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Bathing Beauty

Metro-

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MOTUMI

Starring

RED

SKELTON

with

ESTHER

WILLIAMS

Basil RATHBONE

Bill GOODWIN Ethel SMITH Jean PORTER Carlos RAMIREZ

HARRY JAMES

and his MUSIC MAKERS with HELEN FORREST

XAVIER CUGAT

and his ORCHESTRA

with LINA ROMAY

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1948.

ALITA SEAT IN-

WHEN YOU VISIT A STUDIO,

AT A CALL SHEET

LOOK AT

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By MELROSE GOWER

7

starred, listed on his Call Sheet

"man to blow smoke request for rings. That did not mean, however, peculiarly gifted with that dd cigarette-smoking accomplish- ment. The man who "blows" smoke rings for a movie scene does not blow them at all. He la a dechulcian who

HE "Call Sheet" is Holly was asking merely for six feminine

extras as background pedestrians. wood's Bible.

"Best boy and guffer on vet at The Call Sheet is

A.."

a R inmiruction on the was an piece of white paper

nino Call Sheet of RKO Radin's techni- Boy With Inches wide by 13 inches long. colour pleture, "The containing an assistant diree Green Hair." For your Information. n "galter" is the head electrician on tor's instructions for the day's a picture, the "best boy" is his assto- filming of a motion picture.

names

tant.

The Call Sheet lists the

for One of the last Call Sheets of all actors and "Berlin

Express," to be released actresses "on call" to work each shortly with Merle Oberon, Ilobert Korvin at "Paul day, names the location where Ryan, Charles

following memo Lukas. bere the takn filming will

place, trom Assistant Director Nate Levin- describes the sets. states the son: exact time work will start on "Will motily if part of clown will ench

scene, and outlines the work." day's demands on all studio de- partments.

The Cat Sheet, 19 worth mort than a star's paŁY cheque. No star would get a pay cheque if the Sheet did Instructions an the Call

DIA not make it possible to Blm pictures areurately, swiftly and uni Directors out their assistants,

star, department brads,

feature players and extra carry the day's Call Sheet stuffed in their pockets. The Call Sheet is pinned to quint- less bulletin boards, where he who runs may crush.

T

MUMBO-JUMBO

2

6) the studio visitor, however, far

Call Sheet

much mumbo- Jutube, fununing ni. It anght well be written in Sanskrit, for all the information it comveys to them.

instreitona Its cabalistie, cryptic

phrased in the strange kartunge en- ployed by film technical men, would baffle even a cipher expect.

Samplent Certainly,

"Six steel wother' were retest- ed me any on the Call Sheet of the Le McCarey

“Good Sam Assistant Director desde it

production,

A BIC ORDER

Texte to what much of the clown

THAT was all

No reference was

the might be out of der. But Casting Ofec

im- understood

told it mediately that Weld be later whether or not to enll the actor assigned to play the role of a cireus. clown,

It sontext like a mighty big or- der when a Call Sheet for the pic- requested Hire Weep No More" "three fat-tuies." As I turned out, Assistant Director Harry D'Arcy did not me three aeroplane carriers. He was calling for three plain, run of-the-1}. flat-toppel dressing A distinguished freadin the corner, more huxurious trailers provided for Elas The stars, Jiseph Cutter and Halian actress, Valli.

West," Jane

thue of the respárements listed on

Call Sheet for "Station on which Bick Powell an Geer are now working, was "four sauteuses grips on set." But 20

the day's were in Pvidence when

ming started-the answer

being

thust a "grip" is a husky movie stage: hand.

Maxwell Henry, assistant director

dis el want six women +f wasy on "But the Moon." in which virtue to holanob with Gary Cooper

Iwever, and Ann Sheridan,

Robert

Ele Geldes

Mitchum, Bartuara Bel and Robert Preston

are

-can containing a round hole in the top with smoke-thun, tapping the bottom selentifically, he pro- duces the most perfect smoke rings ever seen

The Call Sheet for Roslind' Hus- sell's Intest plelure, "The Velvet

askell one Touch."

day for "two **8.5,'N to open big doors." Quiet, please-an “s.b." In movie parlance is a "stand-by."

Deceptive, surely, is the phraseo- logy of the Cull Shivet, deceptive as the remark of the braggart who re- turned from Africa with the state-

a club."

"Weren't you reared?" gasper! want listener.

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UNADULTERATED NOSTALGIA

UNTIL

By LEONARD MOSLEY

JUH experience this week changed my mind for me. I used to envy young people between the ages of 15. and 25-and not just because I will never know adolescence again myself.

No. 1 considered them furtu- what is a messy nnte bernuse and neurotic world to me must appear quite normal to them. any never known They have other world. They never knew the years of plenty, never tast ed the gaieties, the follies, the carefree days of the pre-war

years.

