Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-04-11
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BY Leonard ClairmOnt
i'm the Pacific Coast Viking
Christopher Kent is now back in

Sweden, where he is about to re-
sumo his motion picture career,
which had become badly begged
down in Hollywood. AS long as
he was in great demand in Europe,
he figured it would be better to
be over there working, than lying
around in the California sunshine
doing nothing. With an able agent
in Hollywood still handling his af-
fairs, he can get back here by
plane in a couple of days if
good picture should come up.
Chris is quite right; he is tops in
Sweden right now, thanks to the
great work he did in "Singoalla"
over there last summer, both in
the Swedish and English version
of that old classic.
AnOther star, who has left
is Signe Hasso. After
finishing her part in Crisis" at
Metro, Signe accepted an offer to
do stage play in London. I
haven't seen her so excited about
anything in a long time, as she
was about doing this Ibsen play
If everything goes well, tn ere
will be a movie version besides,
and of course Signe Hasso has
an eye on that, too.
OrsOn Welles, who visited in
Sweden not so long ago, sure
started something. The paper S
over there are raging over the
way he handed out misinforma-
ton about his reception in Swe-
den, after he arrived in Paris.
1t turned out to be quite inno-
cent at the start, at least. Some
fresh newshound in the French
capital asked the self-styled genius
if the Swedes honored him with
a fireworks display. Sure" said
Orson, they burned down whole
forest in my honor"
Did the blondes go for you?"
was the next silly question, one
that he answered with: Did they!
Forty of them wisked me off to
the country, where I spent the
weekend with all of them-all by
The story got into the French
papers as an honest-to-truth in
terview, and before very long it
was reprinted in the Swedish
press. No wonder the Swedes
couldn't recognize it as the truth.
Either the Paris reporter didn't
have any sense of humor, or he
couldn't understand Orson Welles.
Screen actress Nancy Olson,
chosen as Bling Crosby's leading
lady in a forthcoming Paramount
picture stepped up to Reverend
H. G. Matson of All Souls Uni
tartan Church of Santa Monica
and became Mrs. Allan Jay Ler-
ner, wife of the Paramount screen
writer. Lerner is the author of
'Brigadoon" and Love Life"
MOroni Olsen, who played
Porthos in RKO Radios produc-
ton of THE Three Musketeers"
in 1885, portrays the character
again in Sons of the Musket-
GERS" in which Cornell Wilde and
Maureen O'Hara are starred. In
the picture, Olsen portrays
considerably older Musketeer, with
Alan Hale, Jr., appearing as his
more active son. Olsen's most re-
cent films are Samson and De-
lilah" and Father of the Bride"
There are three Marta loren
films coming up at the theaters
very shortly; they are completed
but not released. Her Italian
made picture, 'Deported,' should
be the first one to hit the screen.
The names of the other two films
have been mentioned in this col
umn at various times, but now
that those pictures have been re-
named, let me put you straight.
Death in a Side Street" will be
released under the title, "One Way
Street" that's the one where Mar
ia costars with James Mason in a
Mexican background "Panther's