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FIRST EPISODE

The VIGILANTE

FIGHTING HERO OF THE WEST

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1940,

SEAT IN THE STALLS.

FILM PLUG_NOT_A_FILM_PLUG.?..

-BROADWAY-RIDDLE :-WHEN IS

Realism? Cinemas tell Hollywood

to cut

cut it

it out

SAYS FREDERICK COOK

REMEMBER THE FILM IN WHICH THE STAR, IN THE MIDDLE OF A LOVE SCENE, CALLED FOR A PACKET OF CIGARETTES, MEN- TIONING THEM BY NAME? OR THE MURDER MYSTERY IN WHICH A VITAL CLUE WAS TYRE MARKS IN THE MUD, SO DEEPLY IMPLANTED THAT THE MAKER'S NAME WAS PLAIN FOR ALL TO SEE!

Incidents like these are behind a vigorous argument now going on between the cinemas and the studios' over "plugs" for commercial products smuggled into pictures.

The cinema people do some doubt if ali. -British not like it. Too many women were such examples of quict courage as the wartime patrons ask: "Why should women It portrays. we pay to watch advertis At any rate, The Weaker ing on the screen?"

Sex look stronger in a dollar Times in Hollywood being Portman-Am Todd flim which sense than Daybreak, the Eric what they are, the business ran only a

week. As usual, goes on, though the produc- New Yorkers ilked the acting. tion code says: No advertis- ba! found the story heavy ing in entertainment pic song. New York just tures: but studios can get exercise.

now is

.too hot even for mental

round that by pleading Best of the new Hollywood "realism."

crop

is Lust for Gold, n salis- story: fying and adult Western The

In the 80's,

a pioneer German prospector-played by Glenn Ford-found an ancient Indian gold mine in Arizona. but perished with his secret in on earthquake. (This muchi is

Who can help it if the hero oncl heroine happen to meet opposlica stocking counter?

Or if the star makes a specch from

spot which happens to be in front of n monster billboard?

Hollywood has been assuming there was not much cinemas could to about it. will

developments this week

cutting

come as a shock: three ̃circuits

have started their own departments, taking commercial plugs.

York.

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HAMLET HALF-MILLION AMERICANS who want to see A Olivier's Hamlet (and many do) now have to come to New After 365 engagements throughout the country it has been withdrawn for the summer. Renson: so much of the business came from schools and colleges. On New York's Park Avenue Hamlet has now reached

performance.

Money

700th passed into the box-office In that one cinema has touched

for the film are in the region of £146,000. Rentals collected £376,000, and the distributors belleve Its possiblilties fre nowhere near exhausted yet.

WEAKER. BUT STRONGER

HE new British picture here. THE

is The Wenker Sex. The eritles like well enough, but

JOAN HOPKINS

In The Weaker Sex, the Bellish picture that "looks sirong in Wie dollar sense."

London Express Servden

When The Stars Take

To The Road

All that the hardened Broadway theatre-. goer needs now to see a show is a car, an over night bag, an adequate supply of mosquito cream, and a willingness to drive out anywhere from 50 to a couple of hundred miles.

Only the smash hit shows doing such business. that they just cannot close-are still running on Broad- way.

Elsewhere, from the Canndlun border south into Maryland, the theatre now is an affair of rural playhouses, converted barns, schoolrooms and village halla, The straw hat circuit" is in full swing.

This is

no mere makoshifi hot weather substitute for real theatre going. It is the natural ' result of a climate which nually turns Broadway Itself In- to a reasonable tacsimile of the set for White Cargo, if only it were a little batter provided with palms.

an-

BIG ONES ARE THERE Most of the big stars are "out In the sticks."

'Out in the sticks'

Kay

At Worcester, Massachusetts, Kay Francis is doing Let Us Be Gay Tallulah Bankhead (nt the summer's ton salery, £1.250 a week) is packing them in at Princeton, New Jersey,

with

o special card so that she might Noel Coward's Private Lives. прред in The Philadelphia which she and Donald Cook, Story. turned into the most successful revival of the winter in New York

Ruth

The summer theatres run all the way from primitive places with benches for the customers. bats in the rafters and the most Tulimentary equipment (and anything can happen in some of them) to little houses far more modern than anything along the Great White Way itself.

IDA LUPINO

Chooses to act as well as to look pretty?

$1

play-the Shulerts, for instance, are get- rent ting £131,230 a year in

South for the Majestic, where Pacife is runninit, and could get only about £25,000 from tele- vision-but hits are rare and flops regrettably common. NAMES

who for seven

true: The mine does exist.) In course, n theatre owner can get the film, a descendant crawls far more out of a through Jagged canyons look Ing for the gold. The girl at stake, Ida Lupino, chooses to act not just look pretty. The picture is due in London soon.

W. C. FIELDS AGAIN ATEST Broadway fad,

W. C. Fields cull. People are flocking to a revival

pro- DNA BEST, gramme featuring My Little years has confined herself Chickadee and The Bank Dlek, to films and radio, is returning Of the two The Dank Dick has to Broadway this autumn. She horne its yenes the better, per- co-stars with Maurice Evans in haps because it was so entirely Terence Rattigan's The Brown- the creation of the man now ing Version and Harlequinade, hailed as Hollywood's greatest taking the roles Mary Ellis contribution to comedy.

played in the West End,

Charles Laughton, who runs Hollywood English-recent 10 school for actors, is to do. weeks of one-night appearances in concert halls giving readings from the Bible, - Shakespeare and Dickens.

jt

Fields not only starred in but wrote it (under the inspired pseudonym of "Mabatina Kane Jeeves

and thought up characters like Filthy McNasty, Esq. J. Pinkerton Snoopington, Egbert Souse, A. Pismo Clam und Miss Phupp.

