LAST
FOUR
SHOWS
Kine's
At 12 Noon,
Home, Sweet Home
雁来南
A Chinese Picture with
Mandarin Dialogue
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
2.30, 5.15.
7.20 p.m.
I DON'T BE ALARMED, MISS. NO ONE
WILL HAAM YOU HERE. YOU'RE IN THE WORLD'S LARGEST PRIVATE MUSEUM.
IT'S QUITE SECRET OF COURSE. MR-JAY'S A RETIRING MAN AND DISLIKES PUBLICITY.
BUT--BUT- WILL YOU
KING'S MAJESTIC
GALA PREMIERE AT KING'S THEATRE TO-DAY AT 9.30 P.M.
In Aid of the Funds of THE HONGKONG COUNCIL OF SOCIAL SERVICE
GRAND OPENING ON SUNDAY, 31ST DECEMBER
EXTRA PERFORMANCE
IKKING'S
Sunday and Monday
Ar 11.30 a.m.
MAJESTIC
Sunday and Monday
At 12 Noon
The greatest ADVENTURE of them all!
Walt Disney's
PRESENTATION OF Robert Louis Stevenson's
Walt Disney captures all the white-hot violence of black- hearted pirates and desperate courage in this mighty ACTION picture ALIVE with excitement!
Treasure
Island
Colerby TECHNICOLOR
with
BOBBY DRISCOLL ROBERT NEWTON • BASIL SYDNEY
Produced by PERCE PEARCE • Directed by BYRON KASKIN » Seregnolay by LAWRENCE E. WATKIN Distributed by RKO Radka Pictures, Inc.
ROXU BROADWAY
FINAL SHOWING AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.” - Introducing MICHELINE PRELLE, New Discovered Star!
THAT ERNEST HEMINGWAY WALLOP!
John GARFIELD Micheline PRELLE
D JEAN NEGULESCU
CASEY ROBINSON
UNDER MY
SKIN 20
with
LUTHER ADLER
ROXY ADDED: Latest 20th Contury-Fox Movictono Nows
COMMENCING TO-MORROW
•
John DEREK Diana LYNN
in
"ROGUES OF SHERWOOD FOREST”
COLOR BY TECHNICOLOR
A COLUMBIA PICTURE
BOOKINGS NOW OPEN
·ROXY: To-morrow.
BROADWAY: To-morrow
Morning Show At 12.00 Noon
"Rogues. Of Sherwood Forest".
TO-DAY
ONLY
Morning Show
At 12.00 Noon
"Colored Cartoons”. From 20th Century-Fox & RKO Radio Studios
Cathay
A 2.30, 5.30,
1.30 & 9.30
P.M.
AN U.S.S.R. PROUD PRODUCTION I
“THE SON OF A REGIMENT”. DIALOGUE IN MANDARIN
TO-MORROW
"NEW CZECHOSLOVAKIA” In Glorious Colour -- Mandarin Version -
4.13
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
THIS IS THE ART WING, NATURALLY.
THIS IS THE FLORAL
WILL YOU
EACH OF THESE OBJECTS (5
WING, EACH OF THESE À STOP THAT--
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL OF
YES,
ITS KIND ON EARTH.
BUT,
PLANTS IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL
AND TELL
ME WHY
JENKS
I'M HERE?
SEAT IN THE STALLS
FIFTY YEARS MEDIAEVAL, BUT SOUND ENOUGH
BEFORE
YOUR EYES
The dead live again, and many world-famed figures re-enact their greatest triumphs in Warner Bros.' forthcoming saga, "Fifty Years Before Your Eyes."
To be seen in the picture as it relnies the story of America's progress are:
The old Keystone Kops in action;
Mack Sennett's bathing, boau- ties;
Rare Footage of such famous entertainers us Lian Russell, Buffalo Bill, John Philip Sousa, Mary Pickford, John Barrymore and Enrico Caruso;
Billy Sunday, the great evas- gelist, battling against sin;
The late Mayor LaGuardja reading the Sunday funnies;
Japanese Navy brass on the White House lawn prior do World War II;
Teddy Roosevelt in 1912;
Prince robito (present Em- peror of Japan) chatting with Lloyd George;
famous films
The first movies ever taken of Mussolint, Hitler and Stalin;
Excerpts from starring Charles Chaplin, Ben Turpin, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.,
Jolson,
son, Will Rogers and Rudolph Valentino,
AL
ent Truman's Imitation
President
of H. V. Kaltenborn.
Your was threu years in the making, and its story is narrated by Arthur Godfrey, assisted by born, Milton Cross, Quen- Kallenborn,
"Fifty Years Before Eyes
in Reynolds, Norman Broken- shire, Dwight Weist, Clem Mc- Andre Baruch and Don
Cartofi
And to purchase the rare old museum footage from which the picture Wo3 compiled would severely tax Uncle Sam's T. D.
In mediaeval times when the young blood had picked his girl friend and she would have none of him, ways and means were normally found to settle this eternal issue. Here, after Princess Anne of Hesse (Virginia Mayo) has twice escaped from Dardo the Arrow (Burt Lancaster), he makes sure of keeping her by attaching a collar and chain.
Hollywood is exploring mediaeval times now and finding some forgotten characters who can bring as much excitement to the screen
la
as all the two-gun boys. This Ume it mediaeval Italy in the times of Ulrich of Hesse and it's a stunt picture in the regular old Fair- banks tradition.
