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KING'S LIBERTY
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禁婚記
A NIGHT-TIME
WIFE
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1951.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
SO THAT PHONY WHO WAS POSING AS FA REAL ESTATE AGENT TRIED TO GYP
ME OUTA THIS FARM AND THE URANIUM.Į
AND WE WOULD HAVE, IF IT HADN'T BEEN FOR THAT I SILK-HAT GUY?"
COOL OFF.MAC THE JUDGE'S WAITIN? FOR YOU!
BY RIGHTS,
·THIS FARM IS YOURS-- AGREED Ton Seitar: TO YOU=-
NO--IF I TOOK IT NOW, THEN I'D
BE CHEATING' YOU. IT'S YOURS. GOODBYE AND GOOD LUCK.
By Les Falk and Phil Davis ·
SHOWING
BO YOU STILL.
NO. I THINK I
WANT A LITTLE
STAY IN THE CITY
TO-DAY
QUEEN
COUNTRY.
FUL AND QUIET!
MANDRAKE?
PLACE IN THE-WHERE ITS PEACE
NEXT WEEK NEW ADVENTURE-
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AGNEY AYO AY
TELUSON
A CHINESE COMEDY IN MANDARIN DIALOGUE
SUNDAY Morning shOW
AT THE KING'S
AT 12.00 NOON
"A NIGHT-
TIME
WIFE'
AT THE LIBERTY
AT 12.30 P.M.
Color Cartoons & Comedy
ALSO
"NET, MARVELS"
Presented by Columbia Films
LEE MAJESTIC
* SHOWING TO-DAY *
SEAT IN THE
ALES
THE THREE ALICES Lewis Carroll's original — Alice Pleasance Liddel who inspired the Alice
In Wonderland, Kathy Beaumont, who modelled for Walt Disney, and the Alice of Disney's cartoon version.
BRITISH FILM CRITICS HIT OUT AT
DAILY, AT 2.30, 5.30.
DAILY AT 2.30. 5.20,
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7.20 & 9.30 P.M.
The Kettles Get Mixed Up
With Uranium
ACADEMY AWARD WINNER Jody Holliday
COLUMBIA PICTURES
presents
"REST AGIENES OF THE YOX"
BORN YESTERDAY
· July
starring Williams
Broderick
* HOLLIDAY HOLDEN-CRAWFORD
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MGM presents RUDYARD KIPLING'S
KIM
TECHNICOLORIN
t
storing
ERROL FLYNN DEAN STOCKWELL
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COMPLETE PROGRAMME OF TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS
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ON PHONEL28252
This time it's uranium]
WALT DISNEY'S
"ALICE IN WONDERLAND"
She's Murder
To Listen To Says Elspeth Grant To the surprise and, British film critics ac may enjoy the film, for it is dare say, chagrin of quite and a new baby (which Facuse Walt Disney of having fun. I can only say that for Judy Holliday, on her per- full of movement and broad a number of people, Miss starts off by thinking is re-created Lewis, Carroll's me it was a great big garish formance in BORN YES- his). These of course im- Wonderland in his version disappointment.
"Alice" without ply trouble with crooks and of in-lawa, but count out the ference to John Tenniel, the over the cheap, noisy, change in subject and artist who illustrated the scene, and the antics of the book originally, or even to Kettle-family- Ma. Pa und artistic taste. the 15 kids are of much
the same sort as they were when Ma and Pa Kettle! went to town.
TC-
Disney introduced eleven "theme congs" into the film
BEASTLY CHORUS "Before I lose
TERDAY, was awarded the my temper Oscar for the best acting
vulgar (female) of the year. outrage, which Fig Disney's She plays a borie-headed. Allee
I
In
Wonderland
I may as well try to calm my-blonde, the carefree girl self down," says Paul Dehn. friend of a large-scale and "Cartoon! The very word férooked junk dealer (Mr like a knell, tolling me back to Broderick Crawford). horrors of Alice.