MORE TV STUDIOS

a

Irving Berlin, who gave the from God Bless earnings Amerien to the scouts, has, now

FIVE more Broadway theatres given them all income from one

are thinking of, becoming television studios, making nine

of his Miss Liberty songs. This is his setting-lo-music of the

in all, Six are already in use Emma Lazarus poem engraved as radio stations.

Loss of five more will cut to only 20 the number available for plays.

The prospect of steady 52 weeks-a-year income is the FORSON. With a hit show, of

The Week's

on the Statue of Liberly, "Give me Your Tired, Your Poor, the Wretched Refuse of Your Teeming Shore," Berlin con- siders that this may develop Into a sort of national anthem.

-(London Express Serules)

Screen Fare

The Babe Ruth Story (LEE), but there are also cowboy Roy which opens tomorrow, explaing Rogers, the Andrews Sisters Itself It-is-not-full-of baseball,-and-Ethel Smith, among others, as many would imagine, and is to help along a colour, cartoon more an endeavour to make a and music festival in the truc story of someone-Babe Ruth, of, Disney tradition. course--who made himself an idol of millions for qualities that were not necessarily of the diamond.

The picture has a grand cast,

Willians Bendix with

as the Babe and Claire Trevor, Sam Levene and Charles Blekford at their best. If only for some of the outstanding character portrayals, the picture should not be missed.

Look Before You Love (LEE), today's attraction, is a Margaret Lockwood story in lighter vein. Margaret, as a member of the British Embassy staff at Rio de Janeiro, falls in love with a blackmailer.

The settings are colourful and Margaret Lockwood is Margaret Lockwood, reason enough why cinemagoers go to see her films.

Let's Loves Little (QUEEN'S), brings back Hedy Laminer as, of)

improbable people, Psychiatrist, Robert Cummings is her patient and he is, even more surprisingly, a journalist who, the story goes, consults Dr Lamarr on why it is he flads his left show uncomfortable on his right foot.

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BUSTER COMES BACK At a nice cool resort in the Berkshire Mountains, the veteran Alim comedian Buster Kesion comes back to the stare in Three Men on n Herre. And in upper New York Mady Christians is

The Falmouth Playhouse al to be seen in I Remember Mama., Coenamasselt, on Cape Cod, for The Undercover Man Other drawing cards on the example run by Richard (QUEEN'B), which opens its run "citronella cireul!" are Hagar

Aldrich, hucband of Gertrude, tomorrow, is the movie version Iawrence has its own In leaven, in Wilde'a

.Mndo

Bond- of a factual account. of how Connecticut;

Amos in vay-style supper club, a men's: American Federal Agents nailed Thanks For Your Wife, 'n new

shop in the tobby, its private down' one of the most vicious crime ayndicates history. comedy. In Massachusetts: Leo port and docking facilities on a nearby Jake for patrons arriV-

Glenn Ford is started as the G. Carroll in Angel Street and

-Man, The Late, George Apley:

ing by private seaplano. Sieme Hasso in Love From a.Strineer: Eve Lo Gallienne In The Corn 18 Green, and Ann Harding in. Yes, My Darling

nr Daughter. Even the great Holen Hayes, whom many call the First Lady of the Broadway store (others say Katherine Cornell) is tour ing the villages in a tryout of William McCleery's Good House

the

keeping, which is

is expected in Manhattan by the me, 1 leaves are turning.

Paul Lukas, Sir Cedrle Hard- wicke, Basil Rathbone, Joan Blondell and hundred more top names are all forgoing the lights In favour of a little cool air. 'And, of course, our own 'Sarah

Churchill, to whom Equity gave:

This is one of the theatres al which Sarah Churchill is to op prar. Brand new, up to dato in a way to make most Broadway managera awoon with

In

The Blue Dahlia (KIN(8) is of the Ladd and Lako series of high adventure in our own times, except that it is more

has 800 seats and air concredible than some of the ear- condition. ller efforts of this partnership. ing. At the other end of the Veronica Lake is more than

પ tale, operetta is being done with just Las Lake and

comes up vigour and enthusiasm over in with BOITIO good dramatics. New Jersey in a tent,.

Ladd is the same inoffensivo Ind who is quick on the trigger. William Bendix is in the (ple- furo and that adds spice to any murder yart.

More than 200 theatres tucked' away in the villages are now going

strong. Under now Tulo, itself significant of the summer theatre's place in the

drama world, 70 percent of the Melody Time - (BROADWAY) players engaged in 130 of the Is Disney, with Pecos Bill, Lli- houses must now bo Equity tia Toot and Johnny Appleseed In the cast. Disney along would be good entertainment,

members,

--{London Express: Bervlae)

If I'm Lucky (ROXY) is a musical with Vivian Blaine. Perry Como, Harry James and Carmen Miranda. It's a must for Platter Chaiter people.

AT LAST

Recently Angela Lans- bury, London-born film actress, was heard to com plain that as long as she had been in 'Hollywood' no one had ever, photo- graphed her in a bathing suit at the beach. "Hap- pily, this unheard of situation, has now been

corrected, with the above-

results—AP Picturs.

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