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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 19492/{| ||_

SEAT IN

STALI

Some

New Faces In British Films

By H. H. WOLLENBERG

his

United fore the war, his career whe in- 0 avold casting the same ac- growing popularly with

tora in the same types of Kingdom Almgoers is anything to terrupted when he joined the R.A.F. His first postwar films were "I rolos, it is essential to have go by, it will not be long before they as wide a choice of talent as will be acclaimed wherever their See A Dark Biranger", "School for Secret", "Mastor of Bankdam" and possible, so that film characters may films are shown. be given the best possible Inter-

Two such young actors have risen "Fame la the Spur", but it was

that brought fitted to to pretation by netora best

fame in

extraordinarily "Easy Money" an Lako liat part, intend of being short period. Hardly more thum a talent for comedy to the fore. merely cast because they have play- year ago the name of Kieron Moore ed almilar paris quite well in the and John McCallum meant nothing to anybody. Kieron Moore, a 23- past,

Л charneter in a film is not a year-old tall, dark Irishman, rat celluloff puppet, but an individual acted at the famous Dublin Abbey and must be presented to the public Theatre, and then came to England

to act in one or two Irish plays.

as such.

Casting, therefore, is a very im- Seen By Scout

portant point for the success of a flim and it is a point that has been

Britain's fully realized by maker.

Since then he has played in "Miranda" and will soon be seen as famous plienomenon, the that "typical Englishman abroad", who la not to be put out by language dif- Aculties or foreign customs, in "Sleeping Car to Venice".

Among the many young actors working in British studios today the names of Robert Bently ("Counter- blast"), Derek Farr (Bond Street"},

film producers have a fairly wide riven another leading role-that of "familar

solection from which to

And the a

A young

film SEEN by a Korda talent scout, he was signed up almost immediately for the leading male role of the with large reserves of stars and Italian major-domo In "A Man David Farrar ("Black Narcissus"). featured players of the screen at About the House", the screen Dennis Price ("Snowbound"), Der- their disposal, no well

mot Walsh ("My Sister and 0.5 talent adaptation of Francis Brett Young's from the theatres, large or small,

"Daying on Sun- throughout the country. Britain's novel is playing of the sinister Maxwell Reed ("Daybreak"), Jimmy

Salvatore was to good that he was Ifanley ("It Always Rains on

Ronald Howard "Bond war veteran, whose ex-

and many others are fast as those of ideal actor to fit a certain part. periences have left his mind un- Execu-

older, more established stars, so that Some actors like James Mason, Lalanced-In "Mine Own

Harrison, tioner".

British film producers have an ever Michael Redgrave,_ Rex

of Intent for Totally Robert Donat and John Mills, have

different again was the growing selection already achieved world fame. Many part he played in the Kords pro- casting their nims.

Kar- of them divide their services be- duction of Tolstoy's "Anna

which he In enina" tween Hollywood and London,

Others are climbing the ladder id lover, Vronsky. stardom. Their names may not yet' be familiar to nudiences, In, say, Latin America or India, but if their

IN

9,000 Doctors

Go Into The

Film Business

JAMES STUART Na mews off London's Bond Street I recently found a film "studio" whose productions go as for round the world as those of Hollywood or Elstree.

Bui. instead of stars, pages of technical medical journals go before

cameras operated by girls. Producers are the Royal Society of Medicine.

the

Founded (originally in u London public-house) to further the cause

was Anna's

With these

Kieron three parts Moore has worked his way to the

of top and is fast becoming one Britain's most popular young stars. His next nim for Kerda will be "I Bought a Mountain".

Aus-

McCallum, va young John tralian, was on his way to Holly- wood, when he

in Britain stopped to gain some experience in repor- tory and the Shakespearean stage. H's Orst sertion role was in Gains- borough's "The Root of All Evil", but he jumped to fame in Ealing's "The Loves of Joaunn Godden", in which he played a farmer. His next part was that of an escaped convict in "It Always Rains on Sunday", and in "Miranda" he ap- peared as a painter.

Britain's Royal Air Force was Britain for Richard Atten- responsible

stardom. to screen borough's rise His studies in London at the Royal Art were in- Academy of Dramatic terrupted when he was called up, but when young men were wanted to play in the RAF. film "Journey Together", Richard Attenborough was chosen to play the part of the young pilot.

of medicine, the society is supported Film producers sat up and took nimosi wholly by the subscriptions notice the sincere, good-looking of its 9,000 doctor members. It is young actor, it was not loog

of

Margaret Tak's The High Road

MARGARET LEIGHTON

upholding its airns by distributing before he was able to resume hMARGARET LEIGHTON has the latest medicat

knowledge all chosen

over the world on micro-dim

M

been rewarded with a long-

career! 7 Picture followed picture in quick

and succession, and This activity was made possible Richard became a In such Alms term Korda contract for her

thewan within, school for

by a grant of dollars, from Rockefeller Foundation of York.

