TO-DAY
ONLY
1
King's
Cornel
WILDE
AT 2.30, 5.15.
7.20 & 9.30 P.M.
AN AVALANCHE
OF FUN ON
ONE WILDE
WEEKEND!
"Tour Days Leave"
ES CERTURAE, PRZE
Josette Day-Simone Signoret
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TO-MORROW
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KEENAN WYNN HELEN WALKER
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TO-MORROW MORNING AT 11.30 A.M. ----
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"VARIETY PROGRAMME”
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Colour Cartoons 3 Stooges Comedies and A Special Subject “DÖG SHOW"
AT REDUCED PRICES ··
ROX V*BROADWAY
HOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
Burt LANCASTER Dorothy MCGUIRE Edmund GWENN
20.
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Mister
MILLARD MITCHELL
OXY ADDED: Lafust 20th Century-Fox Movietone News
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·TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW
AT 11,30 A.M.
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Released Thru RKO Radio Pictures At Reduced Prices
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TO-DAY
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MAJESTIC
AIR-CONDITIONED
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1951.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
AS SEGRID'S SON BAFFLES THE DOCTORS
WITH HIS STRANGE ILLNESS...
NO IMPROVEMENT.
| NOTHING SEEMS TO
WORK.
WE MUST KEEP
TRYING, GENTLEMEN
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
SHOWING
I'M RELPLESS--I CAN'T TAKE A ·
IN THE MOUNTAINS,THE PEASANTS
WHISPER...
TO-DAY
CHANCE ON CUDDLES
LIFE BY SENDING
AN ARMY TO
DESTROY THIS *DAAS ONE
AT 2.30, 5.15..
/P.M.
EVEN THE MIGHTY KING SEGRID 'AND ALL HIS ARMIES FEAR THE
DARK ONE-- PR
AND THE POWER OF THE MYSTERIOUS " DAAK ONE"
SPREADS UNCHECKED...
QUEEN'S ALHAMBRA 7.20 & 9.30
RED SKELTON
ARLSHE
ANN
DAHL MILLER
MGMS
Reverse Angles On PORTRAIT OF
Edmund Gwenn
WIDMARK
Richard Widmark,
the
| actor, usually plays a tough guy. He seldom. smokes. doesn't drink, dislikes fire-
"You аге
of 1950 he has] arms and has been in a В shifticas him for a role in "Man and eight months tramp and you will and in Superman," as a chauffeur beer in four... American nu night club only once....He
diences hailed him às a dis-
the gutter," shouted. Ed- Enraged, be enlisted covery in The Bishop Misbes shy and avoids Irgo
мате
classes.
One Jean
He taught speech and drama aat Lake Forest University,
of his best students was Hazlewood; he married her... His
movements are alow and de-
mund Gwenn's father when in the Royal Army Service haves," the first picture they groups of people. In high school and college, he was the 17-year-old youth said Corps at the outbreak of saw him in.
He had important roles in he wanted to be an actor. World War I, not expecting 21 English films before he was president of his senior His first professional ap to find any theatre, people. scen in America....He is pearance was in the play, In the Army with him were thought of as a quiet, plodding
He was once "Rogues and Vagabonds." Ronald Colman, Nigel le
dance instructor, specialising His limousine has a Bruce, Ian Hunter and Basil in
tangor's Rathbone. uniformed chauffeur.
An
private fo his own concern, be believes, and his only obligation is to give a good performance. recently
arose from his sick bed to appear before a con- vention and tell about his childhood....He loves cais, and has three as pots,
Most stars consider two or The late George Bernard
three filing a year enough work selected for anyone. Shaw personally
During the first
One of the most lovable characters to be encountered on the screen today is Edmund Gwenn, here busily at „AT-2.30, 5.20.-work-printing-counterfeit dollar bills in "Mister-880,"
7.20 & 9.30 now showing at the Roxy and Broadway Theatres.
P.M.
TO-MORROW EXTRA SHOW AT 12.00 NOON
MAUREEN
PABL
VINCENT
O'HARA CHRISTIAN · PRICE
BAGDAD
COLOR BY
TECHNICOLOR
with JOHN SOTTON-JEFF COREY
Cowenplay by ROBERT. HARBY ANDREWS Dinched by CHARLES LABORT Pudsed by BORERT ARTHUR} ALSO, LATEST WARNER PATHE NEWS
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(WOMEN'S AUXILIARY)
VICTORIA REVELS
Under the distinguished patronage of H.E. The Governor,
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AT THE
SEAMEN'S MISSION
THEATRE
March 8th & 9th at 9. p.m. Tickets from Moutries
MUST see this gay and colourful show in aid of Hong Kong Satloty for the Protection of Children,
ל
(Women's Auxiliary),
DOGS CO-STAR
In almost every movie
Ho
he
berate.
