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Maureen O'SULLIVAN

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FIGHTER

The Flying Fier of

AZSIN, THE STALLS,

THE DUCHESS MEETS MISS AMERICA

Visiting Pinewood Studios, "Miss America, 1949," Miss Bebe Shopp, was introduced to the Duchess of Kenj.

The Duchess, who was accompanied by her sister and brother-in-law, Count and Countess Toerring, was there to see Noel Coward (in the centre) Alming scenes of "The Astonished Heart” in which he stars with Cella Johnson and Margaret Leighton.

On the "Golden Salamander" set the Duchess was introduced to Anouk, the young French actress who is co-starring with Trevor Howard, and she watched Ann Todd taking part in the trial scenes of "Madeleine."

The Duchess was wearing gaily coloured rallia sandals, ́a tarton skirt and a blue silk blouse.--AP Wirephoto.

CHILD STAR FARCE

IS TO END

By STEPHEN WATTS

THE FARCICAL LEGAL SITUATION OF CHILDREN ACTING IN BRITISH FILMS=THEY ARE-FLATLY-BANNED UNDER 15-IS-SHORTLY TO END, I

UNDERSTAND,

Any law that is winked at is a bad one and ought to go. There must have been a score of child actors in British films in the past year. The pseudo-secrecy during production has been absurd.

How could "Oliver Twist," "Vice Versa," "Treasure Island," D.. Lawrence's "Nocking Horse Winner" be filmed with nut children?

Or

llow many people watching with pleasure the performance of little Bobby Henrey in "Fallen Idol" realised that his being there was strictly illegal?

She couldn't cry Latest defiance (knowing it to be perfectly safe) comes from Associated British, who frankly announce that the big gest role in their forthcoming Rosamund John-Leo Gen film, "No Place for Jennifer," is played by ten-year-old Janctie Seolt

Janette is a happy child, un- accustomed to tears. In the alm she has to try.

The director eventually told her sweets were being rationed again--and from that point of depression tears were easy,

Any list of leading stars of British ms must include Mai Zetterling. Yet wo or three years ago she and I enrried on our first conversation with great diculty, for she spoke little English und my Swedish is con- fined to "Skol"-If That is even Swedish.

This slight, blonde girl has made a remarkable quick-time reputation for herself as a rent actress.

When we first saw her, in the Swedish "Frenzy," she was a dissipated adolescent. Then, in her Arst English tim, "Frieda," she was a German war bride. On the stage she was brilliant an a school-girl in Ibsen's "Wid Duck."

Now while she appears in an other Swedish film, "Iris," t the Academy, she is at Denham starring in "The Romantic Age" as a finishing-school hussy.

Her big chance

Janeltä Scott

SHOWING TO-DAY

Britain's KINGS LEE

Film Stars To Be Paid

Less Money

Film folk are going to have to get along with a little less money, But many may wonder just how great A hardship that will be. Here are some facts about figures.

All British film stars are checking on accounts and expenditure as they face the salary cuts proposed by the British Film Producers' Association.

Aud 1ley don't secm to mind-nuch. Michael Wilding voices a fairly general opinion when he says: "Whatever you earn, you can only keep about £4,500 靄 year. So 1 don't care."

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Most wage-carriers would tremble at the suggestion of a cuf. But then most of us-wal

human after, all-think that we are worth more than we are paid already,

aro

But the general Iden, among bosses, still seems to be “Is the labourer worthy of his hire?" nriet also it comes down to

£ s. d. v, work,

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The Second Sea Lord and Chief of Navel Personnel is worth £3,350 a year. That's the Government rate for the Job. And the Governor of Papua Tales £1,000.

Jean

Simmons and Mar- Haret Lockwood are worth between £20,000 and £30,00on] a year.

And

If they get it. it is because film fons Rid the queueing "one and nines" make it worth the producers' while.

