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LA SEAT IN THE STALES

Ginger & Fred End Their

No-Dancing Years

From FREDERICK COOK

·EW YORK....I took the months' time any gentlemanly

in impeccable American.

N charming Miss Gluger expletives be lets fall will

Rogers to the pictures here to a film she had not seen before, the Barkleys of Broadway. In it are Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, together again after a gap of far too many years.

Pretty as ever. In neat beige toilored suit with a tiny white straw hot' perched on her up- swept hair, the star of so many dancing hits quivered like Д schoolgirl, mopped her forehead from time to time, and didn't say a word from start 10 Anish.

There Was дл occasional groan hero and there. When the laughs came they were for others. Once he applauded that was for Astaire,

"I am always terrified when 1 sec myself," she said after- wards.

Sho time.

had no need to be this

With Astaire's help she has turned out one of the gayent, most enjoyablo musicals in

years:

At 40 Astaire has lost none of his skill afoot, vocally or 'as Geomedian.

Past and present TFOLLYWOOD never seems H to cherish too, high a re-

gard for platures based on British history or British mythology when they are made in British studios. The place to do justice to our past is of course-Hollywood.

That is why when Sir Cala- had gallops cross the Saturday morning screens in

bo

ho

The decision to do a 13-part serial about Sir Galahad-well,

about him, sinco largely appears in it--was taken last year when Mr Samuel Katz- man. "serini king" for one of the big studios, heard that Mr J. Arthur Nank had in mind a

flm on the Knights of the

Round Table.

Now The Adventures of Sir Galahad is nearly complete.

There is

no Ume-wasting with the Holy Grail. "We don't want to get into any religious complications," said Mr Katz- mun firmly.

Essentially it becomes a plain cops-and-robbers story, which any American child will be able to grasp.

Smoke at your poril

TR Howard S. Cullman, the

Mmultimillionaire Broad-

Jurk on every

atairway and

pounce at the strike of a match. The forgetful smoker is likely to get a summons on the spat. In the Intervals smokers aro herded out on to the street.

Moro vizitom

TTALF the notables of American show business are either on their way to London, already there, or pinn- ning to go. Departures 143% week include Joshun Logan. producer, and his wife, Neddn Harrigan; Jo Mielziner and his wife; Irene Selznicic and Lillian

H Gish

Dir Logan will discuss West End productions for Mister Roberts and 'South Pacific, and he may also direct a film.

Mister Roberts, in which Henry Fonda plays the lead here, is a show London - ought to see,

Mr Miclziner will spe

spend his, flmo in London attending to the design and construction of

There will even be love-in--scis for Death-of a Salesman terest, involving Sir Galahad and A Streetcar named Desire. Mrs Selznick's trip is also (George Reaves) and the Lady

concerned of the Lake (Lois Hall). But

with the London not much.

production of Streetcar, In which Vivien Leigh is to play the part

created here by Jer- sien Tandy, with Sir Laurence Olivier directing.

Lillan Glah is to 'try her way backer, who will be hand as a reporter. She will theatre in London this summer with his write a series on the

me in Europe for a magazine. wife, has been writing to about the lamentable state of

-(Loʻulon Express Service) the theatre here, in the bricks and mortar sense. Ho thinks the average. New York play- house is much Interior to some in London,

Tobacco - merchant Cullman would like to see up-to-date theatres as comfortable no same the the cinemas-and with audiences abie to smoke.

At present, smoking, even in the lobby, is a major hazard of

મૈં few theatre-going here. Fire guards

Lovely June Allyson, na a prim school-mistress, tries to reform a playboy author (Van Johnson) in the MGM Almi The Bride Goes Wild, which opens at the Queen's next Tuesday, Her efforis-muccessful of course, in the end- provide good entertainment.

NOTES FROM BRITISH STUDIOS :

This Director's A Fast Worker

REPUTATION for speed. Davies, folloer This Ronald

Hobson and by Valerie Squire.

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“ASTAIRE, ROGERS

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Presenting

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young

By DAVID LEWIR

Rattigan, the best of our young

of

men with not much in com- playwrights, made his money-

about £10,000 a year-out mon--excopt an urge to. the break a tradition.

Kentle drawing - ·room comedy (from "French With- out Tears" to "Love In Idle-

IRST the actor ness"),

Bernard Miles.. "In

Now he has written Adven- studios today it is the lamps turo Story?" It is rough and that are telling the actors robust. The West End theatre what to do and that is no needs something like that. Rat- way to make pictures," he

view is: "It has been

says,

So Milos has walked out, put up porne of his own money, turned director as well as star, and is getting down to making his own film, Chance of a Life- time." his own way.

tigan's

too quiet-and I'm to blame as

much" "as" "anyone. We need something larger than lito to Wake it up! action and violence, drama and spectacle."

The theatro quietened down when the films became noisy, Rattigan hopes to bring it back The Miles method is just the us it used to be with his his- same as the Italians used for torical play, with six different "Open City" and Hollywood for sets.

