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25th Anniversary of Sound
Motion Picture
Warner Bros. First National Pictures
RANDOLPH
SCOTT
Inc. Presents
When
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1951.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
|| Caps, 1991. King Festin Sidqu
British Films
poof! LEVITATION? WHY, THAT'S
A KINDERGARTEN TRICK FOR MANDRAKE. HE WOULDN'T THINK OF DOING IT.
MANDRAKE I MANDRAKE! YOU THINK I'M RUNNING AWAY
FROM HIM? I WISH HE WERE
HERE. I'D SHOW
YOU?
ALE STANDING
DAVID BRIAN PHYLLIS THAXTER
the guns that
tore up Texas fought
it
out
at
FORT
WORTH
COLOR BY TECHNICOLOR
ADDED: TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS
"A HICK, A MAJESTIC: "SWALLOW
KING'S:
SLICK AND A CHICK"
Balcon Is The DAVID LEWIN'S Spotlight
Busiest Man In
Says JACK DAVIES
impor-
Who is the must Lant figure in British film production?
Undoubtedly it is Sur Michael Balcon. whose latest film "Where No Vul- Fures P.." has been selected for the Royal Film Performance,
A! 55. Bakon can look around h
studios at Ealing with salistaction Hel Fuus nice Talent working
for him Thien
British produce
other
A
M
A mis "Tac 11. ME ani "The
Wale Su
van be
wy
am hg Se mere
Sear
HIS KEY JOBS
suc-
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
YOU'LL HAVE YOUR WISH, SWARU !
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The Management of the King's and Majestic Theatres are pleased to announce that arrangements have bocn completed with Warner Bros. First National Pictures, Inc. and RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. to release their
pictures at the King's and Majestic Theatres.
R KO
RADIO PICTURES
Patrons may look forward to seeing. among many others, the following pictures at the King's and Majestic
Theatres
WB's
FORT WORTH
Technicolor)--Randolph Scott; David Brian, Phyllis Thaxter
RKO's
WB's
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
cartoon
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
---Vivian Leigh, Marlon Brando. RKO'S I WANT YOU (Samuel Goldwyn's)
WB's
RKO's
WB's
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Hu
11.
Anu
y av 13. F. Fu
11. h
Ez..ng
Tis Na-
E paration
A director of tteon Theatres
The Runk
0.geration las
Auch he appieves a is sur 5):
Ch. man 1 Preval Fims who mac "The Mag.. Box")!
Chairman of Group 11 pro- ductions, formed 10 encourage young ohnicians:
Coscity was chufer won Banist Bum Makers. whose producers Lelude Ronald Neame Havelock- Allen and Bety Box.
The weight of these
respon-
sible positions rests lightly on his shoulders Nor has the power that gees wh them gone to his head.
hendiquer ers remain Ealing studios in a small, simply- furnished, pincpanelled
HIS
al
office
which, ou for a framed presenta
memento of "San Demetrio"
Hon
Pawe, for refreshisent in the Bone sonshine, gilsses resting on their jet-craft's tailplane.
The Jet Age Provides
Ann
Todd's Latest
REAKFAST in London, political kick-backs as well.
Berks in Rome, un poli
faveur e Blm-and the Hi Cairo. The camera title "Sound Barrier was left to the Americans
5
ROXY & BROADWAY,
Commencing To-day A: 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m. That "Farmer's Daughter" teams. making hay again!
CONFESSIONS OF A LADY
SLEEPWALKER
20
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"HALF ANGEL"
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A SPECIAL PROGRAMME OF TECHNICOLOR
CARTOONS From 2 Leading Studios: 20th Century-Fox & M.G.M. At Reduced- Prices
SHOWING
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ALHAMBRA
AIR-CONDITIONED
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The
Patrick
flight experiments should quarrel only with the made with pilotless planes.
beat us to it and fly with and might be a deaf-aid docu-pilots --
at more Dan 1,000 miles an hour. the [mentary. at
be
1!
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DEAR STOCKU
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A
ugly, proientous Fiaduente award-catches Ann Todd ed by the British Film Academy to the producer of the best film Nigel
"The
of the year (Balcon holds it for aperitif stage
Blue
their new film Lamp"), gives no in-from dication that many of Britain's Sound Barrier."
The Whitehall motion was scent Lean has surrounded himself "The with ál team which could al-changed and the RAF breaks The sound barrier regularly mcat vertily Success
Korda
now But the Ann Todd backs the picture.
Terence
certainly had an echo. Rattigan was keyed to write
There have been other air-
Technicolor) --Walt Disney feature length fence: Alms have been born in it.
