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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1950,
A SEAT IN THE STALLS
WALT
DISNEY
CAN'T THEY WON
HELP
OSCARS
LOVING MICE
Introduction of a new come
olice
from the
mouse
SPECIAL DESIGN
and clan, Brer Rabbit
Brer Fox. Bango and the fero- group of irresistible animal although, like all other Disney Little
fable folk, they are not strictly clous gigantic bear. Mickey and characters in Walt Disney's animal.
the great ogre of the beanstalk. all-cartoon animation .fen-
Bambi and the big star, Sacha "Cinderella,"
Mouse and the wolf, Timothy ture,
frightening the big elephants in more will stir audienco
Walt's preference for mouse "Dumbo." Mickey and the vio- speculation as to how and
characters links right up with lent eagle, in the Alpine adven why he selects these little his special design
Donald, of cartoon ture. And, of coures,
all little folk, folk which form
comedy with his whole scheme champion of such proportion of his of popular entertainment in the battling every kind of menace.
where medium
he standa creative output.
Mickey Mouse is perhaps the supreme. In his recipe for movie
Wall's Die Gus-Gus and Jog and their fun,
mast' polent reason for timid, browbeaten, cronies who dwell in the great oppresses little creatures always selection of mouse heroes in so chateau where Cinderella is an eventually defeat the big. Lad, many of his productions-Mickey phenomenal world abuzea servant of her cruel kine oppressive bullies in a gale of who won women are certain to be rated surprising action and laughter, fame and first made the Dimer among Disney's most comical Remember? The pudgy pigs namo celebrated as a creative
the blk. and endearing creatures. They and
bad wolf. showman
large
enlus.
and entertainment
Walf doesn't forget the "luck Mickey brought him, since the time when, in a criticat hour in his career, the little fellow was created from the Image of a Himid mouse who made himself at home In Watt's Hollywood garage studio..
CREDIT TO THE CLAN
Gus-Gus and Jaq do eredit to the clan as the knightly little heroes in the "Cinderella" tale where they battle and outwit one of Disney's most sinister villains, Lucifer, the big fat house cat who reflects the mean- ness of the girl's crucl step- mother.
In the mouse band too, are and characters olher Kelpful
The game of the braided tails is being played by their coy little girl friends. The feminine contingent, help make the mice in Walt Disney's "Cinderella" to decide who
dress for ragged a gorgeous will be chosen as a decoy for Lucifer, the cat. This is Cinderella before the fairy god- In very dramatic moment in the Technicalour all-cartoon mother intervenes in her fortunes
RKO-Radio release,
Too dangerous to be faked by doubles
The singing cry of steel
Today, according to the ttle blade, France,
on steel is heard the length maestro of the
Belgium and Italy are the only
and breadth of Hollywood. countries where fencing remain Raplers flash and clash. a real art. Romantic heroes shout, "En garde," and thrust. Villains who have lived by the word, died by the sword.
FORCOTTEN SCIENCE
"In this life of ease which so many Americans live in a land And wherever the bright of luxury," he lainents, "fering blades Nash, whether in "The is slowly becoming a forgotten Sons Of The Musketeers," science. The only medium that "Prince Of Foxes," "Black Rose now seems to keep it alive is the for or "Buceancer's Girl," there motion picture that calls lashes also the graceful, agile dexterous swordplay."
gure of Fred Cavens, one of the greatest Bwordsmen America ever hus known.
and provides the gloss silppers and the golden pumpkin conch -for the palace ball and the meeting with Prince Charming.
The songs they sing and their cheery, excited chatter will long be a happy memory of the fabled mice in the romantic musical version of the timeless legend
lova story,: and the wondrous soon to be released.
NKO Radio distributes the elaborate, music-saturated fea- ture, in colour by Technicolour,
Loudest voice
in the whole
British Army
Cavens is one of the few
"They Were Not Divided," technical advisers and teachers Two Cities' tribute to the who is almost without" com- petition in his chosen field. How He is regarded by his foll urlists may from a letter written
10 back
Basil yours
ed
A briant fencer since the ago of 12, an honour graduate of highly The Royal Fencing College of Brussels, Fred Cavens has been
the "Some teaching
to swordplay great and the near-great of
tollywood for n quarter of a couch of
Numbered among his Olympic fencing
arnel fencing Вест noted pupils have Wilde.
Faltbanks years and Douglas (venior and Junior), John Barry- American
Guards Armoured Division, which opened in London on March 30, does not have ordinary
titles. credit
of Rathbone by Robert II. Grasson. Instead, the cast will be the United States named at the end of the
squad, head film. coach at Yale for 20
This will list twenty names, secretary of the
have never np- Fencing
Coacher ten of whom
peared in a film before. Among them is Regimental Sergeant- Brittain, Cold- Major Ronald stream Guards, who is reputed to have the loudest voice in the
more. John Gilbert, Milton Silis, Association. Grasson wrote: Ian Keith, Rod LaRocque, Leslic Howard, Reginald Denny,
"Allow me to congratulate you Ralph Forbes, Basil Rathbone, Tyrone on your fine acting in "The Mark Power, Errol Flynn and a great Of Zorro. I must in all fairness host of other swashbuckling to the master who trained you Dritish Army.
give him my great admiration Lending parts in this story of luminaries.
for the The technique and an Englishman and an Ameri- pl every fencing can who go through
cause:
the wor
cn
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British-born Olivia Havilland has won Holly. wood's most coveted award- an "Oscar"-for the second time.
is the
do
The Award, given by the Academy of Motion Pletures Arts and Selences, was mada to her for the best acting by woman in 1949-for her performance in "The Heiress," She won the 1940 "Oscar" for the film "To Each His Own,"
The award for the best film of 1019 was made to "All the King's Men, a film about the rise and fall of an American politician,
Broderick
Crawford,
the
star, won an "Oscar" for the best male performance of the year. In "All the King's Men he portrayed the tough. power seeking politician character said to have been based lucy Long.
on
When
the late Senator
you do that-smile!
