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Back to period films

with lots of romance

with

SHOW TALK by

HAROLD CONWAY

Costume atories, lashings of romance, are be- ing hurriedly brought back into British film studios. For the public, by large, have determinedly rejected the attempts of some pro- ducers to "educate" their of screen time away tastes--and the producera fis-end-furbelows era. have now capitulated,

I can be an expensive pro- cess trying to educate cinema- LUTISM. Bank should know his exchequer is pourer by several fortunes since the de- vislot to frown on the lurid Juseinsness of "Wicked Lady" In Grey" style of ple-

and

curly

no of Shakespeare and Shaw at that historic home of variety- the Bedford, Camden Town. (As a change, he will be Trea- sure Island's Long John Silver at the Fortune is Christmas):

Now two other experienced stage performers, Pat Nys and from the John Penrose, are going to see what tboy Con do with the

have

of

Tratscroca adaptation_of_Bedford. Thackeray's "novel without o From stars and other friends hero" was a Hollywood one in

in the profession they 1832- not very good one-with celleeled, enough money to ex- Mirlam Hopkins as Becky.

periment with variety

A productions for Taste months. They start off with an old-style version of that hoary

*Lady

Audicy's melodramo, Secret-film star Anne Craw- ford in the lend.

Nostalgic Pair

When "Vanity Fair" is com- pleted, Phylla Calveri - Just ture-making.

from Hollywood—wants

to Now the need for making Margaret Lockwood

Jain

Miss Nye and Mr Penrose money al the

fores with her for one pleture. box-officer has

two stars clood nim 16 hull up the nucleus of important thun Well, sie become mare

sup. stock company. eduentional euurse. The for all that was most escapisily a smail

And la niwavs right" has romantic In Their Customer

war-time ported by visiting artists. timn As a 1950 bevisme the new policy.

team they they challenge my remarks two

that ago

repertory should complete the pendulum's wreka

bring theatres are producing wong and presumably

fortune to the box"

box- young stars of the future. ofleer from a nostalgle publle. "Nomensel" they soy-Jess

1 inve got hold of a peach briefly

And so the bi! sius los Te filing up again with crinolines, bustles, powdered Cravato.

and other Wigs

Escapism Again

Esempismu-pekwards in its

once Rain the watch wand, costly period pieces such Tuttle True "The Elusive

The Empeln, Plupernel" Years," are leading

Capricorn"

Benz petan

The Way

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will fa

to the

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but more politely. To a story and suggested it to

their belict, this now Margaret :

play." Mis les

team have estab "But she has management Calvert told me.

special talent-spotting persunded me that I would shed make an even better film; and agents in 10 provincial centres we are hoping to do it together wisely, they are not revealing next year,

Perhaps

which.

Jumes

Mason may I have no doubt that talent- Jerver trut home, too, by reports will soon come flowing the 18 towns. But, 1043 L then. It only needs a reunion in from evilles 1 with his farmer leading ladies where signs of star-personality

the Alm scouts have. Both modes of the Allrube bak complete with whip? for the exist

Romantle Age usually got thers first--not al- scanfally proving the public's British screen's

Ita triumphant ways with lasting benefit to the

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This is the est significant For it was Miss 1.kwood as our leading stat, Whe orbitaly led the mareli

money

Parrot's Voice

TO

complete Comeback

But Bliss Calvert did not see Mason while she was in Holly- draught it the modest

thing to wall

for a telephone since I was the new arrival og was vetablished in exalted The call circles,"

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THE BILL

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Frances Reid Viola, Cari Benton Reid as Sir

Lank Gut for a new battle between the West End's light- sports. Now the restaurants can Broadway, always tem a Matvelio,

clubs for peramental. WIS gloomily by Belch, Nina Foch as Olivia. inte leeners, it means a struggle convinced only a fortnight

But Uhere 19 F traditionni for survival of the brightest.

Was Broadway Jinx on "Twelfth to age that the theatre **Poblem is not so much

'Man in a Million'

get the customers beside as to dying. Here it was, well in- Night." The last major revival, krep When there," Bay: the to the official 1960 season, in 1940, contained names such as Maurice Evans, Helen Hayes, Society's manger, Mr E. Ronay.and there was nothing to be Sophie Stewart. But it ran for

So this restaurant has intro-

seen but last year's hold only 120 performances, cured it small cabarel hicaded by singer Elisabeth overs. Welch. Ciro's, in the club sphere,

next are countering неж Monday with a full-scale pro- duction culled from the Sauce Tartare revue. employing 17 of the original Cambridite Theatre company.

hits.

People were staying away, it was said,

Tickets in droves.

As for Mr Matthews, he has Hollywood will pay good

were to be had for everything scared the first big personal to hire talking

but the two or threes top-line success of the reason. Some at the critics are a bit sniffy about parrots for pictures. Then,

But overnight A couple of the play-fluding it odd that: because you can't depend on

Englishmen changed all that British actorn should speak their what a parrot will say, they Other night resorts are plan- the late Mr Will Shakespeare lines in British volees-but they hire Dorothy Lloyd to talking to enter the fray as quick and the very-much-alive Mr A. are

are united about Mr Matthews. ly as now ind bigger shows E. Matthews, paying his first The New York Times, for in- for them.

stance, Ands the play trifling, can be organised. This although visit for 11 years. Mian Lloyd

"one man in a consequently the Embassy and other places The reason was off to a flying but

Matthews Sir William nilon," ninkes a handsome living parrot- dropped a packet Just winter start-aided by

these frugt parrots, and in any language. on

super midnight | Glibert and Sir Arthur Sullivan She has been the volee of the cabarets-which can cost up to and by the Sadler's Wells Ballet do" it dead-heated with Mr Polly in more pictures than you can shake parrot al

"Ton grandote y tan bruto!" squawks Miss Lloyd, while the real parrot stares at her and blinks, "Awrrk !Awerk! Awerk!" Mies Lloyd learned to imitate parrots from one that spolte only French. An inmate of an aviary owned by A. G. Spaulding, the sporting goods ting, he swore all day outside her high school class-room In Point Loma, Cal. "One day I get read and fell like squawking back," she re- lates. "So I opened my mouth and found out I could."

