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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1948.

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In this year's Royal Variety Performance ia

Danny Kaye.

The show has been fixed for Monday, November 1; it will almost certainly be at the Pal ladium. No names of per- formers are "official" until the programme has been approved by the King.

Kaye's name, I believe, will be on the list submitted, if he can take time off from his American commitments--sufi- cient to fly to London, rehearse and appear at the show, then fly home. Kaye is enger to do this. He would receive no fee and would pay his own fures.

MEET. THE BRITISH

PROBLEM of the show is how

over-

to mix British and seas performers in fair propor- tions. By rights it should be British variety's night of nights.

Ironical situation this year is that a "representative" West End variety show would logical- ly have

to be studded with foreign star names.

Those are the acts which have been drawing the money; and, one of the organisers put it to me. "You enannt expect the public to

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night, would not specially

attract

them."

Val Parucli assures ine titut

British acts will have fair show- ing.

WHERE are those Hollywood mas- much terpieces

heard so we about

Lux during the

embargo are those long period? Where

the queues we were to see outside

American the new cinemas once tims arrived?

I do not know the answers. But I do know that British pictures have popularity. Since hot declined in the Hollywood films came back box the fees in the West End and in uburbs report that British films are on the whole more popular fhan their rivals.

The most noticeable queues in the West End have been for "Hamlet," "Oliver Twist" (which is taking more money at the Marble Arch Odeon than did "The Best Years of

Bogart Wanted To Be Tough-And Succeeded

"HUMPHREY BOGART

in "We had a pretty good little gang of our own," Taylor recalls. "There were four of us-Bogart, Bill Brady, the producer's son; myself, and a character we called Bull Durham.

the only man I know who achieved the ambition of being a tough guy without get- ting hurt."

"We all specialised in being tough guys, did everything in gesture and speech to further the idea, and went to absurd lengths to associate with

the genuine article.

Our Lives"), "Spring In Park Lane," and "Miranda. now generally re- lensed. All British, you will ob-

Nerve.

Two new American productions- "Gentleman's Agreement" and "The Naked City"have deservedly drawn tho public: so has "Sitting Pretty."

But there are exceptions., Most of the post-embargo American pletures have found the going difcul.

The fact la that a significant change has come over the London claema public. Until last summer they would automatically go Hollywood films, whether good not. A British Alm had to be out- standing to get as much support.

to

or

Now the positions are reversed. Hollywood will have to think serious- ly about this. I hope that our film producers will hold on to the advan- inge they have won.

BACK FROM NATURE ONALD HOUSTON, 24-year-old repertory actor. was pleked from hundreds of applicants in be Jean Simmons's partner in the Alm of "The Blue Lagoon." Now he is walling to see whether his screen to appearance is successful enough win him a long term comenet.

Meanwhile, he is making a stage return: will be at the Embassy shortly in the first production of R. F. Delderfield's new

The Queen Came By drawn, In contrast to the sun-tanned Fiji hero of the Alm, his stage role will be a Victorian shop assistant.

le

This play will probably Houston's last for a long time. Frank Launder who made "The Blue Lagoon, believes that this is a new screen stor who has come to stay, But Launder and his partner. Sid- ney Gilliat, are crossing over to the Korda camp) so the decision about Houston's future hes with the Rank judges,

TWENTY

-YEAR OLD Brenda login, to whom Houston has Just become engaged, celebrated her birthday with a big Alm part of her own. She goes to Italy to appear with Peter Ustinov, Godfrey Tearle and the Italian star Moria Denis- in "Private as the hospital nurse Angelo."

Like her fiance, Miss Hogan was a repertory performer; like him, she was chosen for her im part from a long list of applicants. A small role in the screen version of "The Guinea Pig." not yet publicly shown, convinced Ustinov that she was the "Bull showed up one morning sctress for whom he had been look-

most beautiful Ing. shiners you ever saw.

Ustinov has not only adapted Eric

· sold. "Look what 1 got he proudly pointing to his blackened Linklater's novel, but is also direct- eyes. You know who I got those in it and taking the title-role-an from? From Abe Attel, that's italian soldier who deserts without who!"

favour from three opposing armles, Anding romantic adventures more to his taste.

