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DOMD SECRETS

THE IRON CURTAIN

June Havoc Berry Kroeger. Edna Best

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·THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1948.

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NË THE ST.

Ah! What I have been waiting for-

-A No. 1 NEW BRITISH

AVE you

ever sat down in a cinema and wondered, while waiting for the film to begin, about the people sit ting next to you-who they are, where they come from, why they have chosen his particular picture?

It happened to me when I went to see The Red Shoes,” In the seat beside me was a young girl. I remember giving her n casunt glance and approving of awhat I saw a full head of long, amber hair, a fresh, alive face with a rose-pluk compte- xlot. a pair of dark, wide-open. very bright eyes.

STAR

by LEONARD MOSLEY

tight control over herself, but she scenes, at the

MDIRA SHEARER

ballet, along the ade me feel for all the world as opulent coasts of the Riviera, in the It I was watching desperate side streets of London and Paris, ambler waiting for a race he has that will take your breath away. simply not to win.

Ten minutes later, with "The Red Shoes" begun I know why, I was sitting next to Moire Shearer--and Alias Shearer is the star of the film, of going through the sweet ngohy watching herself appearing for the first time on a screen.

I won't embarrass her by giving Any details of now she reacted, for the next two hours, to the sight of her own image.

There is a long ballet based on flans Andersen's story of the girl who put on a pair of red shoes and thereafter could never stop dancing, and it was to brilliantly performed by Miss Shearer, Rabert Helpmann, and Massine that the nudience broke into the film to applaud.

What I found most pleasant was the discovery that Moira Shearer is In any case, I as entrancing to watch even when she stops dancing.

was soon so absorbed in the celluloid Miss Shearer before my eyes that t forgot about the flesh-and-blood Ms Shearer within reach of my

And then suddenly I was aware there was something special about her. Why,

that calm beneath exterior, the poor thing was just pulsink with

and elbow, excitement emotion.

For what a lovely girl she is, This wasn't just a girl waiting for What a wealth of inlent, freshness, the big picture; she was keeplug and appeal is stored inside her, what

o. fressure-trove she is going

prove for British Blinal

VIRGINIA'S

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Ino,

Anton Walbrook was fine, In the part of an impresario who marriage is prepared to wreck, a

of his dancers with to keep one scene with his cynical portrait of n him; and Helpmann stale scene after typleal male dancer, full of chi-chi and conceit.

The picture was marred for me only at the end. where producers Powell and Pressburger deckled to notorious us come of their give

girl after realism-a close-up of a she has thrown herself over a cliff.

FORMULA FOR roughly barert, 1 presumo, on the The sight of lots of blood, in cofeur,

it almost spoiled "The Red Shoes"

for me.

Moira Shourer is by profession a ballet dancer and The Red Shoes" 1 Alm about the ballet. Its story real-life history of Dlaghey and neared over a girl's body is some- Nijinsky) is about a dancer whose thing I can do without in lms, and Ufe is wrecked beenuse she is forced love and her to choose between

Not quite, though. I remembered carer.

What makes it come most moving the embarrassment of richness which which preceded of marriage.ly alive

it. I remembered Miss is the inspiration

winsome technicians Shearer,

and Jovable, Virgo Mayo has developed a everyone, players and

It was nice formula for happiness.

atike, have injected into it. It is Thank you, Molra. "Think about what you can give." | flimed

ure being near you on such an occasion. colour-and there Misa Mayo sald. "rather than what you can get

Fet."

HAPPINESS

FTER

A year

Miss Mayo and the actor Michael O'Shea, who were married on July 5, 1947, say they have found that rules for successful marriages are universal.

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There

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wives,

Miss Mayo

נו!

TOGETHER AGAIN

AFTER 10 YEARS

INGER

By PATRICIA CLARY

routines their walked dance team spun ROGERS

cameras with around in nine pictures in six years. Then they had to split up because, more from another. But she doesn't Fred Astaire recently for the Astaire sald, they couldn't find a plot think material

that first time in 10 years. Bre important.

realises, who drop husband before the

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a It took 10,000 fan letters, year of thinking it over and two sick stars to accomplish the reunion.

"There must be more important: bonds than that to keep a husband and wife together," she said.

