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FOLKS TILL

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1949.

SEAT IN THE STALLS

FREDERICK Cook reporTS ON BROADWAY & HOLLYWOOD

The tunes roll out the dollars

come rolling in

BROADWAY'S HIT SHOWS HAVE DEVELOPED INTO A MAJOR EXPORT ITEM FOR THE AMERI- CANS. AND THE DEMAND CONTINUES. HEADING. THE LIST OF LEGITIMATE PLAYS BORN IN NEW YORK AND NOW MAKING NEW FORTUNES OVER SEAS IS THE TENNESSEE WILLIAMS DRAMA A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE.

Second comès Born Yesterday, the Gar- son Kanin comedy with Pygmalion undertones, which was to have closed a week ago after 1442 performances, but was given a last-minute re- prieve as it has been doing such business.

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This play not only won wartime Prime Minister as fame as a writer for Kanin, freak attraction. But the sum but carned its star, Judy formance in The Philadephia total of Sarah Churchill's per- Holiday, a Hollywood con- Story is thoroughly professional. tract.

If she is no Katharine Hep- burn, she is stili far ahead of the 1940 counterparts."

Coupled

with the film

her triumph in All Over the Town-- New Yorkers liked her immense- ly even if they did not think much of the picturethis maices her sure of a Hollywood role any time she seriously thinks of one. NEXT-JAMES JOYCE Preliminary work has started on one of next season's theatrical Edwin Armstrong adaptation of occasions, a

Padraic Colum- James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake.

Streetcar has been pro- duced already in Belgium, Holland, Mexico,

Italy, Sweden, Denmark and Greece. Productions are listed for London, Paris and Vienna, Poland, Switzer land, Portugal, Australia and Hungary aro also angling for the rights,

Born Yesterday has done well In Switzerland, France, Italy Czechoslovakia, Greece, Hol- Innd and Austria as well as London shortly at Tel-Aviv.

It is to be produced

Among the goldmine musicals, Oklahoma continues to pour pounds sterling, pounds Austra- Kan and pounds South African Into the grateful Rodgers and Hammerstein coffers. It is

e also running profitably in Sweden and Denmark and touring the far Pacific bases.

Annie Get Your Gun, another now among the missing on Broadway, can be seen in Fin- Iand

and New Zealand, Den- mark and Norway as well as in the West Erid, Australla, Paris and South Africa.

The London theatregoer has been luckier than the New Yorker lately.

There has not been an opening here now for Reven weeks, unless one In- cludes Howdy, Mr Ice of 1950 (where at least the customers can persuade themselves they feel cool) and Cabalgata, a Spanish musical extravaganza which is more of a vaudeville show than a play.

But last Friday saw a big theatrical event-the Arst night of Miss Liberty, the Robert E. Sherwood-Irving Berlin musical. It la going to run Kiss Mc, Kate and South Phelde close In popularity.

CHURCHILL TRIUMPH

In the summer theatre the big

news 13 Sarah Churchill's tremendouLS.

Another Klustration of the way the "export trade" is booming Armstrong (who is to present it) has already had inquiries from

London, Sydney and Paris.

AVA GARDNER

is in the Great Staner; it tells

eambling in the 1960'

It will be a big production, sets, a big orchestra. Expected with a large dance group, lavish

personni suce cost £02.500. The Americans are discovering that she can get.

Nobody has yet asked for any money, but backers have already produced £5,000. Tipped for leading paris: Surah Allgood and Barry Fitzgerald.

As the trade paper Variety (which speaks plainly, even when it hurts) saya in the nicest tribute yet: "They came to MR RANK'S SECRET Princeton, New Jersey, to see the 'daughter of Britain's famed

Another package of 70 J. Arthur Rank Alms is being

The Week's Screen Fare

Rope (KING'S & LEE), an Alfred Hitchcock thriller, is the pick of the week. It is the story of two young men (play- | Grand Opening To-morrow at ed by John Dall and Farley

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GREEN-EYED RHONDA

She has arrived

for sale on the New York ter iluston, Frank Morgan.

Another hit here,

television market.

opening The Rank people are guarding shortly in London, is: Portrait the secret of just what pictures of Jennie. Vals brings the are in the package. The price music of Debussy to the screen asked is zaid to bo about for the first time. £75,000.

Jones is Jennie.

This is not especially high, but the local television stations have been going warily lately. on feature pictures, proferring shorts.

