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A SEAT IN THE STALLS

The Film Resurrection of

Margaret Lockwood

SHOW TALK by HAROLD .CONWAY

First she is to appear in n

can goodwill towards British. pictures.

Last year a British production, "Hamlet," got the top award. This month will be criti-

Several influential members of cal for Margaret Lockwood. comedy-thriller called "Highly the "Oscar" commitive promptly Dangerous," by thal skilful resigned after carefully ex- She will make her first screen writer, Eric Ambler, Idea plaining that "Hamlet" had no- pearance in a film studio is to recapture the atmosphere thing to do with their gesture. after a absence of well of her best-film-ever, "The Latly

Vanishes."

ap

over a year.

A year is a long time away-particularly for our No. I film star.

Next, the 11 to be east with Erle Portman

as the school- master's odious

in playlet,

(Still, alaptation of '

think Miss Lockwood has increased her reputation as an actress by going on the stage for a year).

What is Mr Rank going to do with Ming Lockwood now?

ARE

COWBOYS

PRETTY · FINE FELLOWS

"The Browningt

Perbags this, too, should be sub-titled "Illghly Dangerous?" For here fa a character for whom the Grecks (and everyone else) have a word.

I applaud Miss Lockwood's courage in taking this part. Whether her conservative públic "will applaud is a matter for con-

Jecture Sinfulness in perlod

Riga's Wicked Lady.

This year there has been no hitch. American cincinegoera inve been assured that Britiant fim achievements, do not reach the prize-winning class.

Goodwill? Not Likely !

DRITISH' nominations for "Oscar" Includes Carol Reed's "The Third Man," Sir Ralph Richardson's performanco in "The Heircus"-voted by New York critics ng the year's best, Richard Todd in "The Hasty Heart" All were ignored.

MARGAREJ LOCKWOOD

As she was in Cardboard Cavalier- her fast West End film.

suggested that Kaye has

been

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HE WAS THE...

CHAMPION

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KIRK DOUGLAS CHAMPION",

Contorsing

MARILYN MAXWELL

· ARTHUR KENNEDY

with Paul Stewort Ruth Roman Lola Albright

Produced by STANLEY KRAMER

Released thru United Artis

American goodwill? Not If the costume is one thing; but there American flm trade can help it. 15 precious little glamour about Moral for our own studios con-

centrate on pleasing the home slipping slightly with American ALSO LATEST PARAMOUNT NEWS Mr Rank Also Ran Empire

you'll audiences. Ami in London there "FILM ACADEMY AWARDS MADE IN HOLLYWOOD" never beat the Hollywood ma is competition in the air.

"U.S. SENDS B-29'S TO BRITAIN," ETC., ETC. chine,

market

The Anxious Mr

Kayo

DANNY Kaye's visit

So far as television's Milton Berle is concerned Kayo need not worry. Berle bas proved deelded flop in his rat starring] Alm.

SAYS MELROSE COWER have noted the latest "Os- I hops que film producers Many movie stars suffers awards in Hollywood (par- ticularly those producers who from temperament till hope for ephemeral pruits times. Certainly. They have from the American market).

to London-for the Went But Danny Thomas-who has For A their wrangles with direc-i

one British feature End premiere of his new fim, Just opened at the Palladium-

British star, not "The film, not cre

Inspector Generals another matter altogether. Lors. They high-hat their one Brits director collected an, sounds like reminder-advertising Thomas can give Kaye a well- fellow players occasionally. word in this year's list-in spite to me.

But there's one

movie of all the fallyhoo about Ameri- idol whose feet aren't clny, and whose pay isn't hny the man who stars in Wes- terns,

Jack Huetel, John Wayne, Ben Johnson, Randy Scott, Tini Bolt, Gene Autry, itoy Rogers. Ralf Hoyd. George "Gabby" Hayes--such men are "solid" never cause a bit of trouble. Why?

re

CITY MEN

Well, some may say, cowboys naturally pretty line fel- earnest, hard-working true, but

Jows,

and all that.

get

That's these Western stars didn't their schooling in manners" from early life on the range.

Jack

Bluetel started

his

a clerke in

youthful labours Dallas,

Tim Holt.

insurance agency. descendant of such

old Southern families as the Marshalls und the Brecken-

ridge, was born in Hollywood and broke into pictures

was ten years old.

when

John Wayne, son of an Iowa druggist, was a moller, pleture Proly man.

Randy Scott, born of wealthy parents and a graduate of the Carolina. University of North toured Europe for a year be- tore he became an actor.

Roy Rodgers worked in Ohio nhoa factory, pleked peaches, drove a gand and gravel dump truck,

B Boyd drilled oll

wells,

sold automobiles, clerked in

grocery store.

Gene Autry was on Oklahoma

railroad telegraph operator.

Transatlantic

WHAT'S NEXT?

reports

hove

Jean Simmons, all of 21 now, looks into the future, No, it's neither heredity Bar What's next? Hongkong has yet to see her in "Adani early

makes and Evelyne,” acclaimed by European critics as the best so-called "Lowboy" stars hearted, kindly men, the best-comedy of 1919.

environment

that

bits

It's

ked men in Hollywood,

But Jean is a serious girl, a contention that this their present association with portrait supports. She prefers drama and she has con- some mighty te gentlemen, siderable scope for her dramatic inlent as the T.B. patient the supporting players in hoss in Somerset Maugham's "Sanatorium," one of the three The supporting players and pieces of Maughamiana that make up "Trio," the sac- extras in other types ot flas

cessor to "Quartet." The film is just about to be com- are noi always Rentlemen. They're amblilous often rather pleted at Pinewood Studios.

operas.

selish; they do a little throat-

What's Jean's next. Her choice is "Precious Bane,"

matched battle,

No wonder that Me Kaye en route for the Continent, has decided to look in on London.

