Alice and the human Pressburger call themselves, will be British artists, but all
will be three-dimensional have scored a bull's eye in animals "Black Narcissus," which coming next week to King's.
He's finished "Life With Father," which will soon be released.
Now he's completing "The Senator Was Indiscreet,"
In the first picture he plays the pompous Victorian father of a large family in New York.
still at the
second, he plays a puppets.
incre pompous blow-hord senator, grand comedy рег- Production is in France, because and gives a the
French Bln studios are almost at a furnance.
to their limited standstill owing
is
to
In either role is B11 afraid
He even adds to They have produced a film of ex-profit margin and costs are consider-show his years.
them with make-up. ceptional beauty-a film that, if you ably lower than in Britain, do not crave for a happy ending, you will and entirely satisfying.
It has an unusual story--and most unusual atmosphere. It 1። beautifully photographed in techni colour, and it is exceedingly well
acted.
Five nuns travel to a remote vil lage in the Himalayas to open
arc
A PUZZLE FOR
A.D.
is sometimes possible to school and hospital. They IT housed in the Palace of Mopu, which admire and deplore a film: was once a horum and about which and such a film is
The Begin there hangs, elusive as a perfume, sinister air of decay. The nuns are ning Or The End, the story of
The
that the atom bomb, which is nagging winds uneasy. blow perpetually, the strangeness of showing at the King's the natives, the loneliness all Work
upon their nerves.
now
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some good character acting and muffled echo of the detonation that really occurred when the atom was split..
The local British Agent prophesies intended to stir people to a fresh will be surprised by task, epitomis- }
The best passages are those show-
Industry ing American
turning Its vast power to the secret manu- The purpose is admirable. It is facture of the bomb. Most people Its revelation of problems the immensity of realisation of the terrible which arrived with the atom bomb, ed when a scientist holds up a tiny It seeks to achieve this by telling the crystal that is to be the bomb's ex- development, plosive and says. "Millions of freight atury of the bomb's from the early, groping days in the cars went into Oak Ridge--and this That may not sound very absorb- laboratory to the final slaughter at is the result."
the touch so skilfully is the sense of Hiroshima.
that in a matter of months they will abandon their task. And they do.
WORTH AN OSCAR
-TO- MORROW AT 1130 A.M.-increasing tension conveyed, and so And yet in a way the fir is de
ERROL
ALEXIS
FLYNN SMITH
•
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The
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Brian Donlevy, American general in charge of the who project, acts well. So do. Robert dramatically are the characters plorable: because the people affected by their menacing environ-made it, instead of rising to the mag Walker, Tom Drake, Ifume Cronyn, ment
I. at any rate, was completely nitude of their theme, have draped and others who appear as scientists it in all the banalities and sentimen- and soldiers working under him. The absorbed.
Mr David Farrar, as the agent, talify which would normally enfold defects are in the conception of the
little heart-throb nim, not Its execution. Hives a performance that puts him in any pedestrian
"The Beginning or the End" opens the top flight, and for which would piece.
I
They have tried to groom the atom with a newsreel showing it copy of give him an "Oscar" Miss Deborah Kerr, as the young Sister Superior bomb-into a film star, and so they the alm being buried in a "time cap- responsibilities too have missed the opportunity of mak- sute" which is not to be opened for struggling with
500 years. Posterity, if there is Ing a great film. great for her, is intensely moving.
made? What bave. they
A posterity 500 years aliead, is going to Miss Kathleen Byron is superb as the Sister who loses first her faith, technically good pleture, with plenty have some trouble making
romantics, mind about this flm. her mind and at last her life. of comedy and synthetic You will Jose your heart to the little boy, Eddie Whaley, Jr., who comes to help the nuns teach English.
then
One longs to see more of Jean Simmons, as Kanchi, the native girl who runs away with the son of the local ruler (Sabu).
Kay Quinlan
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