1949-08-27 — Page 2

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A SEAT IN THE STALLS

NO

& AT LEAST TEN SONGS

CRIME OR KISSES

By HUMPHREY KNIGHT

IT IS HARD TO IMAGINE THE PROBLEMS OF A FILM PRODUCER WHO HAS TO MAKE A FILM WITHOUT MURDER, CRIME, OR KISSING. YET OF THAT IS JUST ONE OF THE HEADACHES INDIAN FILM PRODUCERS.

More headaches: Every picture has to pass a board of censorship in each province where it will be shown; every picture must contain at least ten songs and run for a minimum of two hours.

There are 18.000 cinemas in India. A picture can be made for £50,000, and rarely costs as much as £150,000.

Mr Chuni Lail, president of the Motion Pictures So- ciety of India, claims that India's picture industry is the second largest in the world.

Ambassador To Now York

newest ambassador to America has arrived in New York.

Britain's

Diplomatically speaking, her qualifications are unusual: age

Jean Kent

29, hazel eyes, russet hair, and a pretty figure. The namin is

Jean Kent,

She has gone to America on celluloid In "Trolle True,"

now show

At 2.30, 5.15, her latest picture,

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The Story About An Ukrainian Village Occupied by Gormans. The Fascists Have Full Authority. Over the Life and Death of the Inhabitants but the People Thay

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band, Yusef Ramart, bought 18 months ago.

On the borders of Kent and

Sussex, the farmhouse bas 10 rooms. and chickens.

Not All Gold-Yot

"Trottie Truo" is ny gay n story as Jean herself. For Troitie is a chorus girl who wins a peerage and keeps her heart of gold.

They keep pirts, cows,

Her

And yet all the gold hasn't come to Jean Kent yet. contract is only for five years, with one more to go, and her calory is by no means star plekings-a guaranteed min- imum of £7,000 a year.

*

**

Co-directing "The Astonished Heurt," now on the floor #t Pinewood, starring Celia John- son, Margaret Leighton and Nocl Coward, Tony Darn- borough tells me that the pic- ture is giving him the chance he has always wanted.

Instend

of working out in detail the gestures and moves i of each take, he just outlines the general plan of the shot

free

to

to the stars,

then lets them get on with it.

"By leaving

them the inspiration of the moment. we have got some marvellous scenes." He calls it the "free- dom of discipline."

'Dizzy Girl'

Tells

How It All Began

By DAVID LEWIN

George Burns and Gracie Allen, the American radio comedy net, have settled in at their London hotel in a Crazy Gang atmosphere.

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Cause: Their 14-year-old Ronnic and the bulletins about him supplied by his sister Sandra-one year older.

suite.

They

George and Gracie were sil from American radio. ting in the lounge of their work 39 weeks in a year. It is one of the £1,500,000

Mr Rank has Banned Play

George recalled that worth of lms

'THAT HAD TO CO' Gracle Allen sald: "I used sent over to wla more of the

The first public performance the BBC gave the net its first

chance 20 years American market for Britain.

Ro. fo be the original Dizzy Girl in this country of the Ameri-radio

500 a week but withi should place can play "Tobacco.

a fee of

bad' that has Road" nt "Trotue True"

to go. atar with spangles the Embassy,

for broadenst Jean as a

every night. George can't coll me. Swiss Cottage For in the ple- hus created

Bulletin No. that duzzic.

from Sandra; that sort of slir When they rot... is herself-vital, which only a banned play can.

"Ronnie's released himself from ture she

Bulletin No. 1 from Sandra:

Now he's tok- laughing, and king to sing. This piece about poor whiles "Ronnie's locked himself in the cupboard.

Began When Three in the deep South, shows how a cupboard and he can't get in things apart in the bath-

And procrastination Jean's success story starts. squalor when she was three years old, can bring human beings to the

level of animals. She made her first singe op-

cast against pearance at Corkt,

later

the at Nine years Theatre Royal, Bath, she de- putised for her mother, a dancer, when her mother, tore a ligament. tour.

*

Mervyn Johns, type, was good.

-London Express Servics).

out.

a lot of I can't tet In to help' room. There are

gadgets he hasn't seen before." him."

.dizzy On the stage any Amerien ....back to

Eddic

more because we've ceased to Cantor made them radio stars, ibe just an net, Now we play Now they get £4,000 a week

husband and wire wouldn't be right to any dizzy or quiet to your wife On

Jean finished the PEGGY FINDS ROMANCE

✡

**

In 1935 she landed a job at the Windmill Theatre, London, and stayed in the chorus for three yours. She was fred be- cause she lacked personality!

A

That was her Jucky break. tour, followed, and then West End engagements. until, in 1941, she was spotted by Gainsborough--and---given-her first flms chance in "It's That Man Again."

lives Now Jean an a farm she and her hus- HONGKONG WILL

REMEMBER HIM

Col Churchill Helps The Film Industry Hongkong will remember him as the tall green-clad character-who could be met. in a corridor of the Penin- Bula Hotel 'carrying a bow and who-one would hazard { guess-had just been flown in from Sherwood Forest.

