1949-09-17 — Page 2

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JUNE ALLYSON PERRY COMO JUDY GARLAND LENA HORNE GENE KELLY MICKEY ROOHEY ANN SOTHERN

CYD CHARISSE

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1949.

. 21st called

and fans.

SEAT IN THE STALLS

Mickey

makes a

come-back at

A now film was released to celebrate the 21st birthday of Mickey Mouse. In this film, as in all his other films, his voico is tho voice of Walt Disney.

by

Charles Graves

Allckey Mouse's birthday picture is Mickey Down Under, it is an event for his For Mickey is not seen as often now as he used to be. When Walt Disney was in London the other day I ask ed him why not. "Well," ho Buid, "I guess Mickey is a pretty old mouse now. don't want to overwork

In 1930 Mickey had a setback. him."

He had three rivals in Mortimer Mickey 110 acted in 110 Mouse and his two cousins Abner shorts (42 of theat in colour) and Monty. Next year, however, out of a tota! Disney output of he was given a trip to Hawall 337. ·But hits early fe was (awailan Holiday), and also unfortunate. In fact, he was starred in Clock Cleaners and very nearly stillborn.

Lonesome Ghosts. (Lonesome Ghosts is the oldent Mickey Mouse now showing in country, by the way.)

this

21

returned to the

Screen in

and Pluto

Squatters Rights and the Armadillo. But they were small parts only.

It was not until 1947 that he received a zlar role in Fun and Fancy Frye.

Oddly enough, his shorts as opposed to his occasional fea- ture picture have not in them- pelves brought In sizeable Exhibitors money.

pay maximum of £30 a week and a minimum

of 15g, for three to show him ort the

vereen.

pre-war bud-

Put in shade It was not. until 1035 that

For the next two years Mickey days Mickey decided to go into Tech- nicolour-with The Band Concert. was put in the shade by Snow? Russian cut glass bowl as That year he received an antique White and the Seven Dwarfs and

Fantasia. However, he wen a Yet each of his pictures now $60,000 to make com- tribute from the first Soviet lot of friends when he played the costs Cinema Festival, and Walt Dis-part of The Brave Little Tailor pored with the Iney was more a member of the and when he took Pluto out in cet of $32,000,

ho is As such Soclety French Legion of Honour.

uneconomical. Pointer.

hand, his toys With the entry of America over the world. into the wor Mickey Mouse went into almost complete retirement. Pears as the hallmark of two thousand different adverlisted For Disney was occupied with products. training films, educational films, psychological Mims. In 1940 he

made in

Hs rst two films 1027-Plane Crazy and Gal- loping Gaucho, which intro- duced Minnie, were refused by the exhibitors. It was not until 1928 that he appeared on The screen 123 Steamboat Willie. Shee then he ins never looked back, His two silent wero unfortunately come after AL Jolson's Jazz Singer, the Arot

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Wherever motion pictures are shown, this is the most discussed drama of the year!

CHARLES BICKFORD BEATS MOORENCIO ESTEPHEN MENDIET

MANGA ILAN RECULESCO movers a cË 1ST WES

talkie.

Disney's voice

In Steamboat Willie Mic- key began to talk. His voice

is the volev of Walt Disney 7t always has been blmselt.

and it still is.

Pardon

SORRY

No STARS

Dog Show

The

technically

On the other are sold all His face up-

-(London Express Servico)

I

me while T look for

a star

By LEONARD MOSLEY

The British im party

no British im stars is

with typical

prestige nii tho

of our part in what is still tho most important, for and propaganda, of European film festivals.

While other nations have sent their best flims and accom- panied them with batches of slars and producera (Joan Fon- taine, Yvonne de Carlo, Joseph Cotten,

Selznick and David Darryl Zanuck, for example, from America) Britain has in blundered through this festival with about the same enre as a drunk pegotiating the Piccadilly traffic.

