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Darryl F.Zanuck

Forever Amber

TECHNICOLOR

starring

LINDA DARNELL CORNEL WILDE RICHARD GREENE-GEORGE SANDERS

Directed by

Produced by

OTTO PREMINGER. WILLIAM PERLBERG "Brom the Mernt by Kathleen Winser

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M-G-M's TECHNICOLOSSAL STAR-SPLASHED MUSICAL!

This Time

Time For Keeps

ESTHER WILLIAMS

LAURITZ

JIMINY JOHNNIE MELCHIOR-DURANTE-JOHNSTON XAVIER CUGAT and his Orchestra

IN TECHNICOLOR

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1948.

"He was drinking champagne out of my slipper and ho swallowed my arch-support?"

Redgrave waives

the rules

LOSE up, the tall, broad-

shouldered,

open - faced aston!-

man with the

shingly blue

суся

and im-

patient brown hair, hardly looks the matinee idol typo.

His profile is 'not

enough; his amile sinuating enough; hla not. Buave enough.

angular

not in- manner

| America has named- him Actor of the Year...

but will Broadway approve Macbeth's New

Look? by MILTON SHULMAN

a significant look or a disdainful

It is therefore not surprising that he eventually became a professional actor. What is surprising, however, is that it took him almost 20 years to do His education, his height and economic conditions con- spired together to create the delay.

80.

Unlike most actors, his wns traditional schooling

enough to qualify him as

diplomat.

From Clifton ho wont to Cambridge, where he studied French, German and English.

Graduating in the financial crisis of 1930, he found the stage presented In addition he few opportunities.

that since he stood Oft. 2in, in his

Yet the feminine "oha" and "aha" which have greeted his appearance on the stage," and screen would produce-laid end to and wistful sigh long enough to fill all the sound air. On the contrary his then was advised by his theatrical friends tracks of all the romantic films trical Who's Who is studded histrionic feet, he had no possible over made. And the combined with eccentric, character parts future as an actor. "No leading man heart-throbs he has stimulated demanding unkempt mousta- wants to have his supporting cast and badly towering over him," said Mr Red-

grave. would cause a tremor sufficient ches, ample beards

Atting clothes. to tax even the hardiest of

Mr Redgrave himself dia- seismographs. But neither Mr claims

pretensions to therefore decided to take a tem- Michael Redgrave nor his career catinee idoldom. In fact, he Hporary job as a schoolmaster at can offer any satisfactory ex-

Two and a half years

If hi planation for these metaphorical avoided taking his first film test Cranleigh.

because he belleved he was not later blood began to tell. statistics.

an actor, it surely could not inter- good-looking enough for the height prevented him from becoming fere with his being a director. And this But despite

unique believing that good directors must approach to his work, Mr Red- act first, Mr Redgrave joined the grave today occupies one of the Liverpool Repertory In 1934 where

he was paid a handsome £4

£4 a week. Here in 1035, still in the family few Olympian perches reserved. for the successful of his pro- tradition, he met and married Rachel Now the Kempson, the actress. fession. He has just been a Redgrave clan has three more poten claimed the best actor of 1947 tial actors-one boy and two girls. by the U.S. National Board of Mr Redgrave's ascent to the tòp Motion Pictures for his part in has been a steady and direct one.

Electra." "Mourning Becomes

"From repertory to the Old Vic to Viciding to the And he is now in New York to leading roles. try his hand at interpreting blandishments of the alms he made

ils first

appearance in "The Macbeth for Broadway.

Lady, stree,

He has not looked back since.

But on his way to fame he has and

He has seldom played the handsome, debonnir leading man magnetising women with

100,000 WILL SETTLE THIS YEAR IN CANADA

TORONTO.

0 you are coming to Canada this year, you and 99,999 others. That is the estimate for 1948 of the Canadian authorities.

Yes.

Is there a job for you? if you are under 40 and know a trade. The need is for men who can dig, who can build, who can make things. The 48-page newspapers carry six pages of advertisements a day for skilled workers.

