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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI, SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 1950,

A SEAT, IN THE STALLS

INTRODUCING-THE

GIRL

WHO THOUGHT SHE WAS BEING KIDDED

Tired from a rigorous day popped up and sent her scurty- of study und rehearsal ing to Hollywood for her first at acting before a movie she stopped by the desk of try

Camera. In "My Foolish Heart,"

the New York apartment he played the girl who loses house to pick up her mes- her boy friend, played by Kent Bagen. Idly, she thumbed Smith (another Broadwayite), to Susan Hayward. She likes through the pencilled notes moviemaking, but she wasn't too untit site reached reading:

one happy when the sludin decided her dark brown bale would look nicer if lightened up.

"Call Samuel Goldwyn at the Sherry-Netherlands."

"Oh, that gang at the Actor's Studio, she said to herself. "Maybe they do great se but they certainly give a performance as ribbera"

Whereupon she dropped tho note in a potted palm and went upstairs to pack for two days of getting-away from ital somewhere in Upstate New York,

OPEN MOUTHS,

When she got backe the kid dingly denounced all her fellow- students for what she considered

MRS EDGAR SNOW

Wille als was appearing in "Dear Ruth," she attended a party during which the was in. troduced to Elgar Snow, well- known author and foreign correspondent, by Stephen Laird of Cis' London staff.

#t

On May 20, 1949, at 5.55 p.m.,

Sneeden's Landing, N.Y, they were averelly married, and kept it n secret until she arrived in Hollywood in report for the Goldwyn movle.

There was no ne for a

Foolish

a very bad gag The stares and honeymoon, with Snow travel- open mouths her denunciation ling to Flagstaff, Arizona, on a nigament. And Loin brought forth made her swallow story

tor reporting hard and run for a phone.

"My "This is Lois Wheeler, she Heart."

They hope to combine t told the clerk at the desk of the

I honeymoon with Snow's forth- Sherry-Netherlands.

where Goldwyn, plase. I think he's coming trip to Europe

he gather material for future expecting my call,"

and

Mr Goldwyn was expecting books and articles during visits her call. Unseen by Lots, he to Czechoslovakia

Yugo- had caught her at the Actor' stavia.

Lois Wheelers 5 feet 424 Studio's in a brief reading from Thomas Wolfe's "The Web and inches, weighs 114 pounds, has dark brown hair (most of the the Rock."

His mind had been made up-me) and brown eyes. he didn't want an Interview or even a screen text. He simply wanted her signature on a movle contract anikl

Lois Wheeler, who has an important role in "My Foolish Heart", now showing at the King's Theatre, is

a rising star in the Hollywood galaxy. In private life she is Mrs Edgar Snow, wife of the Journalist and author.

promise from her David Lewin's SPOTLIGHT

that she'd leave immediately for Hollywood to play the other woman in his production of "My Foolish Heart" starring Susan Hayward and Dann Andrews

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And that's how Lois Wheeler, native of Stockton, Calif., few hundred miles from Holly. wood, trekked the all-too- familiar course to movieland via the Broadway short-cut.

Daughter of Raymond and Katherine Wheeler, Lols was educated in a Stockton convent and at College at Pacific, wh the majored in drama. During

performance

of "Our Town"

where

'Things We Pretend Don't Happen' List Grows Shorter Yet

GROWING UP

The film-makers' list of of the censor'a fears that the keep up with the Joneses down at the San Francisco World Ex- portion in 1941, she was singled Things We Pretend Don't subject might be considered as the road."

treating God "with over- out to receive a scholarship to Happen got a little shorter famillarily," New York's Neighbourhood last week. Playhouse, famed arama class. room on Grand Streat directed by Mrs Rita Margenthaut,

WOMANLY-TRICKERY

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AFTER MARTHA

A

To mark Tyrone Power's rise from Alm star to successful

First will probably be, a re- make of an old Leslie Howard Power in the Howard role. film, "Berkeley Square," with

. In London: Ealing Studios recognise that coloured men are Who did it Arst anyway-1 stage actor in "Mister Roberts," reen out with white girls. In That meeting? between Julle in London, his studio. prepares picture started recently - Wilson and Marion Harris, to give him more, serious parts "Pool of London Earl cabaret stars both, was polite to play. For two years, Lois studied at Cameron, a 20-year-old actor but icy.

Mer- the Grand Street Theatre, then, from Bermuda, plays a

Miss Wilson had followed nid of some typical chant Navy sailor. with the

Bilas Harris nt West End He is lonely,

Susan restaurant-and meets

then sung the womanly trickery, won her first professional assignment the Shaw and takes her out. They same satire

in

on Dr Kinsey's Theatre Guild's "The Innocent go to a dance together (but sit report on the human (Ameri Voyage," with Oscar Homolka. it out), have a "platonic friend- can) male.

insists it is The Guild was shopping, and ship" (the studio not too successfully, for a 10- that). year-old girl to play an impor tant part in the

play. Lois dressed up like a teen-ager. adopted every Atting mannerism the could think of, and cam away with the part.

The play ran six weeks, then Lais discovered the folly of her use. At every succeeding inter- view, she was passed by because she was "too young."

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When they finally met they wanted to know-well, who did Just the same It Is something introduce it, anyway?

