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1.20. & 9.30 p.m.
SATURDAY & SUNDAY Extra Performance at 11.30 a.m. “CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS"
LANCASTER
YVONNE
DeCARLO
DAN
DURYEA
MARK HELLINGER'S choice to toflow
"KILLERS and "HAKED CITT""
"You always
got what you wanted. Baby... Now you're gonna get him... for keeps...!"
CRISSXCROSS
with
STEPHEN MCNALLY RICHARD LONG ROBERT SIODMAK
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KATHLEEN BYRON, MARGARET LOCKWOOD & PAUL DUPUIS The eternal Triangly spiced up.
Miss Lockwood in romantic drama
Rating:
A neat romantic drama with a fair dasli of suspense is being offered cinema-goers at the Roxy Theatre this week-end with the screening of of the the British production, "Madness Heart."
"Itely Starring Margaret Lockwood--in our opinion one of Britain's finest actresses--Moxwell Reed, Kathleen Byron and Poul Dupuis, "Madness of the Heart" traces the problems of the eternal triangle with a novel and refreshing
SHOWING
TODAY
AT
2. 30, 530,
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730 9.30
P.M.
„MARGARET LOCKWOOD
WAABIF BLED KATHLEEN DYROV PAL DUPLAS.
MADNESS OF
THE HEART
Tik
MAJESTIC
She never told a single lie
AL 2.30. 5.20,
7.20 & 9.30 p.m.
She just told 'em by the score ! Betty Sings 3 Song Hits !
Betty HUTTON" Sonny TUFTS
in
"CROSS MY HEART"
with Michael Chekhov.
A PARAMOUNT
BOB HOPE
PICTURE
+
LUCILLE BALL
Tomorrow! "SORROWFUL JONES"
THE FIRST FILIPINO,
PICTURE SHOWING IN Ilh.
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this film, are worthy of praise.
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Bing-Barry partnership
in Irish film
Rating
That there can be too much of a Rood thing is proven by Miss Faekwond's portrayal of Paramount's "Top O' The the blind ght is excellent
Morning". starring Bing Cross
ond,
in a modest way, could be comby and Barry Filzgerald and poreal to Jane Wyman's charge-
now showing at the Lee and the leat mute fr
Liberty Theatres. <15 "John Belinsta." The rest the talon ollie with soul res although we worked perior martes have lopen sotherme other than Kathleen Byron to play Verite, the villion if the piece.
Paul Dupuis, French Canarian who was introduced to the local to "Sleeping Car to Tri- exte, plays his sensitive cole well.
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Underworld triangle
Rating
"Criss Cross," opening today.
When Hollywood first matched "The Groaner" and Fitzgerald in નતુ | bang- "Going My Way," up job in combining Blog's vocal qualities Fitzgerald's "folkaines" and a sinerre plot. The result was a bit movie,
on
The second picture, "Welcome Stranger."
that capitalised
It lacked the sucress, although finer points that appealed to the sentimental in "Going My Way."
NO.
In a way, too, Picture
the beginning of a rut
... the stale
2 wan
FREDRIC MARCH and COLLEAGUES
The ocean proved a tough for
Columbus
saga at
the Queen's BROADWAY
Rating:
CONDITIONED.
SHOWING TODAY
In the Technicolor picture at 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 PM "Christopher Columbus.'
nov
at the Queen's Theatre, one of history's ment rumantie ventures is vividly brought to
life.
It is the story of the 15th cen- tury explorer who dared adven lure and peril on the high seas to And New World; who fought ogains! Harigue and treachery of his enemies, and who found a new to empire which was destined bring untold wealth to the Court
Spain
of
The B stars Fredric March as Columbus and boasts of a well balanced supporting cast including Florence Eldridge (Mrs. Murch Kathleen Ryan. in private Linden Travers, Francis L. Sulli-' van nad Derek Bond.
Although several rities have offered adverse comments on the wish to atate picture's pact, we that in our opinion "Christopher Columbus" loses little without the Hollywoodian hopey usually ser- ved up with historical produc
lons,
This English eple has avoided the i-am and the conversa- Bional lapses we expect In the uffered or normal epic and has submiflute a fairly sane and play- sibic plot,
The m'a settings and the of the actors und costumes
con- actresses are splendid and tribute their part in making the film
entertainment, enjoyable albeit a little on the heavy side.
HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP
Even Jules Dakain, American direc- Fitzgerald's quizzical peering over tor who made that flue droma o his holf-moon alasses-always the New York Streets, "Nake
to capture the tor chuckle didn't City," is alming
T
London situations and spirit of
in much th in "Night und at the King's Theatre, brings which ran through the flim same way together
underworld with almost monotonous regular- City" which Twentieth Century- Fox are making in Britain. Gene triangl Burt Lancaster, Yvonne ity.
Richard Widmark
д
thi
Blonde Stella Andrew, spotter a year ago by a Denham En
Maude
De Carlo and Dan Duryea, and "Top Of The Morning." Pleture Tierny and lovers of gangsterism's double-No 3, definitely slows that Bing's will co-star with an English sup- talk are expected to go for this voice and Fitzgerald's folksiness porting cast. picture in a big way.
are not enough to carry a picture. Directed by Pubert Siodmak, A good plot is essential, and even presence The Killers" tame, Criss Ann Blyth's shapely Cross" doesn't quite live up to (she can cook, too) doesn't alter land) casting director, the star of Д better-than- the fact that a Picture No. 4, is Spector when playing in Shaw's
"Heartbreak House"
with
the average thriller.
definitely not destred as long as
Oxford Repertory Company, has in a to throw However, Slodmak's clever Hollywood falls
been given the chief feminine handling nf
Bash-backs
decent story. camera angles, and his "off-beat"
cluema- ed," approach to enliven the suspense, ever, should not deter
and The above disparagement, how role o cities
In "They Were Not Divid- picture about advance of the Guards' Armoured Division. Sho has studio before; our opinion, possesses the Crosby fans are assured an ample, never been in perfect sercon fare for parts which dose of new melodies. It's just nor had sho attempted to break call for a general round of hisses; that the film could be so much into flims, being perfectly con- tented with neting in the theatre, personally. WC would like 'to better.
are worthy of note, as is also Dan goers. "Top O' The Morning" in the Duryea's slimey acting This man, still enjoyable entertainment, and
to
punch his puss.
Yvonne De Carlo Is as alluring į
as ever, although not much of an
actress. But then, when gongsters
CLUB
get together to fight over a moll, CHINA THE HONG KONG STAGE CLUB THEATRE
who cares about the acting?
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JEAN NEGULESCO
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WILLIAM PERLBERG
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Produced by.FRED KOHLHAR:
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Dennis MORGAN, Dorothy MALONE
Į ARTHUR RANK prevanes
FREDRIC MARCH
CHRISTOPHER
COLUMBUS,
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THE SEASON'S GREATEST OUTDOOR ADVENTURE FILM! An Exciting Cowboy and Indian drain al budas With all the Thrills and action of the Old West!
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Gene AUTRY
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4 SHOWS AT 2.30,
4 SHOWS AT 2.30,
5.15, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m. § 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m.
TODAY
SHOWING
BING and BARRY
are back
in their newest funniest tune fullest
Not since "Going My Way" and "Welcome Stranger"
have Bing and Barry whipped up
Bing sings these great song tits! "You're In Love
With Someone "The Donovias,
"Top Of The Moming.
- "Aš Brautiful Killy
so much heart-warming fun!
Bing Crosby: Ann Blyth
Barry Fitzgerald · Hume Cronyn Top O'the Morning"
PA, POREPTE WELCH
DAVIDE PARTER
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