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Broadway is now getting ready ROXY"

for a funeral d

From Froderick Cook In New York THE big news along Broadway this week is the approaching demise of the newsreel theatres. They have been stricken by a galloping case of the new entertainment disease, television. Recovery seems improbable.

The newsreela themselves have never really snapped back bution, they are stalo by tho And however fast the distri- from the

plunge in audience time interest...which followed

they reach a cinema the screen. Televisión marches on close of the war. For months at the double! Almost a quarter now managers have been quiet- of a million more seta in use ly climinating them experi- tonight than mentally from ordinary cinema weeks ago, programmes, to see if the cus-

tomers complained.

They did not, So now a chain of 108 cinemas in New York and another of 40 in New Jer- sey are planning to cut them out,

there were

Stroatcar: destination

London

six

VIVIEN LEIGH-

Will play the Jessles Tandy rólo

Mr William Conway, mana- fer for Hugh. Beaumont, been busy rounding out Onal 1178

ductions of Broadway's two details for the West End pro- biggest serious drama hits of Sidney the year, Arthur Miller's Daalh one of the toughest playing 53 Of A Salesman and Tennessee citles in alx months with O. have just completed

William's A Desire.

Streetcar Named Mistress Mine,

performance

"Not mo." he replied. "I'm scared of bata, too."

£12,500 a week Oscar Hammerstein II, now, sharing the agreeable profis South Pactic, DUR of

מי !

Broadway's big moneymakers (it is taking in £12,500 every week, of which £3,000 is cicar proft) has been

reminding en- vious friends that it was not Always thus. He had not lud a successful show for 10 year

wrote Oklahomà, When that show was rendy. i come! Tel

friends organised an au- ionof 40 well-to-do folke they thought might back it.

: until he

They hired

A plano Richard Rodgers to

and got

When the evening

play it, was over, they had secured one invest

£825 ment,

from. Sherman_ Ewing.

"He only did it because he was sorry for me and I was an old friend," Boyz Hammer- stein. "But for his £625 ho has collected £25,000 in profits, and they're still coming in."

Kirkland-who turned Erskine No, Mister Adam

now play.Mr Jack Caldwell's Tobacco Road into a play, saw the critics condemn If out of hand, lost on it for a

Tho

it again

The exclusively - newsreel theatres, once a considerable business here, are throwing up the sponge one after another and switching to generat eo- tertainment pictures. Latest to go is the Embassy, a loading New York newsreel house over

Salesman will be over first, ' Enter a bat: Exit Sylvia since it opened.

It opens on July 27 at

During . ́ a the The theatro Inaugurated the In the

Phoenix, with seven Americans Texas there was one piece of month, but persisted and final- new regime by giving the Munl.

cast, headed by Paul "business" which would have piloted it through a mara-

hon Americans their first look at

surprised author Terenco Rat- perfor tried.

fun of

of 9,182 Sarah Churchill's All Over the In August under Sir Laurence splendidly with

Rehearsals for Streetcar open

ugan-but which went down

this week with Mister Adam Town (which, by the way, the Olivier's direction. In London, ta tense moment in the novel about the only man in

the audience.

(Remember tho Pat Franks critics liked but did not go wild over),

moderately well. Vivien Leigh will play the role second act a bat flew into the the world able,' after an atomic

Jessica Tandy created here and For the

lighted area over the stage and newsreel

disaster, to become studios in which she has just been suc- swooped among the player

father?) (output close to 4,000,000 feet ceeded by Ula Hagen-an ex- a week) television is fast be lady who goes to pieces in

Abandoning Loder midway coming tite

a line, Sylvia Sidney only remaining squalid New Orleans slum

fred

and fled. Left alone outlet. With 61 stations now on

before the As any West End player who the air and 1,062,000

Bullence, Loder vels in ever undertook one will readily called out, "Sylvial Come back operation, people can the ski jumps, football matches show tour is one of the most And from the wings cume the see all confirm, an American red at once: The thing is harmless." and train wrecks they without going out

wint strenuous undertakings in the leading lady's reply: "Not until I'm terrified theatre. John Loder and Sylvia you get rid of it!

of bats,"

Paulette Goddard and MacDonald Carey, who star together in the Paramount comedy "Hazard," which opens at the King's tomorrow. Paulette plays a gambling society girl and Carey a private detective. In all part is Maxie ("Slapais") Rosenbloom, the ex-boxer.

It's Great Fun, And It's Real

By STEPHEN WATTS

Do you remember that delightful comedy about London children, "Hue and Cry?" I saw it outside England, and watched an international audience rock in their seats. If its natural successor about London adults, "Passport to Pimlico," has the same effect it may be the passport to a world market.

Д

pyromaniac?

and

work again, and this time they He saw the critics pan his

full were right. The play was dull, of double-entendro five performances. unfunny vulgarity. Total run: The new film-Aro you a If so, you must see production (with Susan Hoy- Tulsa. This Walter Wanger ward) about the early bil dis- While the audience howled coveries in Oklahoma is

fast- som coac got the bat out of moving, but not especially ex- sht and the play went on, citing until the oil-well are. Alterwards Loder angrily sold This is reat spectacle. to the stage manager: "At least work, too, by that now Mexl- you might have helped Ind can star. Pedro Armendariz. out!"

-(London Express Service)

Notes From British Studios:

Fino

"Tooth-Paste Girl" Gets Film Part

lyne.