England's Lord Chief Justlen [። palet £8,000 a year not in the £30,000

a year class of Sir Laurence Olivier. Tur Governor of Dartmoor erwis clown, comparatively speak- ing, to about £1,150 worth of work per annum.

Evon he is living In a realm of fancy and fairy gold to the assistant 1brarian earn- Ing £108 and who hasn't yet reached income tax worries.

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Jobs advertised offer a hos- pital almoner a starting salary of £330 a year. a research For instance, Betty Grable is assistant £400, clerk £983, making. "Wabash Avenue." Six And a list of qualifications is

demanded. The research as "Coney nindo years ago sho When the stars go on holiday.

Same thing, with some distant, for instance, must hold Island."

an Honours degree in Econ- the lesser lights get a chance. song changes.

Remember "Tall, Dark and mies or Sociology, the clerk The tillo role in "The Heiress Handsome," with Cesar Romero?

must have a School Cerli- the best feminine part on the

ficate plus knowledge

a West End stage vacated for a Now, eight years later, It is

bookkeeping. month by Peggy Ashcroft, is called "Turned Up Toes," and Romero is doing it all over now being admirably played by'

What do applicants think of again. Pauline Jameson. A season ago

their worth by comparison with Board she was a minor member-of the Old Vic.

of Inland Revenue, who draws £3,5007

--Whose - ideu-was--it?—— Peggy Ashcroft's.

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BOGART ROBINSON BACALL

KEY LARGO

LIONEL BARRYMORE CLAIRE TREVOR

ARNER BROS, GMASA

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THOMAS GOMEZ JOHN RODNEY JOHN HUSTON JERRY WALD

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Soren Play by Richard Brooks and John Huston ^«. Seed or the Play by MAXEVIL AND ERSON Pa Produced on the Spelen Sroge, by the Playsetglas Compory Muse by Mixe Staines

CLAIRE TREVOR, THE 1948 ACADEMY

AWARD WINNER FOR HER BEST PERFORMANCE IN THIS FILM

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BEL

A MIGHTY NOVEL!...

of

"bly sword and heard are at your fest!"

Fifty-seven-year-old operatic bass Ezio Pinza 19 such

The charwoman a

earning 25. well smile al success in Broadway's biggest an hour may

Norden, one of the musical hit, "South Pacific," Christine If you have an eerie sense of that

upset lot of handsome young mars

about the satory familiarity when you see some actors are worried. furthcoming Hollywood

Middle-cuts, who threatens: "If my Alms I can tell you why.

aged matinee idols are a dan-earnings are cut, I shall have

to do a spot of charing." gerous trend. Hollywood is on t remakes.

binge of

Bernard Shaw &

A Powder Puff

By MILTON Shulman

Now, inevitably, Hollywood Is a civil engineer in Ma- has grabbed Pinzn. He in to laya paid £602 a year, worth about the same as a BBC en- co-star with Greer Garson.

There will be a great wel- sincer earning a maximum of COB07 And how do both come for one pair of slurs at a

with compare London midnight matinee next valuation of Cabinet Ministers month.

at £5,000 per annum?

From

They have long been loved in this country and never 'be- fore seen together in the flesh. Name: Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

There is a Red Indinn girl in a new James Stewart flm in Technicolour. The actress chosen

Our present

typists earning .3 10. a week who dream of be- coming private secretaries at

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CO to fim stads with the athnaaaanaännanOgAAAAGAGG pay of four Cabinet Ministers, foil have a value in £ s. di

worth on the open market.

There is one exception. Fe- will hasten to point out that the housewife com- little of most jobs,

than most unhonoured and un-

R. E.

In "The Apple Cart," which Malvern first saw exnelly has blue eyes. Indians have minists 20 years ago, Bernard Shaw emits large chunks of verbal brown, lava about such toples as the role of constitutional monarch So though you might think bines n

there are plenty of brown-eyed and more hours and Anglo-American relations.

beauties about, this poor girl is unpaid, In between he devotes about 20 minutes to the having to wear brown plastic sung? problem of infidelity. This enables the much-discussed contact lenses. transformation of Miss Frances Day from revue artist to legitimate actress to take place.

