News of the Stars

It has been finally decided to show the film “The Musician,” with Laure Daccache, in the month of September at the Cosmo Cinema in Cairo and Alexandria.

The Lam’i Films Company had chosen an officer of the Egyptian army to play the lead in the film “At First Sight,” opposite al-Shahroura. But the army administration did not authorize this officer to act in the cinema, and so the company chose the Lebanese Dr. Georges Chammas to play the lead in the film; he has been given the name “Burhan,” and he plays the part of Malak.

“I want to dance, for I cannot stop performing Eastern dance. And I want to make films in Hollywood, if the film censorship will allow me to perform the beautiful Egyptian dance in them as I please.” So declared Tahia Carioca to press correspondents in America. The writers of the cinema magazines have described Tahia as the enchantress of men. To this day it is not known whether her marriage to the Jewish American officer is real or a matter of publicity. At any rate, that is what may be concluded from the inquiries of the Egyptian magazines.

A picture of the beautiful actress Rita Hayworth was placed on the atomic bomb that was dropped at Bikini Island in the Pacific Ocean.

Niazi Mostafa is to direct the film that Studio Misr will produce for Mr. Farid al-Atrash, after the director Gamal Madkour asked three thousand five hundred pounds as his fee for this film.

Shooting will begin on the film “Kiss Me, Father,” on behalf of Nour al-Huda, in the month of October at Studio Wahbi. Playing the lead opposite her will be the singer Mohammed Fawzi, together with some of the stars of the film “Glory and Tears.” This film is written by the father of Alexandra.

Life, gaiety, and activity have now returned to Hollywood with the return of her stars, whom the present war had drawn away from her — today she wears a flowing gown that bespeaks her pleasure and her delight at the homecoming of her sons.

The walls of Hollywood have shaken off their sorrow now that they have welcomed Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Clark Gable, Ronald Reagan, Victor Mature, and Jimmy Stewart, with the gaiety and energy that will restore to her her former era and what she lost during their absence from her. Victor has begun making his way toward the lead in the new film “Captain from Castile”; Reagan has been chosen to appear with Ann Sheridan in her new film “Stallion Road”; Tyrone’s first film will be “The Razor’s Edge”; and Henry Fonda will appear with Joan Fontaine in “Christabel Caine.” Accordingly, the most splendid and greatest of films are to be expected from Hollywood.

It seems there is no escaping protests — however little heeded — that reach the cinema studios from time to time. There lately arrived from Australia a memorandum of protest addressed to the studio now busy producing the life of the famous Australian nurse Kenny, in which the following appeared:
“We would prefer that the Australian accent not be used by the actors in playing their parts.”
From this it appears that the Australians prefer that the world not hear them as they hear one another!

The Soviet world is at work today on the production of three international films, the first of them “Robinson Crusoe” in natural colors, using the modern methods of color filming. If these films succeed, as it is believed they will, Russia will be the first to have used the newest and swiftest methods of coloring. These films will be shown in the United States directly upon their completion.

The beloved little actress Margaret O’Brien, who has won the world’s approval by her charm, has finished assembling a large “album” containing the old story known as “Billy Goats Gruff” and its adventures in wheat fields mingled with all manner of wildflowers and rams. This book of Margaret’s is the loveliest gift any mother can give her child on special occasions.