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CO-SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

There's nothing like a woman to come between men!

IDA LUPINO CORNEL WILDE CELESTE HOLM RICHARD WIDMARK

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ROAD HOUSE

Directed by ~

Produced by

JEAN NEGULESCO. EDWARD CHODOROV 20.

TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1949.

DAVID

LEWIN'S

SEAT IN THE ÖSTALLS

Spotlight

spends a stop-watch day with JEAN SIMMONS...

ON HER OWN- IN A FADING SKY...

EAN, MERILYN SIM. MONS established as

a star October 1947- comes of age in nine weeks.

It will not be necessary for the band to wait until January 31, her birthday, to play 21 Today." Jean Simmons-about the most valunblo singlo picture asset left to her boss, Mr Arthur Rank-

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THE COMPLETE ROMANCE!S

ALEXANDRE

DUMAS'

STARRING

இ

PRANK

LATA

TURNER

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GENE

KELLY *

D'Artagnam

JURE

PALLYSON

mi Constance

VAR

THE FULL NOVEL!

The Three

Musketeers

HEFLIN *

as Ather

ANGELA

LANSBURY

as Queen Anna

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VINCENT

KEENAN

(COLOR:BÝNEKIMA

The "21 Today" trimmings have come already.

new 18

1.0 p.m.-A Break

first

HER OWN FLAT FOR THE FIRST TIME-

She has left her mother'a alx-roomed home in Golders Green; aho has moved into her own four-roomed flat just off Oxford-street, near Marble Arch. Her phone number there will not be listed. At current fan rates it is worth about five other stars' numbers, for in the fad- And dinner alona to end a working day which began at 5 am, and will end at 10 p.m. ing sky of British films our Miss Simmons is pretty well them 17 times over.

scene takes to shoot she says what the menu calls them), Five in the morning is no time and the grown-up Miss to talk, and at night I wun too the only young star left.

Simmons tales-baltingly at tired.

because them are just "Week-enda I'd like to go She has bought a

thoughts which don't often out.

Now we can really see horse-power car NFF Z

ret said.

cach other when I'm away which she drives to the studio Work it out like this: Είνα It's about taking her own from the studio. And I'm al every day

("I did 00 yester- times during rehearsal. Then dat, the biggest decision she ways phoning her for advice. day")

another four while the scene is has yet mode. "I felt I had to about curtains and things like "She is no longer a girl who shot. A close-up-and another do it," she says.

"I was rest. that," epends every

night at home

rehearsal before fwp takes, less after coming back from Now the LA seen in West End And again-and again. night

Europe. Of course, nasty people 5.30 p.m.-Temper clubs hay had her pic- By lunch time the words are ture taken with Orson Welles

mechanical But she Jins an and other top-ling stars, ntxt, hour's break, and there la tine because of the

strain of her to talk-off the script." trip round Europe, has started The walter servos smoking-about 30 cigarelles peas

a day. (“But sometimes I take only n few puffs.")

That's Jean Simmons nt horne. AI the studios, where friendship with Sleward Gran- ger was talked about long be- fore it was known nutskde, she has grown up fusi, too.

- Not everything will Ham taya her today. She examines her mcript; is not so shy about mak-

francalse"

fold tbinge but mummy saw the way I felt.

"Really, 1 SCC more of her "petit now that I live by myælf Be (that'a fore, I hardly saw her at all,

HAROLD CONWAY'S SHOW TALKI

Is Deanna Durbin Finished?

Belatedly and unobtru-

TECHNICOLOR ng suggestions; wants to know sively Deanna Durbin's

DON'T TOUCH

HERI LANA'S

BEAUTIFUL BUT

WICKED!

JOHN

GIG

who is to direct her-and ex-

ercised her vete for the Arst last pleture--the last before time on a director before start- she wns dropped by her

Ing her present film "Su Lang | Hollywood congary-has at the Fair" (it is her 14th-

in which she gets her longest been shown in London. screen part yet.

