CINEMA NEWS
(By “Spotlight”)
THIS WEEK’S NEWS OF THE FILM WORLD
LOS ANGELES, Wednesday.
The world-famous lights of Broadway are on again—after a fortnight’s brown-out to conserve coal supplies. There was no excitement, no unusually large crowds to see the lights when they were switched on again on Monday night. Charlie Chaplin is reported to be spending 500,000 dollars of his fortune to improve his public relations. It is generally thought in Hollywood circles that this is a bid to popularise himself prior to attempting to enter the television field.
Mrs Jack Carson died on Monday night from a heart attack. Constance Bennett has left for Germany to star in a film to be made there. The title has not yet been decided on. •
peter Lorre is seriously ill in Bavaria. The nature of his illness has not been disclosed.
Doris Day (who appeared in “Romance on the High Seas”) has refused a 10,000-dollars-a-week offer from the London Palladium. She says she is much too busy with film, radio and recording contracts. , Bing Crosby, due to enter a Los Angeles hospital on Tuesday to have his appendix removed, has postponed the operation, because, says Bing, “I'm feeling better.” Huge crowds are besieging a Broadway theatre to see Bob Hope and Jane Russell in a personal appearance. So great is the demand for admission that the pair are commencing their first performance' at 7 o’clock each morning.
Judy Garland is in Boston this week for a medical examination.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 124, 10 March 1950, Page 6
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