"The answer
and mado one of the quietest stories under the Marjeric Main-Ma at the English sun
hideous with and cookies and noise, writes Paul Dehn. gravel-voice Percy Kilbride of the antiquatedIt is all right by me for Mr--credit-titles that underw:37 and slew, nasal- Walt Disney to call his latest Musical twanged speech are unique and work an "all-cartoon
when
he nikable, Pa, by the way, has Wonder-Alm"--but
furthermore calls it ALICE IN of this all-enveloping WONDERLAND 32 sets
must raise a underwear which is turned out small personal protest," says by a New York taller and ex- Elspeth Grant, press-airmailed to him at a mo- ment's notice wherever he bag- pens to be al 26 gold dollars a time.
•
!
and
who
This is not a film about Mr Lewis Carroll's Alice-a young person of grcut character considerable
acerbity, could rap out "Stuff, and non sense?" with the art authority
As
u Congressman,. Mr 'Crawford
"How did you get to Wonder-long as the mink coats are land? Over the hills or under forthcoming, hers not to land? croons a beastly close-question, how he makes his
behind harmony chorus
the millions. Allco-Visiting-Washington, to bribe- never, in this travesty of Car suddently sees that Miss Holl roll's classic falry isle,
Rets
day's manners and, limited con- within a million miles of it.
"But what makes me so hop-versation are unsulted to high ping med is that Me Disney society, so he hires a newspaper- might have made such a good man (Mr. William Holden) to picture if he'd had the humility give her a smattering of culture.
alone. to leave the original But no. He has to try to im- prove on it.
"Though the bool plitters with lyrics made for singing,
THE WEST POINT STORY
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THERE'S URANIUM IN THE PASTURE
... AND A NEW BABY IN THE HOUSEL.
UNIVERSAL INTERNATIONAL presents
Marjorie Percy MAIN KILBRIDE
MA and PA KETTLE BACK ON THE FARM
IT'S ALL NEW!!
UN
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LEAVES MINKS Mr Holden Introduces her lo John Stubet Mini and Webster's Dictionary, and Miss newolfday, having absorted the PICTURE OF THE YEAR! of a dowager and displayed a "theme-sorgs-_with_ Jazzy principles of demahtraty and
he has to write eleven
Lina
certain brisk impatience wils Jaunty lints like "We'll smoke learned what the word "cartel 65CARNEGIE | sings to
some of the rummer creatures with whom her adventures, in- volved her.
the blighter, pufl"
means, denounces the Junk-man "He even The Carpenter that
has to improve The des Fascist-aid hil-social at
Tom (Richard Long) the eldest Keille boy, has married
(Meg Randall) and after Kim their baby arrives, these three,
Walrus Ma, Pa and Ma and Pa-in-law
UNRECOGNISÁBLE (Barbara Brown and Ray Col-
(lifted clean out of Through Armed with papers that will The Looking Glass and sung in chable her to blackmilf the Ers), the 15 children and a nurse-
"Mr Disney has dressed his broad Lancashire by Tweedte-jurik-mah for the rest of the life. maid whom the
tyrannical Alice approximately as John dum and Tweedledee), with a off she goes to marry the. amazon of 1 mother-in-law, Tenniel dressed her but has ridiculous refrain: "Calloo, cal- newspaperman -- Improvidently
no ivoric Elizabeth Parker, insists on keeping for the baby-all try to out of real recognition.
and yt We're cab- Icaving her minks behind, as
prettified her and dulcified her bancomments of Jabberwocku far as one can gather
"As to the Wonderland na
live in the Kettle's super- tives, Mr Disney has re-created are sung by the Cheshire Cat Mies Holiday looks divinely
modern button-pushing house together.
COMPLEXITIES
award.
STATI
With ALL MUSICAL TALENTS/
V
WHH Laichikok by
mid-night" You're the only one Je "Oriental mood.
