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...Days at Peking--The Boxer Rebellion filmed in Spain with Dame Flora Robson as a wily Chinese, and Charlton Heston and the never-to-be-sufficiently studied Ava Gardner as doomed lovers. Nicholas Ray's last film is neither up to scratch nor all his (second-unit director Andrew Marton took over when Ray fell ill); but anything by the director of Rebel Wihtout a Cause, Party Girl, and Johnny Guitar is top-notch film-making by anyone's standards. At CARPENTER CENTER, Sunday...
...supporting cast is equally worthy. Charles Ruggles, as a big-game hunter, stumbles over his own name convincingly; May Robson plays the dowager matron with a haughtiness that is classic; George, the dog, comes across as throughly repellent; and the two leopards--there are two leopards--achieve the remarkable feat of defining characters distinct from each other, a tribute to professional animals of uncommon talent or to the director who knows his way around them...
...George Bernard Shaw has been revived at least ten times during the past three years; Irene Worth and John Clements are currently appearing in Heartbreak House. Noel Coward and Oscar Wilde are also being trotted out regularly; last week The Importance of Being Earnest opened with Dame Flora Robson, and Hay Fever opens this week. Producers have even harked back to such antiques as The Bells, a Victorian melodrama in which Sir Henry Irving made his reputation, and John Galsworthy's hoary Edwardian relic, Justice, a preachy treatise on crime and punishment...
Filling a Financial Gap. The five founder banks already operate a vast network of 2,365 branches in 34 countries, and I.C.B. sees these as its prime source of loan customers. "We expect to be able to finance projects anywhere in the world," says Donald Robson, joint general manager of Westminster Bank, who this week is due to be named general manager of the new operation. Commercial banks operating abroad deal largely with short-term loans of a year or less; securities underwritten by merchant banks provide long-term credit. By specializing in loans of one to six years...
...needn't have. The 1960 bestseller (The Centurions) by Jean Larteguy described with a certain politico-military sophistication how French colonels, beaten in Indo-China, applied terrorist tactics to the struggle for Algeria. From this epic theme, Director Mark Robson has derived one of those big bad action pictures in which the explosions look frighteningly real but unfortunately don't kill off the actors fast enough...