Attention Needed

Though Miss Rogers is Just as Even In Hollywood,

winsome and Astaire just as lithe, couples ought to try to see each they're making a concession to 10 other's viewpoint.

lost years by playing an old married "There

than 000 side to couple.

Otherwise it's about the Miss Mayo said.

same story the screen's most famous "People who realise that can save themselves many a quarrel.

every, quart10.

from A husband needs attention his wife, in Hollywood or elsewhere. Miss Mayo spends every minute with O'Shea when she isn't working. "Mike will de something at home to improve it, like now he's paint- Ing the house," she said. "He does A good job and I tell him so. If makes him feel good, just as I like to get praise from him."

It all adds up. Miss Mayo said, to the old saying that if you take care of the little things the big things will take care of themselves. "I don't know anything which could be better applied to marri age, in Hollywood or anywhere," she said,

Broadway Presents New Film Ballet

The ballet, "Primavera," created

the film by LeRoy Prinz for "Escape Me Never is to be included in the repertoire of the New York Ballet Theatre.

The dance

inspired by Botticelli's famous painting which how hangs in the National Museum in Washington and marks the first time motion picture choreography will be presented on the stage.

Errol Flynn and Ida Lupino are the stars of the film.

SPY RING EXPOSED

The amazing alsclosures of a worldwide Soviet spy system made in Canada by Igor Gouzenko, former cypher clerk in the USSA Embassy in Ottawa, brought to light a story even fantastic than could be found in spy fiction, Gouzenko's more story forms the basis of "The iron Curtain," which had Hongkang premiere at the King's Theatre yesterday, Dana An-

und of Gousenko,

Gene Tierney part drown plays the that of his wife. In the secucabove, they are seen trailed Ur secret agents white heading for the Canadian Ministry of Justice to reveal what they know.

they hadn't used before.

"People were getting so used to the dialogue them- our stories," Astaire said, "they could have written

selves."

Miss Rogers became a dramatle actress and made some pictures, like her Academy Award-winning "Kitty good, and Foyle," that were very others that weren't.

Astaire kept on dancing and, three or four times, announced his abso- Jute and Anal reilrement from the

screen.

Stream Of Letters

"We got a steady stream of fon letters through the years asking us he said. to get together again," "Columnists were constantly needling us. Finally Ginger and I talked i picture_over_with_Irving Berlin."

Everybody said it was a great iden But And when could they start. nothing happened unit Gene Kelly broke an ankle and Judy Garland had a nervous breakdown and there were Rogers and Astaire, co-starring in MGM's "The Barkleys of Broad- why."

MGM designer Irene, the only per- Eon on the picture who worked in the old musicals, fussed nervously with Miss Rogers' beaded slute chiffon gown and white mink coat hefore the first scene.

Producer Arthur Freed handed Astaire a red cellophane-wrapped package. It turned out to be a book; "Home Lessons in Dancing."

Twenty-six

press agents and photographers were clustered around to record the event when Rogers and Their Arst Astaire went to work.

scene was just ke real life.

lancing team, they stepped out of a stage door together and all the fiths cheered. United Press.

Short Takes

FRANK SINATRA has provided

יצי

funds for four underprivileged boys to enjoy recreational activities of the Y.M.CA. for a full year. This makes him a member of the Cen- tury Club, a group of citizens pup- porting the

programme for combating juvenile delinquency... When ROBERT RYAN completes his role in "The Boy With Green Hair" he will take his first vacation In

six months. He has made

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100 in DICK POWELL, soon to be seen

halreut "Station West," had a crew

hing

now...

but

now

for "Murder, My Sweet,"

his head shaved for "Rogue's Regiment." His wife, JUNE ALLY- SON. says she is realgned to most NAN LESLIE, anything TIM HOLT'S leading Indy, has joined a cooking class sponsored by

Non a Hollywood newspaper.

Nan saya there's nothing back of her, ambi- tion except a desire to be a better 1s helping cook...TED NORTHI MARILYN, MAXWELL

redecorate her home... The girls at a depart- ment store in Chicago where BAR- have HALE once worked BARA organised a fon club for her. VIRGINIA HUSTON is planning to this summer at the Omaha nppear Community Playhouse whero sh10 got her start.

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