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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1950.

A SEAT IN THE STALLS

They All Loved Their Neighbour

Dominique loved Roark but he frightened her. She did not love Gall Wynand but when he started champion. Ing Roark's cause she began to look upon him with more affection,

Howard Roark loved Dominique, but he was an unsuccessful architect who dreamed his dreams of buildings that had a soul and commissions did not come his way,

A POODLE CAN

UPSET THE QUEEN'S ALHAMBRA

ECONOMIC

ELEPHANT Says Melrose Gower

The motion picture, indus- try has $2,500,000,000 - In- vested in 18,000 theatres in the United States alone. It has $180,000,000 invested in Hollywood studios. It spent $250,000,000 making movica in 1949.

The mahouts who guide this economic elephant, the watch producers, have to the big beast constantly leat he stumble over straws. In simpler words, dropping the metaphor, this gigantic in- dustry often is badgered by little things, both amusing and amying. Oddities pop up in the making of movies that never could occur in: a manufacturing industry controlled Ey precision in- stroments.

of

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EMOTING IN THE YARD

As an opening illustration let it be stated that for the first Toohey, architec- "The Fountainhead" the is not of the rare and unknown 13 Ellsworth

fowl recently went prefers the conquest tural columnist (played by to-time in movie history a flock of week-end attraction at the type Who

bert Douglas), whose method of film

"Sonc of the attaining success in life is "otrike at RKO Ratlo during the Queen's Theatre, brings to of nature to that of man.

Patricia Neal, as Dominique, play

of the shooting the stockmarktet

Musketeers". the screen the best-selling

Cornel Wilde and Maureen novel by Ayn Rand und pre. is a woman who would wish to spirit and sell short."

emoling in the be rare and to move the world,

to com O'Hara were such

Ten the idea of being

The film has much sents Gary Cooper with yet Put

her. She would

mend it and in excellent enter yard of a French Inn. another opportunity to en- frightens

To keep rather not be fettered by things tainment. In parts it challenges large chickens were part of the Juct an iron-willed idealist.

to credit certain background "props." of the spirit.

our abilit

generously over thin, such as the "mob"un the latter properly placed, feed

general was scattered American

and columns on its way to earning drst few "takes" of the seene,

the chickens scratched clicked to the complete satisfac s.dally bread.

There is another reason for tion of Director Lewis Alles, his It does bring cameraman and sound recordur.

of time With the passage

nowod blowed recup the alm. to the vision the bulidings of the future and these can look both however, the chickens

of their pace. Hunger vanished. fantastic and possessed

One by one majesty, rooled to earth Replation set in. Imoves new and who is and towering into the sky, won- they sank down contentedly on

that, one the round. fact the

that derful apparitions

LEE FOOTBALL TOURNAMENTS sing one in flims and his box-

1. England Wins The World Cup Trip to office popularity seems good for the

Rio.

word

for

build up for rublle-reading architectural designated area. During the

In

Those who have not read the

With Wynand, the man who book will flock to see the Alm

him a newspaper empire, he hia E7th star- Howard Roark

has n point in commo:1 ALSO LATEST GAUMONT BRITISH NEWS for Cooper alone. The role of helped the mol

their liferent ways they have the same kind of committed treason towards the inner core as many more to come.

Essentially, Gary Cooper is the of the spirit of man, his inalien towards pursuit of same person whether he is Mr able right

on the trut or Dr Wassell Deeds,

A character who architect who only builds struc- tures that havé a soul. An varla through the story tions on the Horatio Alger theme intriguing for

rather he still produce best-selling fiction.

2.

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HE WAS THEN,

CHAMPION

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KIRK DOUGLAS

La Fing Lardner's

frightens

he is unlikely to run out of star- by the very purpose of his being soul. ring roles.

The part, In short, agale fits Cooper like a glove and his fans

who are

legion-will orain applaud n performance

saw them at the end of 113 minutes all set to morally re- arm themselves,

Personality Plus

The film brings to the screen In a good role a talented now- comer, Patricia Neal. Roll into one Bette Davis, Marlene Diet- rich and Lizabeth Scott and that would make a fair resemblance to Miss Neal,

She is the type of hard-faced lovely whom Hollywood photo- Kraphers see at her best against a background of granite with the wind blowing. She ---one begins to feel as the story pro- on her gresses a personality. own who should rise to stardom without benefit of such a roman- tic lead as Gary Cooper.

Patricia Neal has a restralued It is to histrionics. approach difficult to imagine her ranting and raving. Her changing face tells the story

and it is seen

to advantage in the famed love scene that contributed so much to the success of the book when Roark,

from being-

face with o

smarting struck across the riding crop, comes in upon her out of the dark and relenses ail passion that had the pent-up

been carefully built up--scene by scene to provide the movies.

something to parti- gour with cularly remember the film by.

The

Three Shapos

story

centres around who learned

three characters te love one another as all good neighbours should,

Cooper is a man rare and un- known, of the type that moves the world. Raymond Massey, as Gali Wynand, is also a man but he who moves the world,

No Doubles

Three hours of

set followed. one could well imagine, must have a inactivity on the

disgusted prop man while the rounded up a hungry new flock. for the of matching chickens completion of the scene.

Roark comes in out of the dark upon Dominique. She can't make up her mind how to face the situation. At stake is her horror of being lied down to any cause, and he represented one.

