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It's Love on the Sunny Side of Fun

Deanna DURBIN Tom

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What sinister forces are behind the weird happenings óm MYSTERY ISLAND?

MANHUNT OF MYSTERY

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1949.

A SEAT IN THE ST.

The mystery of British shows which flop on Broadway while British stars are the talk

of the town

Boris Shaves A Beard-Heads For Hollywood

From FREDERICK COOK

TR William Henry Pratt, formerly of Dulwich,

M the distinguished old 'Uppinghamian better

known to film-goers as Boris Karloff, is begin- ning to have doubts whether for him the legitimate theatre is a rewarding career after all.

He spent two months care- fully cultivating ! beautiful iron-grey but excessively itchy beard for his leading part in The Shop at Sly Corner, and what happens? After only seven performances the play came off. So did the beard. I have been talking over with Mr Karloff (not at all og terrify- ing those Hollywood horror epics have made him) this problem of the stream of British successes that flop on Broadway and the equally long string of Broadway hits that London won't buy at any price.

"Old boy." sald Mir Karloff, "I simply haven't on idea. This is one of the profoundest mysterics of the theatre.

NO RULES

DORIS KARLOFF

Wearing aboard in the film Behind the Door

"Absolutely extraordinary. No rules seem to apply. This show of ours--I went all right in London. We did well with It in

"experts" thought London Philadelphia and Boston

and here most on Broadway

them at all-went would not like audiences seemed to

over big there. like us.

"But the critics murdered us I wish somebody could tell me

that why it is

show London

д

liked should be so badly received

here,

"As for me, it's Hollywood again and another Alm. What I'd really like is to do a play in London agniri. I haven't been home since 1036."

you still call it home,"

I

to this conundrum kindly tell Lee Anybody who knows the answer

Ephraim and Jack Buchanan who, Broadway reports are true, lost

a large amount of their own money

Don't Listen Ladies.

on

of a

BE BRITISH-IT HELPS

Don't, by the way, put down "1 nolice

failures these

to ahy latent anglophobia alon Broadway. aturally."*. sold Mr Karloff. That's onc place in America "And why not? I contie here in where to be British is more 1909, but home's home.

old boy help than 1 disadvantage. and that's all there is to it. 1 Biggest names in the lights on haven't even taken out my first both sides of the street are British. papers here, you know, and still Jessica Tandy is the real power in Can't see my reason why I should." Tennessee Williams's Streetcar

Named Desire. JACK WANTS TO KNOW

is

Robert Morley's tremendous

It is not only Mr Karloff who performance In Edword My Son

trying to find oul the secret is still the talk of the town.

Redinan in

of what show will succeed where. Just over the wuy hre Rex All Broadway would like to know. Harrison

Joyce and The Lute Song, Voice

of the

Anne of the Thousand Days. Turtle. Finian's Halubow, all these were considerable hits on Broadway but simply headaches In the West Endt.

Yet Annie Get Your Gua and

And, of course, Bea Lille tull of zing as ever, keeping Inside U.S.A. among the topliners weet after week.

British

In all of these it is the Oklahomu—both so fundamentally stars who are keeping the American 113 every respect that office happy,

It's hard to tell

one from t'other

Farley

Granner

Peter

Loils Jourdan

WELL, above. ladies. are only one

Ricardo Montalban

box

JOYCE REDMAN –

BRA LILLIE

JESSICA TANDY

In Street-car Named Desire

This Wanton

Deserved A Better Fate

By STEPHEN WATTS

AFTER crying aloud for less costly British films, the least I can do is welcome the first made by a new method the whole object of which is economy.

And in principle I do so. By intensive back-projection. prefabri- ented sets and other devices "Warning to Wantons" has been mude more speedily and, under-

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method is called "Independent

Trame."

frame"

It greatest virtue is that you barely notice it. A slight muzzlies: occasionally in backgrounds is my only criticism.

EVE PERRICK finds no 'new look' among the latest batch of heart-throbs

But, alas, method is not all. Sa woro glasses-or at least four fellows from

I greet Independent frame with a the grew a beard!

How did this happen?

technical pat on the back and 1949 line-up of Hollywood'a Hollywood, with

"Warning to customary

Wantons" with an hopes-and down below four thoroughness." searched for And artistle kick in the pants. What we from the British bunch.

wide-Mexico, France, England, the want is good cheaper films. These are the actors who made whole world over-but nobody seems their mark (sometimes, of course, it to mind that their finds look exactly was merely a faint impression) in like the fellows already on the pletures during last year, and who payroll.

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could easily qualify for the entitled "The Film Fan's Bedside utterly destroke. Its quality is į

looks for in men,

form this wns book sophisticated fairy-tale darkly are now scheduled by their sludlos The reason for the British com sparkling with worldly Irony. It for bigger and better things.

posite type is easier to understand. cried out for a Lubitsch to dlm it. Notice anything? They all look David Henley, the man who pleks Instead. It has been done with allkemor rather the

Americans the stars of the future for the Ranks flat-footed heaviness and a lack of

publication all pace and a

Shakespearian label "This happy Book," has set out the things he

And

so many words! When Harold band of brothers."

Warrender wants to call the wanton Peter Lawford, Farloy Granger, They must have

large heats, be (Anne Vernon) a minx it has to be Ricardo Montalbun. Louls Jourdan six feet or over, have n. "visible" "an exquisite, rare and

precious are intended to replace the Robert, streak of cruelty in their makeup, ¦ minx.

Dresden like

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POSTSCRIPT: Watch out for 24- Only Mile.. Vernon, a fresh and Mexwell Reed, Andrew Crawford, year-old Dermot (starring in the twinkling French actress, and David winding laughs Dermot Walsh, Patrick Holt hope to current film "Third Time Luck"), Tomlinson, eatly be able to drive Stewart Granger and Apparently, he has learned a thing or without much help from the stript, Michael Wilding from our dreams. two from Veronica Lake: If you seem to have the smirit of the thing.

But the real problem is surely can't be different, do something

ing HE HAS THE CHARM how will we ever be able to tell about your hair-style. He wears a one from l'other?

light streal in his bonny brown hair. MOST enjoyable at the new Alms, Here is this double-quarict of So, to the probably perplexed AÅ "The Saxon Charm” puts upon dark, intense young men, cach a pleturegoer, hore is one star-spotting Tohert Montgomery the insk of competent actor, without a single hint. When you 'eco the wilto in making the charm tredible for the outstanding feature among them. If his hair, it's Mr Walsh.

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Patrick

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Maxwel Reed

Dermol Watch

man Saxon is a monster, a Broad- way. producer who devours, by his egocentricity, those who work for

him.

He is the sort of boor who can win people back just when they are half-dementedly determining never to speak to him again.

Its appeal may be a little special and theatrical, but the picturo 1 mado highly entertaining by Mont- gomery and his outstandingly able women supporters, Susan Hayward and Audrey Totter.

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