By JAMES COOPER

and

If you have

screen.

bring them along. But sets MACBETH provides as good shown that he is as adirolt

For

A

towering

cheat-thumping

seaman.

of

genuine antiques, The standard tram faro is four-

do you the length

closets pence, and carries of Toronto, allowing you to change bring wardrobes. Clothes

an example as any of vigorous a fighter off-stage as he is on. Accused of being a highbrow from one car to another.

are built into every hall and bcd-

just how unorthodox all snob, his brilliantly-written denial room.

actor Mr Redgrave really said: "I agree with Laughton when A haircut costs 3s. 3d., exclu-

Will we like it' sive of up, a shoeshine Od, cor

can be For he has given he says actors' names should not be Inscribed in gold on a roll of fame, parking 18 Od, of chocolate 4d.

thera?

the King of Scotland & New

but scrawled on the walls "of" all the weeks the Arst few 19

the Look. Mr Redgrave has aban- public places of the world." to buy here, There

much

Accused of being a doned the usual conception that

pacifist his Nylons can be bought by the doren transition to will be intoxicating. for 75, a pair upwards. Cigarettes There will be a shopping orgy, Macbeth was a noble but weak answer was to join the Navy as an

count prices. 19. 9. for 20, rye whisky unlimited until you begin to

ordinary

Accused Immature play ho bottle,

producing an come that first home-man driven to regicide by an at 15s. ሲ

Scotch, Then will

ambitious but plausible wife. did not hesitate to tell the critics rationed to 12 bottles monthly, at sickness.

You will miss the old friends. Instead his Macbeth emerges as what he thought of them. 24s. 3d, a bottle.

the old sccent. You will miss the A good pair of men's shoes cost theatres, the bustle of a metro- from £3 to £7 10s., a sult to polls, sigh even for a whiff of a villain who needs only the messure, from £13 15s, in a tube station.

slightest of spousal shoves to HIS chief aversion is being label- led an intellectual. "Not only multiple shop to £25 in. a bespoke Nino out of ten Immigrants send him careening to a fate does it drive people away from the admit that they reach a stage when for which he was already hell- theatre." he said, "but no one can tailor's

they would catch the first plane out,

actor be a great

who performs bent-for-clection. If only someone offered them a

rather than his ticket.

Prick Mr Redgrave and he is with his intellect

emotions.

Redgrave will Yes,

bargains. A Then comes there... are

the time when the as likely to spurt greasepaint as

Between Toronto blood. For his mother, Mar- follow close .on the heels of n Where one firm is competing new 31 hp, car, can be bought for Ice hockey game

Shakespearean of English radio, heater, and Montreal against another, they must be £450, complete with

between Arsenal garet Scudamore, first appeared series

Evans, John is £2 108. a football match unrationed

But at 2s. a and Chelsea, willing to work every daylight and defroster. Tax

autumn on the stage in 1898 and in 1946 successes-Maurice

Gielgud, Godfrey Tearle. year, petrol

door-hunting holiday as attrac-was still playing parts in the whether Broadway likes his Mac- gallon.

tive as an August week, when you West End; his father was

& Beth or not,

Mr. Redgrave's A new portable typewriter costs catch a "street car" at the "in-romantic leading man; and his philosophy will him through.

HIB and musquash coat tersection," talk of clevators

extremely nico £100, and beer, la delivered at 8d. transportation, and And

to have that you grandfather both an actor and success,

but it is Important to a bottle.

playwright.

have failure as well," he said.

There is 105. an hour for bricklayers, but they must be able to work on in 20 degrees of frost by the warmth of oil stoves.

hour.

If you are really tough, there is £1,000 to be made in a winter in the lumber camps, but you need. the physique of a cham- plon boxer and a temperament that can stand up to life in a log cabin.

Thero is 6s. an

hour for workers in the nickel mines and, in the town, 58. an hour up for skilled and semi-skilled workers.

There is little demand for professional and office workers. Most professions demand a university degree.

So if you are a white-collar worker, DON'T come unless you have first secured a job.

Can we get a house?

That is the biggest snag. The housing problem is not acute, but it is difficult. A house "to let" is never advertised.

England

has

Is anything cheaper?

a Arst-class £15,

Is the climate savere?

Canadians hate this question. They try to side-step it by saying. "It is cold, but we keep the cold outside." The truth is that but for the Canadian winter populous_as_ the United States.

Even in this southeast Niagara peninsula there has been snow on the ground for a month.

Here, away

from the cold the coldest it has been is prairies, seven degrees-25 degrees of frost. But It is just as likely to be 20 degrees below zero, or 52 degrees week or so. of frost, in the next There may bo a blizzard that will halt all city true and close down factories.

Will we need warm clothes?

in us exciting as the

when

finally belong here.

or

So they set out

to define the

HE rooms are lofty, with lots of fresh air and natural

light.

The walls are apple-green (it's restful) and matt-finished to avoid glare.