He Is Colouct John Malcolm Thorp Fleming Churchill, famous Churchlit in his own Low right, and was here for a months just after the late wor with 3 Commando Brigade.

Now Col. Churchill, whose Commando exploits in World War Two won him DSO and Bar and the Military Cross, is a valuable asset to the British Aini industry.

An expert archer,

Jack"

Percy Commins spent her last night in London for two months with Derek Dunnett, and her mother Mrs Alargaret Cummins, at a farewell party at the Empress Club Restaurant, W.

"Mother and I are flying to Italy for me to finish the pleture, My Daughter Joy with Edward G. Robinson,” said Percy.

"I have to slay here and work," said Derek Dunnett, 28-year-old director of a seed Arm, despondently.

"We hope to get married sometime, but we are not officially engaged yet.

*. In very difficult... I cannot dash off anywhere in the world where Peggy films, "Mad

Wo. don't get much time to- gether.

Jaca "I wouldn't ask her to give up her career," he added.

-{London Express' Service)

nick-

as his comrades named him because of his gal luntry at. Dunkirk. Vongso and

Salerno, took his bow

arrows

with him

"in case I

and

everywhere

I got a chance to pot The Week's Screen Fare

of the enemy".

tern,

honest claim to the stock ad- the pleasant entertainment,

JS

Abbott

Bulletin No 3 from Sandra: "He's got his eyes on a clock." That brought action. Ex- plained George: "He's crazy about clocks. Loves taking them to pleces. Take my ad- vica and lock away Big Ben while Ronnie is in town."

ROYALTIES——£1

Burns and Allen, who have

• been married 23 years, are here for two weeks variety of Dos Palladium. They teamed up 24 years ago when, for one performance only, Gracio

the straight part of the George changed that and mate her talk-and talk fast-

Waz

act.

because, he says, "I had to

cat."

How did Ute dizzy girl rou- tine start? Through an old gog and a gramophone record. The gag-by Gracie."I know I'm a dizzy girl.. I'm glad

I'm

a dizzy girl. Boya like dizzy girls. I like boys"

They did a gramophone re- cord 20 years Ego called "Dizzy Girl London is stil

paying them royalties on it, They work out at about £i a yeur.

(London, Express Service)

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STA

He is now back with his old

The Snake Pi~{ROXY" & shocks which pep up the sweep-

Of Ginger Nult, a little red regiment, the Seaforth High- BROADWAY) is something so ing technicolour canvas. landers, stationed at Chepstow unusual in screen fare that for Based on H. de Vere Stae squirrel, David Hand says,

Recently Captain Jock Eas- this fact alone it deserves to be poole's novel, it is a refreshing ham some four years ago wa

Since

we arrived at Cook- another former Commando, seen. It is one of those few nim that is worth seeing. Sim have been engaged on experi

Colonel Churchill's screen productions that can lay mons and Houston contend mental work with the object of prowess with a bow,

Captain Eastern is in charge vertising phrose, daringly dif- Noel Purcell-the sallor. who anding a truly British cartoon of a stunt team making film ferent."

lands with them on the island character capable of challenging scenes at Warwick Castle, and

It is based on the famous best as children-turns

in a good Hollywood's established favour-

Ifes, bellove that we have. a marksman for a seller by Mary Jano Ward about performatice, he needed

now found what we were look Mexican Hayride (KING'S) scene where an English archer] life in on Insane asylum and holds

bridge against o Datures Olivia de Havilland in ar Ja Mexico

for in Ginger Nutt." ond

First of the Ginger Nutt Mongol horde. The Mongols performance that is of Academy, Costello gags require it to be. wear metal chestplates mounted Award stature, There is also As with all the pictures that films, "It's A Lovely 'Day," with cork under their uniforms, some fine restrained acting from are mode to suit this Crazy which has been directed by and the archer must hit these Leo Genn; as the doctor, and Gang. there are some scenes in Londoner Bert Felstead, Openoi plates so that the arrows stick Mark Stevens, as the synipathes it that are hilariously funny.

London on August 11, David in the cork. Unfortunately onetle husband.

Hand speaks with man got hit in the neck. After The Blue Lagoon (QUEEN'S) (LEE), resurrects nil- the authority on the subject of that there was a hold up, until is a real escape film for the characters out of "The Egg and animated cartoons. He has spent Colonel Churchill was flown to inded. It acts lovely Jean Sim. " but Claudette Colbert and thirty years in the business, Warwick by special plane. Un-mons and hurky, follow-castaway Fred MacMurray, ' Marjorie Afteen of them with Wall fortunately he will not see him- Donald Houston on a Pacific Main and Percy Kilbride aro Disney. Ho was supervising self in the Nim; he shot his Island paradise, and throws in ʼn starred in what may prove director on Snow White and urrows from outside camera real Hurricane filmed on location to be the first of a new series the Seven Dwarfs and range.

In Fill with ono or two other of pictures with this team. "Bambl".

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