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HERON KUNG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1947.
THE CAMERA BECOMES
A SCENE from "Lady in the Lako" depicting a tense moment for Robart. Montgomery, Audrey Totter and Lloyd Nolan.
Secrecy
Surrounds
Making Of "Hamlet"
By GERRY HILL
A STAR
TOTION plcture critics, In
MOTI
describing the work of à director or a cameraman on an especially praiseworthy assign- ment, have been known to re- mark: "Ho did everything with the camera but make it talk.”
In M-G-M'a much-discussed new - motion picture,. Lady in the Lake," which comes to the King's Theatre tomorrow, Robert Montgomery, a star-director, and cameraman Paul Vogel have done wonders,
and
1
The unusual subjective technique employed in the telling of this mys- tery story, based on Raymond Chandler's novel, made the camera the central player. The action seen through the eyes of detective Phillip Marlowe, played by Mont- gomery. This means, in effect, that the camera is Marlowe, And since the audience sees just what Marlowe sees, the camera becomes every per son in the audience. Because Mar- lowe obviously cannot see himself, unless he steps In front of a mirror, he seldom appears before the camera. But his voice is there in every, scene. His voice becomes the voice of the camera,
Docs Many Things
In the process of living this thrill- Ing adventure in crime, the camera (as Marlowe, of course) is required to do some remarkable things. It moves in and out of doorways. sits down and stands up. It emokes ON both sides of the Atlantic, with its print Wellest "Macbeth,"
a cigarette, puffing smoke rings from leading directors and pro- with its special Wellesian treatment. under the lens. It is given a savage ducers are busily completing bring to movie audiences "Macbeth"
In the future Olivier pinns
third degree at police headquarters with bright lights shooting.
glaring into the of William Shake- and "Othelle,"
lens. It engages in n
n brutal his
Night speare's greatest
newly with a would-be killer. It breaks tragedies, evolved fim technique.. "Hamlet" and "Macbeth."
Olivier sums up his treatment of
down a door by throwing itself Critics are unanimous In their enry V" as "looking through the ticked and pinched in the eye by against the panel. It is slappet, wrong end of a telescope." but for various assailants. It le thrown into
opinion that "Hamlet" will be
an
using
even bigger success than "Henry V the unique drama. "Hamlet," he has guol. It drives an automobile
wos
conceived abstract"
and
•
that
Slr Laurence Olivier, who
an imaginative knighted primarily for his film mas-
treatment that 1.3
totally is wrecked. And, finally, it makes
love to a beautiful girl. terpiece, hopes the production of his differant, although much of it is an second Shakespeare play will, experlinental as In "Henry V."
Camera Mobility solidify Britain's position as the re- cognised producer of the Bard's
works.
In Hollywood, Orson Welles aims at taking the limelight off. Olivier
JACK HAS
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By Harold Conway
UPPOSE
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Which would you choose?
Jack Buchanan, who answers to
.
"Hamlet" presented untold dif- John Arnold, head of the M-G-MÌ
to dressed in rich doublets and lowe
mounted
ficulties to the producer, and direc- camera department, devised a special or, even to one as experienced and contraption with wheels on both ambitious as Olivier. The charge- ends and steering apparatus that ters are complex and hard to play. made it look like a fireman's hook Olivier is actor, produce: and direc-
irec- and ladder. The camera, tor, half the time behind the camera on this affair, gained increased directing, then darting in front to mobility. It could be m
moved from the famous speeches of the room to room, Just as Phillip Mar-
Would walk, In
several With his incongruously dyed instances it was necessary, however, Olivier blond Davie plays the part of the to hang an entire side of a wall on as he believes William moving hinges so that it could slide Shakespeare would have approved. up and out of the way when the
Eighteen-year-old Jean Simmons,
ons, huge camera
nera moved forward. This to was the case when a doorway was fame in Great Expectations, plays too small to permit the camera the role of Ophelia, the demure and move through It. Innocent young girl who, filted
The camera department also ar- Hamlet. goes mad and wanders ranged a special harness to support round the corridors of Elsinore singt- the Eye-Mo camera and which tied ing bawdy songs
ond bestowlig about Montgomery's waist. This flowers on all.
made it possible for him to photo- graph a great deal of the action,
by
Mako Or Break Watching Jean in the mad scene, Olivier remarked; "She was born with something which took me 15 which will make or break an actress: years to learn." Ophelia is a part
Olivier
brought out hidden qualities which undoubtedly
will make a world success out of the girl who 1128 never played in Shakespeare befare.