So

5.15 a.m.-Up

whro

site

It is called "For the Love of Mary,"

held WRK

up after the Anglo-American flim "war, then suld by Universal

(with a parcel of other pictures) * to a British distributing firm

starts"

furnishing her fal properly- So far is Universal were con-i

up to now it he had just a couch and a radiogram

girl who ence retrieved their fortunes-*

in the cerned, Dennnn-the

freel room nudl not even b had become expendable.

dressing-table or mirror in her bedruum-Spotlight

for a close-up.

nwves in

The screening I saw was for a all

gathering of trade

The alarm clock-ils entour viewers.

is sickly yellow at that hour"nims have

Ave in the morning. queats rings ut Fifteen infautes later

Jean is

$$!11 •ત out of

bry!

All previous Durbin

drawn West End

This one is unlikely to have a West End showing at sil. her Instead, it will be booked for the Allen, uburbs and provinces. scrambles into a bath, dresines 121 a Jersey t dark blue slacks, and stumbles down 48

housekeeper, Mirs

str

tenant

LOT OF NONSENSE

I joined the trade audience to

Lo

"INTRUSIVE CREASE

the

蒜 new

MORGAN PRICE WYNN · SÜTTON - YOUNG don't see why I should dictum, is What a lot of non pany, have a play for her.

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Just two hours Inter, after

Ther

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chin.

NO BALLYHOO Hollywood's most interesting

Some things she has learned. About plays, for instance. There will be no repetition........ of the "Power of Darkness" dis- aster, because Jean realise now that she cannot hope to [carry slage acting on her Alm

How

me.

Next time she does a straight play-and there will be next time-she wants her name to be well below the title. That way she can get the experience 'without "the Tirat-night pains.

After lunch, back to the set and the Paris of 1800 for the rest of the scene with the British Ambassador -

Felix Aylmer.

I

choozies

words

is tiring.

The camera but the

new angles, are the same.

By 0.30 Jean is through. But there is still half an hour to go -Just time to start rehears- new scene with Dirk

ing

Bogarde.

Just time, too, for alle temperament the tempera- ment that is always expected of a star.

Jenn refuses to have stills taken because her hair is not

She walks

donc Chic way she wants it. uff the set, and is promptly sent back again by

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TO-MORROW MORNING SHOWS

QUEEN'S

AT 17.30 A.M.

her hairdresser, Pearl Gardner. Errol Flynn

SRYH Jean: "You've spoiled

my Arst temperament." But

she has the stills taken.

p.m.-Home

But

8 London stage 10 the front loor, two discover whether this one-time appear on

reen Idol had really slipped as early next year. Edward Dry- fights below her finl.

By eight o'clock she is back The first 29 steps are

unfar as Hollywood has suggested. hurst and Jack Buchanan, who

modify Sir huve

Bims-home, My verdict.

formed

sitting without shoes In carpeted "the previous

Korda's favourite theatre-radio

com-front of the producing took it away,”

Ore listening to explains Jen. Alexander

gramophone records {current "The question, of course, 19 favourite: "The Horry Lime

Theme" On the debit side, Deanu dollars," Mr Dryhurst tells me. drives

from "The Third She

: the stattho,

Man") must, it is true, count

eating a light

supper her hairdresser, Pearl Durbin plcks up Gardner, on the

There should not be any "ot and going to bed at ten. way, and at

lou-rounded face, thal rather

under the course" about it. If Miss Hasso the

that intrusive crease night policerann at

wants to come and she would Friday is her night for going Pinewood passes her in.

are to end be only one But if contracts

of several Holly-out-because there is no studio

Saturday morning. hair has been washed and when double chins begin, I can wood stars who do--she ought on

with sometimes she goes "crazy" in require enticing set, and

she has been made up think of several popular stars not to

the middle of the week, visits o American who dollars we can ill spare, and to look Like

a 20-year-old British

night club and tries to forget English girl at the end of the must look to their masseuses.

A

that at 6 a.m. that "sickly yel- And on the credit side? last century, she walks down

low" alarm clock will be wor- face which is still attractive, a the cold corridor to Studio E

pleasant and a The technicians and her two personality as

cying her again. directors on the film-yes, she gift for comedy as spirited as and unconventional visitor to

-¡London Express Service) ling two this picture are on ever-and a singing volce

more useful than any of her London at the moment-Puerto Rican-born "Jose FerrOKS-WIN the set.

newly exploited rivals.

