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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1949.

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"IT'S A WOW FROM BEGINNING TO END!"PPER

BETTE

ROBERT

DAVIS MONTGOMERY!

Die moved the wedding in de

Che netely get

NO TREYSANT

¦À DỊPTERENT MESTES.

LOVE WITH A NEW START

Triple

*THE SCHHO

JUNE BRIDE

WARNER BROS, SYYN WITH WHI

OF THE WEEK"

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FAY BAINTER BRETAGNE WINDUST HENRY BLANKE

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Juno HAVER

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IN

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THREE LITTLE GIRLS IN BLUE

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THE STORY OF A DEEP AND UNSELFISH LOVEL

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"THE STORY OF

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A TALE OF TWO CITIES

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DICK POWELL MARTA TOREN

The Temptations ta of Ulster

VINCENT PRICE

ROGUES REGIMENT

OF THE FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION

(Coliseum, November "WHAT ABOUT MAGGIE VORBY. The pubile are book- 7) will be one of the LEIGHTON YOU. CAD.”

Ing up steadily.

east my vote All right Margaret Leigh- ever-on most expensive

ton, at 27, has developed into enthusiasts. The Olympians paper. At a rough estimate, one of the most interesting, may not be "great"--but I should say the stars chosen and Intelligent, of our young does seem to me a fine attempt can earn a total of £16,000 er stage and screen actresses, at opera. In the grand manner: and that is something British a week at their normal rates have cald so before.

Bo far we have had to writers have not given us for of pay...

opportunity to see whether a long while. Maurice Chevaller, for in- that Intelligence and abilly A Bad Idoa, This

her the best part of have made stance, drow

"box-omce"

I hope that the Government Mr £5,000 weekly' for

public. When one with a big 打ち

taku no notico of the

JOY, NICHOLS will presents In the West End Sherek

this man season

from phia Latest ichen

British..

Command Show message on her Wilfred

Pickles

Philadelphia tresa in The

and fim

Cosi honeymDON na trade union. Equity wants to first

The result Bearco over Here, players from top starring part-we thail protect our nim

was that our cinema audiences Hollywood competition by of the Com- be able to bro.

British perfor- of saw the same Д receive I shall wait until then, hop. establishing

again. ALSO LATEST PARAMOUNT NEWS But not all of

this ing to apologies for my omis. quota for foreign artists here, mers over and

Онг film players musi de They had to. expense. will be alone.

pend on thele own merits and Result: a slump in the popu-"RUSSIA AND THE ATOM".

of some of thes larity formers Formillarity bred THRILLS" etc., etc. boredom. It has been-an up- hill climb for them to regain Some of them lost ground.

a year ago.

ac-

can take up to £1,000 a week Story on the West End stage Equity, the singe when bo appears in big pro- later this autumn-he vincial theatres.

As it lu, none mand stars will

penny.

show

on

paper

Choice of

year's

the Collecum)----10

Storm At Garden

somo Bort

over

per-

STEPHEN MCNALLY-Carol Thurston-Edgar Barrier

Sosengles le EOBERT BUCKNER «- Griginal Dory jy ROBERT BYČNIER A NOBOR PLANEY A BOVDET BUCKNER PRODUCTION + Beeched by ROBERT KLOREY

"WIRED FOR HIGH

their own popularity-not on that the King will not havo Show world's present storm Whitehall licences.

how £10,000 It there are too many im- to climb upstairs to the Royal centre - that

TO-MORROW MORNING AT 11.30. A.M. opera produc ported players in British dima, Box-mean the cancellation Bio-Priestley

ihat

cinema for is a maiter of Annie Get Your Gun for tion at Covent Garden.

SAMUEL COLDWYN Presents that night

Not even film critics differ audiences. They have the re- have not yet regained it.

hands. In their own

Fighting Back

DANNY KAYE VIRGINIA MAYO It draws approximately among themselves so violently medy

have Producers watch the bok- 1 think £800 a night. These receipts as the musical "experts"

some Hollywood THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITT A office returns closely

producing more companies, will be lost. Bookings for that done over The Olympians.

have been Restrictions on

tures in this country with evening are being moved for bewildered public

told that it is "oble dimp performers will hit Brilish "Frozen" earnings, word.

could bo netorn (und actresses) harder

generous in employing British talent. I also think than anybody else.

that certain British producers Bro 100 prone to look overseas for their stars.

to

pointment

trivial muslent comedy." They have also bon assured that it is "a great Eng- lish opera."