The block is large enough to pro- vide at least 80 square feet for each worker. Partitions between the offlees are of wood (to deaden sound) and movable. No section contains more than 40

than 40 workers.

The temperature is kept at 05 de- grees-which is just right for those who write or type.

noise

and able, chairs,

and

perfect office!

by GORDON SEWELL

cheon

you can

choose

In America 'Mr.

Бес

And, once inside this perfect office, naturally you sit down. Now follow this carefully. I quota:-

"The main thing to aim at la a *habit of sitting in conformity with tha-normal anatomy of the back. This normal anatomy is subject within the bounds of health to a great degree of individual variation. There is, for example, among nor mal people a variation in the tum- bro-sacral angle of the spinat column of from 30 to 80 degrees..”

Walt, there is more to comel

"Further, most healthy people change their sitting posture, and rightly so, many times an hour. It would thus be difficult to define any sitting position that could be univer- sally described as 'correct'; the ob- Jective should rather be comfort for cach individual.

*

more

Yes, but do not do as we did

furnished with small tables and basy "Medical opinion is that chairs and spend all your coupons on Rooms which face busy streets chairs. On the walls are framed are a relatively minor factor in pro- The best plan is to buy n heavy woollens

and

then swelter have double windows and are air prints of good pictures.

ducing faults of pasture, round back, Buburban bungalow costing from in the 12 degrees, the standard conditioned.

At the top of the building (reach- etc. As regards what may be called Indoor

Canadians £1,500 to £2,000 on mortgage dress as if for an English summer,

heat, Indoors,

The telephones have muffed bells, ed by a lift which is never out of siverse mechanical factors, in girls the typewriters are silent. To reduce order) In a canteen A deposit of at least one-third but for outdoors they have thick

used by all and young women at any rate, such the floors

are carpeted or grades from messenger boy to head things as overtight brassieres, and of the purchase price is re- overcoats with hoods, scarves over- covered with rubber composition of deportment.

the tension produced by shoulder quired.

shoes, and even earmuffs.

Hnolcum.

On the tables are linen cloths traps, stocking suspenders, and such If a woman is going to a party Desks and tables allow a din, to

garments as corselettes, are Blowers. vases of fresh

Wai- In many casca the Bank of In the flimsiest of frocks then she8in. clearance for the things, to save tresses

serve a three-course lun- likely to be harmful than the parti- allowed immigrants can wear snuggles—heavy woollen the clerk's clothes from being rub-

with tea or coffee which cular sort of chair they use." to transfer extra money to help bloomers that she will hang up bed and made shiny.

* 10. 3d, or costa In the cloakroom. them begin to buy a house.

The

padded, aro adjust- Municipal rates

separate course, about are

a If you have good tweeds

freedom of movement

Whose splendid words are these?" quarter of those In Britain. worsteds, bring them.

They will as well as support.

The food is prepared by a che? They were written by a study Hydro-generated electricity is cost twice as much here.

On cach desk is a study lamp to who learned his fib in London and group appointed by the Treasury to about a third as cheap, but it costs

prevent eyestrain.

Parts restaurants. And the canteen investigate office conditions in the. about £1 a week to keep the

When you go to wash your hands is managed by a committee of staff Civil Service, a task which took houses warm in winter.

in this office you notice that the and employers.

them 12 months, and involved hun- soap is liquid, the towels are 'cap- Should you be taken ill while at dreds of visits to Government de tive. There are wall mirrors with work, there is a nurse and a sick partments all over Britain. strip lighting, automatic machines

you have any personal

104-page

·From their containing aspirins and other sim- problems, you can talk thom over.

report, Civit ple remedies.

with

sympathetic moral-welfare "Working Conditions in the

Service" (45.), published by the If you drive to work there is free Stationery Office, has been built up All the staff · rooms are above parking for your car. If you eyele this picture of the ideal office set- ground. The rest-room lounge is there are free sheds.

Is living more exponsive?

Should we bring furnituro?

No. With second-hand prices so high it pays to sell up and re- furnish here free from

docket

Yes. The higher level of wages worry. must mean higher prices. Food Thero is now furniture of metal, chromium, and plastic. The wood furniture, mainly in maple, is cheap and good,

is twice as dear, with butter at 38. 9d. a pound, bacon 4. and meat 4s, Od.

NANCY

A Case of Arrested Rhythm

I'M ANXIOUS TO TRY

OUT, MY NEW HORN

WANNA HEAR MY HORN, NANCY ?

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