KLONDIKE KATE BACK IN TOWN
For those who like Western- «ΓΗ and associated clear-cul dramas, with no nonsense about this new-fangled psycho- logy or any other form of subtlety or art, there is a tasty dish coming to the King's this week. His "River Lady", as invigorating entertainment as you could want-provided you have
book or something handy with which in while away the dull moments.
You have seen it all before a There is the bold, dozen titte
band Jury sort of Klondike Kate with some of the rangeheg mlnes Site de Rivey Ludy then t
end is ably slaven in a sultry way by Yvonne de Carlo,
Rod Cameron provides action
with Clown
the large
11t
tabl
In "Ex Up Little By
Quite webtentally, the gerne th sy up the hills & mesh pe a thege as a large number of tren
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CINEMA WORLD
TRACY AND HEPBURN
RIB U.S. POLITICS
By this time the Sponcor Tracy-Katherine Hepburn
tcom is firmly established as a provider of sound, well-acted entertainment. There should be no reason for more to be said, in recommon- dation of a film than that those two are the
stars.
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However, Hollywood's notorious habit of hanging some nauseating piece of nonsense on the golden hook of a favoured stor's name has caused the wary to require more assurance than the mere announcement of the film.
There is. moved that meety of balance whreit 25. po munitial in these
Aries, the pansas-the- driven-son maden innocent to the
She is of vacuity
welier handled by Relona Carlee
interne di nat munuges to te fuirly in spite of at all,
Then there in, of course, the centrepiece of the telanole, the
This can be given in full; hero in homespun, blg as an ax
measure in the case of "Sinte and just an amait, Red Cameron
of the Union" (coming the is the blue-eyed boy and a more in the ho Some of the Queen's this week). There ruggedly bonent and God-tear
the The fappling ngith Cands
has not been a better-produc- ing character never did see with a mightily
you Enst, West. North or South of wine maph to the perompak sed, better acted or more en- wherever it is that the action of mulleri shead, from the hookjoyable American film shown in this filma
andle is (ponding to other jaar teve im takes place
in Hong Kong in the last in than pang on divanog de chute dos na
six months at least. de cumoral. ballade alo the saver, Moskauer at vast, En fler p debatrehe and a chequire appenre very rulesɓectory : płoda welten Bany ance to what a show to that the water, a fact which ape of the Made to 10 p It may panelly became mu ob es am with bet snylon Patc cantant | The cleraman. halp we draden kat he de, i barna put Techalcolor as the tea! just there.
the files, but it merely powe, claros The exact as a of the plot jrove that, tke any betor, it can ape to te tandle the penalty in atty- jhat make
12 1201 of y frot tum &ow's ear. Sub, maybe you have minutes but you will bereen on the choighe silk purses insignis Broml Your fur stately, weyondy
The Beer, Lash wand ...fetime! Tessa on the moped or alter- tions She getting along newly towards thes and 611 the Dre mailom it into the Fumework
foot
teen
montby
He Was Here
mark,
the
stamped
**Trubshawe
Trebesbaye and Niven are as!
One of the rare quiet momenta in "State of the Union."
.
PSYCHIATRY SAVES ANOTHER EX-SOLDIER
It is a curious fact that her employer (Herber: Marshall) every time Hollywood uses With a nice louch of the realistic, an ex-serviceman as the focales made a publisher of rellgwe
books, Mr. Marshall makes hini a point of a film drama he is delightfully sinister character. credited with having been awarded some decoration for gallantry during his war ser- vice. It is difficult to decide whether this is meant to imply that all American ser vicemen were lions in battle, or whether the frenetic state in which most of them are represented is solely attribut- able to the disordering effects of bravery.
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Early in the plece the erring wife is relleved of the necesit or choosing between virtée and the
Ilfe Ray
being efficienty by strangled. This ainrts all the fun
which ends up
with jand games
our Mr. Taylor being given a Aurel. in the state mental home where, happily for all compernød, Audrey Tatter
LAT paychiatrist.
From
drama here the kid on fairly thick and strong.. Enough of the mumbo-jumbo However, that can hardly be of Hollywood paycholgy and held a criticism of Robert Tay-
psychiatry is produced to keep lor's performance in "High the audience Interested. and Wall" at the Queen's this werk. some fruity atmosphere is sup- He plays with only slightly plied by the deranged antiew overacted competence the part
of Taylor's fellow inmater. of the husband, returned from The whole point is, of cour the wars complete with bead- that our hero is accused of the wound and medal. who has murder of his wife. The trusty since the wor been lending und well-tried bot of amnesia rather an exneting life flying whether he is guilty or not and 's supplied to make him ensure
freight in Burma in order to amost
the cise
It al concerns the efforts of a political party in the U.S. to
the wadge of wealth everything points to
bring n sitter for the District have nominated for the Pre-
which he found was difficult to Attomey if all the mental flim- sidency an industrialist of some
oblain in post-war Amerien. flom can be overcome. renown but with no political
Another distres ing ob pastou 45 Our here, however, proves dif- experience. He is persuaded He is cast as the worldly-wise, Hollywood's is brout to the for dealt. H fouls that, for the sake The lit wonun of his small son, it would be het. the country making tracking newspaper colunail et dis here as well. vole-catching speeches and im-legated to net as campaign muchas found the path of virtue les ter for him to be certified than for exParating an avenre than a chance to be taken on his being pressing not the people but theer for the tour.