This is the recent observation made by one of Bogart's boy hood pals, who once roamed the streets of New York with the actor and shared his belief that with a pair of the the greatest honour was to collect a shiner from any one of the notorious gangsters of the time,

The friend is Dwight Taylor, who probably wanted to be a tough guy foo, but who became, instead, one of Hollywood's most successful pro- ducers and writers.

NEW LOOK FOR THE NEW TARZAN

By PATRICIA CLARY TARZAN today definitely has the

new look.

Cross-Town Battler

"Attel was one of the most famous cross-town battlers. We were all tremendously impressed, but I think Humphrey was greenest with envy." Taylor, incidentally, does not call Bogart "Bogey" is do inost of his Hollywood associales.

This picture should provide major test of the British censors more tolerant outlook nowadays.

TRACY'S ACCENT

OPENCER

TRACY and Deborah Korr are now well advanced on The writer says it came as a great the flim version of "Edward. My Son" shock to the gang one day to learnrat MGM plature to be made at that Bogart had inken. a job as an their Elstree studios.

actor.

"The

"He made his debut in Cradle Snatchers," and the gang was on hand. Mary Boland and

Edna Mae Oliver were playing Jades in search of a thrill by way of enter taining youths.

"We

Problem of Tracy's accent, in the role of a British plutocrat, has now been solved. There will be a short prologue, conveniently establishing that he was born in Canada.

New York, which usually gets all flabbergasted were

American-made when first showings of Humphrey walked out on the stages films, will see this one last. It can as one of their thrill-boys, clad in be shown in the United Kingdom

States pyjamas,

The new ape man, Lex Barker, is a slimmer Tarzan than his prede-a dellentely coloured pair of Chinese and the rest of the United cessor, Johnny Weismuller. And he has a much bigger vocabulary "Tarzan and the Arrow of Death" than any of the nine Tarzans before him.

Fri

"No more of that Me Tarzan, me Ilke Jane stuff," Barker said - us

tree. he swooped down from a "Maybe i's part of Tarzan's new look, but I'm very definitely having Iles to say."

Burker is big. good-looking and enlisted n Princeton graduate. He in the war as n private and came out a be-ribboned, badly wounded major. The former football and akling star weighs in at a solid 197, AT 2.30, 5.20, most of which you'll see in the flesh, thanks to his new, briefer. loin cloth.

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"THE LONG NIGHT”

HENRY FONDA BARBARA BEL GEDDES

Ile's six feet four and presently, In beautiful shape. He is planning to slay that way with hard gym ses- slons.

Long a Fan

"I've been a Tarzan fan since I was a kid in Rye, New York," Barker said. "It never dawned on me that one day I might be here. whooping it up for him.

"I like it, because I think that if I do a good job us Tarzan the oppor tunities for other roles are Umitless." Producer Sol Lesser thinks Barker is an even beiter Tarzan than the nino who have preceded him.

"Not too muscular to give male fats inferiority complexes," Lesser commented, "but definitely the king of the jungle. lie clicks."

Brenda Joyce, the perennial Jane, thinks Barker is about right, too.

"Walt Ull the women, see him In that new look Jungle outfit," she said. "There'll be a line at every theatre."

Barker is gelling a new lower-. volume Jungle cry down pot and is trying to make friends with Chee- fah, his chimpanzee Jungle pal United Press.

on January 1; to avoid clashing with "I was too much for 13. We the play on Broadway, the New premiere will not be whistled, cat-called, and shouted, York screen

of before June 1 next. 'Hello, beautiful?' and ran out the theatre. But Humphrey ap- parently knew what he was doing. Beautiful Leucen MacGrath Is He didn't wear slik pyjamas for the only member of the West End long. Soon he was levelling a pis-play cast to appear in the film; she tol and chilling audiences' blood, is repeating her role of the pluto- Is work crat's secretary. Studio "He had left the rest of us behind. planned so that she does not have to matinco We wanted to be tough, but he had bo at Elstree on theatre already arrived."

days.

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"Pirates of Monterey," which follows "The Soul of China" as the feature Dlm at the King's Theatre, brings back the adventurous days of early Callfornia, when danger went hand.

Borne in hand with romanos. The plainte, from which a shown above,tars lovely Maria Montex and Rod Cameron. with Gülbert Roland, Philip Blood and Gale Sondergaard In

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