Let them mure

Choice of Scots comedienne Nocle Gordon, from Brigadnon, at the Command

remember the Anglo-American Appear

flm "war" two years afte Show, menns a big chance for

"Holly- box-office During that "war"* her understudy

contre- wood Olms and players became Jesty's.

at is

Ma-

Understudy in another Scots girl, Janet MacFarlane, aged 20. She now has a small part in the show, has not yet play- ed in it

Thrill For Miss Gray

When I telephoned to Lio- lores

her Gray ni

Ant In Grosvenor Square, the sald she did not know that she had been chosen for the Command Show.

"I knew my name was being put forward, of course,"

said, "but there is always the danger that there will not be room for particular perfor-

An It is, I am thrilled." Buslest Command

mer.

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performer of all will be Ted Ray, now do- ing two nightly performances the Stoll Ice Show. The will be arranged, royal show if possible,

be can Go that "double" there with his normal appearances.

The Honeymoon Girl

Real romance of the Royal Show belongs to Australian Joy Nichols, radio's Takc 11 From Here Ciri-who made fier London stage debut only two months ago.

Miss

Nichols was married last month to Wally Peterson, of Oklahoma's American cost.

honeymooning la now

Covent Garden's

thriving on this

SIMMONS AT PLAY

plc-

But the answer is for out own acto3 and actreckes, to fight back with all the talent oni

they Call personality muster-whenever they do get the chance.

did

As Trevor Howard, for Instance.

against foreign competition in "The Third Man." As Richard Todd did similarly in. "The Hosty Heart."

No British artist who really captures the imagination of cinema-goera will be in danger of neglect-come who may летов the Atlantic and the Channel.

Let

our Alms depend on themselves, not on Whitehall. bolster up well try to

comedies by Oklahoma

An

British musical

keeping out

Brigadoon.

Harold

Snapshots

and

and

Warrender Efennor Summerfield have leading roles In "Gooseh-y Fool," comedy set In Nice, Reginald Beckwith has quap

it from the French, Imar American coun- inary South

Alan

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's 25th Annivariary "SOME OF THE BEST"

GILL into ALL YOUR FAVOURITE M-G-M STARS IN ONE PICTURE The

Scones from 25 different past productions)

new

try is the selling for Melville's how comedy, Secret," which brings HUGH WAKEFIELD, ON un Ambas-

and TOM sador, partnership again. Shaw frolle, Buoyant 20- lions" begins Is London sea- at the Prince's wi.h FRANCES DAY and DERMOT WALSH heading the original Malvern cust.

In

son

Capri, and has just learned of her good luck.

Her mother

told me at the

Peterson new fat in Hamil- ton Terrace, St John's Wood; "They are expected back Friday or Saturday."

on

Wealt Phillips. the Pal- Indium's conductor. is be- Ing bent by Val Parnell for the big night-in view of his experience at several previous Command shows.

Note To Audionce

1 hope that the Command Show audlence, anyhow. will provide a music-hall atmo- sphere. Let them ED there ready to enjoy themselves.

for them There is no need

to be solemn as they have been at come recent Command Shows. They are going to a music-hall performanc

not

a grand opera

den

at Covent Gar

Films For Jean

Jean Simmons is one British

Aim

star who is unlikely

be underworked."

to

She has only Just begun work at Pinewood on her first picture since

that unhappy

stage episode is playing £ balled French provincial, girl

You would hardly imagine Jean Simmons, relaxing

of 1889 in So Long at the Fair.here on the beach between an unsuccessful attempt on

But already three new stories are being discussed for her in the Rank offices,

One

Victorian- is another heroine subject called "Man- tilla," written by Sydney and Muriel Box-about an English

girl's adventures In Spain.

Then there is "Precious Bane,"

in wh

which Jean is to portray

the stage in Russian drama and her film role in "Se Long at the Fair" to covel the role of Mary Webb's unattractive heroine in "Precious Bane". But Jean's out to make her place in drama as well as in comedy.

Week-End Screen Fare

Mary Webb's harepped June Bride

(LEE) presents Toren plays,

a French Intel-

---(London Express Service)

News Of Britain's Film People

FILM STAR AT EIGHTY

London's critics have bailed eighty-years-old A.

