1948-06-19 — Page 2

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SHOWING

TO-DAY

KINGS

• AIR-CONDITIONED *

Here's the song...

and the girls...

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That set an era affome!

At 2.30, 5.15,

7.20 & 9.30 p.m.

I wonder who's kissing

20+

CENTURY-FOR

. Stawing

JUNE HAVER

MARK STEVENS

her now

Coter by

Technicolor!

Directed by LLOYD BACON

Produced by GEORGE JESSEL

TO-MORROW MORNING AT 11.30 A.M.

"PETER THE

FIRST"

At Reduced

Prices

CENTRAL

SATRGWY

* 5 SHOWS DAILY *

AT 12.30, 2.30, 5.15, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

A'THRILLING DRAMA

ÖF MAN'S LUST

FOA

A Romantic Brama ni Brave den and WAMIL

Teld with Such Crip

ging Power that "Death

Yalloy" comes to the

SEFOUR DE Ong af the Great Picturus of

Any Tras!

PHOTOGRAPHED IN

DEATH VALLEY

LIDA

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Man Against the Deserti

Love Against Givedi Falth Against Nature's Henri-Bapaking. Trencharles that Lucked in...

DEATH VALLEY

Color

LOTEXT

LOWERY GILBERT

MAT

PENDLETON HOLLOWAY BONELL SIMPSON BAKAJA REED

ORIENTAL

SHOWING TO-DAY: 2.30—5.15-7.30-9.30 P.M.

A GREAT MUSICAL-COMEDY with NEW SONG HITS AND HOLLYWOOD SELECTED BEAUTIES INCLUDING MISS MARILYN BUFRED (Miss America of 1946)

Joan MacCRACKEN

DONALD

MEL FORMES

GOOD NEWS

SPECIAL MORNING SHOW ON SUNDAY AT 12.30

A REPEAT RUN BY REQUEST: "INVASION", RUSSIAN FILM.

SHOWING

TO-DAY

Cathay

At 2.30, 5.30,

7.30 9.30 p.m.

IT'S RED HOT! ITS TEMPO IS TERRIFICI

KISS OF DEATH

VICTOR

Starring

BRIAN

COLEEN

MATURE-DONLEVY-GRAY

Directed by BERRY HATHAWAY • Froduced by FRED KOHLMAR THIS ONE WAS WRITTEN WITH A MACHINE GUNI

"

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1948.

A GOLD MINE NAMED

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

D

LONDON.

UE in London shortly fa a young American dramatist with an un usual name and a still more unusual success story.

ABHAROLD CONWAY

team.

Haro comedy

dramatists amass after a long career. Drayton-Robertson He is still only 28.

It is the "Glass Menagerie," which He is responsible for "The Glass London is to see first, Mir Wil Mountain," for which work has be Tennessee Williams comes from tams is coming from Rome gun in Italy. After that, his pro the Deep South. When in his early and Parle-where productions are gramme includes a £250,000 Alm twenties he wrote a Chickov-style also being given—to attend rehear about Lucrezia Borgla, play called "The Glass Menagerie,"

sala, portraying through the eyes of only four characters the atmosphere of his native district,

The

was hawked manuscript around managers' offices for years before it eventually secured Broadway production. Then it ran

touring for two years, and is still throughout the States.

Young Mr Williams followed this flest offort with an even more TC- markable play about life in a block of tenement flats in New Orleans "A Streetcar Named Desire," with British Jessica Tandy in the leading

role.

This is now New York's biggest hit, with competitive bids for the London rights pouring in. The au- ther is likely to make moe money out of these two plays than many

GIPSY

MARLENE DIETRICH returns to films to

RAY co-star wil

Earrings," Mllland in "Golden which is now showing at the Queen's and Alhambra Theatres; Miss Dietrich portrays a daring, seductive Kysy In this adapta- tion of Yolanda Foldes' roman- fic novel.

The

Shonour

The cast consists of a mother, son, daughter and a "gentleman caller." They must talk in Southern Ameri- can accents; problein facing H. M. Tennent, Ltd., who are presenting the play, is whether to engage an English or American company.

Tennents, incidentally, are among the principal bidders for "A Street car Named Desire."

COLUMBUS, FILM STAR FF to the Barbados soon is 38-

year-old ex-INE Commander

Adrian Seligman--on a unique film Job for Sydney Box.

He is to take possession of two 07t. Jong sailing vessels specially bullt in a local shipyard and sat them back to the Thames Estuary.

This is for the production of "Christopher Columbus," for which Fredric March is coming from Holly wood

star in the title role. The vessels Santa Maria and Nina-are reconstructions of those in which Columbus tet sail from Spain to discover America.

Once in the Thames Fredric Morch will appear on the scene for close- ups on deck.

THE HUSBAND'S NO DOGEN LIVESEY has taken the unusual step of turning down a star film role opposite his wife, Ursula Jeans, beenuse he felt unsuit- ed to the character,

They were to have been fogether

on the screen for the drst time, in "Martha-based an Esther MeCrae- ken's

stoge success. "No Medals" After reading the script, which brings the story forward to the postwar period, Livesey altered his mind.

Now Ceel! Parker will Ursula Jeans in the film.

TAKING STOCK

to

partner

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Now Mr Minter may have to cut substantially his future investments In new pictures, like many of our smaller independent producers. While the big studios were leisurely in taking advantage of the Hollywood embargo, these Indepen- dent producers have been

making immense

efforts to help All the breach with unextravagant produc- tions. I do not mean "quickies"; I mean good standard feature films in the -£100,000 class.