Job for Miss Burrell

SWIFT change of fortune i for, vivacious Shelia Fur- rell--who carme from Dublin (and that Abdication play) to net the witchboy's wife in "Dark of the Moon" last year.

A few days ago Miss Burrell, playing Anne Boleyn on

tour,

learned tant the play was not

coming into London-and that she was out of Jub.

Now she has been given the star female role-a kind of Paridan Trilby-in "The Mon With The Umbrella," entney to the Duchess.

which

French dramatist Louis Ducreux wrole this curioua mixture of fantasy, satire and drama. It has been awaiting a West End production for a year, ever since its try-out at Windsor Repertory Theatre,

Chorles Goldner will repeut his Windsor performance, as the man who is Sheila Bur- rell's consent to be her Svengall for 12 months.

Britons for Broadway

BROADWAY producers ob- vlously do not share the British Hollywood view-that

start are box-office poison to American audiences.

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In preparation for its Broad- way production, "Black Chiffon" shortly to finish its London

bas run-since

the American mon- agement insist on Flora Robson and the rest of the Westminster and cast

going over with it.

Now the American impresario, Shepard Traube, has been on a fying visit to London-to recruit an alt-British cast for a Broad- way production of Aldous Hux- ley's "The Gloconda Smile,"

Traube came here to choose one or two West End artists only. But o

week's intensive theatre- going here, has changed his mind. Our actors are too good to miss,

-London Express Service,

cutting here and there; a little in which she wants to play Mary Webb's hure-lipped he tells me.

tabbing in the back; a

teheroine.

| hogging of tur camera, ·

FAITHFULLY AND WELL

But the men who support the stars of Western pletires have only one ambition-to do faith- fully and well any Jib asked of them. They

Arek no

publicity, destre none. They are men who grew up on the cattle ranges of the old West, men who have faced the Berce competition of America's biggest rodeas; quiet men, loyal to their friends.

There's

Cashing In

On The

Spy Scare

First flm producer to cash in Harry Willingham, on the current spy scare wave Paul Soskin. was Russian-born who from 1919 to 1022

foreman of the Palomas Land Hovlog Just completed Water- Company in Chihua-front at Pinewood, he has now bought Llewellyn Hughes's

and

Cattle

hua and Sonora, Mexico, a paid In Fult." outfit that grazed 109,000 cattle on 2,500,000 acres,

This story. serialised in "The American" magazine bears, "an uncanny resemblance to current events," says Soskia.

The producer

bought as roon as Fucks Fort story

There is Frank McCarroll, former champlon bulldogger of

Three the world.

times at Madison Square Garden, thelee:

nt Chicago, twice

[rz

the

was

Finewood soon.

Worth, once at Pendleton, again arrested and hopes to get it into at Cheyenne this range veteran production at defeated

the best

the West

PROTECTION OF CHILDREN could send against him.

Count

also, Andy Jaurogue. one-time holder

EVER READY TO AID SUFFERING CHILDREN

DR. F. 1. TSEUNG Chairman China Building, Hong Kong

MR LI FOOK WO Hon Treasurer

The Bank of East Anin, Ltd. Hong Kong.

cause "Paid In Full" is tic

of a recent American re- lense. Soskin has had to find another name for

film,

of Inspired by a newspaper head- the world's enlf and steer ropine, he has chosen "Escape to ing championship. A ranch Death."

owice now but still a cowboy.

quiet little man in the

Soskin hopes that Glenn Ford

cast is Lewis Morphy quiel and will play the lead. Although

trustworthy. lie's only man

the

most of California's cowboys

Ford in contracted to Columbia

he is free to make one inde-

THE "CHAMPION"

will let shopt cigarette from pendent film a year. During a their lips while "Morph" is on Soskin and said he would like recent trip to England he met the back of

horsel. Yes, and there's Buck Bucke, ducer's next pleture. A treat- to have first option on the pro- oneen top hand with the big Pyramid Stock and Land Com therefore been sent to him in

ment

of "Escape to Death" has pany, of Nevada; Card Arnold, Hollywood. champion steer roper from New

A naturalized British subject, Mexico; Harry Lodge, champion Paul Soskin entered the m brone rider, from Newhall,

Industry on 1630. He is manag- California; Dick Farnsworth,

Ing director of his own pro- who won the bareback riding ducilen

company, Conqueror championship in live out

Kirk Dougins as Ring Lardner's “Champion," that Films. Lad. Filo

pictures seven consecutive rodeos, and Include

immortal character of boxing fiction who "was a cham- "Quiet Wedding" and plon, went out like a champion and was a credit to the was second in the two others. "The Weaker Sex."

Water From constant association and

tion front," his most recent subject, fight game to the very last. with men such us there

starring Kathleen Harrison, city-reared stars of Western Robert Newton,

of

Ring Lardner's story of Midge Kelly, the former pletures learn simplicity, dig-Tichard Burton and Avis Scott, became a champion and started mixing in "society," Susan Shaw, gob who learned all the tricks of the boxing racket, nity, courage and a terse of deals with Liverpool dockalde honest hospitality.

life.

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