LUNA PARK
NEXT CHANGE them without reference to to the wildly unsultable rhythm dumb and is murder to listen to. Tensicior to artistic taste, in of Tipperary.
The voice she uses. belongs to "THE SECRET LIFE tnost cases. The Walrus has "Allco says
"Yoo-hoo." and where but in the parrot house. become a gross. "Old Bull" "Don't mind if I do. type, the Mad Hatter a red-
"These sins against the letter is presumably because both
of WALTER MITTY” nosed comic, the Cheshire Cat of Carroll's original are as expression, and intonation are Unmanageable complexities a magenta-striped monster numerous as they are unneces- assumed that she gained the result in Ma. Pa and the kids Only the Caterpillar (besuti sary; but topping them all, is a
Richard cardinal sin against the spirit, Mr. Holden Is Just resorting to their ramshackle old fully spoken by Mr
"Alice In Wonderland is one Mr Crawford, as the fcript has homestead which is falling to Haydn), lolling on his mush pieces with neglect and age. right thing of the of the quietest stories under it; just not couth-and the pest cha and has made
--the English 'suri. Mr Disney performance. I thilfik comes Tweedledum
it hildeous with from Mr Howard St John as a Tweedledee, bouncing
ilke noise."
Inwyer without Illusions, t balls and speaking in the ac cents of a Lancashire come dian, are quite bearable.
LEFT OUT "The Gryphon and the Mock! Turtle have been left out-
room, retains
Now the fun of domestic prob- though lems is more than a little height. ened by a salesman discovering one morning that when Pa holds an electric fan the thing whirrs round.
Jack Warner Is Home Again
Jack Warner, first- Brl away, Jack sometimes did three He and the old homestead's there is no Duchess, no Frog- tish star to entertain the 112, hour entertainments d day, hundreds of tiles apart. Every- lend must be radio-active. This Footman, no Fish-Footman, troops in Koret, is back fit where he went he had a great excitemer is tied up with Red baby that turns into a pig. Mr London after n highly suc- welcome. Wherever It was pos
immense and Indians, flocks of babies, sheriff's misplaced Ingenuity has cessful tour which ho aible special theatres were can- and crookes who ginger up the peopled the woods of Wonder- describes ad: the most structed for him in the operi so human Jamisespe; such things ns innd with all manner of odd worth-while thing I have largent
that he could entertain the
with
at one time.
possible number or
troops. patent orange-squezera, Ron's ties of his own Invention-con-
When Warnet and collapsible chicken coops certina-necked birds, and much. ever done"
"Personally. 1 don't want During: the five weeks he was. On one occasion, when produce, problems in themselves,
them, I want the Tenniel away,, Warner travelled 24,000 was giving a show in a natural and a most un-Ameriente Car controlled (or rather uncontrol. Saracters with which; I grew miles and entertaified". 24,000, amphitheatre noar the front troops at 10 different shows line, he was told that savon ed) by P dor a mad cross want the mad tea-party He appeared before British, mines had boon lifted from the country rush to catch up with to be as cruzlly matter of fact Commonwealth and alf United aron when Engineers made a Carroli mudo it! Nations troop: If the Korean: ofety check inthediately beford the train alting away Kim, and as Mr time Jonathan Parker has grown pagebusly fantasticated version Japan Freek Bros adlille backbone, so the whole of it with the tea-inbis thing mapiges do serbiye laske covered with musical teapots Jack Warner most,
her mother. Luckily, by this don't Want Me Disney's rum front line and at color AUL; fik Chows store.
Rudiéricos Wham Isolated
Grad and the Dormouse inside one mordent was wrion. To kové a krvunk of men word fine
show-to-the-gecan
Hont enemy
As advertised in the publieity of them throughout the party elices film för kids ex-to Above everything misty trunmillgated, riotous, want all the anolan unbridled hilarity is their iden of Youthay, be less sentiinate Fully orieva kiment value. Os tally, daya sto the memories of
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