SHOWING
TO-DAY
KING'S
AIR CONDITIONEL
At 2.30. 5.15,
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1950).
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
ARE YOU ALLIRE, SHOULD HAVE. AIGHT LOTHAR | HELD THEM HERE!
7.20 & 9.30 P.M.
WE SHOULDA PLUGGED HIM.
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Kada in the course of the
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Supervised by
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51114:CLICK LIKITAI
KEY INGATLOCKE
THE
ACTURE WITH
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QUEEN'S ALHAMBRA 7.20 & 9.30
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HE WANTS TO ROMANCE HER
BUT..
there's that BUBBLE- DANCER!
CLARK
RIDTOUS COMANCE!
LORETTA
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KEY TO THE CITY
·MARILYN MAXWELL- FRANK MORGAN.
3 MED SOLEUTH AFTED PITION
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AT 11.30 A.M.
SHOWING
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ALHAMBRA
AT 12 NOON
BROADWAY
[AIR CONDMONED)
THREW THOSE
LSTALLS
I WANTED TO
[FIND OUT WHO
THEY WERE-OL"}
IME SORAY
YOU DID NOBLY. THEY'LL BE BACK. Ou--MY HEAD- WHAT DID THEY-
MEAN BY COLLECTING
NARDAP
CONTINUED-
For Mai Zetterling, death takes
a brief holiday
by HAROLD CONWAY
LONDON.
docs.
3. His salory, if he SCENE: Walton-on-Thames Aim como wil! not-cannot-excred
studios. PICTURE IN PRO- £5,000 a wook.
DUCTION: Hell Is Sold Out. Venus on Avon
STARS:
Richard Atten-
Some weeks ago 1. chided borough, Mai Zetterling and West End managements for not following up the success of new
Herbert Lom.
WHAT does that yet further chances. I mentioned
gest to you? another lurid melodrama- especially the case of neglected Heather Stannard, who was
with a neurotic gangster, Olivier's impressive but his pathetic, angelic-minded meteoric-leading lady in Venus "moll," and a sardonic spiv Observed.
Now, I hear, it has been left to form the triangle?
Akal Zotterling, Richard Attenborough put on new personalities in Hell i Sold Out
Not down Walton way, where to Stratford-on-Avon to do the "The Tempest" will
Miss Stannard
this acting trio are on strike following up. against repeat-order casting,
be D.S
the
to the limelight and one of the Spirits in give 2,
actors; the young actresses will spectacular 30 her
Cressida, be in partial eclipsea shame- goes there as principal actress which she played there In 1918. ful spreading to Avon-side of ungallant policy in When I looked in a few days for the 1951 season.
But none
roles--the of her Attenborough-
The reason: next year's Strat- the West End I deplored recent- Richard ago, inhibitions packed happily away Queen in "Richard II" Doll ford season is to be largely a ly.
a Tearsheet in "Henry IV" Part man's affair. All the plays chosen. -(London Express Service.) was playing Chopin with flirtatiously-roving eye, Bir Lom,
in-
as a best-seller novelist, looked]
choruble Of the picture nocence.
And Miss Zetterling-whose modern Eurydice dies so mov- ingly of the Lyric, Hammer- smith, cach night? She was flirting back with the perfected technique of a Swedish merry widow let loose in Paris
I don't know how this little the Maurice frolic-based on Dekobra novel-will turn out.
it I do know that is good for dramatic stars to give the pub- lle an occasional change, in this way, if they are to remain stars and not just types.
It is the easiest thing in the to show-world for producers "type-cast" stars after one or in a two box-office successes
of role. It is particular kind also the easiest way to kill.
Britain's those stars' careers. film industry is strewn with the corpses.
For Mai Zotterling the Deko- film comedy comes as an es-
bra
Sue
AT 2.30, 5.30, pecially welcome change since she has a much wider acting 7.30 & 9,30
theatre audiences range than
But P.M. have been led to suppose.
she must make the most of her interlude.
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To-Morrow: Errol Flynn in "DIVE BOMBER”*. SPECIAL MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW AT 12.30-
The Anouilh play, "Point of comes in from Departure,"
Hammersmith to the West End directly a suitable theatre is available. And Miss Zetterling's next picture will probably be "The Tall Headlines"-adopted | from the recent novel about the effect on his family of a
a young man's execution for murder.
So far as this actress is con- ecrned, death takes a holiday for the present only-between 8 am, and 6 p.m. at Walton-on- Thames,
Danny: The facts
Don't take these Broadway reports too seriously that Danny Kaye has been offered a week for а £7,000 three-month Palladium engage- ment next summer.
It was nice reminder alver- tising, of course, for Danny in Royal Variety Show week, since he couldn't be here himself. But I am sorry to see his name used in that popular Broadway and Hollywood game-of seeing who can boast the highest London salary.
Here are the facts:
1-Kaye will probably do a London reason during Festival time, though the Palladium's Val Parnell has not yet made u An offer.
2. It will be for considerably 105$
than three months, balance being spread over provincial tour.
that
It's Old Favourites' Week
Recognize the four in the top picture? They
the are, from
left, Buster Keaton Gloria Swanson, Hedda Hopper and It, B. Warner, all of them rank- ed among the screen's oldest old. timers and appearing together In "Sunset Boulevard", now at the Leo Thenire,
Miss Swanson plays the role of a shelyed Idol of silent alms
"Sunset Boulevard". She proves quite conclusively that she is herself, at 52, for from being ready for the shelf.
24
*
Clark Gable and Loreita Young (left) are some 10 years behind Miss Swanson as time marches on. Here they are in cer To The scene from "Key City"
at the now showing Queen's Theatre, Clark is longshoreman mayor from the state of Washington and Loretta the very feminine mayor of a Maine town. They meet at a Mayor' Convention
San Francisco and ourlotin and hilarious things begin to hap- pen. It is one of the comedies of the year.
is
HAVE YOU EVER DREAMED THAT—'
AND, THAT
TOUR HANDS
WERS COVERED, WITH⋅ WARTS F
THIS
YOU WERE UNDRESSED
IN PUBLIC?
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much you are concerned with superficial ap- pearances. All your anxiety is finding its way into a supersemitiveness which is getting you nowhere.
This is the anxiety dream of the self-centred Individual. It indicates that your life is too
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This is the story of young Joe Gillis, a Hollywood writer... Norma Desmond, glamorous movie star and Betty Schaefer, lovely young girl who loved Joe.
A HOLLYWOOD STORY!
STAR
SUNSET.
WILLIAM HOLDEN GLORIA SWANSON
ERICH VONSTROHEIM:
with
NANCY OLSON-FRED CLARK LLOYD GOUGH - JACK WEBB
BOULEVARD
and Cecil B. DeMille-Hedda Happer-Buster Keaton-Anna Q. Nilsson H. B. Warner. Franklyn Farnum Produced by Charles Brackelt! Directed by BILLY WILDER Written by Charles Brackelt... Billy Wilder and D. M. Marshman, Jr. A Paramount Picture
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