Jennifer

THE NEW STAR... Rhonda Fleming, after 25 years in Hollywood (she was

born there) has gained her secondl THE NEW FILMS... triumph. First Bing Crosby put her into A. Yankee at King The Great Sinner, which Arthur's Court. Now Dub Hopo Christopher Isherwood helped stars her in The Great Lover. to adapt for the screen, is a Rhonda is a green-eyed red- period piece about gambling in head, hitherto relegated to "ad- ihe 1800's, with Gregory Peck venture" epics. But now slic

ns a man destroyed by his pas has arrived. When you soo her slon for the tables. Others: Av In the new film, you'll under- Gardner, Melvyn Douglas, Wistand why.

Newsreels

need

a shake-up

By STEPHEN WATTS

Films arrived the day an audience ducked in terror as a train came rushing at them on the screen. So the newsreel was born. Now it seems to be on its deathbed. the hand-loom in relation to the spinning jenny. In As television grows the newsreel becomes more like America some newsreel companies have already gone out of business.

tic parady, absurd and rather exhilarating.

But

ovch

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before progress strikes the deathblow over here the newsreels are in trouble. Mr Sidney Bernstein has drop- ped them from his 55 theatres with the blunt statement that his audiences And them dull. screen

For this the newsrais' have only themselves to blame.

IT'S THE"" OWN FAULT

MOMENTS ONLY Exhilarating is the word for the witty writing of Erie Link- later, but his comle spirit has been much diluted in "Private Angelo" as transferred to the

by Peter Ustinov. The result is a film of delight- ful moments, no

Custome

Scenes at

the

in Eng- land, which occur at the begin- ning end, are evidence of

and

I looked at the two principal Ustinov's akill and humour. It British reels last week I must

ba mny confirm Mr Bernstein's judge.

significant that he does Highlights of the Alm include ment. a thrilling rescue at sca in sub- much as before. A royal visit

The mixture was very not appear in those scenes

When he nets and directs as zero weather, a plane crash, a to provincial town (small well, something goes wrong. His thrilling escape in frozen waters; girl ond crowning all, some of the Henley Regatta at great length. what in worse, his playing is presents bouquet). The Angelo, the soldier who runs away, is utterly un-Italian, but, most awesome close-ups of Wimbledon, but not the finals. James Stewart is starred as storm fury.

A fete in Italy. on old preparatory school teacher who Arst inculcated

of his pupils, The east includes Cedric Hardwicke, Joan Chandler and Douglas Dick.

Sir

curiously off-hand. One forls uke ticking off the clever young man for carelessness.

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TRUE AND FALSE ed in to witness the, prowess one of a long line of Holly- Anals, but Henley again, and an

The Italian scenes are often wood spectacles immortalizing extremely pedestrian record of

per the Western Union fleet exer- beautiful, but they vary from mitting the film industry an- vaudeville troupers and

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Field-Marshal Montgomery re- comes when Angelo falls in with Interwoven into the song and fusing a drinkt hardly comes un- a British commando composed of

the usual warm, der the heading of trews.

desert types. human story of a stage family Television, or no, newsreels played by Charles Winninger, could surely prolong their lives Fay Bainter, Dan Dalley, and with an infusion of new ideas, two comparativa newcomers.raaybe of new blood.

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Sympathy goes out to Derek If the old, oft-Almed swash- Bond, who is as good as possible buckling romances Ille "The as the poet, and grateful thanks Three Musketeers" must be to Joyca Grenfell, for a Low In common with other Hong-made again. then

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Company

Here they are dim producilons.

troops will be shown all the creatures, exlating only in the Opening feature is the mica latest equipment at the Studios shadow of Gene Kelly's vivid, Give My Regards to Broadway and will be given a chance to bouncing D'Artagnan and lined up for early showingt|

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"Young Wives Tale", Memory is deceptive, but A Song Is

18 Studios are Chinese-owned, the Kelly seems to leap from even

This lightest of

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between the Army the saddle. with even

More with Miss film gymnastic zest. scheme, sound equipment, seat- directors for many months, es- H ing and air conditioning are of pedially in riding scenes when into something close to ballet.

sword-play scenes develop and uncompromising portrait of the latest type.

a foolish, feckless, affected puss horses have been borrowed from

and The theatre is owned by the the Royal Artillery,

The uncompromising Ameri- Infuriating ingratiating, from Henry Q, Leong Estates. In order to show their ap appearance of Lana Turner Wayne, Joan Haytheras, and

can accents and scenery, and the very attractive,

Excellent, too, are Naunton precation of the help received the volupted over Derek Farr from the British Army, thead take the whole romp visli have been arranged. further into the realm of fantas

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