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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1949.

SEAT IN THE STALLS

BROADWAY'S BİG NAMES, 'SAYS COOK, OFTEN MAKE THE LEAST NOISE

Bogart has a date that always lands him in disgrace

From FREDERICK COOK in New York

OMFORTING note for harassed husbands who somehow never can remember the day they were married-Humphrey Bogart can not remember either, and he is married to glamorous Lauren Bacall.

They were at dinner here the other night when some thought less type asked the usual ques- tion: "How long have you been married now?"

Bogart

floundered while Lauren watched with that gun- moll look growing tougher by the moment,

Finally he asked helplessly. "What day was it, baby?" She glowered, but didn't speak.

Bogart searched madly through his pockets, muttering: "I got It

somewhere."

Finally ho brought out a locket and irlum- phantly read the date: May 25, 1945.

"Ah,

so you do remember," said Bacall ominously.

Hardly A Ripplo

year), and his wife nipped into New York with hardly a rippie along Broadway for the opening of his new pleture, Knock On Any Door, a seml-documentary attempt to show what makes a murderous young thug out of a fundamentally decent boy.

No Television THE THEY look up residence-with- out eight-week-old Hum- phrey, Junior, left behind in Hollywood-in'a £4 158. per day sulte nt the St. Regis, over an” Madison Avenue, and have since been trying.

like other tourists to live within their in- come in this costly town.

Television has been making moves in Bogart's direction, but he isn't having

tentative

any.

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WHEN one of those minor Hollywood starlets-all hair,

"Do they think I'm crazy," he teeth, smile and curves-comes grinned. "I look bad enough in tu town, the drum-beating would my pictures. Imagine me leering make you think it was the whole at you across the living-room Bertram Mills turn-out at least. I'd curdle the baby's milk." But the bigger they are, the Speaking of television-for Glready quieter-even in Hollywood

so young it has built for itself a remarkable list of taboos here.

Bogart, the highest paid film star of them all (£116,840 last

Ethel Smith plays a tirely samba, to the Intense delight of Donald Duck, the Aracuan Bird. and Joxe Carioca, In a colourful sequence from Wall Dlaney's musica! icature "Melody Time," (RKO) now showing at the King's. Other live artists who Jeln la with Disney's laughablo cartoon. characters are Roy Rozers. Bobby Driscoll and Luan Patten. Among those heard, but not seen, are Dennis Day, the Andrews Sisters, Frances Langford and Freddy Martin. and his Orchestra,

Local Film Stars For

Taiwan

A GROUP of film stars and

technicians from the Yung Hwa studios will leave Hong kang soon for Talwan, to con- Unue the shooting of a about the wild Lolo tribes of Szechwan.

The rst takes of the new Aim to be released in May— have already been made, but work has been held up recently by bad weather,

The film's director, Richard Poh, hopes to have better luck in Tolwan, where he will film action shots of mob scenes, using units of the Chinese Anny as extras.

An unusual film about'a people perpetually at war with the Chinese. this new production is aimed at boll Chinese and European audiences,

Duka Visits Pinewood

The Duke of Edinburgh re- cently paid an unofficial" visit 10 Pinewood Studios to watch scenes fram the Aquila Pro- duction Poet's Pub beings film- ed.

Ho met the aludió manage- ment and producers, land long talk with the representa-. tive of the Studio Worten Com- mitice and was shown round by Producer Donald B. WI-

son.

Later, the Duko lunched with two of the sints of Poot's Pub; Derek Bond and James Robert- son Justice.

one

Clothes either cu too low or mode of too ⚫ transparent

Entertainers have been warn-

"aterials are verboten.

ed to lay of the meaningful leer busincra when a pretty girl walks in.

There must be no murders, no suicide-watchers might pet

ideas

Even in museums the camera- than

must be alert; only the briefest glimpse of a certain masterpiece was allowed on a recent programmc.

Producers have all come up ngainst the drink problem-still a senslive ono in a land which prohibition-and remembero

have solved it in the oddest way, Ruling is that it's all right to show a man taking a drink, but he mustn't appear to be enjoying it too much.

NANCY KELLY

With all its problems, tele- vision is still growing unbelley- ably. There are 54 stations now. thousands per year, à 14-year New York and Los Angeles have contract and a place in the slx each. Some 1,002,150 sets swimming pool set if he loses

his artistic soul.. are in operation.