(Disney vidJÍN To a lovely old Venetian industry participating the sound recording depart-palace on the Grand Canal the festival. ment of his Hollywood studies here came a constant stream But when the guests looked three days a year in order to

of lanterned gondoliers, around for the British stars and talk for Mickey.)

directors they were expecting Do you remember The Opry speedboats, and launches to meet not

a single House? In that pleture Mic-all crowded with smartly player of any importance was key played the proprietor of clad guests. cmalltown show, Out of this musical lea come

of the Silly Symphonies.

The germ Delegates (from 18 na In 1030 Allckey appeared in tions) to the International nt Venice (The Cactus Film Festival his first Western KKI). He had some juicy were arriving for a party. roles 'as a fire chief,

It was given by the Bri- violinist and a prisoner in The

where he ac- tish Film Producers Asso- Chain Gang -

ciation to meet the person quired a new friend, Pluto.

alities of the British film

A good year

Nineteen-thirty-one was 凱 good year for him He was able to shake off the competi- tion of the Silly Symphonies, tor Blthough 10 of them were released to 12 of Mickey Mouse, he had by for the best scripts. Mickey appeared in the role of Robinson Crusoe, und as a hunter In Moose Hunt.

He also did a fake- off 021 Ted Lewis in Bluc Ihythm, nd had a party In Birthday Party.

Then came a big decision. Would he go into Technicolour or remain black and white? He decided on the latter,

He went to the Near East in Mickey in Arabis; beat his waythrough: the jungles of the Gold Coast In Darkest Africa; was a football hero in Touch Down; and spent a few weeks up It Ainska in The Klondike

Kid.

He was in Mickey's Melodrama, a medieval knight in Ye Olden Days. pilot 1:1 the Mai Pilot, and a a winning Jockey its The Steeple Chase,

By this time he was firmly established on the head of s

mad doctor'

Kang

ان

happy-

lucky 10. characters, such as Minnie. Pluto, Goofy, Wilbur. The Wise Little Hen brought a new char- acter by the name of Donald Duck.

WEEK-END SCREEN FARE

in

the best

YOUNGER

on view.

British Lack of tact

The beauty and talent of the industry were represented by a player namod small-part Colette Melvlile here for a holl- London and day mannequins here for a dress show.

some

Right from the start tho British have been making mis- takes. It began with the list of flims they chose to show.

Among the productions chosen by the British Film Pro- ducers' Association was Peter Ustinov's "Private Angelo."

Its hero is an amiable but soldier. An- cowardly. Italian

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PROFILE

John Barrymore, Jr., 16, soon to make his debut as

a film cowboy, practises diction with his mother, Mrs

Dolores Costello Vruwink, wife of a Los Angeles physician.

DEANNA DURBIN IS OUT OF WORK

By EVELYN WEBBER

Deanna Durban, who, at 14, became the world's big- gest box-office attraction, is now out of work. At 27, she has been dropped by her studio.

Universal International has taken Deanna's name from her dressing-room door and put Ida Lupino's there instead.

Words and Muste (QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA) [s a techn! colour musical MGM tradition with a cast of An official said: "She has not was 1937.. Deanna was 15. such favourites as June Ally done anything for us for two ron, Perry Como, Judy

Gar-years. Innd, Lena Horne, Gene Kelly, "We are not making the last Mickey Rooney and Ann three pleturen in her contract

Sothern. For light entertain- because of increasing public ment, you can hardly hope for opathy,

anything easier on the eyes "But we are paying her the and ears. The songs are by usual £12,500 bonus on each Richard Rodgers and Lorenz picture. It is cheaper that

Ifort.

way."

The Passionate Friends (LEE) It was 13 years ago that a fat is a very much better-than-ttle girl, with blue eyes and à average English film and could voice, signed her first film con- hardly fail to be such with stars tract.

DISCOVERY—

+

officer who combines great charm with staunch determina- tion to dodge any of the discom- forts of war. The cowardly sofdler's village girl friend haa a baby by an Allied soldier while he is running away from the war.

When the festival committee saw "Private Angelo" they were shocked. They pointed out that the merits of the film besides It's ironte comments on Italian courage were hardly a subject to put into an Italian festival.

the British They asked remove the film from the list. The British repiled that If the Italians did not want to see it they must throw it out them- Elves It has now been with- drawn, and I leave you to guese "who did the withdrawing;-----

Lack of sense

act of This

international tactlessness was followed by what seems nothing less than luck of intelligence.

