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...face had not been seen lately in first-run moviehouses, and the figure was more svelte than in recent memory. Still, there was no mistaking the identity of the female lead in the glare of the klieg lights at Shepperton Studios near London. Ten pounds lighter and back in front of the cameras after an absence of nearly two years, Elizabeth Taylor is currently filming Zee and Co. with Co-Star Michael Caine. "The unfortunate thing is I enjoy acting, but I'm slothful," said Elizabeth between takes. "I'm so bloody lazy. I think I should retire...
Died. Harold Keates Hales, 74, eccentric donor of the Hales Blue Riband Trophy for speed crossings by transatlantic liners; by accidental drowning in the Thames; near Shepperton-on-Thames, England. He was a roly-poly little china merchant who saved his money for 40 years in order to have an impressive trophy to bestow (temporarily) every time a ship broke the speed record. Last ship to win it was the Queen Mary. Hales was curiously in & out of the news all his life: he flew an airplane around St. Paul's Cathedral in 1908; when he was a Conservative...
...most elaborate location picture yet turned out by a British studio. Zoltan Korda, brother of famed Producer-Director Alexander Korda, took an expedition to Africa, stayed there four months making background shots of the Congo River, tribal ceremonies among half a dozen brands of savages. At Shepperton-on-Thames. London Films' copy of an African village, complete with thatched huts, war canoes and burning-stake for prisoners, aroused so much excitement that the Illustrated London News devoted a whole page to reproducing it. To act in the story, derived from Edgar Wallace. Director Korda hired a high-grade black & white...