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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1949.

SEAT IN THE STALLS

mad

waiter

Only one man hit the

Mr. Libuse grows rich getting the orders wrong

From FREDERICK COOK: New York.

Here is a

their success in the End:

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question for English "accent," warning New they might find those who wonder why Yorkers that

11 hard to understand and im- ROMO London hits flop plying that they

might miserably on Broadway, well not try.

nm happy and why some American

to report innt successes cannot duplicate ected the advice.

the playgoers here havo re- They have West taken both play and players to their hearts In the first full Would you think it very week, Yes, Lord has taken In £4100. "Apparently calch- funny if, just as you had ing on for a run" concedes the settled down at your night trade paper Varlety. club table, the waiter drop- Only other worthwhile open-

been. far has cold wet fish ing

Maurice Evans Edna right in the middle of your production of Terence Ratti- wife's back?

Fan's "The Drowning Version and A Harlequinade."

WILDE ed a fey

in MARK

HELLINGER'S

HIGH SIERRA

- ALAN CURTIS - ARTHUIR KINNEDY JOAN LESLIE HENRY HIRL Screen Ploy he John Huston and W Burnen

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The Wolfman played by LON CHANEY

Dracula played by BELA LUGOSI

The Monster played by GLENN STRANGE

uproar

Or if, apologising for the created. he "C- cidentally" squirted

you from head to fool with sodawater, and then insult- ed you in loud tones when you protested?

You wouldn't? Well, most Americans do Their envie

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Best

The critics liked both stars, Fo much so that one of them worker out n new equation: Evans phia Best equals Per- fection.

Kazan says it again

Mr Elia Kazan, the man who thinks the London theatre is dead, in just back from London tion that these things are high- and he still thinks so. ly funny even when they Pausing in New York on his happen to themselves and not why in Hollywood (in Londen merely 10 the fellow at the he produced "Death of a Sales- next table IA responsible for ab," in

Hollywood he is 1le forme of one of Broadway's make m Alm of "A Streetcar

Fos entertainers, Frank Named Desire") he said. | Labuse, billed as "the met

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"They really have no plays London No playwrights Except Rattigan. The Amerle ents theatre is the greatest in the world."

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CLAIRE LUCE

Is homesick for London

W.C. Fields Might

Have Hidden Away

A Second

W C. Fields, the Amerl- enn film and stuge comedian. sted in 1946 and left $800,-

Labuse, aftyish, Latel I gathered from Mr Kazan'e

that tayed wearing

the Americans an expression of remarks permanent sheep concern, has are coming to our rescue, how- been CAPAKLIK and insulting ever He does approve of the

Customers of Amerien'a wry "Death of a Salesmanı” bigger night chubs for many being done in the West End. your tapping

Wien,

Claire is homesick Retting their orders all wrong, crashing into them as well ILS Miss Claire Luce, the Ameri-1000. Now his friends believe isgalling things all over them can girl who started as a dan-another fortune of his les Dr Lecame une of Briseuttered in banks all over fAmeris Latin tain's finest dramatic actress the worki under different

13 longing to get back to the The insulted West Ten percent of customers, he Ands, startled and puzzled.

Recently.

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were Shakespere.

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names.

He had a great fear of poverty.

"I'm just plain homesick for throughout his life. Sixty percent were Just London." she told me, "The pilates furdous at first and then best audiences in the whole laughed about it. Three per world " cent yelled at him to be more Over hero, she has been careful, mud followed up with building yet another brand a complaint to the head wailer. new career for herself and has

Only two In a hundred tried

to punch him in the nose and, of those who have, only one, JISKUTER ine, has actually Avceeded

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CUNA BENT

The rowning Version."

This, together with the accrels of his rasping volee and out- size nose, is revealed in a book just published in New York on his life. The author In Robert Lewis Taylor.

As he grew famous, ro Fields began to worry over the protec- Hon of his money. At 19 he was drawing $125 a week.

The thought out a scheme. Whenever he stopped with a show, be banked money, often under assumed hames. This went on throughout his life.

