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CHAPTERS I & II

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In hor newest film Marlene Dietrich (now a grand- mother) bridges two oras fifteen years apart and by shoer excellenco shows how tired her competitors aro.

How I need a new heroine!

·T took Miss Marlene Dietrich to convince me that the film stars we see in pictures at the moment are a tired, over- worked, and rather worn lot.

For Marlene is the charming exception to prove the dreary trend. Too many of the female faces we sco on the screen have been there too many times before. Why, some of the stars are hug-riiden with over-performing.

When you go to a blg British or American film these days, packed with ble stars are there any surprises for you? Not for me.

I watch Betty Grable preparing for an emotional scene, and I know the moment she is going to hitch nt her dress, exactly which nostril will quiver first.

Even Miss Rita Hayworth hug nothing new to say to me, which is surely a high point in satiation. And as for the Lockwoods, Culverts and Rocs-the conslatency with which they do the same things in the same situations is a tribute to their dogged endurance, but hardly an Inducement to queue.

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BATHING BEAUTY

STARRING RED SKELTON ESTHER WILLIAMS Harry JAMES wond Mills - Xavier CUGAT ORCH.

Directed by GEORGE SIDNEY

Produced by JACK CUMMINGS

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NOW

Murlene... for 10 years this

Inestimably Ittractive, charming, and intelligent woman the only Krandmother I will ever

The new Gable is

a war test

by DAVID LEWIN

YOUR reactions to "Homecoming." the new Lann Turner-Clark Gable picture,

fire going to be studied with great interest both in England und in Hollywood.

Not because producers want to test the popularity of the stars→→

that they have already decided Turner and Cable pre not what they used to be; but because your

views on the picture may give an answer to the latest m worty-"Is it too early to make war plctures?"

Britain saya "Yes." Hollywood says "No," and is preparing to back" Is judgment with £1,000,000 and five war hims

So that

at is why "Homecoming." with its wartime background, is Im- portant. If you don't like I then American war pictures will not be sent abroad for years. If you do the rush will be on,

by LEONARD

MOSLEY

want 10 flirt with has been absorbing the attention of us all.

Why? Because, even in her worst flow, there has been some nuance, some subtle auggestion to show that, as we have developed with the years, she has been developing, too,

In her new film, "A FOREIGN AFFAIR," sho is à cabarel singer in a low dive In Germany. Fifteen years ago, in. her, first big part, she was a German cabaret girl, too. But how her nind. her acting ability, the intense thinking that goes into fresh attractiveness on the screen-how that has broadened with the years!

Her legs nud her face remain the same. but her mind and her. understanding have grown to grandmotherly stature. I wish I could say the same of her petitors.

Mod is lining up stories like 1

Decision," with Clark Gable, "Fighter Squadron," with Edmond O'Brien, and Twelve O'Clock High," a story of the US. Eighth Air Force in Britain,

cont-

All over the world today to judge from the trade journals that come into my office, the men who run cinemas are complaining about "Ured stars." The names that go on the marquee no longer entice the crowds,

The reason is simple. The pub- lie wants to see some new faces, hear some new volces, watch some

New Tarzan

The sun never sets on Tarzan. This handsome

hunk of muscle man is Lex Barker, the new Tarzan. Lex is the tenth actor to portray the jungle super- man, and makes his tree- swinging debut in "Tarzan and the Arrow of Death,"

the 25th in the series..

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acting more in keeping with the times. The big star of Hollywood were produced, publicised, 41130 druimted around the world for the mgoers of the nineteen-thirties.

It is time they were allowed u break to go off and enjoy their bank balances, their ranches, and the little businesses they trave built up against the impact of Anno Dornini,

Until the outbreak of war, Holly- wood was good at creating stars. Every year, necording to our chang- ing trends, there WOR some new heroine to catch our eye Joan Crawford for the wild aftermath of the last war. Jean Harlow for the cynical days of the depression, Ginger Rogers when the clouds he- Ilko to roll by, and Ran

stars Katharine Hepburn io mirror the more thoughtful mood with which we faced 1930.

THEN-FULL STOP! BUT thereafter, the men who make Ď the films seemed to stop trying They still screamed their heads off about new ones, but the stars they produced seemed to be short of breath. They were tired before

they started.

I honestly cannot think of any star today who is destined to make a dent in my mind the size of the Canyons Garbo, Dietrich, Irene Dunne, and Myrna Loy have created in my recollections. Yet they are around.

Somewhere, in the studios, in repertory

in dramatic theatres. schools, there are surely potential stars of real calibre.

What they need to have is not only looks.. not only superficial charm, but the unfailing knack those old stars possessed of falilog · in with our Ideas and feelings, giving us the impression from the screen that they are going through what we are going through, feeling what we are feeling, thinking along with us in terms of 1948.

WANTED: VINTAGE

DON'T

ON'T tell me plense that British American producers nre working to create such stars at the moment. No doubt they are. Bul, on any important scale, they have not yel succeeded. The Susan Shaws and the Ava Gardners of the 1940 creen are no answer to tlia desperate need for something absorbingly new.

I have high admiration for the

and talents of both Miss Shaw Miss Gardner, for example, bul, DA

an exhibitor might put it, they

ain't Marlene.