TOO WELL BRED TO KILL, While acting on radio in Now York he often appeared on as many as eight different pro- grammes in one day....When he tried out for his first flm part the director said he was "too well bred and intellectual"" to play a killer. His first screen success was as a gunman and he has had several criminal
has socnes with dogs, including roles since....Because of in-
34th
the Lassic pictures and "Misterjuries on the football field he 880.".
Since he won the was rejected for service during Academy Award for portraying World War II. Santa Claus in "Miracle on
In "Halls of Montezuma," his Street" he has been
looking latest fim, he is said to give for another human interest one of the best performances yet part. He says he has found it as a Marine officer... His wife ins "Mister 680/ where he is a radio writer, and they fre- ploys a counterfeiter....He be- quently discuss show business..
loves it should be against the She has never seen him Од law for anyone τα
to possess movlo set, and he has never weapons of any sort.
He lo
an expert fencer, and used to give lessons in sword- play....Though born in Lon don, he has no desire to visit Europe
enjoys speaking and reading German ond
He
French....When he gets old he expects to retire.
Last September 20th he celebrated his 73rd birthday.. In London, in 1919, he gave a helping hand to a struggling young actRandom Harvest" In 1942 he op- peared with the same actor, Ronald Colman....He suffered from Influenza while making "For Heaven's Bake" with Clutton Webb, Joan Bennett and Ro bert Cummings.
When the picture finished be found he had gained eight pounds.... He has played 88 different roles on the
screen.
When asked how he likes his intost part be always replies,
RICHARD WIDMARK,
Laugh hit!
5 SHOWS TO-MORROW Extra Porformance "WATCH THE BIRDIE"
QUEEN'S
AT 11.30 A.M.
ALHAMBRA
AT 12 NOON
LEE Liberty
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DAILY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M. ★ SHOWING TO-DAY ★
A Powerful Drama That Will Long Be Remembered!
ACTION! INTRIGUE! -VIOLENCE!
WALLIS
WER SHOP
Auther of
"DUEL IN
THE SUN"
A Paramount Pictura parsing BARBARA WENDELL
WALTER
STANWYCK-COREY-HUSTON
TRE
Brak of Grealchisi
FURNES
7 JUDITH ANDERSEN + GILDERT ROLAND
THOMAS COMEZ. BEULAH BONDI Directed by ANTHONY MANN
Screenplay by Charles Schnee
MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW
at LEE THEATRE
AT 11.30 A.M. A Selected Program Of Color Cartoon AT REDUCED PRICES!
LUNA PARK
CINEMA
The Nicest Little Theatre in town TO-DAY
At 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
"ROMANCE OF THE
WEST CHAMBER"
西廂記
A Chinese Super Production
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FLORA ROBSON JOINS THE LADIES-IN-WAITING
by Harold Conway TAKE
NAKE' an actress of out":
standing talent. Tie her a fat film contract. up with Then don't give her any Alma to act. That's a fine way of freezing good performances off the screen, isn't it?
Flora Robson....who is among the two or three most Intelligent nctresses in the country....returned recently from her personal success. on Broadway; ready to resume film work at Pinewood. But Pinewood
not ready for Miss Rob sono Mr Ron is releasing her again. to
T
SHOW TALK examines what Hollywoud can do to a girl
star with John Gielgud and Diana Wynyard in a new West End
Winter's Toduction of "The
As
I
TWENTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD
*
tract will still be in force when he wants her in the studio.
Miss Todd herself, busy with that "Seventh Vell," is pre- serving a tactful silence.
After Olivier
LAST year
thought of as a former Broad- way actor,
Theatrical voices and man- neriams, off stage, irk him.
|Movies have always a pl
him, but he was never a
Autograph seekem and public adulation embarrass
him.... of his Classical music is one favourite diversions, and he hea a large library of it. He seldom goes out to concerts...He likes to play the plano. The only two! selections he has mastered are "Some Enchanted Evening" and "Stormy Weat
Weather."
