KING'S MAJESTIC
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*Barsaat"
(An Indian Pictura)
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with
"Objective Burma"
ERROL FLYNN
in his most importent production WARNERS SMASH OF SMASHER !
BJECTIVE, BURMA!
WILLIAM PRINCE JAMES BROWN - DICK ERDMAN - GEORGE TOBIAS - HENRY HULL - WARNER ANDERSON - Directed by Raoul WALSH Screen Play by Rendid MacDovget and Easter Cole - From an Original Story by Alush Bros. Mic
Fran Wartman
LEE
AIRCONDINGNED
GJONIZIO AND WARN
Liberty
DAILY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M. ★ SHOWING TO-DAY ⭑
America's DEAN JERRY Two MARTIN and LEWIS
Funniest
Guys Are GIS
in Their New Fun-Hit!
AT WAR WITH THE ARMY:
Hear Bean Sing
"You And Tour Begul-ful Fyar
to and May
“The Nuvy Gen The Gray,
Bu Die Art, Gen The Becrat
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ADDED at the LEE
"RHAPSODY IN WOOD"
(A Colour Cartoon!
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AT 11.30 P.M. M-G-M Presents
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AT 12.30 P.M. COLUMBIA Presents
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1951.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
AN AIRPORT AT THE JUNGLES EDGE-
MISSY LENGRE PRISONER IN {VILLAGE! SAY
TAKE PAPER IN BIG BIRD OVER
BIG WATER.
WHAT'S THIS? LET ME SEE THE PAPER.
Fragrantaria v. Dragonia
A visit to the Kowloon Cricket Club very nearly every evening this coming week will be met with well-hissed "Shush!" at the
very
door.
a
The snooker and bridge players have retired to their
and a
of the lairs
number cricketers, Jawn bowlers and turned have
Lenais players
thespian.
URGENT! PLEASE DELIVER THIS TO
MANDRAKE 22 RIDGE ROAD EXTOWN U.S.A.
A DOUBLE MYSTERY! WHOIS LENORE AND WHY DOES SHE APPEAL
TO MANDRAKE FOR HELA **
By
Lee Falk and Phil DaVIR
AND WHAT DID SHE SEE BEHIND. THE HALL THE MYSTERIOUS TABOO- THAT NATIVES CALL THE "SUNGOD
SHOWING
TO-DAY
3-24
CONTINUED:
DAVID LEWIN'S Spotlight
a film that will freeze you.....
IF YOU
DRINK-AND DRIVE
AFTER a long searching look into the private lives and off-screen-standards of actresses, Hollywood dives in again to a problem it tackled once before........
DRINK.
The latest view is tougher than "The Lost Weekend" ("a vicarage picture in comparison" was one comment).
problem
It has a broader focus; a greater concentration on a mounting in America; a problem just as familiar here-THE MAN assort-
MUCH AND THEN DRIVES HOME
On the sluge are an meni 时 members and their children who make up the 34 members of the cast of the "Sleeping Beauty" pantomime. There is much more 10
than the pantomime
casting "We are satisfied with the Club talent,' says Bill Colledge, the author and producer, "and it is essentially a Club effort. If they have talent, we pull it out them. If they don't, we push it into them.
The new flim is "Come Fill take you right along on the Cup"-a tale of
the Ex- For blind leading the blind. James Cagney, the star, is him- former self on the screen No. 1 LUSH".
cure
Cagney shows just what can happen after taking the
presented which Ray Milland
in "The Lost so effectively Weekend But then Cagney. having pulled himself up by this bootlaces, has to show his boss's son-in-law (who married the girl he loved) just how to best the bottle.
Of the 34 members of the cast, 32 are completely new pantomine footlights. The only two veterans are Rita Cole and Vic Labrum.
* a
When
is
picture the new shown there will be plenty of Frared comment.
You will discover what "angel feathers" are the final furtive sound a drunk hears when he knows he will either die or win through.
Thai, sccording 10 Bill Colledge, has nothing to do with the success.
pantomime. This reles largely on the music (contributes) by Phyllis Turner) the dancing (arranged by Dorothy Hart Baker), the costumes Cenvisaged by Mary Pepperell and Mary Hong Sling), the lighting Cooked after by Ralph Capelf), the stage You will see 20 startlingly Construction I thought up by realistic detail the full Harry Triggs and the exterior et The Grand Hangover. decoration the work of the more vividly than anything. Nam Yang Film
Production you will also see as the Company).
screen has never shown betche
terrors
But
A very important character is -the Savage horror of whet "Spud" Spary at the piano, who,
100 much drink can do when among othe, chores, devides on it get. in command of a steer- the key that will bring the best ing wheel out of & variety of choruses. FAERYLAND CHIPS
J nominate this scene as one
to shatter any motorist's com-
The main hall of the KCC this | placency. week will be overrun by elves
Brilliant direction,
brillant
and fairies, many of whom find high.ing, brilliant pholography,
to il necessary
invade the threshold of Lhat sacred precinct--the Club bar,
This new faeryland habit quite puzzled us, but the explanation is that today's elves and fairies have, rather than a sweet tooth, one for potato chips and, rather self-propellent children, they where the chips
3 Stoogers Comedy know And Colour Cartoon
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INVITATION
TO ALL FORCES
YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO THE
CHEERO CLUB
SPECIAL
XMAS PARTY
on
MONDAY NEXT, 17TH DECEMBER COMMENCING AT 7 P.M.