WAR

For the next Alm presented The Elusive Pimpernel," with David Niven and Margaret Leighton. As long as a month ago it was decided in London that this film was unsatisfactory and needed re-editing and re- shooting. Nevertheless, it was shown to the festival audience In its original form. They hissed it.

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BY A CIRCLE OF DEATH!

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TARZAN'S MAGIC

Starring

LEX

BRENDA JOYCE

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It, in the opinion of the COLOR CARTOONS & SHORTS

festival, with any credit. And British films got their third bad advertisement of the week,

Against those three disasters there have been two British SUCCESSES,

"The Last Days of Dalwyn," with Emlyn Williams and Dame Edith Evans, got a warm wel. come, and Italian crities have scen *Kind Hearts and Coroneta" and liked it—particu- Her contract now gave her Jarly the performance of Alec

in £37,500 salary for a film, £12,- Guinness eight different 500 bonus on a film, and a share parts. of its profits.

But as a cross-section of pre- scut activities of the

Brilich film industry the productions seen here in Venice will do us no good whatsoever.

..

—AND MARRIAGE

At 19 she married 24-year-old Vaughn Paul, a junior producer

The general standard of other and her first sweetheart,

After two years and two nations' films has not been high, mediocre pictures, Deanna eured but from each country there has been at least one excellent pro- for divorce, "because of my burduction. band's constant criticism of my. There was a first-class satiro film world"

Her new

new producer, Felix Jack-called "Berliner Ballade," from women's choice between love Durbin. She changed Edna Mae her

name was Edna Mae son, belleved she was an actress. the Germans; a riotous comedy. "Hers to Hold," the first of "Jour de Fete," from the French, an aspiring

with new-style alms, was released w an young

actor named Jacques who may bo another security wealthy Dlayed by Claude Rains. story is adapted from the novel by I. G. Wells,

in it of the calibre of Ann Todd, Claude Rains and Trevor Howard. It has to do with a Her

scientist

played by Trever Howard-and to Deanna and said, "TH keep in 1943 and had a mature lead- Chaplin; and a first-class 'film

Durbin in' case I ever amount to banker

The amounted to a

•

dollar

Tarzan's Magic Fountain

(ROXY) brings a new. Tarzan with

a marked American DC- cent, Lex Barker. Cheta, who

Sho

time

0

this

We have shown nothing to equal these. Still, save for the hard-working officials at end, the British Film Producers Association does not seem to bo worried.

Ing man in Joseph Cotten

But though she was still the about' n Negro boy called "The of a nation's highest pald woman- Quiet One," " from the Ameri-

£82,000, a year-critics were cans. Manchester gas engineer,

But

Lack of care that first contract at £25 beginning to snap: "She's week was shelved by MGM better singer than actress"

Mary Pickford, at that

Then "Christmas Holiday." 1s provided in the film with

Univeral director, heard Deanna chose to play the part of love Interest, zaves what would Deanna sing.

a cheap woman in a low dive. The girl in the cheap colton And from that moment she was otherwise have been one of the frock was given £37 10s. a week dead at the box office, picorest Alms of the Tarzan serler,

and put into a B. plcture called In 1945 Deanna married Jack- Tap

Hoots' (KING'S) is en-"Three Smart Girig

son, 20 years older, as his fourth tertainment for those who aro And with that, 14-year-old

wife. They had a daughter, not yet tired of American Civil Deanna became a star.. The film'

Two years later they separated, War stories. It stars Van 'lief- cont £75,000. It made £500,000

Sho

with Ilves! now

her in and Susan Hayward and in profit

daughter, secretary, and malds. from the best-selling novel by Hundred Men and a Giri.” It Next year she mado "One James Street.

--London Express: Suratco)

"Judging by the way it has Hono an you would think it does not really care whether repre- sentatives of 18 nations like British films 'or not.' (

---(London · Express Service)

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