A hundred thousand have

Joly Garfield in the trapped even been sold-don't ask me artist and Nancy Kelly the girl why-in cities where there isn't who wants him to get away even a station yet.

from it all

Odots Again

ATEST news of the legitimate stage is Cufford Odets's return with a new play. The Big Knife, after seven years in Hollywood.

Naturally enough, it is all about Hollywood and how little it profiteth 0 man to gain

This is the stuff

to save them

By Stephen Watts

TOW ironic-and how typical. All around there is bad H news about aims at crisis in which thesis and themselves through nobody's fault but their own. And at this moment there are five new films in the West End of London and they are all good.

Two of them are Brilish. One is practically a model of the kind of modest, cheerful, competent entertainment which might be the the backbone of a successful industry. That is "All Over Town."

The other has the virtue of being different. Frank Launder went off to the South Seas (no more expensive than working at Denham or Pinewood) and brought back some lovely, escapist Technicolour in "The Blue Lagoon."

NOW

New stars are born

TOW take the personal side. A film industry is only as good as the creative people in it.. "All Over the Town" has a director, Derek Twist, and the producer is Ian Dalrymple, who started only recently with the intelligent and promising "Woman In the Hall."

And it has two new stars, shrewdly chosen and admirably given their heads. Barah Churchill has starred in Italian films, but not here until now. She is not merely good-looking and possessed of a beautiful voice, but she has a solid (no reflection on her excellent Agure), quality of being completely real and believable. Norman Wooland has that third dimension, too. As Horatio in "Hamlet" he was n discovery. Promptly he was thrown away on a piece of rubbish. Now fortunately, he is rescued and offers thanks with a performance that for naturalness and like- ability reminds me of thio.debutant Donat,

Jean is an asset

UT, the big star Interest at present undoubtedly lles in Jean Simmons. Whatever nervous agonies may have convulad her on the Manchester stage recently, her screen appearance in "The Blue Lagoon" firmly emphasises that here is the biggest single feminine personality-asset our films possess."

She is developing benutifully, and there, is that about her, hard to define but unequivocal, that suggests she is going to be one of the really big International screen names before she is 25. Unless, of course, somebody fumbles her career. May she be bless ed with good guidance.

The ballot is booming

in the top half-dozen money-making films in America now In London, is the British ballet pleture. "The Red Shoes." Covent Garden's calendar of balicts has "Sold out" printed across half the items.

London,

Roland Fell, the young French, dancer, has just had a high- ly successful West End senson with his company.

Danliova, rapturously received on her return to contracts to appear at the Empress Hall at Whitsun, and the chances are she wil outdo the 7,000-a-night audiences who re cently went to seo Markova thero.

the

Ballet, in flesh or film, native or forcim, is the most booming

thesa

phenomena, Watching form of entertainment, Troglodytes of the film world-may yet be persuaded to desert those three weird sisters' of box-office tradition-sex, sentiment, and sadlam.

Opinion up and down Broad- way is that it is Odets's poorest play yet and that Hollywood has done something to him, too.

Bitterest critical crnek: "Odets -where is thy zing?"

A Tearjerker

LMOST another Sierra Madre in point of scenie grandeur which is Three Godfathers, opened today on Broadway.

It is a remake of that old Peter n. Kyne yarn about three bad nen who, on the run before a sheriffa posEO, find a dying woman and take charge of her new-born baby.

A real tearjerker!

Early shift

SO popular is Richard Wid- mark's new film, Down to the Son in Ships, that fim-fans be- gan to line up to see it one day recently at 3 .177. A strong thrilling adventure yarn about whaling in the old days of sail, the aim is n first-rate bit escapist entertainment,

People In The News

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(ENRY Fonda, playing cight Hence, the Broad-

Way hit Mister Roberts Is find- int he still has time on his hands. so he has taken up painting.

Rulb Bussty Is Mipped as Madeleine Carroll's successer in Goodbye, My Fancy when the star steps down for her summer holiday in England.

Richard Whort is Hollywood- botind...again... His streamlined Richard the Third has closed after 23 performances with a loss to backors of around £6,500.

Katherine Cornell is planning

a British Empire tour, to take South in every major city in Afrlen, New Zealand and Aus- tralia. She isn't saying what plays she has in mind.

Ingrid Bergman as she ap pexes in the MGM picture "Arch of Triumph", now show-

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