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-wi ui ''V s' 1 SATVROAy jiNV a 1840 ft' Kt 5 t- 4 wAVgajsL 'isi? 7 -i VT7 -fcfciV A j-tatT s'4kJks 7 -v rsm By IAN COSTER mount a new film version of the Hecht-MacArthur play now called Ills Girl Friday (Regal) This is done simply by substituting a girl reporter for a man The tough newshound previously played by Pat is now an elegant sob-sister played by Rosalind RusselL The old film an early talkie was the best newspaper film made It was tough cynical exciting Girl Friday" retains those three qualities adds romance and thereby gains humour at the expense of realism Miss Russell is a reporter who is fed up with the news hunt She is determined to live like an ordinary human being" She has picked a mate a steady insurance salesman played by Ralph Bellamy and she is about to marry him But her ex-husband (Cary Grant) managing editor of the Morning i 1 is the most unscrupulous fJITCHCQCK practical joker offend on the screen the stylist of English directors has fr turned straightforward Hollywood craftsman There are very few Hitchcock tricks to 14 Rebecca (Gaumont) film version of Daphne du best-selling aovel You miss the cinematic quips which outcropped in Lady Vanishes" and 39 Steps" and The Man Who Knew Too Much" Hitch concentrates on telling the story He tells it beautifully but without the filmic asides for which he is celebrated I could detect only three Hitch touches: the suspense when the girl comes down the stairs in her hall gown and the three people in the ball obstinately refuse to look round the introduction of a policeman's anecdote and the annoyance of the villain when he is warned for parking his car Rebecca is a melodrama expertly written directed and played by a cast which is almost entirely British-Laurence Olivier Joan Fontaine Nigel Bruce Aubrey Smith Reginald Denny Gladys Cooper Even Judith Anderson celebrated on the American stage was bom in Australia The tale begins in the South of France where Maxim de Winter (Olivier) a middle-aged landowner is playing toforget the death of his wife He meets there Anderson in "Rebecca' I women appear and insist on joining the republic The boys agree to let them become -partners in the free air and the snows But they pass a law immediately that there shall be no love-making That law is broken within a few hours And the whole community busts up within a short time because of the rise of a Fuehrer They all go' back to the lower world hoping that they have learnt something Odette Joyeux is all that her name implies Fabian Loris looks good and Aryan as the would-be Fuehrer Standard quiz 1 When was the last census taken in this country? When would the next one normally be due? Was it necessary to postpone the census during the last war? 2 GUAM is: a bird a lizard an Indian drink an island in the North Pacific an exotic fruit a resinous tree 3 If a private soldier wins the equiva lent of the DSO whal medal does he get? 4 The Crystal Palace towers are coming down What was their original purpose? 5 What exactly is' that of own with which one is proverbially hoist? Key on PAGE TEN RESTAUBAHT EITERTAIRRIHTS Cafe ANGLAIS WW 7941 Dancing to karn Rov ERY8AYUBDAY his Band GALA NIGHT KV1 CAPE DE Ger 2462 FLORENCE DESMOND Dancing George MeUchrino and hia Music PRMCATI Mue5700 Ldheh 56 Dinner 76 Dancing to Louis 81mnodda Bud GROSVENOR Oro 6363 Dinna-Dancinf from 850 pm to Sydney Upton's Band Shelter HATCHETTS Dneg Hr 850 pm till ARTHUR YOUNG ft the with 'hS SwlngteL (eatnring BERYL DAVIS ft STEPHANS GRAPPELLY world famous Swing Violinist Hoi 8671 Lunch 56 TO-NIGHT DINER DAN3ANT in Grand Rettura 76 HUNGARIA RESTAURANT Pl0C-dr W-WHL 4222' Gipsy Music ft Dneg Open Bun Uch IRm LANfiOOWNE RESTAURANT