shadow by-way of an affair with nequilted at a trial. leaders of the people's groups, such as the unions.
to tour
Musical Treat
Spencer Tracy is the proposedl Musle lovers may And just what; president and in sulted admirably they've been looking for In Frank! itu the playing of a m necus: | Intzage's technicolour production,
tomed to great power but withal | "I've Always Loved You.”
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Seeing her plans begin to go
On each movie which Davide mun who has retained sound an In this film, relosed through 011 The kids the sultry опе
Niven makes is
almost anshakeable principles for Frieder Film, Ltd,, and showing works out a spot of strategy
the governing of human beings, viralelabl
Jat the Lee Theatre today, the undoubtedly which
would
Mie wife, Katherine leading setor never appears, le child of siget was here."
Hepburn shares his convictions, is that keyboard 'glant,
Arthur Needless to
festa A boundless admiration Rubinstein, who records the works out months. Needless to
for the man himself, but has intisic for a tense love story in- say it works very well with our
qualms about his fidelity as aj volving a young concert plarist, Honest John und the pure one Fax
huet,and. These little twliches) (Catherine McLeod) und her of doubt are more than justified } temperainental Tutor (Philip by the presence
great Dorn).
loses a little of her terrifying| tenderness long enough to throw
4 spanner in the wurks.
parable companions as Jimmy urate and Umbriaggo, w Fránk i
arot Harvey.
and
in the
Like all friends, Trubshuawe) sarpeljaneg enny he a worry. Niven | sat alusly in bis dressing comin
man's life of a very determined Beside many selections from In the end, naturally, every-
for dig, for instance, when he
very seductive Press Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Mend- thing st
wait to fall into Die Was minkdns: Warner Bros.
Baroness (Angela Lansbury), lessohn and Mozart, Rubinstein Kos in the Dark."
"It's Prubshuwe
In Trouble," he
the film we accompany the plays L'exploped, "Sounds like a
party, ci- touring
popping in Second Piano Concerto during the 1sues and in its way is."
periodically to watch the political | course of the film. machine hard at work at use in Washington, Adolphe Menjou
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"THE IRON CURTAIN”
Niven anld Trubshawe
was
his best friend, godfather to hlast as the party boss, the wrang eldest son and good luck to hisler who decides who shall sy |what, where, in order to rope in career. He's appeared in
Niven's American plctures, and the actor was puzzling how to
work him into this one.
of
Rachmaninoff's
More Mickey
Mickey Rooney, having escaped! the sugar-sweet monotony of the the most votes, Seldom has he, In Andy Hardy series with a success. "Killer Me- long. intillating, career given ful dramatic ro'e in a finer and more entertaining per. [Ɛne", is now going on to bigger formance. It is the job in the st things.. to break down the finer principles
writer Rooney has signed up which prompt his candidate to teli Arthur Cavsar and ace rumeraman the truth when a little distortion Arthur Edevon to give him a waisld have a happler effect an (band in his first attempt at bring Woden been friends since 1025, the balloting.
a mendurer. Hij Bret productinti. we met in the Highlandt | If ever there were any doult in which he will play the Puding Laht Infantry in Malta." Niven about Van Johnson's ability to role, will be Thunderbirds," a What a chup hy is, tout, it is disteled in this show. story about midget auto racing.. Six food six, chinless and posses-
yen met "Trubshawe, as many quother subber met Kilroy, in
fly
A. hen
of the most formidable moustache ever strown, Keeps a sokall pub in Sussex, England,"
For laughs, na well nuperstition, Niven has
fet
ла
for
SHOWING
TODAY
put
Trubshawe In each of his movies. "Sort of the little man who wasn't there," he
sald. "He's famous now,
fart mall."
Even geta
As Niven puzzled over how to Trubshawe $13 the Intest
movie. his wandering eye lit on a
[ dowager Bourishing an car frum-
pet. An eten in the scene, she - was supposed to be a music lover beating
like a tank Niven, a concert pianist, to con-
masin
| gradulate him.
€115
As the woman shook his hand
in the scene, Niven threw in a
Tine:
Thank you, Mrs. Trubshawe." But he was remorseful after
wards. "What a trick to play on
friend" he lamented.
1
"To
marry him off to that old bag."
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