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"KING'S MAJESTIC
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A SHOWING
AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.20
& 9.30 P.M.
TO-DAY
★
AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.20
& 9.30 P.M.
EXTRA MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW -
KING'S: AT 11.30 A.M. MAJESTIC: AT 12.00 NOON
THE GENUINE
A WONDER-WORLD
OF
ENTERTAINMENT!
Come see this
realm radiant
with color, song
and laughter!
Thrill to the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, the
Cheshire Cat
a host of other
fantastic funny-folk!
Such Wonderful Songs!
*
LEWIE CARROLL
Beland Bro
COPYRIGHT WALT DISNEY PRORADIĆ LIČNES
pre NO KLOTH PICTURES
Walt Disney's
ALICE
IN WONDERLAND
The all-cartoon Musical Wonderfilm
TECHNICOLOR
COLOR GY
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SHOWING TO DAY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
THE GREAT ADVENTURE OF ALL THE AGES!
The
GOLDEN HORDE
Starring ANN BLYTH
DAVID
FARRAR
COLOR BY
TECHNICOLOR
OF GENGHIS KHAN
GEORGE MACREADY RICHARD EGAN - PEGGIE CASTLE
creenplay by EL SAFSON ADAMS Berated by CEORCE SHERMAN Produced By HOWARD CHRISTI and ROBE AND
UNIVERSAL INERNATIONAL PICTUR
NO COMPLIMENTARY TICKETS AVAILABLE
TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW
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Extra Performance of
"THE GOLDEN HORDE
A Universal-International
THE
12th DAY
Picture
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OUR PICTURE WILL ANSWER THIS QUESTION PACKED WITH FANTASIES & ENCHANTING MUSIC. 1
ALICE
IN WONDERLAND AR
ANSCO COLOR
"LOD BUNIN'S PUPPETS and Carol Marsh.
Directed by DALLAS BOWER (Co-Director ‘HENRY V') A SOUVAINE SELECTIVE PICTURES RELEASE X'MAS ATTRACTION! SPECTACLE! ACTION! ROMANCE! INTRIGUE!
CAPITAINE ZEMPÊTE
FRENCH SUPER-PRODUCTION
THE CHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1951.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
SHOWING
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GOOD. THANKS.
EVERYTHING ALL RIGHT NOW ?
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Walt Disney's Alice and her model, Kathryn Beaumont, and the Cheshire Disney always draws his animals from fal and his model. Sterling Holloway. human models, the simple reason being that it's impossible to summon a grin from
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The
The Tubes of Haff mau peally the Barcarolle sequence.
of course highspots the tim. of a quality which will not soon They are placed in the fore- is a film designed to carry
front ol be surpassed
¿ continuous suc- Bam have
Some will cal
ORIGINAL AND DARING
cession of gorgeous sets, which The contro it loud and overpowering, Bul the film will be remem- bring out the finest in ballet in Cabinet and the
will escribe its here! in the years to come main- much the same way accentua- 1lon of ingredients bring out the I for its originality and daring pl wath whet
extravagant, was unchecours
Tany wonderful scenes best in food. Sir Thomas Bee- others will deplige its admin of
and cham's rendition of the Offen- astonishing ingenuity Bleat as
the rich things haveliness. duner
and bach score gives the final gil which, like an
to a bower of lilies, and com- overloaded spretacular effects, for the be-
audience to Atrung treeks which the camera pels the
rivet its feast. produce dyspepsia phays on the eye. delighting the eves on the screen.
in the out but none will connoisseur and the commones Miss Shearer dances the pro- cast to logue as Stella in the role of a đẳng that it provides att ex- alike, like off wine
pitchers of marble and rement.
She appears dragonfly prience of a lifetime.
Miss Motra Shearer's and Miss soon after in the tale of Olym The tire beruse atan Ludmilla Teherina's dancing are pio, a doll which Leonide Mas-
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pass off as his daughter to Hoff-
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things as making flowers the greatest scope it has ever i an interlude not invented fed-amfolding a breathless.
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ant Velenau little giris reic
on to very strange, but not to her as a child, incredible a
malar gemas grane rambling In en hauted woods. The singing is impressive, the dancing excellent the orchestral music, es-
than work, rather Dodgson's
trile Disneyisans which
This is where the Hower- Bon version sucecede su well You are introduced to the real historical world-Charles Bodg the
en, or to use nis psuedonym. cheiled the Warus Commander Eewis Carroll's world--where N. (red.) They were unport- you see Queen Victoria (Pamela ant and good, hut brown)
Visiting Christchurch
CHRISTMAS
IS COMING
mann
Bar
MISS Teherinn, alust a famous
dancer aş Miss Shearer, appears as Giulietta, a Detail Venetian courtesun who enslaves Hoffmann.
Miss Ann Ayers dances the impestant part, as Anton. Aho ties of consumption in Bonely Greek isluna.
SETTING TO SETTING
the
To record all this the camera
fit from
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setting 10 Netling.
fireling glimpses
of yards of satin
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muuntless
objects
which spring to life as effortless-
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emergence of sun after vain, gilded columns, maT-
ble
Bours.
dazzling interiors, and Venice in twilight.
A preview audience last week wis spellbound by the film. 1:
was
is a
am not of
the school of thought which con-
College and the Dean's three saers that Bunin's puppets
le daughters, with Victorian stole the show. There are those precation, are Lept in their who do.
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the youn Don
and then
abc
Three items in the Disney Hum rooms, unin Dodgson. lets them out unc were really good. One was the grupes the formality himself rather frightening coily cater- creature, by rowing them down the river, pillar, a
very alive telling his story.
another the stripy Cheshire cat By miracle of photography, with his inscrutable and self-
Marsh Carol
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appearing grin, through Wonderland herself, faccinating scene with gullible acting flawlessly. The puppets frilly little oysters, whose last are exceptional-for puppets
was touchingly moments DISNEY'S ANIMALS
spared. It is
about the a pity How perfect it would have rest. The big difference that
is been though, if this Wonderland Disney's is complete fantasy
with peop ed
Disney's while Bower's is a contrast; the animals, which would have to reactions of
a real Victorian have been far more specifically child to fantasy.
were
one
drawn, to imilate the charact- --SUE DAWSON.
eristics of The Victorians in
ORIENTAL
AIR CONDITIONED
Take Any Eastern Tram Car or Happy Valley But
SHOWING TO-DAY: 2.305.30—7.30 & 9.30 P.M. A famous novel story with plenty of laughs & thrills!
The tiar al "King Solomon's MEMS" STEWART GARDEN,
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LICA SCREAMS”
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-Frank Capin's -
felt at the end
The
that a
litany of superlatives would not be ariss.
riss. hence this review. 11 great artistic effort, truly remarkable. and its
appeal should be international.
There
are flaws, of course. and the dancers for singers often do not synchronize their roles, and no opera in the world has the happy fortune of con- taining nothing but haunting metocies from beginning to end; here and there are always to be found
parts likely to drag. They do drag in Hoffmann, too, but the burden is something one delights to carry.
-A.D.C.
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