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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1948.

SEAT IN THE STALLS.

The fans are saying:-

Give us

Fore

GARDNER

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women like these

Leonard Moseley At The Films

TOOK a couple of 'young friends. of mine along to see the new British film "THE GUINEA PIG," and a new American film, "ON OUR MERRY WAY."

"Don't you see the point?" they aid, "Even in the most ordinary American flim hero's always' ŋwo- man you will notice. But who ever remembers the females in British pictures?"

Now I think my friends have. Both Alms are about on the comething. I have seen about 00 same level of enjoyment and British pictures this year, Save for little Jean Simmons. I honestly competence. So I asked my can't conjure up a vision of a friends which of them they singlo girl who played in them, preferred.

"The American film," they said, "Except for the big prestige pie- tures, we usually prefer the Ameri- American ma always have Women in them."

cans.

Somewhat agog at this unexpec- ted sex-approach to the crtilcism of the fim, I mildly, pointed out that "The Guinea Pig" had not been There entirely devoid of females. had, for instance, been pretty little Sheila Sim, as an officer in

the Wrens, and a couple of other girls still well on the sunny side of the autumnal thirtles,

I regret to report thal this re- minder was received with a gesture of contempt. "Do you mean to say You are going to compare any of them with the girls we saw in the American film-Paulette Goddard, Dorothy Lamour, and that one who played the trumpet in her bathing suli?" they asked in derision.

British studios teem with charm. ing and talented women, some of Hut I think whom can even act they carry too for the British habit of understatement, both in looks and personality. I come away from their Alms with feeling they are filled with sawdust and cold ten rather than good, rich bloat

Unti British Alms pick up a few women with the looks of Ava Gard- the bounce of Paulette God- her, dord, the "bile" of Viviane Romance and Micheline Presle-the best pro- ductions will still have somethingt lacking.

the men

The trouble with too many ot our actresses, and with who direct them, is that they think thero in something slightly Indecent In being too female. If they don't want to learn from the Americans, then they should take lessons from

French. Even in their most

the

New Year greetings to Hongkang Telograph-readers-from-the- Hollywood star Yvonne De Carlo,

What have they done

to poor

HAT went

Charlie?

with an authentic, character. He comes

Wonnie Prince Charlie" to life only in the lates that point

rises

How could anybody make a dull it is Margaret Leighton who really

feel. She alone film of that rich, romantic inakes one story, with all its colour and above the weakness of part and plclure and is as effective as she is emotion?

beautiful.

Yet that is what has happen- ed.

MAUCHAM FILMED

HOW unpredictable the cinema is. If "Bonnle Princo Charlle" seemed, in advance, a' film certainty, "Quarlet" had the dice loaded against

it.

People of taste, Intelligence, and proven skill-Alexander Kordas An- thony Kimmins, Clemence

Dane. David Niven-spent time.

energy thought, and a reputed £1,000,000, and "Bonnie Prince Charlie" la two

Four quite separate Somerset and a quarter hours' worth of erratic

Maugham stories, Prologue Technicolour that couldn't stir.even a Scotsman like myself, who isn tallpiece by the author, photograph- n' desk, The whole natural push-over for bagpipes, ed sitting at Highland scenery, and the Jacobite structure would surely be literary, story.

a deadweight against illusion, which is. the screen's business,

1

and

suppose. Korda, as the boss of

But no. Mr Maugham makes us the enterprise, must bear the blame. Perhaps

he thought the story was so laugh right at the start, the ideat obviously cluematic that it was compero for his own entertainment. The stories are not, equally good, foolproof.

first and the last The Most uncharacteristically, he has but tho

Facts of Life" and "The Colonel's allowed a shapeless script, devoid

are first-class, erisply' told, of pattern or climax.

to meander Laddly acted, and the tasto

лето the screen. Worse, he has

scenes of studio-made they leave in the mouth is of a well- permitted unreality of the sort for which we chosen meal, with the good wine of,

a wise' wit for fuller satisfaction. jeer at Hollywood.

In other words for once the true IN FANCY DRESS

flavour of Maugham comes through to the screen. And that despite two endings which censorship (or feat of it bus damaged, though. not doniroyed.

IT is not that grave damage is done to history. Nor are the benutten of Scotland entirely absent. There are some lovely shots, which fiercely distinguish themselves in the Brat Jack Wating and Mal Zetierling show up the others.

episode, Cecil Parker, Nóra Swin-

It is just that conviction is never burne, and Linden Travers in the pchieved. Thus the big episodes Inst. In the middle two, "The Allen the gathering of the clans, thos Edinburgh ball, Prestonpans, the Com" und "The Kito," there are at- turning-point at Derby, the camage tractive performances by Francoise of Culloden-failed to make me feel Rosay, and George Cole, and fun was watching anything but actors from Hermione Baddeley, though she gives a revue touch to what ahould In fancy dress,”

be lifelike.

STEPHEN WATTS.

likeablo: as he is, David Niven, never makes Charles a real, far Jossi

artistic production there is always round form in the foreground, exud 'ing sox. "Vive la France. I say.

Wins giggles "ON OUR

mad film about a clerk in the want-ad. department ***Burgess Meredith) who poses as a roving reporter and goes out to usic people what effect a baby has had on their Ilves.

MERRY WAY" "is a

she lost them their jobs

their

The "baby" that dance - band musicians James Stewart and Henry Fonda remember is n grown-up girl with a shape. She not only looked well but could play beller than they could; and in an hilariously

usly up- roarious sequence they describe how and took band

from them. Dorothy Lamour ATS the petulant to her, was nasty child-ator who and then to win her forgiveness persuaded her to wear a sarong for the first time. This gives Misa Lamour an opportunity of doing a beautful satire, in song, of the parts sha has. to piny with Messrs. Blog Crosby and Bob Hope.

It is a crazy picture, with not an But atom of sense to a reol of it. you will giggle through most of it and laugh lots of the time. You will also see Miss Lamour, Miss the Goddard, and the girl with shape being Women.

Full of humour "THE

HE GUINEA PIG" is a clinical sludy of what goes on in an English public school."

Richard Attenborough Is the son от п poor tobacconist in Pimlico who ls sent on a scholarship to a great public school, to see whether boys from two different worlds can mix,

He has a bad time of it at first. resents He resenis being ragged, having to "fa" for the prefects. resents having to bend over and be kicked. (In describing this ordeal to a master, he uses a word that has before been passed by a film naturally...i being storles-everything

~Mason But

one

comes

of those

out right in the

end, and

Dickie Rets his Rugger cap, his pre- feet's blazer, and a scholarship to Cambridge.

You will

this de- gather from scription that it is a film full of peculior English snobberies. But once you have accepted them, this is a picture full of humour and not without its moments of pathos.

NOVELLO PLANS ANOTHER

TVOR NOVELLO, top-earner among British actors, is well advanced

on

a big new musical play-his' seventh-for London- Ho-is content to wait for production until he gets the right theatre and cast.

He cap well afford to 'walt. Novello at 55 is making more money than ever before in his career.

shows Three of his musical Glamorous Night, The Dancing Years and Perchance to Dream-re now touring the country simul taneously; a record for one author- composer. Novello is starring in the last-named.

them Between

the box-office takings total a weekly average of £12,000. Novello's over-all "cut," including bis salary as performer, brings him approximately 10 per cent of this £1200 a week. Only Hollywood's biggest top-liners come into this income bracket.

of

Glamorous Night is being pre- sented under the management Ralph Reader and William Sulton; In the Drury Lane run 13 years ago they were dance producer and theatre.call-boy respectively. Their savings are invested in the present venture; first three months' lakings have reached £40,000.

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