Miss Durbin is planning a con- not in the Royal Film Show. eert tour in England next year.

The dullish list of American "entries" might have been By nine she is on the tread-I don't think she will and any

moving band sign of that "increasing public brightened by his inclusion. mula steadily

on which she walks but does apathy" which her late

But Ferrer has made the trip not move a step while a pre ployers have alleged.

I am

convinced

there is without any ballyhoo publicity viously filmed background of a

wrong with Deanna though a month anothing

or so back Paris street is projected on

Durbin that a good screen story West End cinema-goers were Bereen behind her.

livellest curiosity showing the "Just like a donky with and an intelligent director could

about this newcomer. carrot in front," says Jeon, and not put right.

Fils

performance as the goes on plodding. But at least,

Dauphin in "Joan of Are" all but tho Alm from Ingrid

9.0 a.m.-Treadmill

say.

she doesn't have any, words to

Just expressions.

still

em

stolo

Bergman

HUSBAND AND WIFE Hugh Beaumont, of Tennent By 0.45 sho is released, and Productions, is just back in moves over to another set for London from New York where scene in the British Am-ho attended the Alfred Lunt-

DON JUAN AGAIN. Lynn Fontanne premiere of "I bassador's office in Paris.

for Know My Love."

a West End

WEEK-END

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Ray Bolger plays Jack Donahue, Marilyn's dancing partner in "Sunny", while Gor- don McRae plays Frank Carter,

Miss Miller's first husband. "In preparation; The trip, was worth while, Mr It is served on a

д

It is just about time breakfast.

tray as chair.

What Raw earrots, nuts,

and. grapes with ginger biscuits..

down to work. Then

Her Arst lines; "Surely you would

·brillant husband-and-wife

at-

The film has all the she alts in a beach Beaumont tells me he has signed musical about Don Juan, begin-

does the eat? up the Lunts to bring the playing in the present, then jump-mosphere of the 1920s, and many nostalgic adapted from a French comedying back to nights in the gar- brings back

memories to the older genera- to London Immediately after the dens of Spain 500 years ago.”

tion. Broadway run

·Jack · Strachey, Composer The West End production can- following discreetly in the steps Road House (ROXY. have thought it strange. a. [ir]hot tako place until woll Into of Mozart, is working on the BROADWAY) has an all-star. show with Erle Maschwitz. cast that includes Ida Lupino, of my age travelling alone" next year,

Even as a long-term prospect, They have taken as a basis Cornel Wilde: Celeste Holm and The two directors-Terenco

Darn however, visit from the Lun their radio piny, "Lots of Love," Zichard Widmark in a story Fisher: and Antony

described by the title. But for borough laugh. "What's, fun-stage team of modern umese, which was broadcast in 1937. ny" uska Joan..

ordinary Just that," something to anticipate with There will be a new title; the the stars, it's quite they say, * "We're thinking- of

radio one was appropriate but, and relates a story that has your ear outside."

Thoro are 120 words of dla born Lynn Fontanne's.

Reference books give Essex- the collaborators fell, rather been told many times In many

lacking. In subtlety,

variations. tge as Erle logue for Jean in this scene nearly 82. Her latest Broadway Garson were

Portman and

Greer Not very many, it seems. But

In that original Fisherman's Honour For the

& ALHAMBIA) in the five hours that the parformance, I gather, continues:

new stage (QUEEN'S to make nonsense of this asser version. tonto the envy of actresses production, Strachey tells me, stors Chinese favourite 'Li Li-

there may be two other dim hwa, of "The Barber Takes half that age. T

Wife" fome, who has achieved stars-who "see" themselvOS 县怒

more publicity in the inforna- Swedish star of Americans Don Juan and his No. 1 love,

fional press than any other Gime, Signs - Hasso, wants to (London Zaprezi Service) Chinese screen favourile,

** Her earliest flimkalmost forgotten now include; "Glee

The Moon,” and

Emanuel First Har part, in "Uncle Slids,""October 1947;

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