New Secrets" and "Brighton, Rock The part in Bonnie Prince Charlie. Guinea Pig", in which he plays the Last year she was earning a part of a poor boy sent to an ex-modest salary with the Old Vic. pensive public school as an expert-She thought she lacked the mani-is his latest ilim.

REPLACING BOOKS Everywhere there is an acute shortage of medical publications. In scores of cities of Europe and the

Far East Libraries in universities and hospitals were destroyed during the war.

Even when published the paper shortage limits their circulation.

new

books Krc

"Modest Michael"

in

looks for films. Now she has been signed as a top-line star for years to come.

That may

have

the

to the

❝MODEST MICHAEL" is the way

The contract will bring her a M Michael Wilding is described, fortune, compared with the money.

did not

whe could

earned in Three years ago his name even figure In the popularity polls; theatre. But an "escape" cinues in is second only to John Mills her film contract, will entitie her” The idea of filming medical jour today

began during the war when It was as Anna Neagle's partner to reappear in stage plays at inter-

"Piccadilly Incident", micro-hims were shipped and later flown to Cairo.

Courtneys of Curzon Street" and vals. Her first escape porlod, sito

and hopes, will take her back On the

35 millimetre film cach "Spring in Park Lane" that he Old Vic company.

one an oblong 24 established himself as of the page comes out as

be after her present millimetres by 18, One thousand most charming of leading men on

The Elusive Pimpernel four hundred pages can be recorded the British seteen, hut it was in the pleture,

Wilde's (again with David Niven), is finish)- of Oscar 100 feet of film. The "print" is screen version too small to see with the naked eye, "An Ideal Husband" that he proved ed except for the title pages, but when himself an actor of the first order, the Alm is passed through the reading "box" it is enlarged to about the same size as n magazine page.

The film Journals are packed in ting for despatch to foreign univer- pities and medical institutes.

on

"We are turning out about 17,000ft. a week," an official told me,

And to crown it all, he has just been MILLS FOR STAGE cast as leading man to Ingrid Berg- man in "Under Capricorn", the lim she is making in Britain with) Hitchcock,

Making

John Mills is returning to tho West End theatre after near-

ly four years in a new play by his

a name for himself in wite. Mary Hayley Bell, light comedy is David Tomlin- son. Playing small parts in flims be-

A*D*V*I*C✩E

To Jean -On Hearing That Lamour

Is On Her Way

OROTHY LAMOUR, the girl whose sarong.

D made her famous, is on her way to Britain to appear in variety.

About that sarony. Dorothy claims she is fed up with it." "I never looked much in it, anyway," she says.

Now I don't believe that. Although she steps out of a sarong for her latest film,. "Slightly French," and wears a one-piece bathing suit instead, that sarong

has kept her in the tip-money

class for over ten years.

I prophesy the old sarong will be

part of her wardrobe in London- and Dorothy knows it.

In

bor variety sketch she will antirise herself und her string of tropical pictures. Title: "I'm Queen of the Hollywood Isle."

Miss Lamour may firul certain competition In the sarong

staken in Britain in the next few months.

The South Scau Simmons,

by DAVID LEWIR

never

It sets out, he tells me, to stage A theme attempted before; and he is not yet sure it can be done, matically or technically. What that theme

will remain

dra-

is

ล

family secret un-

il the first night. Mills is due to produce as well as star.

Mills will be seen as an adven- turer, forced to keep on the move. When the audience catches up with him he is in Italy.

By the time his own producing- starring picture. Wells's History of Mr Polly, lo shown in, February the now play will have been staged. If the "impossiblo" problems soived.

ROPE TRICK

aro

Alfred Hitchcock, now mak- ★ing film production history with his "ten-minute-takes," wants to reform flm trailers, which have been alternately amusing and ir- ritating us for 20 years.

He has begun his shake-up with Rope, the first of the ten-minute- fakers (mado in Hollywood).

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New-look trailer for this sists of one unbroken scene which does not appear In the picture at all. It shows a young man and a girl Central attempting to match chatting in New York's makers are

Park. By the time audiences some of the Hollywood glamour.

the full production the young man But the thought of seeing Jean will be a murder victim. Simmons, star of "Blue Lagoon,"

The idea has faselanting pomi- In a Lamour-type sarong does not buities. How encouraging it would precisely make me want to jump be, after a trailer glimpse of Mr through hoops.

K's latest production, with Miss Y Joan enn act Dorothy off the repeating her two facial · expres- screen--but no one ever mentions xions, to be assured: "Don't worry, Just The scenes you havo just watched. Rank is planning

her less. I am wondering to move it, with Britain's first outdoor

what tho Fiji

cameramen havo done are not in the film itself and Misa about them for her outdoor plc-Y will have disappeared before the colour. Island pleturo in

ture.

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