By appearing on many pro- Denholm Elliott,grammes each week he earned
En
most promising od Our Over $50,000 a year in radio, new young actors, appeared in and his Hollywood salary is
He and his "Venus Observed," was so well the top brackets. directed by Laurence Olivier wife and
་
ช
daughter live in that he outshone Olivier the converted greenhouse, do their nctor.
own landscaping, and attend to This month Mr Elliott steps all painting and routine main- up-to play one of Olivier's tenance themselves....In highl bad a dance band, own parts on Broadway.
He school he
and he would like to be in a Round went over with "Ting the Moon"; but that Christo musical film. All his picturas
died have been dramas. pher Fry adaptation has
New York after only three LOVE IS DIFFICULT
months-expenses
high.
too were
Love scenes are difficult for him because he is uneasy around hos
Now York, however, kept young Elliott on, just as
.
women. In No Way Out he he was packed to come home embraced Linda Darnell they still like our players bet- vigorously that she dubbed him
..Ha "The Big Bruiser.".
is bot ter than our plays. He has clothes
and is hap conscious, of revival Just opened in a
plest in something informal At
store The Green Bay Tree," which the Marshal Field Olivier acted over there in his Evanston, Illinois, he was as pre-Hamlet (and pre-knight-stant head of the boys' cloth- | hood) days.
ing department
Valentina Cartes psed, through London lext year" on her way to Call. forla, A good performer, a like. Able vislie...but - more homely than remarkable in looks,
Hollywood has hat delivered back, ready for a flim at Studios Tranformation acerwa? Mm Cortese, is one, ali *jaddant
"Nobody, thank heavens, has to hamalf-beautiful. and every sparkling wisecrack, s
made any ugly comparisons." weil na nyelash, in its right place
Denholm Elliott writes me, is the full Rollywood -worka
orka writes Herold Conway
Anne Crawford, a fugitive SUEWAT BOYdingover our w Misses X, Y and 2 for a completa from the British film slump, is course.
also in the cast. As a fugitive, sho's doing pretty well for her- self in America.
ZABÖVE: the new Mies Cortoon.
-London Express Service)
In
His first five Broadway_ap-| pearances were in flops. Every movie, he has been in bas done well:..
He was married eight-and-a- half years ago. He and his wife
forward are still looking their honeymoon, which they haven't had time to take.
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the London That will give theatre its strongest Beting team for years; but it still re- presents a loss to British films. "I like good money, as well the rest of us," says Miss
"though a year ago Robson, stud did give up studio work to pot at Hammersmith for £20 a wock. But, whenever I sign s long film contract, it invariably happens that I get to aims to for more than a year, is now do. It seems a strange way of on loan to the stage. doing business."
Which puts her husband, Alma As a theatre-goer. I iball look director. David Lean, in a dis forward to seeing Fiora Roh licate position: Mr Lean: left son's Paulina crpecially in the Pinewood a year ago, 1a soon to GI haircuts and wind- men. Then when Darryl Zamiok company of Mr Gielgud and begin a big flm for Korda call-
of Paradise" he decided to shoot that enterprising young produ-ed "The Sound Barrierbared, blown bobs are costing gave him a go-ahead on "Bird cer, Peter Brook," As a claema" on the adventures of a test Hollywood film studios It in the Hawalian Inlanda bos patron. I think the talent-short pilot who battles into the un- thousands of dollars annual- cause most Polynesians around But studios are being short-sighted known supersonic spheres,ly, says Writer Director Hollywood had short hair. need. fewer high-sounding co-ords like for the famine because he has seen the women in
>British - fims at the moment biom, would Sir Alexander | Delmer Daves who knows the barbers had got there
Ninety percent of the men and Hawail wear crow tracts and more acting jobs. load Ann Todd.gee you wig bill that upped the cuts and short bobs respectively.
Calling Ann Todd
"cant get hér he has tolgy, the budget on his last two Davos found, forcing him to| wigs for natives who play VANN TODD, in another oë mom
Star's director-husband."evet Palms for 20th Century-Foxroles. In the 1000 First, Daver had to buy wigs romantic tragedy of the top dramaties who Poor Me Loan. He not only how All about contracta Thor, that Todd, contract with for Wiha Indian” là "Broken Bouth Boss which be la filming Shỏ bas her namne to one with Me Tank, his own former bom, Arrow" because the barbers had, in Technicolor with Jex Chandİ- the Pinewood' group: pow. to-considers he cannot tell soulped, more redskins than the lar, Debra Paget and Louis
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