KING'S LIBERTY
Conditioned
★ SHOWING TO-DAY ⭑
AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.20
& 9.30 P.M.
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY, 14, 1951.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
I DON'T KNOW THOSE MEN. THEY TRIED TO BUY MY FARM LAST MONTH BEFORE T --DECIDED TO SELL-
10-21
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30
G 9.30 P.M.
LEE HSIANG LAN
IN
"SONG IN TEARS”
In Mandarin Dialogue
TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW
WHY SELL NOW? AND WILY'RE THEY SO ANXIOUS
TO BUYT
I DON'T KNOW THEIR REASONS--BUT I GOT MINE. WANT THIS FARM--OR NOT?
By Leo Falk and Phil Davla
SHOWING
JIM, THIS
STAY ON THIS FARM ONE NIGHT? IF YOU STILL WANT
NO MAN IN HIS RIGHT
SENSE WOULD WANT
TO BUY IT IN THE
THIS PLACE AFTER
WHY-- quie NOT
TO-DAY
15 A GOOD MAN. I VUON'T CHEAT HIM!
MDAN
THEN IT'S YOURS!
SPENDIN' A
NIGHT HERE!
CONTINUED.:
AT 2.30, 5.15,
QUEENS ALHAMBRA 7.20 & 9.30
ONLY THE MOVIE THEATRE SCREEN CAN DO IT!
M-0-M prouenta in all its TECHNICOLOR glory - RUDYARD KIPLING'S
KIM
Achestly Rined against avavile backgrounda Lu šadia)
ERROL FLYNN "DEAN STOCKWELL
PAUL LUKAS ROBERT DOUGLAS
Schnidder
P.M.
KING'S at 11.30 am.
LIBERTY at 12.30 p.m.
NEXT CHANGE AT THE KING'S
d
Tom CONWAY Margarot HAMILTON
IN
"THE GREAT PLANE
ROBBERY".
Released Thru. United Artist.
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BOBBY HENREY The Wonder Kid
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OPENING
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ROY ROGERS TRIGGER
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TrucoloERUISESJELLES MONELES • PAT KRIDT
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7.30 & 9.30
A U.S.S.R. Proud Production! "GORKY'S CHILDHOOD"
P.M.
-depicting-the-bitter-condition-in childhood. of a labouring poet and the struggling course
of a great writer in his boyhood.
Fred Majdalany_Reviews “KIM”
THE UNFORGIVING MINUTE TAKES UP MORE THAN ITS
QUOTA
OF
60 SECONDS
In one respect, ut any
rate, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to the picture
by any aggressive
Menace
not
was
I was therefore able to come unencumbered idolatry. have surpassed the stan- And in fairness I should re- that beiter Kiplingites dards of Rudyard Kipling. cord
than 1, Gunga Din, were Their conscientious but une offended by 11, and were even exciting "Kim" shows that able to reassure sceptical non- it is possible to fill the un- Kiplingites with poor memorles forgiving minute with what that the presence in the story
like 90 seconds distance run.
There are 112 minutes of this film in all, and, con- sidering the scope of the subject, it is remarkable how many of them turn out to be unforgiving.
seem
of
The story of the Army wait who found it more fun 10 Secret work for the British Service as a Hindu Juvenile than to go to school with the sony of colonels' ladies
WES
not among my favourite child- hood reading. (I remember 11 chiefly as the source of a good party game at which I won a prize at the age of eight).
of the Russion Kipling's Iden, and not a sea-. sonable embellishment though! up by M.-G.-M.
very
plea- Flynn than
Dean Stockwell-one of the boy few bearable non-Italian performers does suntly as Kim, Errol is no more and no less what you would expect os n the cioak-and-dagger man in Screen Robin Hood tradition.
Paul But I felt sorry for
of Hollywood's Lukas-one long service and good conduct has
travel men--who- through the pleture and the Indies in a red dressing-gown, being a Lama. A depressingly dull Lama whose spirit some- how pervades the whole Alm.
HAROLD CONWAY'S `Show Talk
Mahbub Ali the Redbeard (Errol Flynn) and Kim, (Dean Stockwell) in M.-G.-M.'s film version of Kipling's story.
