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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1949.

SHOWING

TO-DAY

KING'S. 5.15, 7.20

At 2.30,

9.30 .p.m..

SPECIAL EXTRA PERFORMANCE ON SUNDAY

AT 11.30 A.M.

MASTERY

over

men's livas .......

--women's hearts.

but nover

his own!

TYRONE POWER

NIGHTMARE ALLEY

20JOAN BLUNDELL - COLEEN GRAY - HELEN WALKER

CENTURY FOX

Directed by

TRIUMPHI EDMUND GOULDING

Produced by

GEORGE JESSEL

ALSO LATEST 20th Century-Fox MOVIETONE NEWS

QUEEN'S ALHAMBRA

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QUEEN'S:-

5 SHOWS TO-MORROW Extra Performance "Whispering Smith" at 11.30 a.m.

Paramount presents

A SEAT IN THE STALLS”,

+

50s, COLLIE- A BAD PUP EARNS £300 A WEEK ON SCREEN

Lassie, dog star, has own waiter at film banquet

From FREDERICK COOK :

HERE was a monster ratings to third, and the demand

T banquet

in Holly wood to celebrate the 24th anniversary of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,

for them is insallable.

Lassic, father of 50 children," and grandfather of six, has had six wives, and there is no "morals clause" in his contract,

was a

All the big stars were such as human stars have..

He was born on June 8, 1941. there-Jimmy Durante and Ho

bad pup, given to Clark Gable, Jennifer Jones chasing care. His owner ran up 50%. blu with a veterinary and Wallace Beery, Lionel "

surgeon who tried to cure his Barrymore, Lena Horne, mange, and finally surrendered Deborah Kerr, Angela Lans- the pup in exchange for the bill. bury and a hundred other The vet cured him of

chasing lesser lights, sitting side cars, but did not think much of

him.

He handed him over to by side at long tables. The Rudd Weatherwax, a leading Front Louis B Mayer Pre- sided over the glittering throng

Its

ncellation of a 80s. bill. A few cancel

trainer of animal actors, also in

weeks later his new owner. heard that MGM were to flm Eric Knight's Lassic, Come

Only one actor, known around De world had the distinction of Home, a table to himself, with

He gave Pal, as he was then special walter: Lassic, the known, a beauty treatment, and money-making collie, one of the not too hopefully led him to the reigning monarchs of filmdom's studio. box offico, whose appeal goes on however difflcult times may be, who is hover short of work whose fans fing not in their adulation, however often they seo him.

She's A Ho!

Lassle-to begin with, she's a he, as is pretty well known by now-has been a star only a few years and has made six aims (of which only four have been re- leased).

But he has become such a part of American life thai colles Jinva leaped from 12th place in national canine popularity

InHis First Western Adventure!

ALAN LAD //

ROBERT PRESTON BRENDA MARSHALL DONALD CRISP

Whispering SMITH

Color by

TECHNICOLOR

Sequel to 'UNION PACIFIC' and 'THE PLAINSMAN'I

Lyrics and Musi

KAF VORM HAS PRORRON ROLLAMORE

Bitty GRABLE

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"Whispering Smith," the Parnzonit film which opened yesterday

the

Queen's and Alumbra, is Alan Ladd's first Western. Ladd (left) plays the title

strouk,

sitent "special pari, agent" for a railway com. pany In the wild west at the the last century. close of The railway must go through

with and

that stirring thought in mind Ladd even- Jually

best shoots his

by Robert friend-played

teentre) whose Preston

Marshall wife-Brenda (right)is the woman Ladd loves. Despite the seeming mix-up the film is exclung

Technicolour and thic good.

Spark(1)ing

Is

Performance

5-year contract

TWO OWNERS GAVE HIM AWAY

ROX

Ave-year contract

LASSIE

Wen a bad pup

under

when that romp in the garden for half an made. The hour. first picture was

Then they are called in for His hopes were dashed when financial terms have never been

but they are sald breakfast-three cups of milk he learned that

the producers revealed, find just bought a prize collie (with increases in the mean- cach, with a couple of raw eggs

region of stirred in for the part. They rose again time) to, be in the

Terms of They are driven to town in a that the now- £300 a week now. when he heard

and report for comer, though n better-looking It's contract are so involved that shooting brake

pages of legal work at 8.30. dog than Pal, could not act and they fill 70-odd

At lunchtime (prepared dog Jargon. would not learn.

well Today Lassic

food, not too heavy) Lassie and Pal endeared himself to the men in command by going stands his job. His day begins Laddie are driven to the garden cheerfully through the simple ut six o'clock, when he and his of the studio, and play for 20 Then back to the set tricks Weatherwax had taught three-year-old son Laddie (his minutes. him.

and his heir until 8 p.m. all, he showed No 1 stond-in

In a normal day, Lassie puts apparent) are let out of the back in perhaps an hour and a half He got the job, and changed door of Weatherwax's ranch in of actual work. He is middle-

Valicy to San Fernando his name to Lassic.

aged now, with a tendency ta obesity, and works Less strenuously than Laddle, who may be four hours under the lights.

Above rendiness to learn new ones.