No one en

And until

the screen, except grandmother herself, is Marlenc. film-makers And some- one who is--someone who will do today what Marlene tld 15 years ago the Iniment about "tired stars" and dwindling queues will go on,

British producers are not following Film stars also have_their

the lead.

My own view: We don't need war flims for a long time yet.

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WHILE H15 stars are away on holiday Mr Rank has been looking over their contracts. There may be changes when they come back to

work.

For promotion I back: Susan Shaw

And and Lana Morris.

I believe young Donald Houston, whose first nim part is opposite Jenn Simmons, will get his long-term contract.

do so much for British pictures.

the

FEARS, PHOBIAS

& AFFLICTIONS

BY MELROSE GOWER

the

It photographed

bring to the screen, as in his salad years. They buckle

until the last

Due for demotion: Some of those THE meeting will please come substitut-strained blueberry Jam. uke cavlare, and young starlets who were supposed to

to order. The secretary tasted heavenly to Ginger, that is!

Sonny Tufts, blond and big (six- Problem boy in the Rank male will dispense with the reading

four, 200 pounds) Is co-starring at charm school: Stewart Granger. Big of the minutes.

Victor Mature, test for hun is "Woman Hater." It

First on the agenda today will be the moment with will show if he can play comedy

a discussion of the fears, phobias and Lucille Ball, Lizabeth Scott and Lloyd "Interference," a screen successfully,

amictions of the great and the near- Nolan in

tale of professional football players. BOB HOPE has decided to cut great in fimland.

For these good people are, beneath Sonny has trick knees, hurt seriously the

become out

slapstick, and

glamour and

glory when he played on the Yale team sophisticated. His gag-men have e their orders. Hollywood says Hope they can name his own price for variety human as your next-door neighbour, under him in startling fashion when They have their likes and dislikes, Pul to too great a strain-and that's in London.

their allergies, their physical woen. Why Director Jacques Tourneur isn't any football sequences in- support-and stoutly the shooting any

• HOLLYWOOD is backing Juno They

#The Wyman to win the "Oscar" for the Kipling contention that "the Colonel's volving Sonny Tufts unt

O'Grady are sisters day of alming "Interference."

star's best performance of the year in a lady and Judy

warned Tourneur physician film in which she doesn't say a word. under the skin."

that an early Injury to Sonny'a The Alm: "Johnny Belinda". Her

force him out Ann Sheridan, who underpinning might part: A deaf and dumb peasant

of the rest of the picture. normally enjoys the best of health, girl.

returned to work an "Good Sam" at home to BRITAIN is trying a Western où l'after spending a day

of acting traditional Hollywood lines-rough recover from the vile effects pioneering stuff, schoolmarms, in a snow, scene with Gary Cooper. saloon-keepers' daughters and all. Ann can't endure the touch of

movie Picture is "Diamond City," the "snow." When the Kentle

gypsum, lakes or the story of a gold-mining town near the clinging Kimberley in the '70s.

chopped fenthers descend, slo sneezes. gets the snifles, and displays all the symptoms of a serious cold.

NEW FILM ARTS

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Lovely

corn

Physically Upsot

Gridiron Victim PLAYING the role of Tim Holt's-

'screen pal in "Gun Runners" is another victim.of the gridiron, Richard Martin. Dick can't raise his right arm above his shoulder. During the

war, filin fans saw young Martin snappily saluting his Euperlor officers in a number of military pictures. Or, did you? No, you didn't. A movie double did all of his saluting.

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Acrophoblo, or fear of heights, is Britain' тлу have her first sight of a fight. He has never been

Д .common weakness. Prominent National Cinema in time for the seen at the Hollywood American

from it aro, Festival of 1951. This wa an-Legion Stadlum, where film notables players who suffer nounced in London last week at a gather weekly to watch the caul among others, Rosalind Russell and Dorothy Malone. There are no dizzy special meeting of the British Film flowereared gentry have a go at one heights to worry Miles Russell, in Institute.

It was also announced that in ac- another. And yet, only

time ago, this splendid cordance with the recommendations of the Committee of Inquiry into the future of the Institute, a new Board of Governors has been appointed by Mr Herbert Morrison, Lord Prosi

dent of the Counell.

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a short her present picture, "The Velvet actor and Touch," but Miss Malone isn't so

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fine gentleman, was engaged with

with fortunate in "Or Sunday After- George Ratt, Frank Faylen

and noon." There's a romantic sceno others in a slugging, chair-swinging with

the parapet of a tall building Mten meleo that was the climax of "Race Dorothy and Dennis Morgan on

Malone couldn't "cut the mustard," Copies of photographs taken you're just cr-r-razy about wherefore, to shoot said scene, they by the South China Morning The Institute now becomes tho

Well, you can have had to construct the central body with a grant from the caviare, eh?

Sho dotests objects Ginger Rogers' share. Treasury. Its three main

stage! Jeanette MacDonald Is alergic to Staff Photographers are on view use with Fred Astaire in The Barkleys orchids (what a strange woman),

in the art of the film, to promote its

Ginger

called was life of Broadway,"

niso to some ng a record of contemporary

dogs; Red Skelton swanky dinner flatly refuses to touch a telephone in

Morning Post Building. and manners and to foster public upon recently in a appreciation. The new Film Board scene to partake of the salted roe of any movie scene, and husky. Victor

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are to encourage development of the Rt. It makes her ill, Now reunited On the floor of top of a building | Post and Hong Kong Telograph

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