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Seal in The Ställs

Can he forgive

her war mistake?

Lorella Young as a Swedish maid who runs for Congress in "The Farmer's Daughter," opening tomorrow at the King's.

Noel Coward writes a screen comedy

OEL COWARD, now

NONE COWARD ing

screen.

in BETTE Davis was extremely happy

new comedy direct for the the Warner Bros. 1ot at 1 am. on the day she began rehearsals for her At a time when blood, "Winter Meeting." tears and sweat (with an oc- casional whipping)

the fashion for British films, his gesture is welcome.

arc

It rained the day she was born. It rained the day she got her first stage engagement.

It rained the day she left New Yorks for Hollywood.

A woman's picture

Fever a film is "n good woman's picture" and in my language, such a de- scription is not a recommenda- | tion to sloppy-minded females who want to spend an afternoon in the fauteuils having a good weep-THE UNFAITHFUL (Lee Theatre) is it.

I think so because its central figure Is a young wife, very much of our time, whose dilemma all women will And fascinating to watch. And, if their menfolk go along, they will have plenty to argue about after- wards,

For this is her problem. Ann Sherlian's husband has been out of the army for a year. Six years of service in the Pacle have made him nervy, irritable, too anxious to catch up in his work, but it has been happy year for both of them-with only

one thing nogging away in Ann's mind to mar it.

ก

One night, while her husband is away on business, she comes home from a party. A man is waiting in shadows. As she opens the dour he pushes her inside. They struggle. she screams, and as the man puts she his hands rourk! her throat reaches for a knife and kills him.

When the detectives come along morning, question her next

the says she has never sech

and

Ann

she

man before. He was a hold-up man maintains.

τα

The detectives raise their eyebrows. The man had no gun. Besides, he

a sculptor with no record of having engared in crime before.

Was

"Are you sure you've never seen him before? Don't you really know

the to her,

"No," she says glancing at husband who has rushed "No, He is a complete stranger."

for a projected film version of his her departure from Hollywood on

He is substituting the new script rainstorm indirectly prevented/ him?" they ask. play. "Peace in our Time." Coward one occasion when she believed her thinks thu

this is not a propitious time self to be a failure.

of a Nuzi the story for offering

It rained during her most dramatie 10 Britain cinema scene in "Jezebel." She won the Occupation of | nudiences. In fact studies generally Academy Award for her work in

be Aghting shy of war that film. stories at last. The Rank organisa- It rained on the

seer, tu

last day

of

tion had announced a screen version picture "Deception" before she went of an H. E. Bates novel about Allied into a year's retirement to gwalt the sabotage in France: now it may be birth of her daughter. postponed indelinitely.

The Coward picture will be made THE audience at a private showing by Filippa Del Gludice's company. of the new British Alm. "Easy

THE

It will be one of three "Del" pro- Money," gasped at some comedy

Should She Confess?

We know, by now, that this is plain, ordinary lying. In the next lot few hundred feet we know a more. We know that Ann met the sculptor several times while her husband was oversens, that she posed for a bust he made of her; and that, in one of her lonely moments, she did very much more than that,

Her lawyer says she should con- her husband. But she

tr

ductions

to be financed by the in- "patter" of a kind never permitted won't do that. dustrialist W. G. Riley following on the screen before. completion of "The Guinea Pig" by The picture opened West End run

the Boulting Brothers.

So she goes on lying to the police, and

LL

at the Gaumont, Haymarket, and to her husband. getting more . Others are "Private Angelo, Marble Arch Pavilion, recently, more into a mess-until the police adapted from Eric Linklater's novel, Mr Sydney Rox, the producer, tells afrest her on a charge of murder, and to be, directed in Italy by Peter me that the scene was passed by the the husband finds out about her unfaithfulness in n vicious fashion Ustinov; and a screen version of the Censor without comment. Irish fantasy, "Happy as Larry". It occurs during an orchestral re- from somebody else.

