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the yacht that Errol owns

"I shall conform a bit more.. I love Pol."

IT'S A GIRL WITH CLASSES)

Before the old biddies and the bishops can pass another voto of censure on Errol Elynn I will stand up in defence of the man,

Mr Flynn is getting married again- for the third time. His bride has come from America with her parents. The ceremony will be in Monte Carlo.

The biddies are saying. **How terrible!" The bishops refuse to matry Flynn in any church in France. But Flynn saya he is certainly getting married and if anyone doesn't believe it he will put it in writing.

Although there will be two cere- monies, one formal, and one civil, lynu ndis: "I want this to be Pat's firat - and only marringe. That sort of thing is very important for a girl,"

This is a typical quote from the man who has carefully built up a story-book reputation over 15 years,

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TO ALL PARENTS IN HONGKONG Wymore, tall, slim, with red-gold hair and glasses, who was a night-club dancer The Management of the King's Theatro and RICO-Radio and Hollywood actress. "Oh, yes, they Pictures of Hongkong sincerely contend that you owe it to told me all about Mr Flynn," says Miss your children to sco Walt Disney's “Cindorella", which, Wymore, whose father is an oliman from boing both educational and emotional, will bring tears and Kansas.

laughters to them.

DIFFERENT

Wo take pleasure to suggest that taking the oppor But Errol Flynn says this time it is dil-funity of this week-end holidays, every affectionato parent ferent, respect the girl. You have to re- spect girl who wear Binsses.".

should bring along his children to seo this wonderfu

But don't expect him to stop whooping lengthy color-cartoon. around the world on her account. That would

bo out of character-and I would leave him

Wo exfond to you, and all your children, our hearty

to the bitdies it he settled down and tried to welcome!

play at being a model husband,

can't

Little danger of that, though. promise to reform-but I shall conform a bli mare, maybe, 1 love Pat.'

So he should still ind time for the odd, healthy brawl or two ("Men get so nggT05- siva in bars when I'm around") or make a few scorching remarks about other stars ("Too tamo most of them"), or sall away to his Jamaican Island In his two- masted schooner Zaca. Pat Wymore now bec

becomes the

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for Samson's

By Leonard Wallace

of

Flynn gives that rank to all his wires. But she is not expecting any rapid translation of the ship's name into English. Zaca In Apollonesian means peace.

EXIT GLAMOUR

parent.

the ita in the appeal for audience does not come from a Sture gure.

now

or a

018

Frame,

Are

bas

ONE

The tendency for more location as much as pos- Work has already started on

The New style of solo singer and more open-air sequences alble. Most of the pictures

the picture under the direction to follow Vera Lynn and Dinah

Dearden, and fall Shore now of. Basil in

continues, and being produced just now in location units are operating in films

makes itself - throughout the summier-in clude open-air scenes; some the dockland areas on work order to take advantage of of them, indeed, call for which includes not only back- Sweetness is not vital, Feminine Glamour is noi needed. the good weather the more filming out of doora ground

and atmosphere shots, slogan in the studios of than in the studio itself.

but many sequences o! dramatic importance to the Three

story. Britain has been: work on

current produe- In sharp contrast

the Pruity face to tions serve to illustrate this

The of the prezent day, as

stars today are Rose Murphy and "Pool

who Neille Lutcher, in tendency, and also to prove

of London".

comes to London in Ave weeks that producers in Britain

tradition will dominale every

after a a tour of the are striving for varied en Schooldays,"

TOM sequence

Brown's

the provinces. Neither of these which is being

women is tertainment within

made in the this made by a small production tera.

Lynn-Shore pal- Their

Waist-lines general policy. The films are

company, Renown,

around the 39-inch

murk. They "Pool of London," "Tom

The story is

a classic, which

mammy" and are the "modern" Brown's Schooldays" and every modern Briton hat read their fame rests

a trick. in his youth, concerning life in "The Galloping Major."

"chl Rose Murphy invented school for boys in the hi Nellie Lutcher, with her. public Samson and Delilah (LEE & "Pool of London" is being fast century, when life was Fine LIBERTY) is the colossal epic made by Ealing Studios, the little sterner

Brown but л good deal by Ceed B DeMille based on production Group which has more spacious.

"bounce." That

at is what Jack The school is the story in the Book of Judges, turned out so many worth Rugby, one of the

Jackson, who introduced her on oldest and records, call it, anyway. DeMille provides some of the while Alms DI recent years, best known of Britain's public They both become variety stars

actions ranging in subject from the reaf which, the Old Testament leaves life epic "Scott of the Antastic courtesy of the headmaster, it gramophone records. Customer.

Achools; and through the because

their succUSS rather ambiguous and really Το the satirical "Passport 10 is being used for the Alming. goes to town in the scene where | Pimlico." Samson pulls down the temple

some time emphasis at of Dagon.

