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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1948-

A

Seat in the Stalls Come with me to Hollywood

B

ECAUSE of my visit to California, I can now boast that in filmland's

When I was being driven to Uni versal Studios a station car passeil us quickly and was soon put

S

by

Beverly Baxter, M.P.

a. sceno

capital I was in the company of But how can I describe the spectat doubt if there is more secret lone famous men and women who intimacy of my association with Mr tiness anywhere in the world than would need police, protection if into a shed where Mr March was

Fredric March? My Kuido took me In Hollywood. they ever showed themselves in rehearsing

Admittedly I was there in a period with another of great anxiety. Not only has Great public in Toronto, Milwaukee or netor, while the director sat on Britnin closed her market to Ameri- London. Coma with me and chair and looked at them. In fact can films, but other countries are meet them.

the first requisite for a director is threatening to do the same. Faced falling asleep, or, if he does tall Big Producers feel that they cannot. to learn to sit on a chair without with this heavy financial loss, the asleep, he must pretend that he is risk a box office fallure, so they fall sunk deep in thought.

back on the formula which hos On this occasion there were no proved successful in the past, and the five of us in a friendly little new stories' or new technique. lights

or microphones, just they take no risks with new stars, cameras

Except, of group. you will agree that what

of course, that, y guide and myself never spoke, and I have described is of absorbing in the other three took no nailco of us THEY still announce that each terest.

many readers can say whatever. In fact How that they have been passed on the ability of film actors is a fascinating sensational and unforgettable master- the imperturb fresh film is the most stupendous, road by Robert Montgomery- and In a station car?

sight..

That's Bob Montgomery," aald the driver. "Guess he's late on the lot."

hope

Side

Then there was the vivid scene In

the Universal Studios, where I lunchest with the executives, while Douglas Fairbanks Junlor sat at the next table but one. Unfortunately, We were back to back so I didn't sec hl

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sludy.

SUPERLATIVES

1 bellove you could ride on ploce since "Gone with the Wind," would only think to a set astride a horse-and they but they do not belleve It. Nelther strayed from some "Western," or Cin

that you had do the critles nor the cinema public. that the script had been altered.

Cinema

attendance in

in the USA, has dropped sharply In the last months, and it is still falling. Yel the studios are afraid to offer any- thing but sex and murder.

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It may be that this financial crisis: which has hit Hollywood will bring a new strength and a new courage. will blow away much that la inwdry, Perhaps like a wind from the sea it cheap and false,

been a great friend to us when our I wish Hollywood well, for it has

case to the world. own studios could not put Britain's alins will not regain their place until

But American

ALL SHADOWS WHAT is the truth about Holly- WHAT LOVE BY A POOL

wood? No one can NE actor whom I

deny its remarkabte have always achievements ONE

admired is Williams Powell and. pioneers the reward of their vision nur begrudge to the therefore, it was pleasing to be taken and energy. But I was glad to leave on the set where we found him it. Somehow one feels that it is a making love on the edge of a pool world of shadows where nothing is to a mermaid named Ana Blyth. real The lovers, however, were certainly is dwarfed, talent is gambled in like but the unreal. Huruan dignity weil chaperoned. The director sat poker chips, sex is an occupation, about two yards away from them, authors become Camera men.

backs, and actors make-up men, story are the slaves of the lamp, the lens

a new vision and a new courage are men, acoustics and electricians hovered around and

men, publicity men and the microphone.

born. There is no nooral life for the self would make at this moment! In fact, what a flm Hollywood It- above them like guardian angels.

As I was under competent escort swimming pools and tennis courts. would write the script for nothing. etors, despite their pleasnat villas,

I know a good many authors who no one exhibited the Jenst curiosity They hear the pounding surf about my identity if any. So world events with the faintness of moved up and had a look down Mr cave dwellers. Their Powell's throat. In fact I was so each other is based upon the price contact with close could have pushed him to ticket which marks averybody and the pool, but I hardly fell that our everything. . Perhaps the film has acquaintanceship had reached that done more than any other medium point.

to destroy human loneliness, yet

THEY FIGHT TO THE DEATH

FLASHING swords, galloping steeds and bold men battling to death highlight "The Swordsmen," "Colum- "bla's technicolour iale of the MucArden-Glowan clan feud. Above, Larry Parks and George Macready in a scene from the Alm, now. showing at the King's.

WHY DEANNA'S MARRIAGE ENDED

BY PAULA. WALLING-

LOWDOWN

ON LEGS

By PATRICIA CLARY Marlene Dietrich, who owns two of the workl's lovelicat legs, believes they got that way be- cause her mother made her wear high shoes lacing half-way. to her knees until she was 18.