So you reach the crux of the film. Raymond Lovell hearsal scene, with THE girl students of California as the conductor and Edward Rigby If she is acquitted (as seems likely) University have voted Ronald us double-bass player. The what will her husband do? Will he Colman, 60, the handsomest man in dialogue was, I understand, based on take her back? Or is the wartime woman to be judged on Sir lapse of anecdote once related by the United States. Mr Colman re- an'

a kind different standards from that of a fuses to comment. Award-making is Thomas Beccham; it is of

usually

associated with smoking- soldier oversens? in the air.

Ann Sheridan gives an oxidly

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rooms.

T Bilinore Bowl dinner on Feb. Film censorship in Britain has be-moving performance as the trans-

25, Jimmy Durante received a come appreciably more tolerant re-gressing wife.

Zachary Scott is the husband who Heart of Gold Award, for never eently. The "Easy Money" episode having refused to do a charity show Foes to the limit in this direction of has to fight the battle with his pride

omelal broadmindedness, In the past 23 years,

CHARITY GALA PREMIERE

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THEATRE: Directory Today's Films QUEEN'S-Gallant Dess (Marshall

Thompson, George Tobias). KING'S The Wistful: Widow of Wagon Gap (Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marjorie Main).

LEE The Unfaithful (Ann Sherl- dan, Lew Ayres, Zachary Scott). Man's Navy

CENTRAL This

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ORIENTAL Variety · Girl, (AÙ

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and there are some fine miniature performances from Steven Geray as 2 blackmailer and Marta Mitrovich with as a vengeful woman racked Chato..

The

settings ore. flashy an artifelat; but don't worry

that: the problem is real.

Two leading orchestras and array of fine musicians and singers are brought together in "Carnegie Hall," the United Artists presenta- Hon-which will have its charity gala on premiere at the Lee Theatre Tuesday at 9.20 p.m.

20TH CENTURY FAIRY STORY

and

about

LTHOUGH Hollywood's nt- grave

The premiere is in ald of the tempts

Society for the Protection of Chit-

to present the

of the day can make us dren, and the proceeds will go to issues wards helping to staff and maintain squirm, there is no doubt that they Society's three child welfare can do a very efficient job when

they tell a story which no

never exist.

the centres.

one

Rise Stevens, the rising young Metropolitan Opera star, und Libelleves, about people who could

has

a

Young,

Pors, whose coloratura volce

"THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER" charmed millions. appear in the coming to King's Theatre tomorrow, picture. Another famous opera star is such a story: It is really who contributes to the film is Ezio Twentieth Century fairy tale, It is Pinza, coraldered by many critics to

about a girl--Loretta bo the best basso of the decade.

lightly disguised in blonde plaits Individual musicians featured areand Swedish accent-who leaves Artur Rubinstein, planist, Jascha and

the to Helletz, Violinist, and Gregor Flat home, encounters many vicissitudes,

and finally Makes Good gorsky, cellist,

Leopold Stokowski leads the New accompaniment of much triumphant York Philharmonie Orchestra, and music. 'other famous conductors seen are It has dastardly villains who plot Bruno Walter, Fritz Reiner and the against the heroine, a noble young American, Walter Damrosch.

man who dashes boldly to her rescue, In other words, "Carnegie Hall" Isanit. a thundering triumph a musical event not to be mlased virtue at the end. Tickets are on sale at Moutric's, Chater Road.

for

No one

is

expected to believe a word of it, and accepted in that spielt it passes for pleasant enough entertainment.

Loretta Young leaves har form home to become a nurse, and makes her first acquaintance with the evils of the wider world at once, when she is swindled out of all her money. She becomes a maid in the house of a young Congressman-played by that good actor. Joseph Cotten, who more serious ought to be doing

things.

In this fatry-talo film warld no one la particularly surprised when, by virtue of her rustic sincerity and simplicity, the maid is quieldy In- vited to run for Congress, and ramps home with both parties united to support her.

The fairy story is kept up to date by having the villains in the guise of wicked politicians with secret Fascist canings.

ALHAMBRA Gallant. Beni. MAJESTIC/The Unfinished

Dance (Margaret O'Brien, Cyd Charisse).

STAR-Cover · Girl (Rita Hay-

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However, no one is likely. them very seriously eliher.

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