LARGE UNIT Ealing has been placed firmly The Alm, though it is patchy upon comedy, but in the new For the making of the picture

parts deserves patronago

picture the bright young men the

Can their fame last? Yes Renown Company has antii someone else can comblue from all nim-goers, for many of of the company turn once more secured Brian Desmond Hurst: whom

it may be the enly lu

lu their old love, the life and

UEST another trick with a pin-up giri as producer and Gordon Party face. opportunity to see a genuine people of London, in earlier

Both as director.

these are DeMille epic. He hasn't turned ms put vividly and realistical now at Rugby with a large unit one out on the same sente since ly on to the tereen, in "tue the cloys

of technicians. of the silent sereen and Cry." "It Always Rains on already

and they have,

West End showmen look to filmed one and may call it a day with this Sunday", and "The Blue Lamp. rec

major Paris to provide the stars for requence, the famous foolball An setting for

London this autumn. "Pool of Fame, which

The DC- is n highlight of

cent on New York os Landon the Ealing studio has the pleture.

a Star chosen the dockland district,

supply centre is less pronounced. the

Boys from Rugby School took When do I pick from Paris And the to be big successes In the West

End? These three names:- sames master was standing by of the world and to improving warehouses and small dwellings reconstruction of Rugby football has sold 1,000,000 records

check the accurney of this

'Tino Rossi: The man

whit on them. It Is on excellent which, with the shipping along

of effort though many who have the River Thames, make up the good deal of filmint is

wo It was originally played. A "ettendral," the Kong which seen both Alms hold that fascinating pattern of life among done in the actual school build ten years ago.

made him famous more Lan "Snow White and the Seven the docks of London.

He picked it up Dwarfs," Disney's first effort al

for nothing in Italy, slowed it Now the Italians have taken it down, and it become a

hit.

buck again-as a French song,

F

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ont,

Cinderella (KING'S)

For

slaris, like "Samson and Delilah waterfront of Bermondsey, and part in the sequence, second week of its run. This, Is

the

winrvrs great

and pic hinterland of vast

re-

Disney's contribution 10 lelling the famous short stories turesque

inas.

being

now want to see the faces he- Eind the schoolgiti sigh of Miss

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FROM PARIS ·

Danny Dauberson; The cool, elegant, calculating Parisiennú singer. She makes the men feel sentimental with a love song- but the look on her face is dis-

A Lal!,

full length cartoon, was in LIFE AMONG THE DOCKS

Jehn Howard Davies, the many respects his best. This

English boy who made his name Jy not a unanimous opinion and

"Pool of London" gives o In there are many new touches to cross-section

the film. "Oliver Twit," is picture uf the presentation of "Cinderella"

the playing the part of Tom Brown, diversity of character to be and that fine character actor, that add to the argument that found in the dock areas. this latest effort is Disney's best attempts

It also Robert Newton, portrays Rugby's with considerable most famous headmaster, Dr In the fairy tale line.

*ourage to deal in one of Its Arnold. Three Little Word, (QUEEN'S) sub-plots with a subject rarely

ALHAMDRA) another explored honestly on the screen, with horce-racing, the sport Josephine Premice: Technicolour musical from MGM the friendship with Fred Astaire, Red Skelton, coloured Vera-Ellen and Arlene Dahi weinnn. being plucked out of the vast

&

between 'anci # white

"The Galloping Major" deals tant,'

л which has developed J. Britain slim, coloured girl with a peeky

over a period of three centuries.] face, like one of those monkeys) It is being produced by Monja mounted on a glove. She was I has been made quite ear Danischewski MGM galaxy and rushed into a that there

and directed by

by trained as a dancer, then decided will be story

no sensa Henry Cornelius, two young to sing instead. Her songe from that doesn't make very tlonalism in the treatment of men who much sense. However, the songs ils association, which is com- Studio after making "Whiskey intriguing; and she can act them recently left Ealing the West Indies aro husky, are all there and so are Skelton mon enough in the dock area of Galore" to enter the production with her hands as well. and Vera-Ellen. Who wants a story anyway?

who has

ON PARTIES...

Vivien

any port

in the world, It is held independently. simply there to contribute to The Fortuner

the truth of Captain he

and completeness of

The plot of their alm deals Blood (ROXY & BROADWAY) the picture.

with the efforts of a syndicate They said it this week:- reminds one of an era now past

The white

girl is played by of ordinary people to buy

Suzanne Holman, when bookshops invariably Susan Shaw, one

racehorse the Major of the title Leigh's 10-year-old daughter, ex- of the most and win the Grand National laining why she stayed at home picked on Sabatini-the Dumas promising of Britain's younger 2.3 of our own century for win- ctresses,

special race with it. The east Includes In Hollywood when her mother dow dressing. His

stories are talent for playing London Basil Radford, Jimmy Hantey, went to receptions: st readable and this re-hosh characters.

"Mummy The man is played Rene Ray and the child actress, doesn't believe in young people into a movie ought to All

coloured

actor from the Jonette Scott.

going to grown-ups' partics." houses in an age when the only United States, Earl Cameron. Much of the picture has Bernard Shaw, on the way he romanco left in the world The biggest male

an actor to role in the aiready been filmed at various wanted consists in chasing Gooks across picture goes to Bonar Colicano, race-courses, including Epsom, lines: "Bay it so people will a mythical border. Louls Hay- and there are important parts where the notable

nudge one another and remark; Jockey, ward makes a Ano Peter Blood and the dark-haired young actresses,

Captain for these other two promising Charlie Smirke, has ridden the Only Shaw could have written

Moira Lister horse in some of the bly race

that." (mana | lady is lovely Patricia Medina, and Joon Dowling.

sequences,

the by

read his

-{London Express Service)、

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