ས
come
* LUSH: Graphic American stang for the drunk who keeps on drinking and cannot stop.
tha! drunken drive. Your eye is on the needle. your foot is on the brake......
And then....the crash!
And then it's there for you to see in full grisly detail
ten party of
A
which
steadily ไป WHO DRINKS TOO
will The venom in the scene have more effect in hammering horne that vivid RECIPE FOR TWO DEATH "TAKE
than DRINKS AND DRIVE"
safety any road ever put into words.
propaganda
Olivier Against The Purists
✰ THE
PRONUNCIATION from.
The success of the pantomime purists will have plenty to depends on everybody, but there say when they hear how Orton is an additional attraction on Welles and the rest of "Othello" whom Producer Colledge largely cost are using the word Lieuten- depends and he has never failed ant.
SecTel.
in the past. He 18 atom- On opening night they said it the traditional English way, "left-en-ant." Then Sle in waking
rence Olivier, who presents the play, returned from holiday, and straightway reminded them of his directive on the ject.
propelled and largely a He finally succeeds up the Sleeping Beauty.
Even if he fails, which is com- pletely improbable, the pan- tomime has something else to stand up on and that cannot fail. It will stand on its topical spice.
So now the word is said the American way, "loot-en-ant." "I don't care what people will declared Sir Laurence.
Now Mr Hanson has turned (Oxford Dictionary examples
Shake up again In New York this give Olivier right in
both
Andrey Hepburn. pronuncia- time, with speare's time
And now there is an engage- tions were used).
date definite men:"but no for marriage.
In The Picture
an
STAR
HANSON JAMES
18 a His plotures with Miss Hep- young man
a rapidly rising star, burzi, remarkable
some should satisfy anyone's social Lau- from Huddersfield. For
time now 28-year-old Mr Han-ambition in show business. son, who runs a transport busi- ness, has found time to travel scuth to London and take sub-
interest in show business. And have
taken his picture
with actresses.
He went to parties and was seen with the stars. His cir- ele became wider, more ambi- Lious.
Hanson Mr
played host to Jean Simmons
when But in the Orson Welles film she went North for a six-day of "Othello," which opened to holiday just before she was 21. cheers and big business LIK Rome the other night, Orson the American-schools his Ex- ternational cast in the British style: "left-an-ant."
say
If, over a year of residence in Fragrantaria and Dragonia we "That is the original pronun have missed any of the most amusing incidents of the year, these are recounted, upon with a magic wand and. largely coming out of the mouths
more of children, are
than enough to bring any house down.
—M.H.T.
and that's the way clation touched want it."
He was photographed next to her at the theatre, the circus, and a party after a big fight. And Miss Simmons had to deny rumours of "romance,"
GRAND CHRISTMAS CONCERT
by
Hongkong Concert Orchestra
Hongkong Hotel
Sunday Dec. 16, 9 p.m.
with
Maryknell School Cheir
17 Hankow Rd. Kowloon TO-DAY ONLY!
At 2.30, 5.30, 1.30 & 9.30 p.m.
IDA LUPING HOWARD DENT STEPHEN MONALLY
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AT 2.30, 5.15,
QUEENS ALHAMBRA 7.20 & 9.30
This girl
is in
trouble! ...if ske
could only
get that
letter back!
TO-MORROW
QUEEN'S
5 SHOWS
"Cause for Alarm”
1
EXTRA PERFORMANCE AT 11.30 A.M.
P.M.
MB-W's Starting Story
LORETTA YOUNG
CAUSE FOR ALARM!
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ROX Y & BROADWAY,
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GLENN
GENE
FORD TIERNEY
ETHEL
ZACHARY
BARRYMORE SCOTT
ROXY:
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• FIRST SHOWING IN FAR EAST
AN EXTRAORDINARY PICTURE INTRODUCING THE NEWEST SCREEN TECHNIQUE LOU BUNIN'S MAGICAL MERGER OF ENGLISH LIVE ACTION & PUPPETRY PACKED WITH FANTASIES & ENCHANTING MUSIC. I
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