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• ROBERT DONAT in
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WINSLOW
with CEDRIC HARDWICKE * BASEL RADFORD
KATHLEEN KARDISOM * FRANCIS L. SULLIVAN
end MARGARET LEIGHTON
Directed by Anthony Argulth
From the play by Terence Raisijan
Produced by Anatole de Grunwald
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THE GLORY OF TCHAIKOVSKY'S GREATEST MUSIC! "SONG OF MY HEART"
with Frank SUNDSTROM " Audrey LONG
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with Pamóla KELLINO * Ang STEPHSONS
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"MURDERER"
DIALOGUE IN MANDARIN
CINEMA WORLD
Story In Green
Dean Stockwell tolle Pat O'Brien, Samusi 8. Him and Regis Toomey that he isn't a sure he likes the idea of hav- ing green; hair in this scene from RKO Radio's "The Boy with Green Hair," a Dora Schary Technicolor presentation which co-stars O'Brian, Robert Ryan, Barbara Hale and Blackwell as "The Boy." The picture opens today at the Roxy Theatro..
Good Comedy With Fonda At The Lee
There are certainly no priorities on laughter when you go to the Loo Theatro tomorrow where "The Male Animal" starts its local run.
It has most ingredients neces= } The film combines wild comedy sary for ♫ good" comedy-gags, with plausibility in a story of a Cole situations and п breezy professor who simply can't get dialogue and boasts of a well excited about the coming of the balanced cnst. In the leading "big game and his wife who has rules are Olivia de Havilland as too fond a memory for a certain the wife of a college professor, former football hero. and Henry Fonda as her husband, | Jack Carson, in the role it fellow who is soft-spoken but
Grin.
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BREATHTAKING!
as THE SATURDAY
EVENING POST
novel that
stunned millions!
CINECOLOR
COLUMNA PROUDLERS
CORONER
CREEK
OPENING
TODAY
KAIKILPA SCOTT MOLSTERILE CHAPMAN
„ HACKEART + ERLERS • BEMARLE
Juvenile Crusade Against War Is Theme At The Roxy
A singla handad juvenile crusade against War and intolerance is the assance of "The Boy With Green Hair" opening at the Roxy Theatro today. As on entertainment it is a sob story reeking with Irish flavour. As anti-violence propagando it falls 'flat in its endeavour to be powerfully dramatic.
"Green Halz" tells the story of during the process of the haircut. a war orphan who, after months That night the boy runs away with sympathetic "relatives in and is found by the police who different parts of the country call in a child psychiatrist. Thatë arrives at the home of Gramps is actually the beginning of the where he finds comfort and un- Alm, and our boy starts telling derstanding with the kind-hearted his story. old vaudeville entertainer.
Dean Stockwell's acting as the After the boy has settled down boy is the only bright spark to life with Gramps, he suddenly in
the slow tedious plot learns that he is a war orphan. of "Green Hale" He por- Up to now he hasn't yet guessed traya the character with real why he was travelling from door and sincere feeling. The weak- to door.
Then his hair turns green; for the simple reason that he under- ADC! 4 vigorous scrubbing in Gramps bathroom. The scene is amusing
"The Boy" doesn't really enre about his green hair until he is made the subject of ridicule which hurts his sensitive naturo, He won't cut it off, he won't have it dyed. "I just want my hair as It was," he laments.
After much uncharitableness on the part of his neighbours, "The Boy" runs off into the woods. There he is met be a group of war orphans the ones he saw on a propaganda poster. They explain to him the reason for his green hair.
"The Boy" then returns to his of the aforementioned cx- neighbourhood, no longer ashamed In football hero, cumes in for the of his oddly-coloured hair. University's big game. and, incl- fart, he uses his green hair as a denially, to see his old pal Fonda. symbol to preach the anti-war Olivia de Havilland now starts gospel to the populace, and not getting that romantic look about very convincing at that. berland keeps talking about the The people's attitude of mean- good old days when she and Car-ness then changes to suspicion and son used to have so much fun, se superstition, and the whole town Fonda knows there is more trouble deckles there and then that the ahead.
boy's green hair must go. He fights to retain his beautiful crop, but to no avail, Even Gramps, he thinks, is against him and he ogress to go to the barber where another tearful scene is enacted
But the professor finds a Golu- tion which is a fitting climax to the film,
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SHOWING TODAY
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UNIVERSAL. INTERNATIONAL presenta ROBERT WALKER
AYA
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Chinese Film For The King's
Another Yung Hwa produc- tion is due for general release on June 7 at the King's Theatre
NE TOUCH with sub-titles in English.
"ONE
VENUS
" OPENS SUNDAY. *
SIGNE
DICK POWELL HASSO
in
"TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH"
&
This film, "A Peasant's Tragedy," features the weil known Chinese star. Miss Pal Yang, and male lead, T'ao King.
A story of the vicissitudes of the family of a Chinese Army officer during the Japanese oc- cupation,
lon, "A Peasant's Tragedy" was shot in and around the Col- ony and contains many tense and dramatic sec
scones in which both featured players enhance their reputations as character stors.
In view of the increased in- terest shown by foreigners in Chinese films, the English sub- titles have been specially prepar- ed to outline the theme of the nction of the film.
QUEEN'S ALHAMBRA
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At 2.30, 5.15
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TREASON'S TRAIL IS A CROOKED MILE
COLUMBIA PICTURES presents
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murder!
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FBI TEAMS UP WHH SCOTLAND YARDIS
STARRING
LOUIS HAYWARD DENNIS O'KEEFE
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CARL ESMOND
EDWARD SMALL
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ness of the plot is no fault of his. As Gramps, Pat O'Brien is at his usual naturalness, with Robert Ryan, another Irishman, as the doctor, taking a small and unim- portant role.
WEEK-END FILM FARE
ALHAMBRA: "Walk A Crooked Milo" (Columbia), starring Louis Hayward and Dongla O'Keefe The FB1 Scotland Yard play bloodhounds.
and
KING'S: "Don't Trust Your Husband"
(United Artists), starring Fred MacMurray and Madeleine Carroll.8ix les-
won in married iffe.
LEE: "The Male Animal” (Warner Brothers), starring Honry Fonda and Olivia de Havilland,
QUEEN'S: "Walk A Crook. nd Mile,"
ROXY: "The Boy With Green Hair" (BKQ), starring Dcan Stockwell-Ap ↑ anti-. war lecture,
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A
DORE SCHARY Presentation
SHOWING TODAY
AT
2.30, 5.30, 7.30
& 9.30 P.M.
But PLEASE don't reveal to others WHY the boy's hair
turned GREEN!
THE BOY
in Color by TECHNICOLOR
WITH GREEN HAIR
PAT O'BRIEN - ROBERT RYAN • BARBARA HALE and DEAN STOCKWELL Produced by STEPHEN AMES • Directed by JOSEPH LOSEY • Screen Play by BEN BARZMAN and ALFRED LEWIS LEVITT
as "The Boy"
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