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What The

SEAT IN THE STALLS

Stars Are

Doing

Claudette Colbert's Intest completed film stars ber ns Agnes Newton Keith in the author's autobiographical story of life in a Japanese prison ennip in Borneo,

in

Claudette's performance Three Came Home" in sald to have put her up among the contenders for the 1850 Academy Award. Others in the cast are Patric Knowles as Mr Keith, Florence Desmond as another Prkzoner, Sessue Inyakawa a Colonel Suga, the Japanese "prisqa muster," and a new child actor, Mark Keaning, as George, the small Keith boy.

WONDERFUL TIME

The Van Jolinsons really had nancial whirl in England.

Princess Margaret Rose, mcat movie fan, wanted to meet them to Sharman Douglas, the American Ambassador's daugh ter, arranged a_dinner,

dinner. Later. Van fle

inces

Eve and Sharman

several others sance. went to a supper club to dance Noel Coward Have dinner

for the visitors from Hollywood; who

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were invited to spend week-end at the country home of Vivien Leigh and Sir Laurence Olivier,

AS GOOD AS HER WORD

Unlike most movie stars who talk of returning to the stage, Lucille Ball is us good as her word. As soon as Lucille com- pleted work with Eddie Arnold in "The Fuller Brush Girl" she did a stint behind the footlights of the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood,

For three weeks last month the co-starred with Jose Ferrer,

The

BOBBY TELLS THE POLICE

HIS STORY

Little Boy Cried

Wolf Once Too Often

In

neighbouring from $1.00 to $1.75. window

use, they believe he is over- 75 cents and

lieve his own nonsense.

neat and is beginning to be- New York Thty lock him up to cool off He escapes

The extra

glamour of

the turned Bobby to romantic feelings and be de- cided that the $1.75 that was his Dwn could best be spent on lowers to be telegraphed every - Saturday morning to the Indy

Little boys love to tell tall tales and, with time, their elders begin to credit them with imagination but not authenticity. When it hap- ble Imagination. pens that such a little boy and makes his way to the police.

The latter make a cursory actually sees a murder com- vestigation and take the parents of his heart, Luana Patten, the word for it that Bobby is an little girl who stars in Disney imaginative Ind.

the Dauphin of "Joan of Arc" inmitted and no one else but a revival of the Ben Heebl- Charles MacArthur comedy hit, the killers are willing to be "Twentieth Century," which lieve him, this makes for a Ferrer directed.

really dramatic story.

Lucille and Ferrer recreated the roles that the late Carole Lombard and Jolin Barrymore; played iu Columbia's version.

roul and The rest

of the most best acted and Bubby

The murderers know othr: rwise, Hobby is a most undesirable?

inhbour to have dead boys don't talk. But for the story alone, mke for One based on the original by thrill-ridtten and Cornell Woolrich, the RKO films of the year. Radio lm, "The Window," Driscoll steals every scene. would be entertaining enough. It opens its run at the King's Theatre today.

was shot.

a

features.

IN THE QUEUE

With Harold Conway

MOST SPECTACULAR

No actor ever made a mere

In private life, Bobby in pretacular stage entrance than

very ordinary boy. So much 10 that achieved by Robert Doug las recently, when he walked

But the lm becomes one of that he found it easy to chum Due in London this month-

Broadway's Oscar Ham unto 11 movie 201 in RKO the most memorable of the up with the tough lads from the

Radio's "Sons

of the year through a very natural East Side tenements of New merstein, to begin Drury Lane Musketeers."

performance put up by Bobby York where some of the preparations for his and Richard

1:odgers's musical, "Carousel." As Douglas strode forward to Driscoll, who does not try Lo

Problem to be decided very greet Cornel Wilde and Maureenact but simply conjures

The sou of former school

by shail Oklahoma," Ollar, stars of the Bim, he what he considers the true at-

shortly: teachers, he

has been the same team, end its run after netitlentally thrust the tip of mosphere for some of the must brought up ገለና . any' other three years (like the Coliseum's his sword into a fuse box, suspense-ridden scenes to youngster and the clothes you "Annie") or be transferred to

Instantly all three were en-encountered in a filmplay.

eperting

"The another West End theatre? It's' |veloped in a pyrotechnie display

Widow" are those he usually still in a healthy condition-but wear at home. He plays ball "Carousel" has been waiting ter and shoots marbles.

two years now and can't wall

It will be a strange return to

akin to firing a giant pinwheel Fibbing Again un July Fourth. A moment of

up

be

ste

Lately, because of the rising!

pandemonium followed before The story is a simple one, the sheepish netor freed his When the little boy felle his

word from the electrical con- † parents about the murder he price of cantly, his weekly London for Oscar Hammerstein. has seen committed through the come was raised by his parents

tack.

AS

DISNEY'S ARTISTS

SAW THEM

In his latest all-cartoon Technicolour feature, "Cinderella," which RKO Radio is releasing. Walt Disney uses a new technique in drawing human beings. Long seeking some way of imparting to human characters the same fluidity of line and subtlety of expression for which his birds and animals are famous. Disney found the answer in using live models.

"Cinderella" he filmed living netors in key seenes. There films were then used as uides by the artists in creating the cartoon characters. The result in a tremendous quin in illusiota. Accompanying photographs illustrate the new Disney technique.

TOP These three play the roles of the cruel stepmother and stepsisters. Maybe they don't look so wicked...but the Disney artists took care of that.

CENTRE: As the king's messenger, this actor shows what an exhausting time he should have trying to fit the tiny glass slipper, on the stepsister's foot. The finished version proves to be, faster and funnier.

BOTTOM: The live actor employ pantomime in the hilarious scene in which the un- uppy king is consoled by the duke. The cartoonists saw it their own way.

a last professional visit was 18 years ago, with the late Jerome Kern, for the production of "Three Sisters" a charming work, but the biggest musical Hop in Drury Lane's history.

Tons of moncy

the

Hammerstein Mr

comes back as one of the wealthiest men in show business-perhaps the wealthiest. Gone are (comparatively) modest-earning slays of Rose Marie" and "The Desert Sone." In the past four years he and Dick Hodgers have watched their fortunes doubling and redoubling-in their dual rapacities of writers and Im- presarios.

In fact, they have been raking

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And "South Pacific," their current fortune-maker? London will probably have to wait an- other two years for that, until Mary Martin is free from the Broadway run. A national (or touring) company is now being formed in Amerlen; as part of that "tour" 11 Is booked for one whole year in Chicago alone.

Words of wisdom

Testing time comes for 31- year-old Norman Wisdom ex-cabin boy, prize-fighter and soldler-in "Sauce Piquanto, Cecil Landenu's now revue at the Cambridge Theatre.

Here is rising young come- dlan who has learned-the hard way-that luck alone is no royal rond to West End stardom.

Two years ago Wisdom had a surprise overnight success in London variety. Ife stole the show from a boosted Hollywood star in the same bill.

But the newcomer obviously hnd a lot still to learn in technique and the

value of restraint. Six months or so later he was back in the West End, without having learned his lesson. This time there was no Buccess,

So Wisdom decided to live up to his name And went backt to the provinces for a period of hard work and study,

"I'm lucky to have another West End chance," he tells me. "This time, if I flop, there will be no alibis."

"It This Be Error" will be presented" at the Bath Festival:

It comes to May 8. London-beginning at the Lyric, Hammersmith later, in

month.

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