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1

From

Sid Field's

Album

MADE my first contribution to

ONE PICTURE

comedy before I had even opened BRIDGES 33 YEARS...

my eyes," said Sid Field. "I was

born on April 1. It happened in Birming- FROM BACK STREET BOY ham, and it's caused mo trouble all my

| life."

He was that rare thing-a clown with a heart, a comedian of the class that happens but once or twice in a generation. Sid Field took as his starting point some- thing his father had told him. "Love those people, love them all and maybe they'll like you." He never forget

that, and

and it pained him when other stars sometimes failed to letters or refused to sign autographs.

answer

D

Sid grew up from a 78. 6d. juvenile in touring troupe to West End stage and film slar. He was lauded in America, and West End head waiters smiled upon him. But his greatest pleasure was when people stopped saying: "Wotcher Slasher," and asked instead "How's Harvey?"

That shows they're accepting me as an acter as well," he said.

Five Routinos

TITE was first a clown who became famous on ¡EX five main routines, Slasher Green- spiv with a barrow, his snooker and golf lessons; his cinema organist and his photographer.

He brought some of them from the pro- vinces where a contract ho

couldn't break until ho came before he 1942 tled him. He too sucks. Then those

to London was £70 a skelches and new ones he added rocketed him. Field said that if he lacked anything It wasn't common sense. He knew he had to have something else. So he took a straight part as Elwood P. Dowd, the man with a six-foot rabbit, in the American play "Harvey."

What was the best film of 1949?

"THE THIRD MAN" MAY GET TOP VOTE

W

"The

HAT was the

best

British film of 19497 BY PETER LOVEGROVE

I undestand

that

Third Man," that

Brilliantly

Billelt

Ho started a

new career.

Looking back- wards it had tono like this. At eight

ho Imitating Charlie Chaplin

Wan

in

the streets

at Birmingham

and being chas- ed by police-

nett.

At 11 ha was In I troupe

carning 75. d.

a week.

At 12 be

Wood

"Whisky Galore" crossed the Border with Basil Radford, as was undor- an inspector of HM Customa and studying Wee Excise trying to uncover some Georgio

The whisky-distliling. ingenuity with which the Scots for a time.

hid the precious At 17 ho wan householders "Pass golden liquid from prying eyes broke and out "A Run

and hands provided one of the of a job. Then "Whisky most amusing scenes of the year, he got a part in a show call- cd "Wobble" at 109.

Back of

for Your £2

back to week..

but

TO A WEST END STAR

AGED

12 ...A suit

a

At 21 ho

I hated'

celebrated

his

He liked a

comfortable life. worked hard, enjoyed his golf snooker (handicap 0), and his

(best break 82), and loved it when his two daughters, Diane 14, and Tottle 12, suggested he put on a show for them in the garden. They said: "We'll it.

and wall

bo

the on the patients."

most exciting picture of Vienna, in postwar

of Britain's creative ilm-makers Hearts and Coronets,"

10 Pimlico," producers, port favourite for the British themselves the

Your Money." cct for camfromen; Film Academy Award which directors,

"The Small and Galore," script writers

and "The Queen is to be announced early in designers,

musical composers who Room"

Run With "A March.

founded the Academy just over Spades."

Money" we went three years ago, with the aim of

The first four are all high- London

once more, and developing

wilty spirited and

comedies London reeling under the impact directed by encouraging

their art. Screen actors are not which were made with modest

eager of thousands of

and birthday with three penny features admitted to Carol Reed, it

membership with

financial means by the bright vociferous Welshmen come to worth of stale buns in as an In- the exception Trevor Howard

of those who.

Celtic victory cheer

on al theatrical boarding house Ollivier and young men of Ealing Studios, telligence Corps officer on like Sir Laurence

had earlier ecure Twickenham. Perhaps the high-tour. Mills. Bre alzo dis-

E made big money-at one the Allied Commission and John

Dried nonsible for "Huc and Cry", and Tight of this delightful film was

"It Always Rains on Sunday." provided by Donald Huston, as Kept Touring

time he was being paid. Joseph Cotten as an Ameri- tinguished alm

Alm: and they are out to show

old

£1,000 a week because a young Welsh miner, world that the British still Celle reprobate he has found..

He ran over schedule-but he came

Into the super-tax paying scale- possess a sense of humour, and plus a huge harp, when they try AND he kept on touring.

went to Australia: teamed that our Alms can escape from rench the famous rugby

loo late to enable him to save In up with Jerry Desmonde; start very much. At one time

directors.

can author who get involved

in one of the most intrigu-

ing mysterics ever depicted

on the screen. Orson Welles,

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ocross

.the distinguished

Too

A panel of judges, presided by John

Grierson,

the

ploncer

AST

year.

becit

the

to

Around

and in

who

a

HE

Big Money

be

ed the golf sketch. He met his said he was living on the six- other partner, Alda Dean, who pences the income tax left him. headline died last year, and shared digs The American with him for years. "We lived comics saw him in London and on haddocks for breakfast, and loved him. In Hollywood they not much else the rest of the toasted him-Danny Kaye, Bob-

Hope, Crosby and the rest. me," he said.

Out of London he was a name.

New

Field was touched. He could a 1943 he was put into "Surike never understand why. But he

wouldn't do his act in New Note" at the Prince of York without checking audience

Soon he was a head- renelions there first.

a.

