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CINEMA WORLD
NOT AGED BUT SLOWLY AGING
In "Easter Parado", the Christmas offering at the Queen's, there is a very good actor, a very at- tractive dancer and a lot of pretty fair music. The actor is Jules Munshin, a comedian of whom we shall see a lot more, no doubt. Ann
. Miller is the attractive dancer with the long
THE CHINA MAİL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1948.
floor-show
Don Hewes
pleks the story. Just where his curi- Husnah Brown (July Garland). Jouя pseudo-public-school op- He is a little wonzy from drown-proach to life fits
in with the ing bis sorrows at the time, and Broadway scene in hard to is alightly more woozy when he imagine. One can only assume discovers just how little Miss that his very presence causes the Brown knows about dancing, Buttering of the female hearts in He eventually works out several the audience to grow A little. more Or less coinesty routines
more pronounced. which the two of them perform. Thin. Once again,
oliviates the arcessity for too many of those magreen!, athletic master- | pilotes 1/1 rny then which unce the Astaire specialty.
And so it goes on. Peter Law-(MGM). ford is present in a nebulmus role which Mupplies ዞንጎተት የሌ sort of
Withall, there is entertainment to be found here. In fact, with the series dulled from Christmas gorging and the critical faculties were blunted by a potent pollon or two
it may -even uppear
logs and vacant expression. The music is by balance in the romantte angle of Irving Berlin.
Present, too, in almost every
scene, are Fred Astaire
and
Judy Garland. Without aby more shilly-shally ins. Jet 10N come right out and fet It Our Fred is not thr Jessome youth he was 20 or so yvirs Jugo. Our Judy, on the other hand, is not particularly aged, but she looks as though she
may be at any sort.
There is stil an rative ti sheer
at Fred Astaire's dugring
Ther
enn be very less benters being who can put in aerog with quite the Astaire style
But the dances
he does today are not itone of Yesteryear. These are a strole more sedintefers of the ageless rupture and mate of the shulpst eleganer. Nevertheles it work? be hard to pick Me Astore's a by watching his dancing, 14 only when he walks fround bes
no-
mally that it becomes apparent.
The springy, intensely alive, athlete's carriage, hos become the slightly stooped posture of
a man who cannot fight off the years any longer. Time
treated the Astaire figure well.
No pot-bellied
ploader. he ratundity he has avolded in the middle section
But what
han evinced itself
malibaga under
in thoke cycs.
Judy Garland and Fred Astaire strut along together in the Easter Parade.
To the true Astaire fan; all this Hewes (Fred Astaire) is teamed is thing to be le depressing with Narte tale (Ann Miller) His standard
so high, as thing trom. A slight ruft
Was ice
bright
Follies
THREE SHOWS TODAY
that the lowering of it. by bosseturs mediately, Miss Hale ever little, is constantly evident, weparting for the bre The whole play of the film is lights of the Ziegfeld obviously designed to cover the whule Donald rushes off claiming loudly that he can make a gond
fault. When the story starts Dancer out of any girl as a part-
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"LASSIE COMES HOME!”
BALLADS WITH A BROGUE
good.
What with the blarney pourin' thick and strong, a wild Irish rose flashin' her emerald eyes and dear oid Mither Machree fair tearin' the tears from your heart, it's a rich crop of four-leaved clovers that's ikely to be burstin' from the distes of the Lee theatre come Christmas Day, pushin' their sweet freshness through the chestnut shells and fug-ends and mingling their subtle scent with the rich and tangy odour of the peat bags drippin' from the silver screen.
Not. mind you, that "My Wild Irish Rose" has anything to do with Eire (commonly referred to In epics of this sort as "dear old Occlund). It is solely concern-
rd
with the curly clays Di vaudeville in New York in sea- erul, and with the activities of the American-born composer and singer of ballads, Chauncey Oleott (Dennis Morgan) in par- ticular.
Mr. O'Morgan Murder In
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T
name,
пре
many Irish
A Circus
The old story of the identical twins, one of whom commits a murder, is brought up for an- other thrashing in "Dual Allþi". British National Picture com- ing to the King's shortly. This theme was brought to the zenith of its success as a film story by Olivia de Havilland in "The Dark Mirror". Even without that overshadowing comparison, however, the pre- sent rendering would not be likely to start the bells ringing throughout the country.
Nevertheless, it has its points. Herberi Lom (last seen here as; the shady night club proprietor. in "Good Time Girl"), who playa Georges and Jules
de Lisies, a twin brother trapeze act circus and is perhaps mare not- able for his over-acting than anything else, is yet pretty con- vincing in his dual role.
In a
The circus setting serves to provide celler from the strain Dennis Morgan on Frish
of following the plot which is ballad singer and composer.
all mixed up with the owner- ship of a winning French lot. O'Shen,
tery ticket by one of the twins, Donovan,
and the efforts of ather people there may be, the brogues
However
to relave him of its burden. Feminine lead in this sawdust plentiful and fruity.
straband Ane, any-
nune
other than way, who cares as long as there Phyllis Dixey, whose chief cluim is plenty of music, mostly well-to fame to date (and not incon- remembered and well-lover, and sterable fame of that) has been any amount of dancing to keep
her ability as a fan dancer. Not the
Betion going.
only Londoners, but many thou sands of
of servicemen from
has 战 rige
to
This ballad-slinger moderately eventful fame, with the famous beauty of the time, Lilian Russell (Andrea King) playing
her
curvy part in it. After initiat falture with
friend Olcoll,
IN
Dumtions and the States, will no doubt recall the various lea- lures of her person with adniir- clarity after having seen them in her subtly-titled show
Miss Russell, "Peek-A-Boo", at the Whitehal
calling himself Theatre, London. Jack Chancellor for nonic un. known reason, meets the flower of Gaelic Womanhood
which
Rose Donovan (Arlene Daht) and his soft irish heart twangs like the original harp.
The
nate goes a little saur when a nance turns up.
of G.W., and the story begins t wind up a loose ends.
In effect "Rose" is a vaudevil? show, oki style, tied together b means of a story which may br the true experiences of the ori ginal Chauncey Olcott but is no Several complications arrange themselves, one of which perinlis;
any more exciting for that,
However, it's sentimenta our hero to do a blackface net In nonsense you'll be wantin,' an a minstrel show. This becomes, vocal sugar oddly enough, the highway to the bitterest ear, and enough enough to sweeter However, let it be sold that his success as n balladeer. the whole thing is a
Missinugis to keep you from bein fraud, Russell sways into the must be pointed out promptly once more,
plcture mesmerised entalrely by Lh. briefly, is shunted that in the cast is an O'Brien, smartly out again by the flower he after secin,' (Warner),
songs, then It's this film you'!
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SATURDAY 25th DEC.
AT 11.30 A.M.'. WALT DISNEY'S
"SONG OF THE
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SUNDAY 20th DEC.
AT 11.30 A.M.
AN ALEXANDER' KORDA ·
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OPENS 5 SHOWS-Extra Performance at 11.30 AM.
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"EASTER PARADE"
QUEENS & ALHAMBRA
THE
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ASIMONS GLYCATIONAL DALEI
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SONGS!"
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IRVING BERLIN'S EASTER PARADE
JUDY FRED GARLANDASTAIRE
COLOR BY TECHNICOLOR
PETER LAWFORD ANN MILLER. ***
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·SUNDAY, Dec. 26th
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