KING'S MAJESTIC
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"KING'S
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MAJESTIC AT 12 NOON
WALTER WINCHELL
“A CAMUN GODiyeni
pintyre i glennys big town, but fer Infans ali Bogkat,
st very fun tizna
OUR
VERY OWN
AIK BLYTH FARLEY GRANGER JOAN EVANS
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WILD LIFE THRILLSAIN
MOUNTAIN FORESTS!
WALT DISNEY
presentis
A TRUE-LIFE ADVENTURE
BEAVER VALLEY
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Debby WHO HADIG PICTURES, MI
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TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1951.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN -
BEGINNINGI-THE DARK KIN FAR-OFF, ROMANIA & THE RULEA IS WAADA'S.
“PUPULAR YOUNG KING SEG
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
--WHOSE PRUDE ANUJOY IS HIS
THREE-YEAR OLD SON, CUDDLES.
OR. DUOL YOU COME FROM OUR
MEANWHILE SEGRID IS HAVING HIS A WHERE ARE
OWN PROBLEMS
(MANY UCH IGNOR REGEN
CUDDLES, STOP SUCKING YOUR THUMB OA I EL TELLDADDY.
David Lewin's SPOTLIGHT
LEGEND. ACCORDING. TO THIS REPORT.THE PEASANTS ARE BEING 'BUED WHITE BY SOME ONE KNOWN AS
THE DARK ONE-
LILLI PALMER LEADS REX OUT OF THE TEA AND DUCHESS' CLASS
If it seemed odd to find Rex Harrison as a suburban family man in his frst film with his wife in five years, then Lilli Palmer had the answer..
Some of Rex Harrison's own money and a lot of his wife's reasoning have gone Into "The Long Dark Hall." For it was Miss Palmer who decided it was time her husband played a part without his expected comedy touches.
Which you may think a pity, for while a lot of our actors can look worried on the screen, few can touch Harrison when it comes to those familiar comedy parts in which he "balances a cup of tea in one hand and a duchess in the other."
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I'll back Lilli Palmer in her decision to make a break with first Harrison tradition. The sign: When Rex Harrison play- ed the psychiatrist in the verse play, The Cocktail Party."
Then we had to try some- thing new in pleturos," said Miss Palmer, who supplies the pros In the Harrison household. "Careers have to be planned- I like planning."
So now The Long Dark Hall" The Alm gives Mrs Har-
who
"I haven't had any experience of
any
others. This one does all right."
SOMEONE,
I.
rison the part of a sympathetic Happy Babes and understanding wife readily forgives her husband when he has to admit to an affair
showgiri he later with found murdered.
FACT: Autrey Hepburn, abode, is one of the last Hoo girts in the running for "the ittle role of "The Broken Dollife-story. im o1. Clarice Mayne, muric-hall and panto tar
DEN BACKGROUND: Aged 21, started as a ballet dancer, is as op peared in. West End musicals and cabaret; has At med
suppose, will try to make a caso that pantomime la falling because one of the three in the West Miss Palmer has always un- End comes off on Saturday, derstood her husband. Under- stood his forgetfulness, for in- week early, after a seven-week stance. Some time age she gave run.
It has been a poor season for gold cigarette case mark-
him
ed With love. Within six weeks most pantomime producers in he had misplaced it. She gave him anather. This time the "Once more engraving read: with love."
Here Again
"STREETCAll Named De- sire" turns up again, this time twice-nightly at a hall.
music
Since the Arts Counell has its name on the bills the show still pays no entertainment tax..
So after the customers see Max Miller one week, they have the "cultural" tax-tree "Street car" the next. Not only Max Miller will wonder why the discrimination.
It is no longer villain. a now FILM showmen have found television that rouses their anger -but Laurence Olivier.
All because he said "British Alms pay very well. But they
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the West End. There has been flu (when competition from father is ill the whole family often cancels a seats) and from the four big "arena shows" which take 26,000 people at a sitting for their circuses and the ice-shows.
That, roughly, is equal to 20 average West End theatres.
I am not among those prepa:- ing a premature pantomime burial. For "Babes in the Wood," with a big-show sparkle stays comfortably in the West. Ead until March. And in provinces BOMO the pantomimes have ex-
still tended their russ und matinees.
have daily
Too Much.
"An Olivia de Havilland quality in her_acting." "A maturity of performance and restrained emotion." The showmen want
"Promise of real beauty-with Laurence to retract. He refuses features almost classic in their Almost daily they are holding regularity." meetings of protest.
Str
Who does that describe? Jane They ignore the one way the Wymon in a new film or Gla- could hit back at Olivier-by ger Rogers' latest dramatic part?
THE HONGKONG STAGE CLUB refusing to show his gims. But No. They are the incredible
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is where we enne ku
Her Mother
IN between film acting all day and appearing at a West End theatre at night Ro- bert Morley has found time to write a new play. It is for his
Says Morley: "It'a not to satisfy a mother-in-law sim- ply by
Tooung, debed for EVER Years a British studio this week.
the studio's idea of
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Under The Hands of A Brilliant Film-Making Team!
A konden Filci, Priened by KLIKANDER KORDA A DAVIS, 8, TÚLKNEK.
JENNIFER
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DAVID FARBAR
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Cowboys To Ride The Wild Welsh Hills
mother-in-law Gladys Cooper Says George public Pictures Corporate
an the studio 1. found a small
easy
play and tell
"LOVERS
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STAR
London during the early days of kinema
audience Calling a singing cowboy tography, when
sukienly panicked and dived it was enough to ruin therglif's star who plans to ride the dat at the sight of a train which chances before her first mild Welsh hills this spring, appeared to be bearing down gets to the screen.
them from the flickering Calling Roy Rogers. Re bu customers will decide.
which has frozen marquee ailed with long-skirled GEORGE BURNS-he, in tion,
tight men with Grude' Allen's husband money to use here, has de women sad off you go and act in gives this pointer to success as a cided to dispatch: Roy trousers and billycock hats This was the Animated Electrie The average mother-in-law, straight man in a comedy team: Rogers to Wales to make n Theatre, Director John Boulting can't' and what's more wan't." First you need talent, then you
claimed to be showing the actual 17, Hankow Rd., Kowloon Has Morley any other views must develop it and anally like cowboy ploture.
Dan which would think With the singing puncter will only
the panic. on, mothers-in-law? Just this: me you marry her."!.
ink that
TO-DAY ONLY I come his co-star wie Dale Wim Velese-Greene, Inventor Evans, and his horse, Trigg w
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6.9.30 P.M.. Rogers in the film will round-up Ing about the set at Elstree, the rustlers in the Rhondda Valley way they speak of him there. Robert Donat, Margaret John- and end by winning on, Glynis Johns, Marla Bekaif,
THERE'S A⠀⠀⠀RESEMBLANCE
Eisteddfod..
peem to hear him now: Hit Richard Attenboroug
By sub the trail, Trigger bach.
Sim up we gotta be in Llanfairpwll "Wnus,”
babit in catching.
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"darn it, "YOU HIDEg in the Music: DOT Tony Priest-Greene, who
tysillogogoroch
now I ain't got enough breath is left for the ride!”
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