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...statuette, known as a "silver lady," looked very much like a female Hollywood Oscar. The radiant young lady who clasped it looked, in her gown of turquoise slipper satin and black lace, like a composite photograph of Merle Oberon and Joan Bennett. For the third successive year, Margaret Lockwood last week shakily thanked British moviegoers for electing her Britain's most popular cinemactress. (John Mills, star of Great Expectations, was voted most popular cinemactor; Anna Neagle's The Courtneys of Curzon Street, the most popular film...
From such stuff, Cinemogul J. Arthur Rank makes a right fat slice of his film earnings; for doing it, Maggie Lockwood makes about ?30,000 a year-probably top money among British stars. Says she (with a blunt dig at stage-struck British stars who think they're slumming when they make pictures): "I am not one of those who is always dissatisfied with what she is doing...
Standing between the Smarts and such projects, however, is one particularly able navigator named Lockwood Perie of Chicago, who recently won his fleet competitions at Great South Bay. Star racing men are better organized than the auto workers, with 140 fleets scattered throughout the country. The best single boat in each one of these fleets, theoretically, will be competing at Shepshead...
Jassy (Rank; Universal-International). Handsome, hard-working Margaret Lockwood as a gypsy who marries a man she loathes for the sake of a man she loves. Never mind hurrying to the movie just to find out why: it merely proves that the British can make bad ones...
...Beauty. No lover of MSS. is likely to dispute the fascination of the Lockwood Collection, or fail to thrill at seeing a poem's genesis in a forest of sharp erasures, half-illegible inserts, blots, missteps and idle doodles. But only five work sheets are reproduced in Poets at Work, and the comments in the four essays which make up this book do not suggest that the analysts are likely to get far in pinning down the poetic mystery...