Sunday Times (Perth, WA : 1902 - 1954), Sunday 30 May 1954, page 22
HE'S WOE "BARON OF BEEFCAKE"
LONDON, Sat: Toosle-haired, loose-limbed Rode Hudson*. called?-."the baron of beef-
cake,*' is now visiting Britain on his way to Ireland to make the Technicolor adventure "Captain Lightfoot."
He carries a prize ex-ample of his thousands of daily fan letters around with him, says it comes from Australia; but, being a gent, he can't reveal the lady's name.
Letter reads, in part:
i "Come, take me away where our eager lips can meet in silent vows of eter-nal love."
"I want to feel your arm caressing me tenderly."
"I never knew that lone-liness could be so hard on me."
"The emptiness I feel in my heart is unbearable."
OOKTNG flt and sun-
burnt, Dennis Price has
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begun his comeback, with Olivia de Havilland in "That Lady."
Producer Sy Bartlett told me: "Price is a good actor, and the man I want for the part."
Added Price to me: "I play a court villain, who arranges all the murders. You want any dirty work done-I'll fix it."
No comment.
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(^HAPLDJ has decided to ^ re-issue "Modern
Times'-the film in which he discovered Paulette i Goddard. Chaplin okayed ^the project during his re-cent swift visit to London. The re-issue of "City
Lights" made a new for-jtune for Chaplin.
* * * 1 A USTRALIAN pla y -
wright Hugh Hastings,
(Seagulls over Sorrento)' performs in the Irving Theatre's lastest intimate revue, as compere comic.
A fellow - Australian, Trafford Whitelock, de-vised and produced the
show.
! Don't run away with the
impression that Hastings took his job because he is
broke.
He made some £50,000 sterling from "Seagulls."
He has not only the pro-ceeds from the London run of nearly three years, but
also a handsome rake-off from the film of [ the play, and also a constant reven
pe .from the performing rights of- what looks'-like becoming,, an amateur .Dramatic Society stand-by.
Hastings has always been an actor and fulfilled one ambition in the Irving re-vue, a satire on television called "Let's Look In."
Australian ballerina Lynn Golding is also in the show. ,
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TJEARD in Paris: Orson
Welles' stage-whisper to French film-star Gerald Phillipe, "Don't go to Hol-lywood unless you want to give up acting." . ¡