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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1949.

SEAT IN THE STALLS

Mr Fairbanks, KBE, Confesses

He's An Anglophile

N

From FREDERICK COOK

Worse

on

mouthwash

them litle chance to realise that anybody cing was · fighting | 4. They simply did not know the size of Britain's contribution in the East:

Now they are learning some

+

People..

AN

in

over

DONALD COLMAN, accord-

ing to word from Holly- wood, is thinking of abandoning films and spending his time on his Californian ranch, with an occasional radio appearance (at

£1,250 a time).

Bad as this is on the old thing of the truth and are being style

Says wireless, it is ten times generous in their praise,

television--to have New York World Telegram: demon- "Burma was a British achieve- TEW YORK.-Douglas Mr Robert Morley and Miss a grinning · Galesman

strating

or ment. No such objections Leucen MacGrath have полу Fairbanks, recently

Burma stepped out of the Broadway perspiration cure just as a ment greeted Objective appointed an honorary production of Edward, My Son, is being served.

London will be raised KBE, is to visit London with both to return to London (Mor-

Some people are beginning Burma Victory," his wife early in June. He ley talting a little California to wonder why they should pay.

·£230 or more to invite into will attend a Buckingham cunshine first).

Broadway has taught Morley their homes, with their guest, Palace ceremony.

Une thing.. he says that people a salesman who, if he operated who Imagine visiting actors in the old way, would have the Fairbanks is a self-confessed make 4 fortune ure wildly door slammed in his face." Anglophile. But he is much wrong.

Three years lato more. He is a staunch friend "Here I am, at the end of CHOWING at last, three years whose friendship is founded on.

British. Alm усата of study in good times the most successful run of my late, is the

carcer," he caid, "yet I am go- Burma Victory. It has been and bad.

home with £250 less in my seen elsewhere in America, but ing The Fairbanks' palatial home. pocket than when I came. never here. And it is doing

Santa Westridge, at

Monica. "Our British Income-tax col- well. shows the influence of their lectors could be given post- It is only fair to New York fondness for ritain.

graduate courses by Uncle nudlences to say that, while the Over the mantelpiece in the Sam's any day."

Hollywood gave wor was on, dining room hangs a magni- Econt Racburn. On the occa- sional tables are signed photo- Elizabeth graphs of Princess and Prince Philip, of Lord and Lady Mountbatten.

Meal-time horror PREDICTION by radio planeer Merlin Ayles- worth-who once ran one of America's big three

radio chains--that ordinary wireless will be killed by television within three years has set all for talking. I. snow business one, doubt it.

the United Television in Jeading

face States will soon have to up to the problems inherent in commercial sponsorship.

In his study Fairbanks has one of the best private collec tions of British toy soldiers. (He is an authority on the history or British uniform).

And over the door into the bar is a swinging Eng fish inn sign-The Rose Crown.

and

Danny Kaye, the popular comedian who is at present breaking more records in London, and Virginia Mayo, who appear together in "A Star Is Born," the NKO-Nadio. musical now at the King's, Among the "hot" musicians tak- lne part are Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Charlle Barnett and Tommy Dorsey.

NOTES FROM BRITISH STUDIOS :

Natives Find A

Film Too Tame

he

.

that states

isl

in

Director Jean Renoir is to nike four flims in colour India. The first will be Rumer Godden's 1940 novel The River, for which Renoir has paid Mita Godden £6,000.

London Express Service)

DAVID LEWIN'S

Spotlight

Miss Lockwood keeps la step

BEST place to see film stars is no longer the cinema but the theatro. British film stars are doing their best to "go legitimate."

just

Margaret Lockwood, for instance, hag opened in her first play for 12 years Noel Coward's PRIVATE LIVES.

After It was all over there were cheers, tears, and kisses in the dressing-room of the King's Theatre, South-

NQA.

Margaret hugged her seven-year-old daughter 'Tools.

six

She had taken curtain calls. Preparing for the play, she had sweated and strained in the effort to

show that she could go back from the Mms to thes stage, where she start- cd.

On the stage, in A succession of model gowns, and with her hair cut short and curl-

ed

LOCKWOOD, PETER GRAVES

of

Is the big fight scene

she In clusters,

When the drift to the stogo proved that, although she may not be a long-bidden comedy begun, some of the stars felt it hope, her studio employers have would be a nice break between not known the best ways

crisis has pictures. Now the promoting her.

made the theatre a necessity. the

The Roiling

floor,

best use of u round

holiday tussling with her

man.

the from the studios has been mado

RICHARD refined Lockwood was elimin. by

ATTEN and we had A

performance Busty, BOROUGHT. HIS broad performance.. with fine in THE WAY BACK gets my timing and terrific pace.

award for the best stage acting by a Alm star. He studies his in part

carefully brings drama, force, and emotion to it.

ated,

Graves There was Peter romp with her and help her through the difficult patches.