Behind a anall, glass-topped She is the daughter of a desk siis
He is Sir Michael, bespre-plane manufacturer. tacied, with
clipped military
a jet test pilot-killed try- noustache, impeccably dressed, and with a twinkie in his eyeing to break the barrier of The has endeared him to asound waves which forms who have worked under him.
when planes travel around 700 miles an hour.
-Farley Granger, Dorothy McGuire, Dana
Andrews.
PAINTING THE CLOUDS WITH SUNSHINE
(Technicolor) -- Virginia Mayo, Gene Nelson, Dennis Morgan, Virginia Gibson. BLACKBEARD AND THE PIRATE
(Technicolor)-Robert Newton, Robert Mit- chum, Faith Domergue, Victor Mature, Jack Beutel.
DISTANT DRUMS
(Technicolor) --Gary Cooper, Mari Aldon. RKO's SONS OF THE MUSKETEERS (Technicolor! ---Maureen Wilde.
WB's
ROOM FOR ONE MORE
Cary Grant, Betsy Drake.
RKO's SLAUGHTER TRAIL
O'Hara, Comell
(Technicolor)-Brian DonLevy. Cig Young, Virginia Grey.
WB's THE CRIMSON PIRATE
(Technicolor) Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravet, Eva Bartok.
RKO'S JET PILOT
1.
WB's
(Technicolor --John Wayne, Robert Ryan. Janet Leigh. MARA MARU
Errol Flynn, Ruth Roman
RKO's ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD (Walt Disney's) (Technicolor)--Richard Todd, John Rice,
Robert Newton.
WB's JACK AND THE BEANSTALK
(Color) Bud Abbott. Lou Costello, Buddy Baer.
RKO'S STORY OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON'
(Technicolor)(Samuel Goldwyn's)Danny Kaye, Moira Shearer, Farley Granger, WB's ON MOONLIGHT BAY
(Technicolor)-Doris Day, Gordan Macrae, Leon Ames.
RKO's DRUMS OF THE DEEP SOUTH
(Technicolor) James Craig, Barbara Payton, Gur Madison.
MOVIES ARE BETTER THAN
EVER
DON'T MISS THEM
SEA-DOG STUFF
I asked tum if bis dures as
colef Ealing's production
ety
as bors.
the script-about people rather plane pictures but few with so than planes. Richardson arc there.
Nigel Patrick and
Ralph Prissing a problem
Myrna Loy in that old Spencer And Tracy film "Test Pilot," wor- Lean's wife Ann Todd has themed on the ground when her part of the woman who
en was alone in the sky. But volts against her father when Ann Todd sees her husband he sends her mean to death in
a test-tube to die for David Lean is making an attempt to fly faster
than put in
an experiment. the picture. Faced with s und.
David Lean wanted to make nash with those he has as advise the disappointments of
his new film a British adven- "What's the good of it?" she to the Film Finance Corporation his two latest films
hare story. There are few left Cres "Is i1 really
worth and scrip adviser to the Rank ("Madeleine"
discovered Scott has already and "Pas- while?"
the Antarctic on the screen Organisation,
sionate Friends") Lean Something like that might Africa has been
explored in White- the cinema. the FFC unless I am asked to do breaks into a subject which have been said when so by the company concerned." is not only exciting but has that future he replied.
Ľ
Ever
"I do not advise on stripis forl
"Often I approve scripts which
personally do not care for. For *xample, I have an aversion to sicles with a foreign background. I don't want to make them my- Alf. But I wouldn': d:cam cf stopping hers from deing s^,"
What Bukan does like making is sea stories.
Right now he is preparing one of the best of all, "The Cruel Sea". by Nicholas Monsara which Erle Ambler is scripting.
clude
Other new Almas he plans in- an original story by T. E. B. Clarke enthed "Private Line": and. the
can sort out one or two problems with the censor, a screen version of Richard Mason's and the "The Shadow növel Peak."
As I left Sir Michael's office
| I noted a horse-shoe on the wall.
"Don't know," he said. "It was
1 asked him the story behind it.
hanging there when I took over from Basil Dean in 1998,"
1
When, last March, Jona Ferrer won hit Oscar as the best actoï of the year for "Cyrano de Bergeracone of The few Limes that the Academy of Motion Picture Sciences has picked the right man-he did not plant the little gold statuetto on the rawing-room mantelpiece.
ho sent it to the ty of Fuerto Rico.
"Because,"
•
hall, a few years back decreed
faster-than-sound.
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to me last week, (!) wanted to show the young Puerto Ricans that if they work hard: mough nothing is impossible for them." He paired and added: "I am a Fuerto Rleen myself, you know."
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Only the sky remained in the air there can only one star. Says Ann Todd, "L has to be the jet-plane. I're a supporting player to that
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