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Gangs All Here

TECHNICOLORE 20

of Broadway

From FREDERICK COOK In New York

B

ROADWAY is by no means just theatres. It is Neon lights, peanuts and popcorn, blazing movie palaces, crowds, shooting galleries and while-you-wait "photo studios." It is also dance-halls and lectures on psycho- logy, politics and sex.

Only Broadway could mix jitterbugging youth with long-haired professors and make a profit on it.

Latest thing in the dance halls goes like this: after a cou- ple of wild rhumban, the dim lights come up, stago handa rish in with folding chairs, everybody takes a seat.

A loudspeaker, usually used for such orders ns "Cut that' out, bud, or

tho you'll get bounce." takes on a Kentler tone. "Our subject tonight, Judicr and gentlemen," SKYG the announcer, "is how to con- quer your inhibitions. Speaker' is the distinguished Professor So-and-So."

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The professor is real. He talks for half an hour or so, then thero 1er

question period. Some of the ques- tions are good-the Jitterbug set have "more on the ball," as they say along Broad- way, than might be supposed. Fees for the lecturers

from £10 to £50.

гип

Love In Reverse

THOUGH the legitimate Uliza- TH

tre here this season would have been deader than yester- day's Hollywood epic without Its berat transfusion of British bloud-stars as well as plays come writers and producers still cannot resist the templation to get a cheap laugh by farding their scripts with "vicious anti- British remarks,

CHAFLIN

GODDARD

He may sing in She may star in

nexi film

Anna Lucanta

ery dives, gangsterian, and waggling hips.

Apart from playing its lend once more in her own show, she is carrying on with the stream of articles, she writes for all manner of American tho mement inagazines. At

she is doing one on-yea, you guessed the Kinsey Re- port.

In the years between she has. won fame in two other direc- tions an well. She has dla- covered a score of youngsters who climbed to heights, cluding Cary Grant, Jack La Rue, Caesar

sar Romero, George Ruft; and she is the only wo .man ever to have had à life-. jacket officially named after her. As one of the columnists says: "Mac West is still Broad- way's bosom friend"

A (2473

British Only

- FLORA ROBSON

CINEMA called The Beacon peats) on Upper Brondway, surrounded by do- licatessen and synagogues, startled the town some weeks

Margery Sharp has Anished ago by scrapping all Hollywood Rims and switching to British dramatisation of her novel The

Gentlewomen, and only. Since then, the locals have Foolish been having trouble getting in. West End premiere is talked of People aro flocking uptown with Sybil Thorndike as star transfer to Broadway from all over) New York,

and a later.

Opening with Don't Take It

Flora Robson's next London To Heart the Beacon had five successful weeks. Just now, appearance is likely to be in "These inventions ail come they are dolag well with A The Young and the Fair, a from England, therefore they Canterbury Tale and The Wo. Nichard Nach drama, of which cannot by any good."

nan In The Hall. These were Willard Stoker has reportedly "Then

the British louts all Arst

runs-pletures for bought the English rights. went whimpering home." which there was "no roem" in "Let me teach you about the more glittering sectors of

Kim Is Purged the revolution ро that it Broadway.

ȚAVE you ever thought of anyone asks you why you.

Importance of the develop HA Kipling's Kim as a threat hale the British you know." ment for us in that now, after to

No, International' amity? These chenp sneers are al- many months walling, these neither had I. But some peo- ways good for a howl. from a

get general release ple here do. Metro were going

there would be it brilliant Broadway kil." an uproar

1842. In stepped the Office of we befouted the West End stage

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QUEEN'S:- TO-MORROW AT 11.30 A.M. section of the audience. What right across country tagged "A to make a picture of it back in Part I Only "GONE WITH THE WIND”

with anti-American cracks of that sort.

Singing Chaplin?

PEOPLE ID For Ever Mao

IE

'It is Imperialistic," they cried, horror strickenj preaches white supremacy" (in those days it was a top

that war secret American preached

supremacy, too).

Southern

whites

the Broadway new: Charles Chaplin, I THE preposterous Mac West am told is threatening to sing In his next picture and is Prime example this week 15

mistress unchallenged

of the first act of

Love Life, the all too plain single enten- already taking lessons, whose book and lyrics are by dre, is packlag them in again

Rise Stevens, of the Metro- will start in The Little Alan J. Lerner, Before the on Broadway with her own politan, wil

The film was never made. curtain has been up 10 minutes, Dlumund Lil, still the musical version is finished.

Foxes when Mare Blllzstein's

Now Lean Gordon is to make these three ems have been most extraordinary period piece tossed across footlights:

of exaggerated sexiness, Bow-

Paulette Goddard, according it after all in India with Dean the feud. Just has gossip,

been offered Stockwell in £4,375 a weekt plus 20 percent what Hollywood will do to it is But I fear of the take to star in the Anna not yet revealed.

worst, Lucasta film

who for Gordon, wrote the adaptation, says its "political aspects" will be mini- mised.

You can't go

wrong with Grable

The campaign to pop up British films and win dollars on the American market prompts EVE PERRICK to ask: THY-don't-we-build-Grables The answer is simple-and in two parts.

Win Britain?

We do not make the type of film to which Miss Grable is accustomed, And second, Betty Grable was not built up-she happened.

But consider first another case ABOVE. history. Down in British filmic Jha Valferm forests something stirred recent-

ly. Miss Margaret Leighton BELOW; happened. She arrived with all The Legs the wild chorús singing "A star is born." She also is blonde-more beautiful than Betty, but without the ingredients that go to a Grable.

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Bill Williams is likely to play Robert Donal's old part in The

30 Steps when this thriller

eames to life on the stage.