Wales. liner. He

And he sent back home brought something warm and sincere to the West cable: "Roughing it in America.. Sir Alexander Kordn wne End. His eyes swam in a red Please send food parcela." responsible for the production face.

trying of "The Small Bark Room," was a fellow

with very competent adaptation

on extraordinarily

world-and plicated

of

Balchin's war-

Hts neck bulged,

to cope

com-

Films Failed

The studio set and roam about

and get Involved the streets and countryside to which receive productions the sinister third man of THE five categories of screen

the Best Picture portray characters of flesh and London's transport system. the title, and the glamorous awards are:

any from

source, British or blood. Italian star Vall, as one of otherwise, to be shown in the "Ilue and Cry" showed us the flotsam of the postwar United Kingdom during the Covent Garden

market, a de- world, make up 1 very year;

ear; the Best British Alm; the partment store in Oxford Street, ND Hearts and Cheonatal I does not fit in with this Best Documentary; a Spectal and ended up with a wild gallos strong cast.

Award for work lying outside

Blackfriars Bridge by spon the crdinery porple: ke the feature and documentary huif

In "Arsenic and Old Lace," it deals the street urchins Beld (such as "Atomic Physics" In 1948); and a United Nations London, and the rounding up of will mass murder with a smile, tions a gang of crooks on a bomb albelt a bitterly sardonic on at mes. It had beautiful settings" TOST of the Alm was shot in Award, for the best film of any site. With It Always Rains..." MOST

the Austrian capital, and type lilustrating one of the baste we spent an eventful Sunday in and was notable for the tour de

of dinginess, principles of the United Nations the back streets of Whitechapel, force of Alec Guinness, the atmosphere insecurity and disillusionment Charter. The prizes are bronze rell:ved only by a brisk glance played no less than nine parts. has been faithfully recreated; it statuettes designed by Henry at Petticoat Lane. is accompanied by some haunt Moure, Jag zither music which makes sculptor.

appeal. immediate

and much haunting, immediate. many people today

Ealing Studios Brigadier Nigel

falling is only real failures were the Alme he starred in. In alt would

say, since we seem to get the "Harry Lime Theme" from director of documentary films in took us to another London psychological drama of a

which Britain has always ex suburb. This

It time was time "backroom boy" with a bad masterfully. He had the clown's he made three: "That's the Tic- where shaving time to bedtime on the celled, and

the cltizens

discuss.. not to the present Con Pimlico,

a craving for whisky, allaily to tragedy. Ou the stage ket" before be was known, a leg and a wireless, and dance orchestras

found

themselves David Farrar was the s'ar, and there was always that dignity, m he tried suddenly

Then "London Town," He didn't it into troller of the Films Division of mauled have already

either.. contained

very dramatic fighting to save itself from 80- talk much about that, Central Gmce of Inferna transformed into Burgundians the

discovery of anything from a quick-step to a

tion, prepares Ü short list of through the

scene of the dismantling of in scen

ag to seed, long-lost

Then "Cardboard Cavaller beguine.

papers category, and some

magnetle bamb. The great stage they crater. How

the bomb vote by postal a

He found straight acting less and that wasn't, quilo right

The trouble was film men abolished rationing and werdo actress Edith Evans was

of Spades." em- star "The Queen

strenuous thon rovuc-but it didn't realise that Sid Field had. blockaded by Д very

trom adapted which

out pounds on him in weight. to bring out the comedy him-. "The Third Man" is the only barrassed His Majesty's Govern Tschaikowsky's opera.

And he quickly summed up self-not have it thrust on him.. Paper circulation 'promotion British production

He made big money from him- the judges ment (with Naunton Wayne re- there is no commercial have placed in the short list for unt;

happy. ing, but he was never If "The Third Man" gets the heatre audiences. counter-measures interest behind them, nor

int 170

third and insisted on visas for Under-

it will be the verdict.

He told me: "Playgoers scat- about them. that Director source which the

successive year

quicker The future was to havo beza festival' to boost some watering ***

went to Olivier's ground passengers, is told with

for place or seaside resort.

"Odd. Man Out" off the small points, walt happening much too frequently Best

uently "Hamlet" and in 1847 to The Infinite gusto, a true feeling for Carol Reed has scored. He war ter their laughter, are

comic situation, and much in 1047 with Lives," technical

the

Revue skill.

and (with James Mason In the main he pay-off situations. People on the Continent.

the excellent Hollywood 1m techni

upt to take part), and "The organisations are

Follen Idol"

Richardson goers who came to see me laugh Lauder nt the obvious jokes; Thoy do not necessarily reflect on the problems of Servicemen themselves too seriously these (with Sir Ralph

Its deft Michele Morgan, Sonia Dresde} days: this film, with the box-office takings, or the returning from the war.

Henrey) hate wading through a lot of Bobby come and young crliics' views. But they re- In the second category,

touch, appiled the satirical

earned him the 1948 award plot." present the considered opinion other British films aro "Kind much needed debunking.

each films for members then

The Academy Awards-there ballot. are five in all every year-ard hot a publicity ramp or a nows-

desiro to link them with a "the first award-Best Picture tenting the Foreign Office),

NANCY

from uny previous year

Years

of

Our

Eggs-actly

YES, BUT--

WHAT WAS THAT

OTHER THING YOUİ ASKED ME TO

NOT TO RUN

WITH THEM

DID YOU BRING

THE EGGS FROM THE

STORE, NANCY B

DO

Wo

a

By Ernie Bushmiller

now

DOW revue-with material. Nothing of the old. Sasher. None of the

snooker sketches,

DAVID LEWIN

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