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JEAN SIMMONS Donald Houston

The Week's Screen Fare The Blue Lagoon

Tho

rather

best

The iluffy butterfly that dear old England-can last for floats about the stage may ba ever. Progress, you know, sir, called Orinthia

Key Largo (KING'S & LEE) It is also-in in the

that yet un pro- progress, "progress," gramme, but she remains essen-

Is the pick of the week al- exhausted theme--about a wor Because "The Apple Cart" is though it bears little room- veteran and, this Ume, his own tally Miss Frances Day. brimming with Shavian wit iblance to the play by Maxwell wife

She

pouts prettily. plays cannot help but be a stimulat-Anderson on which it is bast. chum's widow.

than bla coyly with " quill pen and ing and enjoyable evening. The The piny saw Broadway a good lussies with the king on the Malvern production is carpet.

com-decade ago, before the era of

veteran embarks on petent but far from inspired. As she grappled with her Donald Eccles,

returning war veterana. * ..higher education on the GI Shavian lines, I somehow felt Magnus, looks more

King

-Bill of Rights - scheme and. she would have been more at successful city broker dan a

liko a Though Hollywood has moved like all veterans are supposed home, had she been able to monarch who could make fogleni purposes, the final diah has the most charming little wife the play about to suit its own to do, lives in a trailer with them accomphaled by a mincemeat out of England's turned out to be in the best that Hollywood soft-shoe dance.

can devise, democratic rulers.

gangster and

'disillusioned But the tile girl dreams of Whon her interlude was over, John Longden, as tho Primo strong man finding something living in 0 castle. Edmund it was as if I had been, plen Minister, and Maitland Moss, as to fight for tradition.

Gwenn, is `n Professor in this santly tickled by a cogy, but n' proletarian Minister re

With Bogart and Bacall, Ed. pleture after having graduated noisy, powder puff. I'm not sure sembling Churchill withi A ward G. Robinson and Lionel through Santa Claus roles. that this was exactly what Yorkshire accent, convincingly Barrymore thrown in, it be

give point to their lines. I am comes flest class screen. enter- A Bong Is Born (BROADWAY) As for the rest, the king and afraid Ernest Thesiger's Ameri- tainment. But the picture will, is a technicolour musical with his Cabinet, grouped together can Ambassador was, English perhaps, be best remembered Danny Kayé, Virginia Mayo and like something out of Madame enough to warrant Investigation for the Introduction of Claire Hugh Herbert. Danny Kayo Tussaud's, talked, talked and by an' un-American Activilles Trevor to a genuinely dramatic needs no recommendation. talked about whether a monarch Committco.

role that gives her considerable has the right to save his coun--

cope. She has done to well Jungle Jim (QUEEN'S -&-

Shaw had in mind.

pularly elected rulers.

try against the will of its po- In facial appearance and as the whlakey-soaked, torch ALHAMBRA) is going to be R dress the rest of the Cabinet singer that it won her tho sellout at all performances, o 11 members were so neutral 'they Academy Award for the best you want to have the children And it is when he is discuss could give no possible, affance feminine supporting perform see it, do book carly. It brings Ing the problein of America's to any politienparty conten- once last year.

Johnny Weissmuller. In a new Joining the British Empire that plating, office after 1002. Thers

rolo, but don't except too much! Shaw really writes as if he had was one chap who managed the Apartment for Perry (ROXY). He still a Torzan, but some beer gulded by a crystal ball feat of looking like Hore Bellaha such invariably lovable sereon effect, nobody else than Jungle entertainment with what more talkative, being, in There is an eerie, topicality in a Bevan sult. about his U.S.A. Ambassador,, :" * who any "Nothing-not even

2 characters in it as Jeanne Jim, the King's Featurer cartoon"

Crain and Edmund Gwenn strip character.

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