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...music at uptown Café Society was nothing new to its downtown habitues. Two of the boogie-woogie players, Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis, pounded two pianos. Teddy Wilson, rippling, inventive jazz pianist, played in his own orchestra and in a trio with Clarinetist Jimmy Hamilton and Drummer Yank Porter, who moons, mugs, smiles ecstatically while he beats it out. The Golden Gate Quartet swung spirituals. Sultry, curvesome, Trinidad-born Hazel Scott, who was trained by a teacher from Manhattan's crack Juilliard School, played Bach and Liszt on the piano, first straight, then hot. The authentic afflatus...
...proceeded to lay his busy hands on Thomas Hughes's 83-year-old celebration of Rugby and British public-school life, across the Atlantic to Hollywood came a cold shudder. "Presumption," snorted Rugby's head, Mr. Hugh Lyon, anticipating something worse than Robert Taylor's A Yank at Oxford. Mr. Lyon was not placated by Producer Towne's choice of a British director, Robert Stevenson, and of the impeccable Sir Cedric Hardwicke to play the part of Rugby's greatest head, Dr. Thomas Arnold (1795-1842).* Even the hiring of an authentic...
...Wallis, who sat with a dictaphone in front of him, spouting such corrections as "Take out the noise when she blows the lamp out"; "Get a new voice for the old man roasting apples"; "See if you haven't another angle where Davis doesn't yank the little boy when she picks...
Dark Journey, A Yank At Oxford. While playing in The First Time-The Last, she met Laurence Olivier, to whom, when both receive their divorces, she will be married...
Like MGM's previous productions in England, A Yank at Oxford and The Citadel, Goodbye, Mr. Chips makes economical use of local actors, notably 300 students of Repton School who acted as extras during their vacation. Besides Robert Donat, Goodbye, Mr. Chips employs only two performers who are likely to mean much in Hollywood. One is Terry Kilburn, 12-year-old son of a London bus driver, who made a hit as Tiny Tim in last season's Christmas Carol, and who functions in quadruplicate as a four-generation student of Mr. Chips. He is under long-term...