HER

CLAUDETTE HAS

HEAD EXAMINED

head have your "Go

Producer examined," said Jack H. Skirball to Claudette Colbert. And Miss Colbert did-for most unusual scene in RKO Radio's "The Secret Fury.“

2

the

One of the best brain men in

elreles landed medical. Because of his proficiency in specialised sports, Comel Wilds details, Dr Alberto A. Marinaeel..

Electroencephalo- at the Los Angeles needs no doubles in "Song of the Director of Muskatcers," in which he co-

graphy County General Hospital stars with Maureen O'tlara.

As a beautiful concert planist Into driven being who Wilde, required to contribute

Colbert and to spectacular fencing to the film,

fencing insanity, Miss

picture to an intercollegiate

This is champlon in 1936 and qualised subant in the for the United States Olympic electroencephalogram

was

team.

13

a record of brain waves made by

Rigged up

a complicated machine called an

for her elec- His role also calls for horse-encephalograph." back riding over rough terrain, Jumping streams and fences-treencephalogram, Miss Colbert and Wilde happens to be one of was an impressive sight. She sat the finest horsemen in the film Inside a wire enclosure, and on

her triod

Was wort of helmet When colony-

bearing eight electrodes. the current was turned on, these electrodes conveyed the electricnl emanations from her brain to a moving graph near by.

GOOD NICKEL

Eight years age Helen Koford, 13, played Victor Mature's sister

Dr Marinacci went to work, One day Vie in My Gal Sal." Rave her a nickel, mid jokingly: while the movie cameros ground. "Call me up when you're cigh-Finally he shut off the current he studied the teen." Today the same actress, at the scene's end. Mles Colbert now named Terry Moore, is watched

"I'm nervous," she sakl. "How does it look, Doctor?"

'CHAMPION", starring as Mature's sweetheart record.

Colorin

MARILYN MAXWELL ARTHUR KENNEDY

win Paul Stewart

Ruth Roman Loka Albright

in "Allas Mike Fury."

BRIEFLY FEARFUL,

29

Dr Marinacci beamed rubbed his hands briskly.

and

Samuel Godwyn's

"Edge of

Doom company was on location for sordid scenes in the beart of the Los Angeles cluma one re- When the troupe cent day.

mavie for Junch," a

"broke

caterer palled his truck onto a vacant

Jot and the extras lined up for chow.

hungry

Soon afterward the dumb- founded caterer, who had brea advised in advance exactly how many getors he had to feed, dis

moving covered the line still but the food all gone.

of local hobos bad A score of dined heartily at the company's expense, it developed. They had slyly slipped into the line with the extras, all of whom, keeping with the nature of the were dressed as day's scenes, skid row dwellers!

JUST GOOD-NATURED Occasionally an actor upsets the cinema applecart by being too good-natured. That happened in the case of Jacques, a trained French poodle appearing with Moc- Irene Dunne and Fred

Murray

Love."

in "Come Share My

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Director George Marshall ordered Jacques

to bare fangs and snarl for a close-up shot. No dice. Aminble Jacques Just stood and wagged his tall. quit So the entire company work while a specialist in such matters measured Jacques for a set of false teeth.

In due time they arrived and over the poodle's were filed own gnashers. With the bogus teeth in place Jacques' Ups were bared in a smari of hideous realism. It was fortunate that the shot was a close-up, how- ever. Jovial Jacques snarled on one end, continued to wag the other

On

In closing this chronicle of little oddities that affect a big

the business,

correspondent ke to

the venture would observation that movie extras must be doing right well these days. Five men, supposed to be poverty stricken immigrants in "Allaa an Ellis Island scene of

the first Mike Fury" ruined! shot after lunch because the camera caught them smoking 50-cent cigars!

Those who live by the sword..

During her nine years on the screen Janis Carter has killed 25 leading men and has Ex- homicidal tendencies hibited

others. IIcr victims 'include victims Franchot Tone, Edmund Lowe, William Parker and Glenn Ford.

Loward

and

near-

The

and

Janis

However, in her; two current

platures, Radio RKO

On Pine 13" Woman "Carriage

Entrance," winds up in the marble or chard herself.

In the former she takes a well-deserved header through a window, and in the latter she dies in a struggle with Melvyn Douglas

GLAMOUR HOUND Rage, a shaggy dog of un- certain parentage, received the full glamour treatment recently while sharing the limelight with Ann Blyth, Farley Granger and Joan Evans in "Our Very Own.

Director David Miller wanted the fur on Rage head arranged to achieve a Dagwood effect. The result was that Rags, like any other star had hairdresser usdgned to him, and had to re- port for work all hour earlier than urial to Have his fur The animal broke loose and pronouncement Dr Marinmoci charged the star, who crouched and his encephalograph settled bubaka

Also, They beauty and brains ein travel combed~-~and~~ sprayedale with

Lacquer to keep it in plase. behind a free until the beast's something di

proved beyond a doubt that together.

"Perfect." he said, "perfect. An excited 1,800 pound bull

fearful for No lesions, tumeurs, iraumas or made to briefly Irene Dunne during location clots. You have a nice healthy

RKO brala, Miss Colbert." filming of a scene for

Nadio's "Come Share My Love." With

owner chine to the rescue...

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