Berkeley -aq WI-MAT 1657 DANCING NIGHTLY toBAUNEY a timid mouse-haired secretary-companion played by Miss Fontaine She falls in love with him And in a nicely suspended sequence he asks her in an off-hand wray to marry him She jumps at the chance though her rampant inferiority complex makes her dread being the mistress of the de Winter home Manderley a show place in England Her fears are well grounded From the start she is overshadowed by the dead and gone Rebecca The house with a battalion of servants is run by the gloomy cat-like housekeeper Mrs Danvers (Miss Anderson) who despises the new mistress The initial for Rebecca is embroidered in everything embroi-derable The second Mrs de Winter is appalled by the unseen ghost who seems to have been the perfect wife and hostess Admits he killed his wife But dark things begin to revealed Rebecca is supposed have been drowned one stormy night as she was out for a sail A corpse was identified two months later by her husband Now after another storm a diver discovers the sailing boat and there is still a £ody in it Moreover the boat has been scuttled De Winter tortured by his conscience confesses that he hated Rebecca who was a faithless fake He struck her one night and killed her afterwards sinking the boat to make it seem an accident Through' police investigation and inquiry the tale runs to an be to ending in which de Winter is exonerated by the law Presumably the new Mrs de Winter would have sacked the horrible Danvers but she is saved the trouble because the housekeeper is burned to death in the blaze which destroys the stately Manderley Olivier is excellent as the courtly but troubled de Winter- and Miss Fontaine shedding all glamour is as timorouj as a wild squirrel Miss Anderson close-lipped conveys the sinister without overdoing it Reginald Denny Is likeable as de Winters estate manager and sterling friend it OVE interest a -minor incident in The Front becomes para- THEATRES gg VII Tem 4011 745 Wed BaL 230 FIRTH SHEPHARD prorata UP AND DOING LESLIE HENSON B1NN1E HALE Cyril RITCHARD Stanley HOLLOWAY Patricia Burke Carroll Gibbon hi Band STREATHAM (SIR 9470) 8-0 ft Sat 250 Beatrix Lehmann Griffith Jonea In DESIRE UNDEH THE ELMS' by Eugene O'Neill STREATHAM Next Week Robert non Ham Allied Drayton in "WOMEN AREN'T ANOELS" VICTORIA (Vie 1317) 60 ft 85a LUPINO LANE In ME AND MY GIRL LAST WEEKS LAST WEEKS VARIETY FINSBURY FK Can 2248 625 840 Flo Deamimd Scott ft Whaley Ronald Frankau CONTINUOUS REVUE WINDMILL Pice-cir-Hh Yr RevudcvSla 134th Ed (4th wkl Cont 2-11 Last perl ntly 850 PICTURE THEATRES (WEST END) ACADEHY Oxford-st Ger 2981 NOUS LES JEUNES (a) Youth's quest tor Utopia 222 552 933 Raimu In La Femme du Boulanger (A) 1225 544 725- ASTORIA Charing Law and Disorder (A) 12 245 52a 8 Beware Spook (A) 115 550 640 920 New Ger 5528 Vie 6588 11-11 PRISONER OF SHARK ISLAND (A) Baxter Sun: FOUB'8 A CROWD (U) 6d le 2a CARLTON Haymarket THE AMAZING DR CYCLOPS in TECHNICOLOR lA) And! THE SHOWDOWN (U) 16 tiu 1 O'C) From 1015 CINEPHONE (opp May 1030Cbanef Boyer "WHEN TO-MORROW COMES" (A) July 8: Maurice Chevalier P1EGE8 IA) CLASSIC Baker Orarad Veidt in DARK JOURNEY (U) 1250 30 510 720 930 8UN: Bette Davis in JEZEBEL (A) 610 ft B35 DOMINION Tott Court VIGIL IN THE NIGHT (A): 25 555 95 Married And In Love (A) fte STAGE: 5 Art Mu 2176 EMBASSY ToU- Miw 8787 Open 1230 LAST DAY LE BOKHEUR aUrring CHARLES BOYER GABY MORLAY (Engliw BuVtiUe 220 550 920 A) NEL80N EDDY in BALALAIKA lo-ra-iritiw CBETA GARBO in NINOTCHKA (A) EMPIRE ktNuan (GER 1234 I Continuous jo am to 11 30 Pm Sun at 650 DAVID A 8ELZN ICE'S GONE WITH THE WIND All TECHNICOLOR (A) Hth WEEK AT TUIS THEATRE CAUM8RT Haymarket REBECCA with Laurenea OHvler Joan Fontaine at 1230 520 610 95 