"Naked City." He is taking his "Adventure Story" costs more camera into the streets and than £8,000 to put on--nbout turning it loose.

four times as much as the uzual drawing-room plece.

Query on Rita -WHAT'S --happened-to- Hita Hayworth? Her "Loves of Carmen" has left the West End tonight after three weeks which even the film men call "disappointing."

is camern

He wants to dim in a bank? Then he goes to Lombard- street. In a bus? A 70 bus is hired and runs on Its usual

the route while shooting inside.

A luxury restaurant? There is a fine one in Piccadilly. And a factory? Then Basil Radford, Compton Mackenzie, and the The expected wonderful things with all the publicity on the Rita

Hayworth runaway ΙΠ America they romance. queued to see Hayworth-the worthless gipay. In London they left five seats in every ten empty-sometimes more.

cast move off to one in Glou- center for seven weeks...

Bernard Miles may lose his money. He doesn't mind, "My wife and I have agreed to go back to living on £5 a week if necessary." So he turns down ten parts for every one ho takes, and wants to get back to where films. began-out of doors,

"Let's Get Tough".

RECOND young man, the playwright, Terence Rattigan. "Ralugan's Revoll" they

calling it in the Thirty-seven-year-old

are

theatre.

Now it is up to the provinces where they still remember the. Rita Hayworth of "Cover_Girl" and "You Were Nover Loveller-box office winners both. "Anyway," they are con- soling themselves at Columbla,

it wasn't a West End Alm."

Jon in A Hurry

по

YOU KNOW the name Jon Pertwee? You soon will. He is just voice now in the "Waterlogged.

0

Ronald OLIVIA IS BETTER 5" and "Up the Pole" radio

went the Two Cilles unit Terence

is maintained Ralph Thomas on his third directorial assignment for Gainsborough, Despite the FF to Germany this work postponement of production which is to make for a week when John Young's story of two offleors in McCallum, co-star with the Guards Armoured Division, Google Withers, had jaun- will be filmed in the

They Were Not Divided. Scenes British dice, Traveller's Joy was Zone of Germany and in Bel- completed in 821⁄2 -days-, alum and tanks and equipment exactly

BAOH 'day within are being loaned by schedule.

and the Belgian Army.

Ralph, Thomas's two previous R J. films Once Upon A Dream and turned to England

Arthur Bank has ro. Helter Skelter, both cothedies his nim talks in Washington, also beat the schedule.. producer on all three films was bringing, with him the Oscars Antony Darnborough.

nwarded to Hamlet and The Red Shoes, both of which are proving outstandingly success- ful in America,

*

from

TH THREE U.S.' Navy "Waves" Li:

Helen Lawrence of New Jersey, Lt Virginia Gilmer of ROYS IN BROWN,atory of Colorado and Lt Sybil Space of the Inmates of Borsial, stars New Jersey-first women of the Dirk Bogarde and Jimmy Han- American Navy ever to be ley as two young criminals. assigned to permanent duty in Now they are both going inte England met their compatriot The Blue Lamp. Ealing's film Helen Backlin, who has an about Scotland Yard, Dirk to Important role in Two "Cities" play a murderer and Jimmy to The Chiltern Hundreds, when, play a polleemen. they visited Denham Studios.

shows.

He will be much more than that. For Jon Pertwee has per- sonality. I watched his variety|| act nt the Golders Green Hip- podrome and heard the tomers cheer.

CƐ15-

On the stage Pertwee - rushes at the audiences, has no inhibí- tions. tells stories with force. and knocks the breath out of the stalls.

Ho knows best of all what he should not do: "None of the things they know me for on the radio-no What does it matter as long as you lear em up". volcea That would character be fatal" He can sing, dance a bit, play the guitar, and mime.

* Town-Talk..

SHOW PEOPLE * talking about: The film of the life of Henry. Morgan-- The pirate not the actor which Paulette Goddard wants. to make in England.. The private showing of Olivia de Havil- land's picture about a mental home, "The Snake Pit to a London audience of psychia- -telals and exports an manfal disturbancer: now It waits for the censora verdlēt. Part of Jane Wyman's British pictured "Stogo Fright" will be shot at - the Royal Academy of Dramas tic Art, James". Mason, gets Joan Bennett to star with him in his next Hollywood Film The Blank Wall."....Beryl Orde's crack: "Nothing. makoszy A woman look better than three

Out of danger after » a two-months ném, which at one time threatened the life.... of her unborn child .......... film viar: Olivia de Havilland, der Olivia, who lay 82,- was „born in Japan, of British parents. She is the wife of Mr Marcus Aurelius Glood-

NOUK, seventeen year-old DHEARSALS have begun “at A French actress, who is Denham Studios, for. Two starring with Trovor Howard în Cities :* adaptation of, D.-H. The Golden Balamander,, now Lawrence's short story The on location in Tunisia, has been Rocking Horse Winner, Pro-, cast opposite the Lcelebrated duced by John Milla and direct- French star Jean." "Gabin” in ad by Anthony: Felissim, it stars-Marcel-Carne's next fint, Maria |--Fiske, John Bailla, John Howard Duport...

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