Margaret will tour the play for 14 weeks, and then If ther next film can be warded off a bit longer London may see her,

too.

1 But not in PRIVATE LIVES, "T'd like to try another play for London," she said. want

to create something new."

*

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OTHER film stars pre-

men

POINT OF VIEW

TIME WAS when some television

in Erilain thoughi that vicwa the would be found among

a year (and up) £1,000 familles,

That could have meant that, unlike radio, television pro- grummes would be geared for a public with a slightly higher

income level. paring for the stage in- cludes Dennis Price, trying a week in THE LAST OF MRS CHEYNEY, and George Withers 'n CHAMPAGNE FOR DELI- LAH.

GRANGER and STEWART

It did not work out that way, The order from NORMAN bass COLLINS, BBC television is thus: "Keep the programmes broad and popular."

Now that Video is going up to unel

H of Ronald Nee's greatest ambition is to wossess JEAN SIMMONS move into the the Minds the

an American cowboy's holster. West End soon with the Tolstoy times. Collins:

North the

"We have (Says

north found that the further you go, the earlier in bed-time. going out at 3.30 and D at night, we shall try to put them around 7 or 7.30."

OLD-UP in production letter

Miss Roc," Golden Salamander, starring

hiling "Perhaps, dear

piece they have been letter Trevor Howard and the 17- the

concludes, "you round the provinces. obtain one for mo

the stage list are year-old French

Also on actress could

through the friends you made ANNE CRAWFORD. GRIF. So, instead of our peak shows Anouk, on location at

in Hollywood?" Nabeul, Tunisia, was caused Pat, who is starring in The FITH JONES, CAROL MARSII

und MICHAEL MEDWIN. by 400 native extras who- Perfect Wornan evidently under the impres- will do her best to comply! sion that they could make

the film more exciting-

at Denham,

USTRALIAN actor Peter indulged in a hectic brawl. A Finch, who

plays an im- portant role in Ealing Studios' Train Of Events, has been lis wny to

new Austraila, holled us a

stor of the where

he is to star with London

stage following his Gordon Jackson and Chips Raf-performance in ferty in Ealing's third Austra- Olivier production lion production, Bitter Springs. Bridie's Daphne Laureola. who WAS one Peter.

of Tommy Trinder is appearing at

nnt leading singe artistes, camo -to the

New York's celebrated Copaca- Australia

bana

Club. Gordon Jackson radio

the Laurenco of James

has already arrived "Down Un- English stage as the result of

der."

>

meeting with Laurence Olivier who saw him in re- pertory during his Australian and Was 'greatly im. THE Coppertielt district

of tour North Rhodesia is the pressed. setting for Chisoko The African, latest CB Instructional film,

ERBERT Steininger-first which describes the impact of H

German actor given permis- civilisation

primitive upon people. It is related by a Dis- sion to visit England to study the Commissioner who theatre-had his first glimpse of trict members the dramalle circum- a British film studio when bo stances in which

was visited Gainsborough at Shep copper discovered in his territory, and herd's Bush.

became Introduced to Colin Gordon how the mining of it

Joy set, Traveller's Northern Rhodesla's on the of

Stelninger found that Colin not only spoke German fairly well. but knew Bremen, where Steininger produced J. B. STAR na popular os Patricia Priestley's play An Inspector A Roc is accustomed to re- Colls.

great industries.

*

re-

ceiving unusual gifts and re- quests for autographs.. from.. every corner of the world. But a strange gift accompanied by an even stranger request renched Pat recently from All East Africa.

*

ald

WARDED a ten-year Rank contract for his work In Over The Town, 23-year- Patrie Doonan, son

of

A native employed on the veteran music. hall comedian British government's groundutt George Doonan, plays an im- scheme sent her a large battle portant role opposito Susin

“DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE" M-G-M Picture of ground-nut oil and a signed Shaw in Enling Studios'

photograph of himself. In his Of Events.

Train

HE'S THE

BOSS

Breads Bruce, and her husband, Roy Rich, are an example of one partnership in which the husband de- flulicly gives the orders. Roy, A theatrical producer, han

Goldsmith's "She looks to Conquer" al the

Clab, Arts Theatre London, and his wife plays" the leading part.

revived

(London Express Services |

on

pre-

GENTLE MASON

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JAMES paring to seo MASON in his first Hollywood pleture. It is being shown privately first to cinema owners and then there will be a big, Lo nell the American-

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You will find changes

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when

He was shown a story about

young girl who marries wealthy man with a streak cruelty in him.

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with the hottest men in, musiz ... BENNY GOODMAN • TOMMY DORSEY

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