MEMBERS of

KNOWN to most cinema- Jean Simmons and Stewart

goers as the star of Granger in Adam And Eve tooth-paste advertising films, 26-year-old brunette Dorothy Bramhall is playing

# delegation Alec Guinness's reporter

of Turkish M.P.'s who have colleague in Ealing Studios' of the British government met been visiting Britain as guests A Run For Your Money. Ann Todd and director David Before turning to films, Doro- Lean and some of the cast of thy was one of London's most Madeleine, Boys In Brown and popular fashion models.

The Astonished Heart when they toured the J. Arthur Rank Studios at Denham and Pinc- AURENCE Olivier is helping wood. Not all the party could another young member of speak English, but Bey Huse the Great Expectations cast yin Chhalt Yalcin carried on a along the road to fame. First fluent conversation with Ann It was Jean Simmons, when he Todd in French. Mr Yalcin, cast her as Ophelia, and now it who is the deputy for Istanbul, 18-year-old John Forrest to is editor of the influential whom he has given an impor- newspaper "Tunin". tant part in his forthcoming London stage production of the New York success, A Streetcar

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Granger.

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Toast to Anouk, and to pro ducer Alexander Galperson who shared her birthday celebra Molyneux, who has created wards the entire unit was en-

TEL: 0333 designer tons, was proposed by veteran wardrobe of glamorous gowns tertained by an Arab for Margaret Leighton to wear and dancing girls. in The Astonished Heart-in which she stars with Cella And that will be very funny. Because "Passport to Pimlico" describes her figure as "ex- Johnson and Michael Redgrave has none of those big names, none of those big dimensions or quisite." "production values" which we have always been told are

She is, he says, the only way to make even English-speaking foreigners look at

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You don't come away from this picture thinking of a star. 1

NSWERING

the

TOMMY TRINDER,

one of Britain's most successful music hall stars, plays a down- and-out comedian in Ealing's Bitter Springs, in which he co stars with Chipa Rafferty and local Gordon Jackson. Story dicals

Chips's

with

would be hard put to it to tell who is the star out of the excellent A mayor's appent for help, team which shares the work. But you do come away with a grin on your face and the memory of a happy hour and a half director Ronald Neame suspend efforts to set up as a sheep of good spirits and good humour.

ed fliming on Golden Salamander farmer, aided by Tommy so that the unit's generator Gordon. could supply power to the little

Most modest of them all

Balcon, is to be congratulated en fathering an original, in- when violent stories caused a NCE again the most modest of British producers, Sir Michael town of Tabarka, Tunisia, telligent, true-to-itself piece of entertainment. I think the complete breakdown in Ealing studio has come closer to the heart and nature of the life tricity supplies. and people of this country than anybody else.

And though writers (unless they are famous authors first): are the forgotten men of firms, let me call a round of applause for T. E. B. Clarke, who thought up "Hue and Cry," and then went ope better with this ingeniously sustained joke,

alec R

were.

and

ESULTS of a too realistic fight on the set of Boys In Brown at Pinewood Studios multiple bruises for ESLIE Banks and Ann Todd his legs and arms for Jimmy Richard Attenborough, cuts onl are playing father and Henley, a broken tooth for John He has devised a tale about Pimlico, in the heart of London, daughter for the second time in Blythe and a black eye for suddenly discovering itself to be part of Burgundy under an old Cincgulld's Biadeleine, story of Robert Desmond. Dirk Bogarde charter One thing leads to another until the freedom-drunk a Glasgow girl who was fried who was attacked by them all, Pimilburgians are cut off from the outside world while Basil for the murder of her lover, in came of best with relatively Radford and Naunton Wayne in Whitehall dither about whose in the Dodle Sinith play, "Sor-

the 1850's First occasion was few bumps and bruises. departmental pigeon it is,

.

The parallel with real-life affairs, up to and including an vice". air-lift (one belicopter) to relieve the alege famine, is deftly Leslie's other managed. The team-leaders, rather than the stars, are Stanley in Madeleine is Patricio Raine,

alm daughter VERSATILE MAURICE DEN- Holloway, Hermione Baddeley, John Slater, and Jane Hylton. daughter of

HAM, who has appeared in actress Binnio 32 flims in 32 months, gots a chance to exorcise his favourite hobby by assuming seven

dis- guises in his latest picture, It's Not Cricket.

She may be a star

Halc...

then

the Ealing film is an example of the lore sustained, "John Loves Mary" is the joke fallen fat. A belatedly re- turning G... seeking to do a friend back home a favour, marries

CHANGE of hair an English girl so that she can enter the US But his friend in

stylo the interval has married. And the favour-doer himself has actress wile of Trevor Howard say, I am a fool" from

transformed, screen, failure ever-loving fiancée waiting for him.

into success for Helen Cherry,

an

Famed as a radio comle with bewildering variety of voices,

his catchphrase 'Oh I the

So far, all right, but the efforts to whip this into a full-length Cutting her hair in a fringe Much Binding in the Marsh" tim become desperates Ronald Reagan and Patricia Neat do for a Sunday night stage show show, is known all over Britain. what they can (Miss Neal may well be a star debutante); and so altered her photogenio posal Jack Carson, always a good clown, does even better, but you can bilities that she was signed up plays Otto Flech, a Nazi

In It's Not Cricket Maurice "hear the conveyor-belt of the script factory, creaking after the for Alms on the spot. Now she Co-stars of this film are Bil Orst 15 minutes.

Epy. has an important role with Radford and Naunton Wayne:

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