£1000 a week to run.

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Matthews's opening across the way was notable for the fact Millionairo's Money that for the first time the word *Hoboken' appeared in Gilbert's El Alm

the Chief honours have go to script It was a local replace-

ment for Knightsbridge, moment: the immediate future Mr Shakespeare. The first new of Britain's money-making; boy production to dispel the gloom

Peuple who can remember the the hottest, stickiest left by summer even New York can relays when the Savoyurds were

tell me that: strong. member

hls Wis

Twelfth going

MUTBC reason Night," the first of three British Knightsbridge for

was always good for D laugh n West End audience. imports in a single week.

But running him close is Mr among Matthews.

whose opening in They don't seem to know why.

Hoboken-un industrial, down- applecarts.

Take the Case of another "Yes, M'Lord" brought the first

Bobby British

modern play of the new term at-leel place over the river in Bobby young Henrey, He hadn't neted since (London saw this as "The Chil- New Jersey 'can always

but life is too counted on for a lough In New TO-DAY his remarkable debut in "The tern ilundreds," Fallon Idol," which made tem a short to explain to an Ameri- Tork-again, for reasons which

the can what that means, so the site are somewhat obscure, name overnight-t

Also was changed.)

opening, are of nine.

Third British contribution was two Terence Rattigan shorts, and The Mikado," first in a series "The Browning Version" of Gilbert and Sullivan revivals "A Harlequinade," presented by which ought to do well in a Maurice Evans. Mr Evans takes country where the Savoy operas the lend, with Edna Best "The profitable cult.

-(London Express Service) Pirates of Penzance" succeeds

writer, Gene

"Twelfth Night"| Markey-he is Behind the Myrna Loy's

husband-just production is a Middle Western named very funny doesn't know what to do about real estate millionaire character like a feathered Lautel Bobby. They can't very well Roger Stevens, who has made a

NO MORE DANCING

.

big

Miss Lloyd didn't have a{n4:.

How Master Henrey is in the chance to carry on her chosen career as a dancer after that. Tyrol, facing the cameras once People who found out she could more for a new Korda pleture make like a bird made her stop provisionally called "One Night." dancing and start squawking.

It was such a

hilarious enter-

Cal. tainment in Point Loma,

He is the pivot of the story.

Plans had been made to film most of the interior scenes in English studio, Bul

are

that Misss Lloyd came with high Hollywood producer and script-

theThe Mikado."

hopes to movieland,

"I thought talking parrot could be made into

and Hardy," she said.

Nobody else thought so until

leave him behind,

| Walt Disney created Joe Carioca

Out Even

20 years later.

Meanwhile Miss Lloyd Inject-

How did that

hobby of the theatre and has of his sunk several thousands own money in this venture.

cast assembled a has Jane Russell ought to ensure dividends

Ho which

on

ed her parrot calls into minor stage SEASON fare financially? the investment: Arnold Moss

movie roles. She spoke for the Is a Hollywood star nume still screen's frat talking parrot in an sufficient 10 pull in London Adolpho Menjou

"The Great Love."

epic entitled variety audiences for n fort-

GETS VARIED ROLES

i

ong

night on the name alone?

Answer from Ge

George

Roul- ledge.

of the two young men who "presented her: The parrotrayal of Miss Lloyd's

"We did not make money, but career was in "Treasure Island." malther did we lose any. Au- After she screeched, whistled alences: averaged 60 percent and rasped "Pieces of eight capacity and the season broke through 12 reels as the mad-leven." tempered bird Beery's

Russell herself

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Robert

shoulder, she abandoned thoughts enough, with a percentage of When the baby sitter happens of any other vucation

the takings and a guaranteed to be Clifton Webb, we have "I have bhd parts alnce.” sho

minimum.

In fact, the is on entertainment Indeed.

O'Hara added, "as a cockatoo, macaw her way back to Hollywood to Young and Maureen

Mrs.

The hen, rooster, baby chick, eat, kit-plead with her millionaire pro-play the Mr and

godt, dove, ducer-employer, Howard (Hell's

assure there not a

ling

horse, turkey, Cow and loon Angels) Hughes, to be allowed tent of boredom in the nim.

Her current job is putting a return visit next year.

Bouth of St. Louis (LEE. & British Alm producer George words into the beak of a Spanish-

another action- meaking narrat in Robert. Mit-Minter wants Jane Russell to KING'S) is chum's RICO picture, "The Big star in an adaptation of Nocl packed Western about men who Langley's saucy novel, "The fight, the setting being the Mis- Sical."

Somewhat out of Miss Lloyd's Cautious Amorist," about a girl souri Valley la technicolour in the years just after the Civil but still worth money on Island.

Joel McCrea, Alexis was a job to furnish n series of Song is that her Hughes con- War. ghoulish howls und shrieks tract only allows her so much Smith, Zachary Scott and Doro time. off encli year for singe thy Malone head a good cast. for a Boria Karloff

Espino

rival. oppearances not, chiller,

Knock ou Any Door went to

to cemeteries but Ilms.

(QUEEN'S

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is the story of a killer and the "So I just had to, Improvise.

environment that made him Elle improvised to realistically

auch, Humphrey Bogart is enst she has had thren offers to linunt' Donald Wolat tried hard, in a role he hasn't had for a

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