A

. That sounds ominous-If I am not too gloomy.

The Minor Stars

Waste

Money

By STEPHEN WATTS

MAN who argues with equivalent of their theatrical film stars about money week's pay for one day in films. comes to their defence. Mr

W. J. O'Bryen, casting direc- It's Wrong

tor of the Korda organisa-.

tion, says stars are worth For Ingrid:

any money a producer can

pay them-provided they WHAT extraordinary things are really stars.

He defines

a star carefully.

Hollywood does to its stars. Ingrid Bergman, lovely, lovable, Intelligent, plays a most, unlov- able

Woman In "Arch

of

Triumph. The crux of the flm The test is that a real star brings made baffling by the star, in.

the customers into the cinema.

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love with Charles Boyer, going

It is the lower grades who are off with a rich man the moment getting too much money, O'Bryen Doyer's back is turned. The argues. They do not bring woman in Remarque's hoole did trade. Hls Idea of salary eco- it, yes, but from Bergman it is nomy in flint these sub-stars incredible. Her fan mail tpcreased two-should get the sume woekly fold when she became a wife wage in films as they do in tho and mother. Betty, neither theatre.

She is the accepted flower of seductive nor languorous, shows us the right way. She's cuddly but cosy in short, such a nice girl.

English womanhood type. But she Roes with afternoon tea, and not champagne served in a If ONLY British studios could slipper. No one thinks of her unearth a Grable

in terms of tights.

te

Possibly the envelopes to be found in flm libraries in British

offices newspaper

go a little way explaining the difference between Miss Leighton and Mis Grable. Margaret is described As an "actress." Delty-more simply-" star.l'

Λ star

Something bright and shining, out of reach of mortals

Sunday Yvonno "SLAVE GIRL" In Techni- but nevertheless real,

Extra Show de Carlo In

color

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She has just that much more

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In

OLIVIER

With the five-day week in the studios and no unpaid rehearsals

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Really Something

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in

Then in "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" we have Hum- phrey Bogart as a tramp, shame- lessly begging his meals Mexico,

then going gold- or short runs as in the theatre, prospecting and revealing they would still be well off. At nasty a character as you would present some are getting the ever like to avoid.

THE

BEST OF ALL"

HOLLYWOOD.

a chorus line of high- Award time

By PATRICIA CLARY

Academy siren or Valentino as a great ls with us lover.

kicking blondes you can still again, and so are the "10 best" Other nominees are Maurice

spot Betty. Her hair-do had an lists.

"Arch of Triumph" is a bad film, obscure, unconvincing, full

SOMETHING FOR THE BOYS

in Technicolar

of phoney Germanic gloom. Its PHIL SILVERS SHEILA RYAN only good moments are when PERRY COMO GLENN LANDAN the stars beat the parts they

piny.

"Sierra Madre Is 覆 #food

film, though a bit overblown at Umes But main characters who should only be despised are strange fare for a medium so Influential (especially on the

young) as the screen.

Too Few, And

extra layer of slightly more But Barbara Bel Geddes has Chevaller and Judy Garland, Too costly:

singing stars, and Fred Astaire yellow curls. She probably has gone further than most lists, and Ginger Rogers, dancing constant state of crisis in thirty-three teeth. She is glosimo all-timers."

She ting nummed two dozen oll-

sler, sprightller, sunnler-smiled

Is

stars.

In the held of comedy, sho

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To-morrow Morning Show At 12.00 Noon. MIGHTY MOUSE'S

Torrytoons Program At Reduced Prices

They Answered the

British filme will continue

than the girl next to her. She The greatest nietor of them picks Cary Grant and Carole until radical chango is made in Call

the cover-girl stepping off all, says Miss Bel Geddes, is Lombard for stars and W. C. the structure of the industry. the magazine page to bouncing Laurence Olivier. Her choice Fields as a character come-At present it is as near to mono- life. If people have colours first lady of the cold, pink and perut out wiil

pench. And, this above all, she is wholesome.

Sha, picks two 'old-timers as

Ipoly nd makes no practical screen is. dlan, Olivia de Havilland, an Academy The rest of her all-time best difference. Award candidate for "The lat:

Tho Honk Snake Pit."

empire controls "Frederic March, the greatest studios, makes films, distributes lending man.

them, and shows them in it Janet Gaynor, the best in own 800 cinemas. The ABC

(400 cinemns) Froup

wields Humphrey Bogart,

similar Influence. There is no heaviest heavy.

encouragement for the Indepen- Judith Anderson, the

dent man anywhere.. blood-curdling villainess.

genue.

J

tha

most

The root trouble is still too few films, and far too costly. The "Integrated combino" is too Arthur Treacher, No. 1 but- weighty a machine, too heavy

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Margaret Lockwood may have neck-line trouble with the Breen the greatest character actors office. Rila Hayworth and Laña the screen has ever seen. They Turner may be in trouble about are Charles Chaplin and the late Huardians on behaviour. The Marie Dressler,

American morals let Deauty gets a spectul pince in Miss Grable through, almost in her list. The all-time beauty, William S. Hart, the champion

sho thinks, belonged to Garbo. cowboy. flash. Rightly so. Detty Grable alone

is the world's Gregory Peck represents something almost impossible to most handsome man.

over-sex with a "U" cer- It looks as though sox-appeal Jer.

with fabulous overheads. The Unente.

18 a lost art, from Miss Bel Lon Chaney,. Sr., horriblest divorco of production and Under the spongios her dairy- Geddes' list.

cinema-owning should be the Sho maintains horrifler, maid charms are as rich and as that there has never been any- Don Ameche, of course, the first ; alop towards economis Dourishing as buttermilk. 'body to equal Jean Harlow us a fiventor.

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