Lucky people. I thought, They what it is like to be don't know

realise Blled with nostalgia, don't that a zest is missing from 1948, the of don't sigh over memories past.

SOMETHING LACKING ND then I took a 17-year-old girl

"Life With Father" ks sheer an-

It is set New York in the spacious, uncaring days of 1900, and it recaptures its period brilliantly.

adulterated anstaiga.

From the munient it opens with # view of the brownstone house

3+11

nong Madison-avenue, with horse- trains clapping down the street, and chatting smiling people leisurely on the cntners, you are buck in

of mental and physical case. "Than were the days when the not about war, but rich worried about new maids and next week's dinner party, when the poor worried not about atom bombs, but he to help themselves lo a part of this period of plenty and become rich themselves..

SIMPLE CRISES

didn't exist. PSYCHIATRISTS

Women had the "apours" instead of nervous breakdowns. Food was cheap and so was beer. You argued about the prospects of the local team instead of wondering whether your workmate was a Communist spy.

We sat through it, laughing at the

FATHER OF WITH simple-minded crises in the family

mte:

(soon to be seen Hongkong), and what she maid to ne when it was over made realise that present-day youth also aware that something important is licking Iron this new world.

Court, British

Alm

Hazel actress, models a dual-purpose play and swim suit in red, blue ant while collon. The outfit bolero and skirt, which has a

she holds over right arm.

is

of Air Clarence Day in 1900, weep- ing at the sentimental moments. Afterwards, my girl companion was silent for a long time.

She sipped at her ersatz orange juice and nibbled reflectively at

shpaste sandwich.

*

#

in

and

Phyllis Coates

Is an up coming young actress to watch. So far she has had small roles, but she has been offered a leading part.

LORETTA ANSWERED

THE CALL

By PATRICIA CLARY

opportunity knocks but

once,

Loretta Young eer- tainly answered the right call.

She often wonders now what would have happened hadn't.

if she

Mas Young was only 13 when bathtub she scrambled out of the

Suddenly she said: "What stupid lot of people they were those days. They got worked L}> bo answer the telephone in her San over such silly things." And then: Fernand valley cottage. "Heavens, wish we could do the same sometimes. It's a shame, isn't We picked the wrong moment

to be born.

to

the studio im- "Cuine over to mediately, Polly," a voice said. "We have to get rolling on this picture right away. If you aren't here within half an hour, you'll lose the part."

Not that I would, want you to go his aim for a Jesson in soclol behaviourism: Go because it is fun. Mr Day, the Father of the film

by

Miss Young didn't answer to the William playect (excellently Powell), is a man with a temper of name of Pully but the voice on the brimstone and a heurt of gold. te lire didn't give her a chance to say couldn't likes to feet that he runs his family so. She realised that she with a red of iron. And his family, reach her sister. Polly, in time for Just to keep him happy, let him re-her to go to the studio, so she went

herself,! tain this erroneous illusion.

BEAUTIFULLY TEARFUL

sung periness

Director Mervyn LeRoy THEY know how to get around the amused by Miss Young's

old man. Mother has only to look when she told him why she was immediate for there. He gave her an beautifully tearful (not hard

screen test and a part in the plelure, Irene Dunne) to get an increase In

her shopping allowance, Invite home "Naughty Bui Nice." It wasn't

Learned to Camble

a couple of relatives father dislikes,big part but it lunched her career. or even persunde Mr Day to have himself buptised 50 years too late. His three red-hended song have their own hilarious methods of getting

their own way.

*

"I learned then, and remembervil thereafter, that you have to gamble

if you expect to get any place in You will be richer for watching show business, Miss Young said, “I them, and regretful, like my 17-| have always tried to take advan- year-old giri, that

nowadays we

can't ret quite so worked up about tage of situations as they come up." such gloriously silly things.

"JOAN OF ARC” PREMIERE

Now, 20 years Inter, Miss Young has a gold Oscar, the motion picture Industry's highest award for artistic ability.

Currently starring in Hot Wallis' Accused. Miss production, "The Young has never forgotten the tele- phone call which resulted in her acting career.

"Joan of Arc," the spectacular technicolour production which slarg Ingrid Bergman, will have its world "I often wonder what would have premiere in the newly renovated happened," she said, "it Polly Ann Victoria Theatre on Broadway, New hnd been home, or if Mervyn had York, on November 11.

given me a chance to tell him

t

Walter Wagner produced the ple-wasn't Polly Ann. or it. I had been ture, and Victor Fleming was the afraid to answer the call. director. The costliest film ever "I didn't know what I raight be of doing today in that care. I never produced in Hollywood, "Joan

Are"

пп required

outlay

US$7,000,000.

of might have had another chance."—

United Press.

Darryl F.Zanuck

Forever Amber

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