Aim either British от For the record it was Martha American-has presented before. Raye in a Broadway musical,

head of says Marion Harris. Ealing,

say's he is not being your place in the une, Miss courageous, "We're just report- Wilson. ing facts. This happens-we show it."

Sir Michael

Bilcon,

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AFTER GEORGE

So take

Who did it first anyway-2; Was it the Bernard Brothers or There could be no suggestion the Smeddle Brothers wiso 1944, Michael of marriage at January,

the end. The started the miming net to a Todd broke her spell of bod British censor

would not have gramophone record background? luck by handing her a small accepted that. Nor would he in the West End the Brothers part (and und raludy to Pamela have agreed to a kiss.

used to feud. Rivers) in "Pickup Girl" After six months she got an opportu nity to

to step into Miss Rivers (1) that war victims can sort old reissue of George Formby's role for a week.

(in "The nun "South American George"- Lee Sabinson, who was plan-Men'), and (2) that the message and there is George miming ning "Tria" at the time, spotted of God may be filmed in "The away to an operatie gramophone her and handed Lols one of the Next Volce You Hear"). three impoirant roles in the pro-

In America, Hollywood admits

times be paralysed

Now along comes a nine-year-

record.

So take your place is the line, Brothers.

PIECE OF FAME

Tyrone Power welcomes the "After six months of change. Mister Roberts-that is how long I shall be in it--I wouldn't want to return to swashbuckling or rushing around with a sword in my hand.

"That

would be

like going back to the hors d'oeuvres after tasting the meat.

THE 'ENEMY'

War commentary by Groucho Marx: "Kores can't hurt Holly- wood any more than television! bas already.......

-(London Express Service)

WEEK-END. SCREEN FARE

The censors in both countries duction. Also in the cast was have accepted "The Men," Richard Widmark at one time although most producers sald and later Kirk Doughs in, the the glory could not be filmed.

My Foolish Heart (KING'S). came part.

"The Next Volce You Hear" Three of the original star is about a young girl who falls "Trio" ran nine weeks, then

are in love with a soldier and loses You do names in British pictures is the voice of God. fell under the censorship ахс

a few days after Pearl not hear Him speak, but what back agalu fiming here today: him wielded by a group of clergy-He says in a series of broadcast Rex Harrison, Lill Palmer and Harbour. It is adapted from a men. However, Lols appeared

in story the "New Yorker" and Dgain in "Trio," doing eight messages is reported in con- David Niven.

versations afterwards. This Hollywood put them under is a picture that Samuel, Gold. alows week during a two- week run at the Los Angeles lm has run into some trouble contract and made them world wyn took great pains to push up

stars. Now they want to work into the top feature list. on their own-either here or in Its high points are some ex- Belasco Theatre in the summer with the censor here.

The Hollywood Studio Bald America - because they have cellent acting by Susan Hayward Cut would have to learned the lesson that in Holly-as the girl, Dane Andrews as tho nade for Britain because wood the cost of being a contract soldier and Lois Wheeler

star can be too high.

Susan's collega chum. Had It is always a question of not been for a very ordinary living up to the position your story dragged out at stages 10 studio demands that you the point where it la painfully maintain; swimming pools, cock-obvious what is to happen next tail parties, expensive homes. and that doesn't happen soon Harrison's servants even turned memorable film if only for Dana enough, it would have been a work in Cadillacs of Andrews and Susan Hayward up for Buick-and their Day Wild

of 1945.

The

BACK ON BROADWAY

Back to Breadwity once again,

sod with Luther Adler:

the

In the George Abbott produc- tlon, "Twilight Bar." In spring of 1940 she moved into the title role of the hit "Dear Ruth," playing it four months Broadway, then seven months on the road through the South and lower East Coast, On the night that "Dear Ruth" closed, Lols signed a contract: for "A My Sons".

In June, 1947, she went to Europe for u, rest, spending six months wandering through Switzerland, Italy, France and England. She returned to New York for one month, then went straight back to Europe again for another six-month roaming period.

On her return she joined the Actor's Studio, a group started by Ella Knzan, Cheryl Crawford and Bobby Lewis, Among the with her who studied group Weru Markan Brando, Joan Chandler, David Waydn, Mar garet Phillips and Mildred Dun- nock SON È

During this period of study the Samuel Goldwyn Inciden!”

that

be

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forala gold rush era. Randolph And if any of the stars re-Scott holds the six-shooter that Scoted a part,

and they could be maintains law and order 'suspended without

pay up to lots of other six-shooters keep

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& ALHAMBRA) is a re-issua So Rex Harrison and his wife with Errol Flynn, at his dashin- put their money into a British pleture. "The Long Dark Hallest, and Olvia De Havilland of an era when she was considered and now work together for the beautifully mediaeval but not Orst time since "The Inke's Pro- KICES." David Niven, after a Goldwyn contract,

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"Happy Go Lovely."

takes

yet a dramatic star.

Animal Crackers" (LEE) is on" British musical, today with the four Marx Brothers--of which family- Karl In future it will be follywood is. not a member-and that

really picture-do-picture family is

funny. A basis. That way, says Rex Trucolour, feature, "Belle of Harrison, "you can slay at an O14 Mexico" opens its rua to-i hotel, and not always havey tomorrow.

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