Now they wonder whether all their corta are to go for nothing.

Studio space looks like being harder than ever to got-with Hollywood companies out to spend part of their British carnings on production here.

Even If they climb this hurdle, what chance, ask the Independents, have their films of a fair showing once the American invasion efforts begin” pouring in?

A Sock For Romantic Braggarts

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By Patricia Clary

[ADELEINE CARROLL thinks a man should tell his wife every- thing, but he ought to be confessing, not bragging.

Fred MacMurray isn't so sure. The discussion between them over the point produced one of the funniest scenes in their new comedy.

The two stars, who worked to Kether in six comedies at Paramount Studios, got around to discussing marriage between scenes of "An In-

the picture nocent Affair," brings Miss Carroll back to screen after six years working with the Red Cross.

"A man's crazy to babble every- thing to his wife," MacMurray de claret. "A guy can talk too much and the first thing you know sho thinks you're holding back something Important."

T HAVE been talking to a man

who has set out

spend £1,120,000 on British film produc- tions.

Immediate effect of the tax settlement with the Americans has been to make this man-James G. thing Minter, head of Renown Productions

and take stock. pauce

36 he is Mr Minter (at

our associated youngest film chlet) is with two pletures now complete:

Miss "No Orchids for

Blandish " with Jack La Rue, and "Things Hap

the with pen at Night,"

Knight Of Piccadilly

By David Lewin

Harker-

LONDON, June-10.---not-clever enough to know what the HOW business hus a new public likes," he says,

He will just go on trying. After this morning. "Bless the Bride" there will be a new Cocky-its favourite producer musleal from Alan Herbert and -becomes Sir Charles Blake Vivian Ellis, and maybe a straight Cochran, the Knight of Picca- play after that.

dilly.

From his fourth-floor office on the corner of Old Bond-streel and Ple- cadilly, 75-year-old C. B. Cochran has been doing business for 35 years.

*

Cochron lives comfortably. He rich mun. enjoys life, but is not a Despite all his successes he has lost money, but has never been broke, The Knight of Piccadilly says: "I can't retire-I must go on working

Show business hopes he will keep show going for a long time yet.

He sat there, yesterday, at an old desk in a large room with antique for a living." furniture. He was thinking about

In 127 shows and 51 years business. On the walls to remind him were old theatre prints and signed portraits of 25 years of stars

from Sarah Bernhardt to

Ginger Rogers.

G

C.B. everyone knows him as that is short, white-haired, walks with stick. His voice is quiet, but ho says. "I believe in shouting "Walk- up, walk-up. That is how show business starte. But you must

know the different ways of shoull g it-the difference, for instance, when you present Shaw or have a circus on your hands."

*

Cocky has tried everything from opera to rodeos and boxing matches with and, of course, the musicais Mr Cochran's Young Ladies. It wasn't that, in the last 10 years, the shows were outstanding for ideas-they were just better pro- duced than the rest. Cochran always found the right talent.

new

he

There have been times when has failed. During the war he pro- duced shows which he prefers not! to discuss. And there were Avo years when people were asking: Cochran finished?" They had their answer a year ago. Cochran made his comeback, at 74. Alan Herbert and Vivian Ellis wrote him "Bless the Bride."

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Cocky went to France to and tho star Georges Guelary. C.D. does not admit that Guetary made the show his view is: "Showa make stars a star does not make a show." "Bless the Bride" was the hit which put Cochran back on his feet." Yesterday's figures for formance No. 467 were £620 170. 10. net. Still capacity business.

per-

Why? Because Cocky looks after shows himself: bellover in colour and vigour prefers period musicals be- cause "modern fashions change so frequently and is always prepared to have another go if the show flops. He puts on what he likes hittisel and he is still the ordinary theatre- goer excited by frat nights. "I am

STARS IN

that

the

"I'm not sure about that," Miss Carroll replied. "Assuming of course--that the man is Innocent.

"But if he isn't innocent, the worst thing he can do is brag about his conquests. That goes whether he's married or unmarried.

Dislikes Braggarts

"The lowest kind of worm, In my opinion, is the romantic, bruggart. The guy who wins on the battlefeld of love and then broadcasts a com- munique about it."

The two stars had a scene com- ing up in which Miss Carroll sus- pects

MacMurray of philandering with Louls Allbritton. She chases him out of their apartment, deliver- ing several of her best-open-handed- slaps on the way,

the

You kids have given me an Idea for that scene," director Lloyd Bacon remarked. We'll put it in script right now. At the end of the fight when you send him tumbling over the furniture, Madeleine—we'll Insert one line."

"What's the line?" Inquired Miss Carroll.

The line is, 'And that's your bragging, Madeleine, I want you really to sock him on that one."

The line got a terrifle laugh at the Arst sneak preview of the film. No one suspected that the stars were responsible.-United Press,

NEW MUSICAL

JUNE HAVER dances her way into Mark Stevens' heart in "I Wonder Who's Kissing Hor Now," Twentieth Century- Fox's new Technicolour musical, which opens today at the King's Theatre, June, in her bid for Blark's affections, also singe several of the all-time hit ballads written by Joe E. Howard, famed troubadour.

Queen's ALHAMBRA

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Now you know The way a

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Gypsy Adventure ypsy Music!

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MARLENE

MILLAND; DIETRICH

"Golden Earrings"

QUEEN'S

Kathryn GRAYSON

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