Modern mothers, she said. are ruining their daughters' legs by letting them wear low-cut shoes without heels.

"Many girls in Germany used to wear high shoes until they were 12, but my mother made me wear them until I married," Miss Dietrich suic "I am convinced they were respón- sible for shaping my legs.

"The shoes girls wear these days. make their gakles and feet, as well as their legs, completely shapeless. They all grow up to look like planos,"

Present-day women who do have beautiful legs. Miss Dietrich added; don't know how to display them.

Weak Ankles

"They should study their 'walk and their posture," he recommend- ed. "I've noticed that many women let their toes point out. It's sur- prising how much It helps the legs to walk with the feet pointed straight ahead,"

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Miss Dietrich said her mother didn't prescribe the high shoes any attempt to Beautify her legs.

"I had extremely weak ankles." she said. "My mother thought the shoes would strengthen them.

She took the shoes off when she was 18.. and she still had weak.

ankles. much for that,

Miss Dietrich is currently dispiny- ing her legs as a night club enter- Affair." They are encased tainer in Paramount's "A Foreign Alk stockings.

"There are many beautiful slock-

THE separation of Deanna that she insists upon the boy fhish-

Durbin und her husband, ing high school first. Felix. Jackson, is just another news for more unpleasant reasons.

The Barrymores have been in the case of a May and December

Helene Costello (sister to Dolores) romance failing, says her studio. lost the custody of their seven-

Universal her, husband 47.

Star Deanna Is 20 and year-old daughter to her estranged

husband, Lee Leblanc. The studio spokesman denied the Veteran report that the pair would divorce (her father), and the family's long- actor Maurico Costello immediately (Jackson has already limo.friend, Lionel Barrymore, ap-ably was. that the world's best- been divorced three times).

peared in 'toutt to defend Helene, who has a toddler daugh- without, success,

Deanncu, married Jacteson In,

ter,

1915. She divorced her first hus- TREVOR HOWARD is not going band, young producer Vaughn Paul, to play. In "The Passionate In 1943, after two years of marriage. Friends" with Ann Todd after all. CARMEN MIRANDA goes to Lon- Shunting will start in England soon

April for a month's chosen in Howard's place."

but as yet no leading man has been engagement at the Palladium..

She is only one of several Holly Alec Guinness.

Names mentioned for the part are wood stars engaged by that theatre, Herbert Pocket in "Great Expecta- who appeared' as

in

Others are Danny Kaye.

ings made in America," she said. happen to prefer silk simply be- cause nylon wrinkles around my knees."

She said the reason for that prob-

known legs are topped off with old-f fashioned round garters.

Girl-Perfect

For Glamour

MAX FACTOR, who should know,

Mickey Rooney and tons and Michuel Gough, who plays Mas given his iden of the per-

anth 'concert

MacDonald Is off on a.

tour of tho

United States. Sweden's

Viveca Lindfors will star for Warner Bros. in "Autumn

Crocus."

This is an adaptation of the Dodle Smith play.

second lead in "Blanche Fury."

THEATRE Directory

| QUEEN'S—Mutiny: on the Bounty

Parks, Ellen Drew).

(Larry

Marlene Dietrich, as soon as she (Clark Gable. Charles Laughton). completes Foreign Affair for Parn- KING'S—The Swordsman mount, returns to Paris to star in a Alm autobiography of the famod woman author, Colette..

FOR what it is worth: Garbo has practically decided to return to the screen this year in a romantic story of Paris and Vienna in the

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fect glamour girl. *-*

The Hollywood make-up "Expert says there isn't one yet, but if sho does appear, she will have:

Vera Zorina's torso."

Lana Turner's legs.

Garbo's nose.

Susan Hayward's eyes. Hosalind Russell's eye-brows and

LEE-Dark Passaro (Humphrey forehend.

Bogart, Lauren Bienli). |GENTRAL—The Master Key (Dennis

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Cast). OHN BARRYMORE, Jun., 15, con MAJESTIC Holiday In JOHN

Mexico of the late famed actor, plans (Walter Pidgeon, . Jose · Iturbi,

Jane Powell).

10th Century.

to go on the stage.

His

mother, actress Dolores STAR Nobody Lives Forever (John Costello, told me this, and adds Garfield, Géraldine Fitzgerald).

Loretta Young's mouth. Irene Dunn's chin.

Joan Crawford's cheekbones. Judy Garland's cara. Maureen O'Hara's neck. Linda Darnell's hair, in its natural brunette shade.

Esther Willams" arms. Katherine Hepburn's hands. Laureen Bacall's voice. And Rita Hayward's "genlus "for selecting clothes that do what every woman dreams her clothes shouldi do for her,”

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