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"THE LIFE OF A
PEKING POLICEMAN”
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 19510
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
THAT'S THE PLACE, LOTHAR WE'LL LAND ON THAT FIELD BEYOND THE WOODS.
DUSK AT THE CASTLE OF THE *DARK ONE?
FRUINS. NOT LOOK LIKE NOBODY LIVE HERE
THE DARK ONE IS SUPPOSED TO DOESN'T APPEAR.
VERY COZY-w
By Lee Falk and Phil Davla
THINK ANYBODY | QUITE POSSIBLY-- WATCHING US IF THERE'S ANY- WALK HERE? ONE HERE TO
WATCH-
--BUT THERE DOESN'T SEEM TO BE ***
In the good old days..
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A Chinese Picture in Mandarin Dialogue
TO-MORROW
KILEING A MAN IS
ON THING...
LOVINI IDS W ES ANOTHER
DYNAMITE
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JAMES CAGNEY Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
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The dish-it-out-devil-dogs
"Gidn't know how to quit!
HALLS
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The roaring story of the U.S. Marines!
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Disney Cartoon Programme
Presented by RKO Radio Pictures;
THE LEGEND OF QUEEN VICTORIA AND
THE MUDLARK COMES TO THE SCREEN
Andrew Ray, the boy who wanted to sit on a Queen's throne, meets Queen Victoria (Irene Dunne) and her long time faithful servant, John Brown (Finlay Currie.)
SHOW TALK
Olivier joins the tea-and-car-fare
brigade
What's be looking at? by HAROLD CONWAY
B
See picture below.
Y the time Sir Laurence Olivier -has-journeyed-out to Elstree_to. play his few seconds'
policeman,
Britain's Festival film The Magic Box - will have employed some £250,000 worth of stars.
That is, what their contracts would normally total. But it is not, of course, what will get.
scene as
Marie Schell, one of the £250,000 worth of storn in the Festival film, gets Instructions from director, John "Boulting, (picture' above).
they
There are 24 of them in the 10,000-or-more-per-dim class, a record for any picture where. So inst
of the liners-such as Dame Edith Evans, Glynis Johns, Richard At- tenborough and Emlyn Williams --are working for fare-and-tea- money.
It is three years since her last stage appearance, as Saint Joan and that broke an Interval of five years,TIA
480 I am glad to announce an-
other of ber excursions into the West End this time in a new The production of Chekhov's Three Sisters,"
This opens a pre-London run
AS A WARM AND
TENDER STORY
Theodore
6
Bonnet. have for centuries been flotion's charming novel of a boy greatest pitfall. But the restrain- ing hard of British realism, whose decision to see the perhaps more than anything else, Queen in her lonely retreat made this picture in the final at Windsor Castle brought analysis, a model of good taste. Victoria out of mourning The story is easily told. It after 15 years has been concerns a ragamuffin who is so made into a warm and ten- impressed with a pleture he has der film by 20th Century he goes to her castle to see her found of the lonely Queen that
Fox.
Entitled "The Mudlark,"
it will make its local debut
:
for himself.
#
there was so much food that people didn't discriminate. To-day, shortages have taught
Café
LIS to appreciate good fare to the full. That's what makes our menus. doubly attractive.
Wiseman
LANE, CRAWFORD'S RESTAURANT.
LEE
of
'AIR CODE!TIONED,
[02UNIZ15" AND WARM
He manages to escape detoc- thon nad is hiding In the Queen's private dining room when he at the Roxy Theatre on goes to sleep and a hint
snoring gives film away. April 5.
The Queen smiles Secing it the other morning at its Press pre- Then there
a stormy dealing view provided me with two sequence
with
the aftermath of this intrusion into of the nicest hours I have windsor, and the final triumph ever spent in a theatre. I when the boy does see the Queen, enjoyed myself because the when the Queen smiles at him, story was absorbingly told. and decides because of him and the England that he represents In the end I felt sorry that to break her lang retirement 'so much of it was fantasy and go out among her people
and not truth.
Irene Dunne was tremen Miss Dunne's splendid portrayal la memorable for dously real in the role of an of a difficult Queen in the most ageing Queen Victoria. She dimoult period of her reign, for was queenly and Victorian, Andrew Ray's tenderness, for
gennike prim, matronly and proper
geproductions of adsor's ornate interior, and down to the last detail of for Alec Guinness
powerful plumpy cheeks and the at- speech in the House of Commons titude which proclaimed when, as Diznell, he upbraids his sovereign for her isolation that she "was not amused."
and pinpoints to the mudlark's mischief to prove his view.
Frall litde Andrew Ray played the role of the boy Wheeler, the mudlark, whose trade poverty and unaccountable love for the old lady of Windsor Inspired Disraeli to puch through re- forms for the poor.
As Disraeli was Alec Guinness, of London theatre famo.
cance more.
The film
eyes. There was the Queen, her The end brought tears to my proud heart hurt by the Prime Minister's disregard. There, was Mr Brown, a disgruntled
too,
Scotsman who minced no words with royalty.
To one side stood Dismoli. immovable in his conviction that England was growing tired of The Highlander, that mythical Queen who revelled in her own Mr Brown who enjoyed such sad world, and to the other was familiarity with the Queen that the boy, wide-eyed and pathetic he could afford
10 be drunk 11
amazement even in her presence, Was encounter with the symbol of portrayed by Finlay Currie, a majesty. model of the sourly demeanour wilch hid a heart of gold.
the
Chyde
01 course, all this is not history. But it is legend, and "These elements, combined legend, when it is well repeated, with the restraining genius of has the power to seem real. For Jein Negulesco, the director, me, the greatest worth of the resulted in
film of ex- pieture lies in this I said to traordinary pathos, pageantry myself as I left the foyer, how and human appeal.
wonderful it would have been it Opportunities existed at every all of this were only true.
for exaggeration, since fables associated with Ibyalty
turn
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TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME!
