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ONDON
Come along to Britain's best studios, sparkling with stars and excitement
By
Hettie Crimstead
You'll meet American favorites in London studios these days, as well as popular English personalities. Anna Neagle and C. Aubrey Smith, left, listen as director Herbert Wilcox rehearses them in a scene for "Sixty Glorious Years," sequel to "Victoria the Great." Edna Best, below, who is still Mrs. Herbert Marshall, ponders a crossword puzzle. Our own Rosalind Russell, below center, gets ready for her role in "The Citadel," while her co-star Robert Donat is seen in two character close-ups at far left.
DENHAM'S huge white studio buildings are a hive of activity these days. Anna Neagle and Anton Walbrook and Aubrey Smith are shooting the sequel to "Victoria the Great" and on the stage beyond theirs you meet cool blonde Edna Best — who is still Mrs. Herbert Marshall — acting in Korda's all-woman film about a girl's reformatory called "Prison Without Bars." In the Korda offices they are already _ hard _ at work preparing for the big new historical film in which Merle Oberon will play when she returns from Hollywood this winter. It's "Elizabeth of Austria," a romantic adventure woven round the young wife of the emperor Franz Josef when Vienna was at the height of its glory. Flora Robson and Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh will be seen in it too.
When you see a grimy-faced man in ragged clothes walking in the country lanes around Denham you don't know whether he is a genuine hobo or a distinguished actor from "The Citadel" just taking a stroll between scenes. The new M-G-M film has the poverty-stricken setting of a Welsh coal-mining valley, and even Robert Donat and Ralph Richardson have to wear the roughest cheapest clothes. Bob's collars go into training for a day before he dons them, crumpled under a heavy weight, and his greasy shapeless hat was bought for a few coppers in an
East End slum market and had to be sterilized before he could put it on. "It's just the kind of hat Spencer Tracy would enjoy," Bob declares, Spencer being his greatest admiration on the screen.
Rosalind Russell, too, appears in a wool skirt and careless old sweater with her chestnut hair untidily ruffled. Rozzie has been doing some ambition-realizing herself in London ; she has always adored antiques and her Hollywood home is full of them. Now she is living in an ancient thatched farmhouse near Denham and everything there is antique, oak furniture and pewter bowls and oil lamps and even the china she eats off. "Sort of place I've dreamt about," says Rozzie, and doesn't mind a scrap if she knocks her head against some low ceiling beam that can't be raised because it's too old to stand moving. With her sister Mary Jane Russell who's visiting her, Rozzie makes expeditions to buy quaint chairs and period silver and twisted brass to take home to California. She often goes to the famous Caledonian Market in North London, searching the hundreds of open-air stalls and shops with the crowd. Mr. and Mrs. (Please turn to page 86)
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