E. Matthews for an out- atanding performance in Two Cities "The Chiltern Hundreds." He plays Lord muddle-headed Lister, a peer, in this screen adapta- tion of William Douglas election comedy Home's which is described as one of the funniest films of the year.

Cecil Parker 15 the builer who stands as Conservative candidate against, the young heir. David

Firl Tomlinson. Marjorie Lana Morris and Helen Backlin are also lit une casi,

to A. E. Matthews has gone the United States to appear in the Broadway version of "The Chiltern Hundreds" which entitled "Yes. M'Lord." Once again he will p'ay Lord Lister, created the part he originally on the London stage.

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JOHNNY

Virginia GREY - George REEVES

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heroing after several beauty Bette Davis in a comedy role 11gance agent. They are after conscious stars had turned the with Robert Montgomery. Bet e an escaped Nazi and they find part. down. Mr Rank also has plays อ successful. magazine each other and it's love. Soon a modern story ready for her. editor who happens to be Mont- enough, the agent is in the back-Astonished Heart, at Pinewood, "A NEW PROGRAMME OF TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS"

Order of production will be com

the next, fowlery's boss. With a support. Ground and there is romance in Margaret Leighton, who decided within

don't

and

fast paco the The strong men and falr

She was

cas that includes Fay Bain- an area of casbahs and kopls. with Noel Coward and wecks. That sounds all right, ter,

ter, Betty Lynn and Tom Tully,

(QUEEN'S).

About Johnson, went on a so long as they

The plot start the

moved on

at a fost

of oli in Oklahoma world' four. rushing the giri

off her feet and the many

many Davle supporters

called for again.

will and that their favourlie is women whom Hollywood likes with Coward in England, A few years ago we witness as enjoyable. If not more 50, to associato with It. There are Sweden, on a balcony overlook- ed kind of Jean Simmons when she laughs and loughs loud, even crazy-period in

cast,

cattlemen mixed: uping the Mediterranean. In

Q

stars

Cello

hurried

scenes

SHOWING

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2.30, 5.30,

p.m.

This hectic twe've-hour globa

ERROL

of

her

street clothes into a green jersey.

15

dinner dress for the shot in England, Margaret then wore a navy blue and white afternoon

the studios Then there are the Montgomery Suson Hayward, Robert Preston Monte Carlo casino and on an and it tool "Hamlet" to save her fans who will not be disappoint and Pedro Armendariz head the ocean liner.

disaster. from

1 should bo ed el hor coity to ste that happen again.

The Velvet Touch MOXY) Tarkan's Mario Fountain trot called for six changes This actress Is certainly tho white

hope of British

filma is another hit in, a week-end Of (BROADWAX) gives. Kowloon's costume changed out of

to thrill to good nieturer and portrays Roz children a chance but

still only 20 and Russell can't be in all of them.

of a Broadway que jungle men and beasts without Of her Tolstoy

who murders her producer in a stoga play violent quarrel. The cast is an Cheetah lg flm.

crossing the ferry. This exceptionally atrac ive one, in-

debut, Jean said to me:

"A

Interesting-but chas

of Two Ollies, frock for Sweden. She greeted

Leo Genn, us an archi 4 Talo cluding tening experience, I ... sup-

Any ef who wants to marry Roz, (ALHAMBRA) is Charles Die-the Mediterranean moon in o and pose I was, pretty bad.

Claire Trevor, os an actress kens and Ronald Colman. It's black velvet strapless gown way I am hoping for another

she a good film version of a story graded Monte Carlo in a black Accused of murder tha' chance, with a rolo I can be did not commit and Sydney that a romanties

will now

nover let crinoline evening dress. She ileva In-If I over. again get

Onished her trip on beard ship as a palsguided dic time

Greenstreet some

from ok

the

Belinda (STAR) rates in Johnny

tub frock and at white police offleer. pludion."

Cable From Paris Rogue's Roximent (QUEEN'S) special mention. Though it a straw hat

All the clothes were designed brings back the Forelifa Legion doubtful point that Hollywood's Cable from Impresario with Dick Powell as a Legion- best films in years will not be re by Molyneux, who says: "Mar- Henry Sherck in Paris, follow-naire. But harki: He lo really erected, don't take the chance garet Leighton has the most ing my rethärks on the lack of an American In elligence agent if you haven't seen it yet. It's perfect figure for fashions

have ever seen" young: West End stage stars: In. disguise. Sirened-up Maria only on today.

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