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FILM HEROES-

PREFER THAT WORRIED LOOK

ORBON WELLEBAN his latest Lady from Shanghai nim follows the current fashion for heroes with furrowed brows, In a 92-minute film fiq does not smila" onco, Famous furrowed- browers are: David Niven, Burgess Meredith, Humphrey Bogart, and James' Mason. It looks as tough pos-war wome

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HE characters in Rita They all go off

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T Hayworth's new film, Mexico, where Bila has ample op

"THE LADY FROM deniable beauty bf. form, Orson SHANGHAI," (to be shown Welles falls in love, and the other here soon), are a pretty nasty two perspire in the heat as they

plot 10 kill each other. lot.

Rila (with her hair dyed platinum and cropped close to the head) is a White Russian girl who has known the scamier side of life in Chefoo, Macao, and Shanghai, Her husband (Everett Sloane) in a cripple, a dadist, and a drunkard, who has married her for peculiar reasons of his own.

The young man (Orson Welles) whom she entices to her husband's yacht-you guess why-Is an Irish tough who has commiltled murder

in his Ume. There is also a mad

Inwyer and a crooked detective.

AMBER

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Orson Welles wrote tho script and directed the story, so you will guess that it has its peculiar moments. In fact, all the charactors to mc, and looked alightly after watching them for 92 minutes myself. But I felt somewhat tipsy Rilo looked wonderful, as she al-

to me, drunk or sober. ways does

Summing-up again, a pretentious fem, but worth seeing just for the scenery, both natural and human.

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Linda Darnell and Cornel Wilde are the Amber St Clare and Bruce Carlton of the lavish acreen version of Kathleen Winsor's novel, "Forever Ambor," which opens at the King's Theatro next week.

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BY PATRICIA CLARY

MOVIE producer-director believes the film scenes you remember best are the ones that show the glamorous star: diving eagerly into a plate of food.

You can leave out the clinches with the leading man, Lloyd Bacon thinks. The clinches the movle-goer likes are the onca with the big thick steak.

Bacon's food fad has almost reached the point where he picks his menus before he picks his stars. He doesn't know whom he's going to get for his next picture. "The Gut- tering

HI" for instance, but be does know all about the scenes in which the characters prepare, con- template, talk about, cat, and dawdle over food.

Bacon has kept detailed notes of scene-by-scene audience reactions to his own and other pletures. They have led him to adopt a rigid policy of at least two or three eating scenes In all future productions.

EATING 'APPEALS!

"The psychology is simple. Food is u pleasant idea," Bacon said.

"It

is an axiom in the publishing busi- ness that long enough and frequent enough eating sequences will sell any

book.

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"Most of the top newspaper columnists gets on the subject food frequently. Most magazints have food departments. Cook books are always among the best sellers,

Audiences are always impressed by eating scenes even when !իա: aren't pleasant. Remember Charles Laughton's portrayal of Henry VIII. The part that stands out is the way he tossed the bones over his shoul-

der."

Even movie romance frequently is associated with food.

"Any time the gal accepts the boy's invitation to dine in a little Italian restaurant with red-checked tablecloths and candles stuck in wine bottles," he said, "you can be sure romanco

about to bloom." There's one place where Bacon draws the line.

"No picture of mine," he swore, "will denote the passage of time by showing an empty plate,United Pross.

THEATRE Directory

TODAY'S. FILMS QUEEN'S-Good Nows (June Allyson, Peter Lawford). KING'S-The Exile (Douglas Fair

banks Inc., Maria Montez, Paule Crosel).

Yet the

bille

which announco

"The Perils of Pauline" have to odd to her name the information that she was "the queen of the serials."

Hollywood has a tendency to seri- mentalise its own past and imbue biography with falso values, but here they have resisted that and even used a sense of humour,

Pearl's on-and-off romarico with an actor who once fired her from a small touring company is rather n nuisance, but the main line of the story is buster being amusing than in secking to beatify the star.

The

atmosphere of the early movies is delightfully caught

With Betty Hutton playing Pearl White

there is, of course, no studious portraiture, for this dyna- mie comedienne's personality is too strong lo bo submerged in another's.

I know she is not to everybody's taste, but I confess to a stubborn affection for tho. drive and expert- ness she brings to everything she docs.

Maybe some nostalgia is needed for a full appreciation of this pic- ture. Certainly for those of us who now count the saver threads among the mousy-brown there is that ex- tra zest of recaptured childhood thrills.

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TIRST action before the Denham

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cameras by the French star, Edwige Feuillere, Was to send Stewart Granger sprawling head over heels. It was the most cheer- ful and significant episode I have seen in a British studio for a long time.

For this was the opening shot in "Woman Hater," Mr Granger's first effort at comedy. He is due for n whole catalogue of what the studio describe 113 "sophisticated slapstick." No star can continue indefinitely to be more popular than the pic- tures in which he nets, and Granger felt he should break away

from heavy melodrama, I think he is wise to try the comedy experiment. On the wider issue, it is about time the principal British companies made

318 Inugh,

Une comedy, Vice Veren," "with its-laboured facetiousness,does not compensate for the recent abyss of gloom on the screen.

Directing "Woman Hater" 'is D man in his early thirtles, Terence Young. You will be hearing more of him.

As his first effort, he directed. In LEE Frisco Kid (James. Cagney, France a pleture called "Corridor of

Margaret Lindsay).

Mirrors," "of which n 20-year-old CENTRAL-Undersea Kingdom actress, Edana Romney, is .co-

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Highlights of its production career were the decision to film it in a war-worn, Paris studio, after a vain search for facilities in England; the death of the backer on the day work was to begin; and the stoleism of the artists in lcy weather,

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