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THE SCREEN MOST EXCITING COUPLE!
in John Ford's Adventure Triumph
HERBERT J.
YATES presenta,
RIO GRANDE
Marring JOHN WAYNE - MAUREEN O'HARA co-starring BEN JOKKSON • CLAUDE JARMAN, Jr.» KARRY CINET, J.» CHILL, WILLS featuring 1. CARROL MAISH - VISTON MELAGEEN - GRANT WETHERS » SORS OF THE PERCÉRS
Directed by JOHN FORD A REPUBLIC PICTURE
Mapa Play by mont Serie Matalinova – Based on a boardy Euskoj Post Story for James Warner Vytuk Ja Agoty Production – Preduces by JOHN FORD and MERLAR G. COÖPER Rostabile Pictures Corporation -- Herbert 2. -Yates, President
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AN U.S.S.R. EDUCATIONAL FILM {
Spare these tears for the "THE COUNTRY TEACHER”
stars England has lost
seven
Says LEONARD MOSLEY
London, drama, "Rocky Mountain" And Anyone who saw Jean Dallas gets the girl.
How come? Well, for in Manchester on April 16; and Kent's film, "The Reluctant
years Dallas hung around Bel- Three people only will draw Miss Johnson is to be in dis- Widow," will remember the studies, hoping for the their full salaries:
tinguished company. Sir Ralph black hair, grey eyes, firm parts that would put his name
Verahinin Robert Donatas Frieso-drene, Richardson will be pioneer of cinematography in the Russian provincial town' lips, and stubborn. chin on the cfacma marquees. 15 weeks' filming, he has only battery commander; Margaret which were on vlow under
Leighton and Renee Asherson the name of Julian Ballas. six days off the studio set;
the other two sisters; Diana Churchill the aister-in-law, and Harcourt Willians the doctor.
Swiss actress Maria Schell, who goes half through the film as his first we; and
Margaret Johnston, who takes over the remaining half as Wife No. 2
Is the director, John Boult ing to be envied or not?
They never cama. What came instessi were offers from Holly- wood. And he is now on his way under his 2001 online,
DIALOGUE IN MANDARIN.: U.S.S.R. PICTURE
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THE KINGS of the WHITE ELEPHANT”.
KING A Slamodo Picture • Dialogue in English
LUNA
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The Nicest Little Theatre in town
STAR
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own in stabus. But that is the way it FINAL SHOWING TO-DAY 17, Hankow Rd. Kowloon
to is going is the 'fhm Industry James at the moment...
He was a British stir then, and a stern, strong, romantic, Scott Forbes-to Gregory Pock At their normal solaries this right hope of our
BUCCORSOT cast would require the Albert dustry as
Stewart Granger and Hall to clear expenses.
But it
Mason filmland can make the, sacrifice in the cause of Art and Festival, so can the theatre. Miss Johnson
Tactfully, Boulting declines to and Co, are accepting substan- say when he was happler. But tial salary-cuts for the occasion.
he does affirm that the
Star
Parade are proving, individually,
perfect laiba of docility----even those with, only bits to play.
Ivan
Who?
Who's for Ivanhoe! Up ht MGMP. Elstree studios
I should say his big test will come with the pictures showing, some 400 technicians and care- which is due rather late for the takers and wondering if anyone's
for Ivanhoe. Festival in September. He has the ticklish' job of making these Hollywood's öriginal idea was stars, or most of thèm, look like to send' Stowárt Granger home "bit-players" — and pot', cele- to clamber into knightly armour. brities.
But Granger ...alays”, In
Lon Hollywood.
When the picture is shown all but the three principal players will have their names billed alphabetically,
Pay cuts
Cell
„Johnson, Oxford-
Now the Elstree rumours are
A that "Errol Flynn mayžębackle Ivanhoe. He la filmland's expert buckler.
Meanwhile thel Batree/four (<2undradimą 1260-haved “Leven-ihe shiroftratisewife, mother, omers turn since lagt au
of three children and nerv rolled "special" "cotiafað #771ovor: In'altérrikkingkatka
Uko with home«ilte,' Ashcroft. Only more, no,
Peggy
Mr Dillos turns up this week a challenger to Errol Flynn in an American bow-and-arrow
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Sumconsumiveinnocent, young minds- hoe sots, including a wonderful pliers to and blist open'S "castle: And to weft.
bank d
The men with talent (WILd» Ing, Nerton, Rennie), at the
girls with looks and personality (oon Simmons Constance Smith) are fleeing the country for Hollywood.
We import
Д
The native, star-faminos such that evo Sir Michael Balcon's Ealing, Studio, citadel of native scitar thient, have had to knport Hollywood's Valentine Cortesa and France's
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RED
SKELTON
BRIAN
DONLEVY
MOM'S
Reggiannd for a new givection SOUTHERN
exodus. Holt
This
glamour: talent will certainly have its effect on the box-office. But I an not alarmed,
I think wo ane more profitably employed finding good storics, C 'Dourossing good directors -- and -
the actors and 4 concerto it parts alrendy writ ten for themto pu
method of welkieg out Stars.
*Express, BeroÏCE)
YANKEE ARLENE DAHL -•■" TO-MORROW
ESTHER WILLIAMS:
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THE BALL Color By Technicolor: An. M.G.M. Picture
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JENBIX.
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ZSEKOTO MOKKÓW.
"NIGHT SONG”