Proge comm 1155 245 555 825 WhiC655 (A) 1 1 loan Fontaine and udith is Billy Gilbert as the unbribable messenger from the governor rnHIRD film this week is Les (Academy) which is probably one of the last French films we shall see in this country It is not a particularly good representative of the industry which in its hey-day gave us Le and and Kermesse and the Sacha Guitry experiments It begins promisingly and mystify-ingly with a man in dress clothes distributing pamphlets in the streets He walks like a puppet and his face is artificial and doll-like The pamphlets call for a revolt of youth against a boring world The distributor Is- Armand (Jean-Louis Barrault) son of a newspaper Eroprietor He hates newspapers and has discovered a deserted chalet in the high Alps There he wants to found another Utopia a Republic of young men a monastery for escapologists Armand takes a number of young men with him an artist who is being forced to be a lawyer a bored son and other odds and ends As soon as they have reached the chalet a number of distressed young NEWS THEATRES CAMEO Char (WHL 6915) CARTOONS Mickey Donald Goofy Popeys Comedy QAlMONT NEWS THh ShaftM-av -CARGO FOR ARDROSSANl LET'S TALK TURKEY All TA1ER TH Charing X-ld UNVEILING ALGERlAi Romance of Potato Crtn fte AH PICTURE THEATRES (SUBURBAN) CAMDEN TOWN wla Family Robin aon (U) We're In The Army Now (U) Stg 4388 MONO LULU (Ul Xmrw Adventurea of Tom Sawyer (U) CHELSEA SWISS FAMILY ROBIN BON (U) WE'RE IN THE ARMY NOW (U) CROVOON Michael Redgrave A WINDOW IN LONDON (A) Ann Sothern CONGO MAiSIE EALING Wallace Beery AROUSE NO DEWARE (A) 8 lAipino LUOLY TO MR (A) EOQWARE-RD GREEN HELL (A) SLIGHTLY HONOURABLE (A) EDMONTON REGAL WE'RE IN THE ARMY JiOn (U) SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON (U) (A) ELEPHANT TROCADERO-CONCO MAISIE RENO (A) -tags: RevneU ft West etc RENO lA) Richard Dix Call Patrick DR O'DOWD (A) Shaun (Renville FINCHLEY BW1S8 FAMILY ROBINSON (U) WKRE IN THE ARMY NOW (Lj HAMMERSMITH GAUMONT-Swim Family Robin (U) We're la the Army Now (U) stg HAMPSTEAD (Opp Tube Sta BEWARE (A) WOMAN IS THE JUDG HENDON SWISS FAMILVu 11 SON (U) WERE IN THE AHMV HOLLOWAY SWISS FAlfoiufTii2! 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I M0 TONIGHT CLng datmday July 1 7 P-n" NAM To-day1 atX 188 26 Tn) aai every Sat irinuli0lniMOB 13 ft 26 TONIGHT at 7 news-getting machine in the business He is determined not to lose his best woman reporter Apart from that he still loves her in his soulless jway He makes a bargain with the girl that she get an interview with a condemned murderer in return for a big insurance policy which he guarantees to take put with her husband-to-be' Suspicious the girl agrees The editor having hired friends from the underworld promptly the insurance man getting him arrested for the theft of a watch The girl gets a scoop When the girl hears of this throws a tantrum and treachery she tries to quit But by that time she is knee-deep in the biggest story for years Die condemned murderer has escaped with the revolver She captures him keeps him concealed in the desk in the press room at the county gaol while all the other nevrhounds are nosing around completely off the scent Meanwhile her fianoi and his mother have been arrested and manhandled time after time until their patience is entirely exhausted When the story has gone to press the sob sister sods for broken romance But not for long because she is going to remarry Grant and go on hunting news until she is old and grey Cary Grant gives the managing editor a fine hard glitter And Miss Russell is as good as she was in as the girl reporter Of the minor parts the big success PICTURE THEATRES (WEST END! 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