Time never camo

Says Taylor "As turned out the time was never to come. as long as he ilved, when Fields was to need any of the deposited money.

"At one Ume he rald be had 700 accounts in banks all over the world, After his death his executors Inmated 30 of those "Some of hi friends think thousands of dollars of Fields still e idle in banks money "kets."

under ful names. He lost at Now," he says happily. developed ints one of the hits test $50,000 in the Berlin bomb- have no hair, but full pockets of the fast-growing television

Welch Thikako Me World. Late under lake the cast ut Cleaning buls

Clubs

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And his voice, his big nose? Fields was born In Milla- in delphin to Cockney parents. Is father was vegetable hawker.

Australia

New tire clamouring for for customers Zealand

want her lo tour who protest that their clothes her, are ruined. But the does not

"Vanity Fair." often happen.

Matthews catches on

Not so bad

As a small boy the comedian Hollywood his mode up ita followed his father on his street mind at last that television of tours.

Says the author: "Young

On the legitimate slage er all may not be so bad. things still move slowly. Only As Hollywood sees it. telo. one real popular hit so far, and vision is not going to be able Fields made his name. first as n that is London's own Mr A.E. to fill all its programme hours

"live" events Matthews in Yes, M'Lord (The with Chiltern Hundreds).

need lots of celluloid.

an

and will

What has happened here is Popularity of the routine

Cassidy amusing example of how Hopalong

western wrong the critics can be. Most pictures has shot up sharply of them found Matthews mag- since they were introduced on nificent, But

not down almost all of television,

as had them worked into their notices been expected. Domo criticul crack about the

-(London Express Service)

NOW, WHO DO WE BET ON?

On the left is Lois Wilson, currently featured in the motion picture, “The Girl From Jones Beach,” as she looks now.tumbleust

2. On the right is Lois Wilson as she appeared when starring in silent pictures. Must be something in that

California alt...

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Abbott and Costello Mlect Frankenstein (KING'S) is a re- gular riot of a situation when all the other horrors-Dracula, the Wolf Men and the Monster are also thrown in. The sup- porting cast includes Lenoro Aubert as Dracula's medical as- sistant and Jane Randolph as en insurance agent who gets mixed up in all the spine-creep- ing business going on.

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It's something terrifying foo for the team of comedians Dracula's plotting involves the exchange of the Frankenstein Monster's brain for that of Lou Costello in one of these super- horror schemes. It's a laugh from start to finish.

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Wojnan

Hater (LEE) another bright comedy, on quite another theme, and introduces the new French star, Edwige Foulliere, opposlie Stewart Granger..

Take Me Out to the Ball Game (QUEEN'S & ALHAM- TRA) has in it such musical comedy talent as Frank Sina- tra, Esther Williams, Gene Kel- ly and Betty Garrett. Esther, instead of being a mermaid, is the owner of a baseball team and when she arrives in Florida to supervise upring training, the fun starts.

Yellow Bky (ROXY & BROADWAY) is about seven outlaws hiding out in a ghost town in Arizona, the only other inhabitants of which are a gir and her grandfather, The cast, a good one, Includes Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter and Richard Widmark.

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Fortune

FIELDS

with the nose that "bloomed far beyond the ordinary."

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libm at & ugain. Fields hit him on the hand, walked off down the road and never returned,"

The lad first slept in a hole in the ground.

Permanent cold

The rasp In bis voice? "Because of

hc exposure, suffered almost continuously from colds, His voice cracked, Hoarsened, and re-formed on a permanent rasp."

The outsize nose? "Boys grew envious, and he was beaten up several times a week.

nose

"As a result of the beatings, adds the author, "his bloomrdl for beyond the ordinary,"

Не persevered with his Juggling act, taught himself} tricks with all kinds of articles, and earned his living.

Then be left for Atlantic City, big cigar, “A great smoking á comedian was on his way."

-(London Express Service)

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silent films and star of "I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island,” Is" to marry film director John Morse, it is announced from Los Angeles

It will be her fourth marriage; she is 41,0

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