AMBER GETS JUST The Loquacious Babu
2 MEN THIS TIME Is No More Talkative
da Darneli
rather have LONDON.
some occasional and a good pic- HOLLYWOOD chose Lin- temperament
ture than complete placidity the to be Forever and mediocre results on Amber because, they claim-ercen. ed, she was the Girl with the What do the stars say? Mr Perfect Face. It was a pro- and Mrs Merrill say nothing n all. Now the film is finished, cess of reasoning I never they are just not talking.
Next Change-Walt Disney's "MAKE MINE MUSIC! quite understood.
in Technicolor
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OUR VERY
OWN
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TO-MORROW
"NORTHWEST MOUNTED
POLICE"
LIBERAL MINDED. PEOPLE READ THE
New Republic
WASHINGTON_9th_ JULY 1951 ISSUE
ON SALE AT ALL BOOKSELLERS
or 304, Bank of China Building, 2nd Fl. Telophónà: 21070
RETURNS
of the two une graphed British
Than
Alan Ladd
Says... PAUL_DEHN
plat More of the
remains of Haggard's than remained "King Solomon's Mines."
Alan Ladd.
An outline, at least, is dis- Alas, poor Kipling! How
it is inter- wonderfully his
precise cernible-though
apersed with the sort of gaps have which occur when a fountain- Now Miss Darnell is coming over to nake her REMEMBER Christine Norden, poetic senses would
most photu recoiled from the film ver- pen intermittently runs dry. first British film, so per-
film neiressession of Kim.
The Woman of Shamlegh is bo found; and nowhere to haps we shall be able to of a few years back? After
It is about as like his turree Chunder that most of all discover if she is also a thin time, she is working in a again a small studlo-
version of original book as a two-and- comically loquacious good actress, Up to the studio the
for
screen
ninepenny brass statuette Babus, is about as tulkative as present, I haven't noticed worm's Eye View."
big is like Buddha-the copy This time, sensibly, the you can't expect to concen- trate on a perfect face and drums are not being beaten for of a copy of a copy of a like- Miss Norden. She is making; acting at the same time.
go further. discretion: actresses The new picture is called her fresh start quietly and withness. "Saturday Island,"
and stay longer, that way.
Remember attractive, copper- Stuari romantic story by
Kay Kendall--and here Heisler, the American haired
much-ballyhooed debut years director.
back in Sid Field's Last week 24 technicians fated film, "London Town?"
Now both girls find ite Miss Kendall paid dearly for flew off to Jamaica to pre-
Recently she suddenly exciting again. They pare local-colour scenes; that ballyhoo.
once decorative parts of the season; Miss Darnell is flying there has been acting one-line parts have not only landed the most
in the studio where she
with- Join starred. The other day, from Hollywood to
sccompany Ceell Beaton's play them, before coming
to out any boosting, she began her by winning the test they also first sizable part for years-in to Broadway for the autumn. London.
Frank Launder's new picture,
Lady Godiva Rides Again." Her role? Elder sister' Stroud, Pauline
boosted 15 "discovery."
With a nice sense of tact, the producers are giving her two leading men: one from England, one from America.
The first is 37-year-old Donald Gray,
African actor a South
up a promising im here to join up during the wand lost an
who gave
carcer
Normandy.
in
He has been with the BBC since then;
repertory company
this
role with Linda Darrel gives
Britain's
never learn, too?
him an opportunity to start his flm ito ayer again.
the
first, 11-an.actress who has never quite had the big break which once recmed likely.
nt
ON ICE
Sometimes the pen-nlb takes on a life of its own and goes un- twisting about in ways dreamed of by Kipling.
Haggard's plot suffered less One cannot in this respeel.
ceased twist that which has fa exist.
solid, Sometimes there are
bluck blots. unspeakably
Metro- How dare Messrs
make their Goldwyn-Mayer two Russians (Kipling had the Russian and one French- mon) responsible for the mur
the der of Hurree, when lii
them book Hurree outwitted both and lived superbly to tell the tale?
SEE
★ 5 SHOWS TO-MORROW
Extra Performanco "KIM" **
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Their NEWEST and
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Starring
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Percy
KILBRIDE
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MAPA KETTLE GOTO TOWN
MEG RANDALL
TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW
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20th Century-Fox "TECHNICOLOR
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At Reduced Prices.