No film fan can ever for-
THEY HAVE TO LEARN
excement. If I am not mistaken, together are played by Edward the gentleman is Professor Fred Underdown and Ralph Clanton. Cavens, one of the youngest und Made almost entirely They have had to learn be- top honour men of his gradun-location in England and on the get that moment in Public Were Not Enemy" when Jimmy Cag- They tion class from the Royal Fene-Continent, Ing
You Divided" tells of
D-Dayney squashed half a grape- College of Brussels. Duchling with rapier or sword were indeed fortunate to have landings, the clase across is the only dangerous thing man
of his great ability on France and Belgium to Brussels fruit in Mae Clark's face. transmitted to the screen that your staff."
and the winter campaign on the cannot be faked by doubles. Let
En garde, A'sicurl
Dutch border." Cavens explain:
"Skilled fencers have certain] reflexes, the result of
years
of training. They cannot be told what to do. Their reflexes and fencing instinct tell them Their work, also, is too
fast to ning
register. Actors are not subject to such
the
Gertrude Lawrence makes her Hollywood debut
That was a bit of business which aroused the envy of male moviegoers and a mixture of horror and admiration in the women,
scene
Another similar brought to mind wis Clark Gable's rugged manhandling of Norma Shearer in "A Free Soul."
Now Victor Mature has
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Gertrude Lawrence has One scene has been added-a reflexes, and they ean remember finished her first venture brief pictorial flashback illus-varu a new method of brutality AGAINST MAN IN ALL JUNGLE LOVE!
trating her description of her towards women in RKO Radio's
to act. A movie duel is slower,
a
broader, than a real encounter, in Hollywood (although she lost youth as a southern belle. "Easy Living." Portraying
professional football hero in the
reactions."
him,
and this broadness' permits the hnd previously appeared
It was her last day's work, An, Vie is married to Lizabeth
the Scott, who co-stars with opponents to register dramaile before cameras in New York
and, 05 she completed and London) and, charming sequence
that Lucille Ball, Sonny Tufts explained
be excised herself she hoped it would
Lloyd Nolan, pronounced
about the whole froin the final print unless it
At this writing Fred Cavensly, is teaching the art of puncturing happy. [hearts and drilling holes thing.
tlzzards to Cornel Wilde, Maureen O'Hara. Douglas, Dan
O'Herlihy
Robert
She even spoke glowingly of and Jack Warner, the production Alan Halo, Jr., for spectacular chief at Warner Brothers and fighting sequences in "The Sons her employer. Of The Musketeers."
who is usually
the bele noir of actors who work
Technicolour, is set in France for him.
some 20 years after the cra in "Perhaps we got along so well which Alexandre Dumas placed because neither of us is com- the characters of his original mitted to any further projects," great adventure story, The Miss Lawrence suggested. Three Musketeers."
There have been, she added,
her
It will bring to the screen the some extremely tentativo dis- Gons of D'Artagnan, Porthos and cussions of future pictures for Aramis, and the daughter of her, but nothing she could put Athos. Playing the Inst-named her anger on, and certainly rola, Miss O'Hara will be seen nothing to create any tension. often in men's clothes, swagger- Miss Lawrence
made ing, romancing and laughing at Hollywood debut as. D
drnb danger with her three- male mother in the Jerry Wald- companions-which accounts for Charles K. Feldman production ber tutelage In the use of the at "The Glass Menagerie." rapler.
The picture, she believes,
she
GERTRUDE LAWRENCE
and
Lizabeth is a selfish, ambi- tious, power-hungry
wuman
who loves Mature only for his glamour and money.
When he Anally sees her for what she
he tells her off in 15,
laps
no uncertain terms and her hard across the face,
Then in final gesture of complete contempt, Vic places his thumb on her lips and slow-
ly, deliberately smears her lip
tick over her face.
Nice trick, but we wouldn't advise you husbands to try li out on your wives-at least not without a blg smile on your face.
Gigi's on the go
Gigi Perreau, seven-year-old. actress who won famo In "Enchantment" and "Roseanna McCoy" is the busiest little tyke in Hollywood. Just as soon a "I can't recall how many male ought to do Justice to the play, stars I've taught to fence, but particularly
the finishes her present role of Tennessee since
Susan Hayward's daughter in only three women," remarked Williams, the author, adapted Cavens.
Goldwyn's "One
Bobo it to the screen."
added to the total effect of the Samuel
"My Foollah Heart, he'll jump to RKO Daniels, then Binnie Barnes, and Even her famous comments on photoplay,
Miss O'Hara, who
were filmed would hate to have anyone Radio for a big supporting role is "gay deceivers rapidly becoming ps proficient and now await the opinion of think it was inserted just to to Trens Dunne and Fred with the raptor as ware her the production code adminis give Lawrence a chance to look MacMurray in "Come Share My predecessors.
glamorous," she said.
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