A veil of
has
this description, lins just made his film of "secrecy
decision. He will
don,
A
surrounds the Commenting on
do nelther of this, Olivier says: "Journalists don't these things; he is to remain in Lon-like people looking over their shoulders when they are writing. Buchanan is planning a big-scale and I feel the same way about my British musical: but meanwhile. he acting." is to star for Firth Shephard in Time is one of the big problems; .revival of Lonsdale's comedy, the play runs for over four hours in "Canaries Sometimes Sing." This the theatre, but not even the most opens in Blackpool next month, with enthusiastic of audiences could be Coral Browne, Heather Thatcher asked to sit that long, so Olivier cut and Austin Trevor completing the the text with the elimination of a cast of four, It will come to Lon- few minor characters. don shortly after,
Jack
Buchanan has probably British Alm-making, the deep focus amassed a
A bigger fortune than any camera is used so that the smallest other British actor cept
For the first time in the history of
actor of today (I ex-detail of the settings shall not be
to
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SPOTLIGHT
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Miss Never- Amber
by DAVID LEWIN
LONDON,
LITTLE 21-year-old Peggy
Commins flew home to London after two years in Holly-
possibly people in the author- lost. Every incident calls for artis-Wood-and only the voice was actor-producer-composer class stich tic perfection.
as Coward and Novello),
A radical change in filmcraft Is non-appearance of film "extras." Every part is played by experienced Shakespearian actors, some claiming to have played in "Hamlet" before Olivier was born.
The Broadway offer came from the Noel Coward, who wanted Buchanan to play with Gertrude Lawrence In a revival of the "Tonight at 8.30" scries,
Cloud Over Fiji
The
Magnificent Settings
the same.
We had known her on the stage as a leggy schoolgirl with pigtails, a wide grin and a high voice.
I met her at her Park-lane hotel, and a slim young woman in a bluc silk dress shook hands with me. settings are magnificently She said: "I am moving tonight to a executed to give an overall effect of different hotel. It's too crowded hear that the "Blue Lagoon" sombre beauty. Ronald Furse, here in опе room. I prefer A company are cutting the dime on veteran designer of "Непту V suite." location in Fill, from six months to copied 13th century European
ATEST film ousterity
five weeks.
note: I
There's A Catch.......... sepia tones they adorn the walls of
TARRING
role in a big new British picture may be swafting
murals and frescoes. Painted in
Elsinore Castle
and unusual background. Continuity is the
half.
provide a most main feature of
an unknown actress. But there's a the alm, which runs for two and a The old high-pitched Cummins
catch tw
Laurence hours.
Olivier
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ASKED Miss Cummins about Peguy Cumming of 1945. "Holly- wood has changed you," I said,
"Sure, my pigtails voice replied: ⠀ She will have to appear with a speaks the finest dialogus ever wilt have gone. I got tired of those facial disfigurement.
ten. 'Nothing is over-emphasised in parts.
That's
I went why The picture is "Precious Unney" this part, the most nature of all his America. They wanted to present which
Thwo Citics
are making from performances.
me there, so they dressed my hair so Mary Webb's novel. David Farrar
Looking at the gorgeously colour would look good, has the male lead.
costumes and settings in Mary Wobb's heroine had a hare studio, it seems a loss
team led
to the film Ip. And that has worried the com-world that "Hamlet" is not
being pany's costing department. They made in technicolour, but Olivier argue that is popular star had the says: "I see it rather as an engraving role the familiarity of her dawless than as a painting.United Press. features would spoil the illusion..
Where's Jean?
"WHAT has happened to Jean Arthur?" is a question which crops up in my post not less than once a week.
It is three years since we have seen
her.
I had some news of her from Billy Wilder, the "Lost Weekend" direc-. tor, when he passed through London from Berlin. She is to co-star with Marlene Dietrich in his now picture, "Foreign Affairs."
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Mr Wilder found it dimcult to persuade her to make this come- back. Jean Arthur, he says, la strange young woman. who moods of revulsion against acting, when she cannot bear to face cameras or the
THIS
been her longest "retirement” •
the
has
In Foreign Affairs" she will have the role of an American girl who gets entangled in post-war espionage in Berlin.
THEATRE Directory
• QUEEN'S-űmoky
the
"They offered me good parts and a seven-year contract. I gues thought I could get on better there than. I could here but I didn't wait
find out."
to
In 1943 Peggy Cummins was earn- Ing £75 a week on the West End stage. Hollywood offered ther £250 a week. When she got there they put her in "Forever Amber," and took her out again after three
they cald. Now Mis
to forget that she was nearly Miss Am- ber "It's life. I Mac-sald. "I might have been too young, she suppose."
Anyway, Linda Darnell is lovely (De Amber, they tell me."
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At the end of her seven-your con- tract, though, she will be getting much more than 4hot.
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But I've got no head for Ogures," said Miss Cummins, and the blonde curia shook, "I guess I don't know. what they pay me because I don't (Bette really understand dollars yot. It's
all so complicated.
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