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PRODUCTION
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M.G.M. prosents "TECHNICOLOR
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At Reduced Prices.
Commencing To-morrow The Picture that Brings You the Laugh-Time of Your Life-Time?
A NUNNALLY JOHNSON The Senator
WILLIAM Was Indiscreet's
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COSTELLO FOREIGN LEGION
PATRICIA MEDINA - WALTER SLEZAK-DRUGIASS DUNBRILLE
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AIR CONDITIONED
Taka Any Esttorn Tram Car or Happy Valley Bus FOUR SHOWS TO-DAY, AT 2:30–5.80-7:30° AND 9.30 ·P.M.
How dare they kill off the Lania In o cheap trick- to
WHAT has happened to that currently smuggling
"Green sequence, when Kipling closed Man picture, latest Grow the Rushes," which Bri- the book with the Holy
alive? com- technicians tish studlo
But all these are violations letter of the Jaw, Miss Norden and Miss Ken- bined to make at a Govern of the
have cost of £8.
whereas what M.-G.-M. dall have learned by sad ex- ment-sponsored perience; will the studio chiefs 000-to-show the bosses how really violated is the spirit.
could be done?
TOOTS, TWANGS Roger Livesey, Honour Black- ON TOP
worked for man and others
The oriental music for oce and cut-prices. Now eldental orchestra tools TWO young actresses, highly months
be pleased with themselves, called they, like the once-enthusiastic twangs interminably.
Dusky cuties Jean alluring- other day ut
Heavy co-operative producers, must
lit lattice- it their love's office to wondering
ly from behind managerial Mr Gray is being matched sherek's
After labour has been lost.
work. From time to time an
but heavily bo against an unknown American sign on the dotted line. At
trial rehearsing,
It is seven months since the irrelevant weck'a
delivers actor named Tab Hunter. Holly a
with belleves he is a wood
die Sherck is pleased
to one of the principal himself of a Fitzpatrick travo- cd too; and they are now, offelal completed picture was deliver Jewelled gentleman ·
But logue commentary. covery.
Fuch distributing companies. those Gainsborough Girls.
behind And always, move has been made Misa Gainsborough: atill no
carefully phrased Indian ut Stuart,
to the frade. it-even to show
not "Thou hast Josephine 24-your-old
como outterances, as "It will probably the girl who impressed She
M ese days, Alm
say the seen all yet," one senses the left for Hollywood and home everyone as Oliver Twist's, cum on bofors sitily. Not at all a scriptwriters feverishly trans-
the lating, from
vernacular! mother everyone, that is, They Bald good-bye amid a
bad little film-many worse." about them cept her Rank employers.
that 205,000 "Boy, you ain't seen nothin'," At this rate, buzz of rumours
is What emerges After a year of studio Idio
a hazardou and their first British film,
mediocro & Far Eastern thril a ̈demonstra- ness she begged for her con looks like being "Another Man's Polson."
release, tract
worked for less. Investment-not rumours: that tempera-
with. the Old Vic. tion in economy. So far from ler an ever came out of have been money
techniciana telling the Far West.
Master ment and discord
My, condolences to
OIL having SPECIAL MORNING SHOW-TO-MORROW AT 12.30 PM rife in the studio during these Last November a disheartened the
Miss Stuart sold: I am out of bosses how to do things, War- final weeks.
dour Street seems to be telling Dean Stockwell
played. M-G-M's Kim," The facts, according to Major work."
Second Miss Gainsborough: them where they get off."
my congratulations to the late A COMPLETE NEW PROGRAMME OF WALT DISNEY!
TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS. Daniel Angel, whose company have made the picture: "No Muriel Pavlow, one-time child ..
London Axprese deruice.) real trouble at all would prodigy of the state, now world Copyright Rebroad
DEPARTURES
BETTE DAVIS
Gary husband,
1 First
her and Merrill, have
The
these
as
tho
and
Mr Rudyard Kipling on never having writteni și, ·
IT'S WARNER BROS. MIGHTY: PICTURE!
WARKER BROS.
BREAKTHR
HROUGH
BRIAN AGAR LOVEJOY SUZANNE