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Ron Randell Big
Success in U.K.
"The Age" Special Correspondent
LONDON, July 7. — The Australian
actor Ron Randell, almost ignored on .
previous visits to Britain, is now on the
crest of a great success wave.
Following his hit appear
ance on television, when he
divided 10 million British
viewers into two Randell-
conscious camps by kissing
a pretty girl in full view of
the cameras, he is at present
registering a nation-wide
success on tour in the play
Sabrina Fair.
The play will shortly open
in the West End.
Meanwhile, Randell has
been signed up for the big
gest screen chance of his
career by the British direc
tor Henry Cornelius, of
Genevieve fame.
Randell is to play Clive,
the American, in the film
version of the Broadway
and West End stage sensa
tion, I Am a Camera, which
is to be shot in Britain and
Germany.
The two star roles will go
to the American actress
Julie Harris and Laurence
Harvey, the Lithuanian-
born Romeo of this year's
Stratford company .and of
the Rank-Castellani techni
color film Romeo and
Juliet.
Critical Praise
Randell, who arrived in
Britain at the beginning of
the year, got off to an un
fortunate start.
He earned critical praise
for his performance in the
Broadway comedy. The
Fifth Season, but London
audiences did not appreciate
the play's American humor
and it ran only a few
weeks.
Randell, disappointed,
was thinking of returning to
Hollywood when the B.B.C.
asked him to deputise for
the regular chairman in the
television parlor game
What's My Line ?
One kiss and Randell had
hit the jackpot. He seems
all set to remain in Britain
indefinitely.
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