Warner Brothers are offering a prize of $1,000,000 to anyone who can prove that any of the stunts are the work of cameramen. It circus is claimed that Lancaster, a former 'stunt man, takes every breath-taking leap himself. The film is the New Year attraction at the Queen's and Alhambra Theatres,
THE CO-STARRING TEAMS
ARE COMING BACK
Says MELROSE GOWER
Holiday Screen Fare
Lucille Ball, Bob Hope, Lea Penman and John Alexander are four of the principals in "Let's Face It" at the LEE and LIBERTY Theatres.
LEE Liberly
ATE CÓYNIONED.
OZONIZED AND WANN
DAILY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
SHOWING TO-DAY
You'll Laugh
And Laugh
And Laugh
AS MR. ROBERT HOPE GOES HIGH-BROW!'.
HOPES
...tamin the West.
WITH SIX-SHOOTERS IN HIS HANDS.
AND A MONOCLE IN HIS EYE!
Just hurry down to the movie house, folks...and gol set for more laughs than"The Paleface"!
Color by
Technicolos
Fancy Pants
BOB HOPE LUCILLE BALL
BRUCE CABOT JACK KIRKWOOD
Produced by
Ducted
ROBERT WELCH - GEORGE MARSHALL Suzannplay by Edmund Karangan und Aubert → Blen
Bag Story by Harry Lost M
A Paramount Picture
SPECIAL MORNING SHOW
AT THE
LEE
SUNDAY & MONDAY
12.00 Noon
"FANCY PANTS"
In Technicolor!
and "The
TO-DAY
ONLY
giamorous Italian-born star was a rip-snortin' success. The pic- ture was a box-office hit.
David 0, Selznick All film fans of long
Alexander Korda made standing can recall the days, Third Man," with Joseph Cotton when big co-starring teams falling hard for Valli as the alm brought pleasure to millions progressed. The union of the Cotten and the of theatre-goers and riches personable to thousands of theatre ex- hibitors-the days when Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor, Nelson Eddy and Which prompted RKO Radio Jeanette MacDonald, Wal- to waste no time luring Cotten lace Beery and Marie lot as co-stars of "Walk Softly, Dressler, John Gilbert and Stranger," in which Valli plays Garbo, Fred Astaire and a beautiful socialite hopelessly in love with a gambler heated Ginger Rogers and
The picture for prisen, other duos were creating "neaked" recently--and studio laughter and tears all over omcials now are doing consider the world.
able back slapping. They believe they've got something."
many
and Valli to its Gower street
A Lull
wus
And then there came pause, remember? Many movie stars turned to free- lancing, refusing to sign excessively long-term con- Came a lull in. the indepen- dent production activities of tracts with any one com- James Cagney and his brother pany. It became increasing- Willam. Over to Warner ly difficult for studios to Brothers ambled Jimmy to co- hold together over a period star with Virginia Mayo in Heat." Hot, indeed, of time any two big stellar "White
WOB the reaction, and back personalities.
together in "Klas Tomorrow Goodbye" went Jimmy and
Now the old days ap Virginia. parently are coming back.
Elle and Agatha Flood (Lea Penman and Lucille Ball) There is a definite trend of
Also at Warner'#3 is that adopt a phony gentleman's gentleman (Bob Hope) and use him as the season's social register attraction at Big Squaw, late toward the continued musical-sounding pair, Gordon MacRae and Doris Day (boy, as Teddy Roosevelt provides union on the screen of well- heyt) who got together on the
New Mexico. John Alexander some of the period background.
Plotting the downfall of the wicked King John in this scene, from "Rogues of Sherwood Forest", the New Year attraction at the ROXY and BROADWAY Theatres are Robin Hood (John Derek), Win Scarjott chilly Bován) szid Alan÷as Dale (Lester Matthews).
The others--Frine Tuok, Laitje John, ejamaro all in the film as in, of ovRINO, DEREN DERɛlan, Diana Lynn plays the latter,"
matched actors and ac screen to enjoy, and to make tresses. Flint strikes steel others enjoy, "Ten For Two." and the resultant spark Now they've just wound up touches off box-office bon- "The West Point Story," and you'll certainly ECO them fires.
together in more pictures
Back again in Woll Disney verwion in #fresqure Island", showing at the KING's and MAJESTIC Theatree.
Bobby Driscoll playa Tim. Hawkins and Robori Newien In Long John Silm Here on the laland Captain Smollett medi
AT THE LIBERTY
SUNDAY & MONDAY
AT 12.30 P.M. “FANCY PANTS”
In Technicolorf
AT 2.30, 5.20.
MAJESTIC 7.20 & 9.30
ME FAIR-CONDITIONED
P.M.
☆ FINAL SHOWING TO-DAY ★
BROUGHT TO GLOWING LIFE!
The world's best-loved story..• NQW!
Walt Disney's greatest since. “Snow, WEIto?!
WALT DISNEY'S
INDERELLA
Color by TECHNICOLOR
ADDED ATTRACTION
"BASKETBALL HEADLINES OF 1950" ALSO: LATEST. WARNER PATHE NEWS
COMMENCING TOMORROW SUNDAY AND MONDAY EXTRA PERFORMANCE AT 12.00 NOON "TREASURE ISLAND"
Color By Technicolor
ORIENTAL
AIR CONDITIONED
Take Any Eastern Tram Car or Happy Valley Bus
SHOWING TO-DAY: 2.30–5.30—7.30 & 9.30 P.,M. Soo the Great Singing Star on the Scroant
VAUGHN MONROE
SINGING GUNS
A REPUBLIC PRODUCTION