He had a

the

Film Team From

Glasgow

By Stephen Watts

John Brown's famous Clydebank yard has had the same thought- that the ship is going to crash right across the narrow stream Into the green fields beyond. I hope that thrill is captured in Flood- lide," the new Independent Frame picture, which comes out soon. As u Glasgow man'I cannot fault the team concerned. Donald Wilson (producer), Fred Wilson (director), George Blake (author), and Gordon Jackson (stor) are all Clydeside men. Rona Anderson, the heroise, is Scottish.

TAVERYBODY who has ever seen a ship launched n

inde, is

The head of Pinewood, where "Floodtide" was George Archibald (from Glasgow). There was a panic one day near the end of production when it was realised that the accents had not been tried out on any foreign (e. English) Archibald's secretary was rushed to a theatre and told to note any- thing she didn't understand. All was well.

Rossellini speaks out

carb.

At Denham ITALIAN nim director Rossellint has been saying things in New

York that some people won't like. For instance: "When I am

in a studio in England recently I see a big wooden battleship in final front of a painted curtain of a coloured sky. This.' I say to my-

self, 4s the corpse of the movie industry."

the of HIGHLIGHT

week's shooting on the Two Wo- Cities Alm "The Perfect man," at Denham Studios, was a foot-long electric spark which leons out of a robot woman and sizzles for three minutes.

The victim was Pam Devis, An ex-London Casino show- girl who was chosen for the robot part because of her like! ness to the star Patricia Roc.

Pam had a stand-in for re- bearsals while the

frequency generator was giving out 200,000-volt spark, but admitted being nervous when her turn came. She wore a coiled-spring corset which is the robotn everyday wear.

to

The

genarntor was concealed the draperies in the Ilotet endide bridal sulte.

Cavendish-played by Nigel

His "Open City," which cost about £5,000, has now grossed more than £1,200,000 in America alone. Its star, Anna Magnani, is now in England for the premiere of her latest pleture "Angelina." With her is Luigi Zampa, who directed it.

American 'plays' success

THE big successes of the London theatre since the year began

could hardly, be more unlike "Harves" and "The Heiress." They have in common only thoir American

origin

"The Heiress" is drawing the serious theatre audience more solidly than any play for years and looks like running as long as Perer Ashcroft and Bir Ralphi Richardion choose to keep going.

"Harvey" has not had an unsold seat since it opened on January 5. This means Sid Field and his invisible-rabbit have been seen (in a manner of speaking) by close on 100,000 people.

.

They start well,' but—

Roger Pfedulousness when a film story rests on the beauty and at- PLEASE do not think me ungallant, but I am troubled with ine. Patrick was challenged to test traction of Lixabells Scott Don't let's go into details, but only the reality of the beautiful say my resistance is ligh,

.

Reginald

Thus I was quite happy in the early stages of "Pitfall" (Lon- creature in his bedroom by teste don Pavilion), when Dick Fowell and Jane Wyatt were painting a GARDINER Ing its reactions with Largo

sharply observed picture of married life among understandable. pin.

fallible people,

But I was less happy when their world (or rut) He does. A dash and an ex- plosion follow, and the robot was upset by Mr Powell's momentary, though reprehensible,

dalliance with Miss Scott the allegedly irresistible. goes completely berzerk.

wandering what wit

20

ERNST LUBITSCH

The Perfect Woman." stor ring Patricia Roc, with Nigel Patrick and Stanley Holloway, was completed nine days under "schedule,

Also of diminishing interest, "Let's Live a Little" (Odeon) starts with chuckles, but bogs down in its own cumulative stillness, Even Robert Cummings deft charm cannot carry the lond Lamarr and Anna Sten struggling with Inbour to which they should-nover have been directed.

n

or more

Another career

Off the Aim set, Lassie has another career, said to bring him in thousands of pounds A year.. He has his own radio programme, over 103 stations, every Saturday afternoon.

His script calls for a couple of barks in

endorsement of a

dog food. It may be a joke to his listeners, but sales of the dog Inod have rocketed more than 100 percent since Losale uttered his first approving bark.

The Best Of The Bunch

THE British Film Acade

my, formed In 1947 hylted Kingdom Alm- makers, to help them main- talu and develop the stan dard of their work, has Just announced its awards for 1948.

They are กร follows:- Best Picture from any Source: "Hamlet", produced- and directed by Sir

Laurence Olivier for Two Cilles Films.

Best

British Picture:

"The Fallen Idol", pro- duced and direzied by

Carol

Films.

Reed for London

Best Documentary Picture: "Louisiana Story"

produced and directed by Robert Fisherty.

Special Award for work lying outside The feature documentary folds; "Atomic Physics" produced by Donald Carter, directed by Derek Mayne for G.B. Instructional.

And

Bronze statucties designed by Henry Moore will bo presented to the winners in May. The Academy has

a membership of over 300 dil producers, directors and technicians, and the awards were the result of is ballot,

Tyrone Tower and Coleen Gray star in "Nightmare Alley," (201 Century-Fox) which open- ed at the King's yesterday. The film, which gives Power what la probably' the most, dramatic, role....pf. halm career, also stars Josu Blondell and Helen Walker,

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