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KUNG'S MAJESTIC
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1951.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
TAKE THE BOY AWAY FOR PUNISHMENT. BRING MISSY LENORE HERE! WE MUST ACT FAST!
YOU BROKE OUR LAWS. YOU DARED APPROACH THE
NEWLY-COME SUN- GOD. THAT IS
TABOO.
CHHET, I MUST SEE THIS NEW "SUNGOD". IT IS IMPORTANT.
STILL YOU INSIST? NO! WE DARE NOT PUNISH YOU, IT WOULD GO HARO ON US WHEN YOUR PEOPLE COME--AS
THEY WILL--
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
BUT IF YOU ARE LOST --LOST FOREVER-
· WHO CAN BLAMEUS
WILERE ARE YOU
TAKING ME?
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EXTRA PERFORMANCE TO-MORROW
KING'S A 11.30 A.M. MAJESTIC: At 12.00 Noon
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GEORGE
BAIL BONDS...are my business!
I've got to be harder, smarter
than niy customers. It's čy-
momile to make a bad guess
ELLA
(like I did about a
dame named Lucy!
PAT
RAFT-RAINES O'BRIEN "A DANGEROUS PROFESSION
BILL-WILLIAMS
Executive Producer Sed Bogel
Produced by Robert Spark
Directed by lad Taloff » Written by Marie Racks and Wonen Dutt
COMING SHORTLY
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DUCILLE NORMAN 37 SAKALL DAVID BUTLER
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GARY COOPER! RUTH ROMAN!!
5
SHOWS
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Daring..
Different... Shocking!
NEVER A PICTURE
LIKE IT!
"The Lost WeekendTM
starring
RAY MILLAND JANE WYMAN
Phillips Terry
Barla Bowling
Howard di S
Frank Fagles
Frodered by Charles Brochait Dicti
4 F
TO-MORROW
"THE FLAME AND THE ARROW
✰✰✰ A SEAT IN THE STALLS ★★★
Lizabeth
TRUE AND TERRIFICALLY TOLD
BASED ON FILES OF THE 2.3. DEPT. OF FUSTICE!
HOWARD DUFF
ILLEGAL ENTRY MARTA TOREN
GEORGE BRENT
TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW At 11.30 a.m. BROADWAY; At 12.30 p.m.
A Special
ROXY: A Selected Programme of
HAS NOEL
NOEL COWARD PLANS Learns To Be TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS
TO STAR HIMSELF IN A
BIG ROMANTIC MUSICAL?
Since the death of
111
Ivor Braden an
e twenty ver nal lean 20 pages of script in werk fo·T: Bigge Th
| Novello no one has stepped
forward
ANNUAN
mantle - writer, compostr tag-scale star at Fir romantic mastrál
il
L
But don't be surpassed a Noel Coward returns to the felf at which at one time he was Ivor's only rival.
Eneosagged. I suspect, to lus tremendous success in entertainer at the Cafe de Paris, woud by the ucclaim for his new play "Relative, Valors both of which! have silenced those wh
Faisa of being uttāsj
the "date"
who "Bitter Sweet"
W Pute
MILTI
14 1
Saish fb panning a new musical an the same runtas-
the style.
Baat Ha
difference
There may be
I predict Now | Coward, the-momposer will write
leading part for Noel the pelor
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Cowaru.
I make two further predu -
Sledo Awther leading role wit
in written for A famous mair mentar singing star (could Georges Guelary?), and ad the law will be presented by Tom Arnold.
It was M Arnold, you may wall who was 50 closely as- sociated with Ivor Novelló
We
RED STAR RISES AGAIN
Larry arion An Hollywood
for life Parks sis
lowing in Batam of his last Is Better Tijan Alm. Love Exer," in which he cuestars will Elizabeth Taylor
It has been us the shelf
! the M-G-M schon for
hine now
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Parks Cum told a US Crag endona
Jas beve: nulice that
at the Commons He adde
me that he had made & Mi
take and won il unanimous commondation from the
gressmen for a frankness,
M-G-M evidently
:
Town
The London Films Cup. pre inted toe London Academy Music and Dramatic Art by Sir Alexander Kurda, has been won by ex student Marie Ger maine.
1
cell Parker
{1 10 Supply Amaica for Chistmas.
T lo Al
kinah Sheridan
ken the African
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heres of Where N Valtures Fl
Wheer 1 And long 1983- Rainbow End: powo fortieth yea
18-year-oll firai Kay Osborac makes her Lunion appearance ever
White" at Snow
the Si James's
Emyl Williams sending first ught good wishes
Brity Ann Davies and sign
Emlyn--the ing them E-Stop-Gap
Sonic
West stope
-JACK DAVIES.
BULLSEYE FOR DISNEY
Walt Disney's master touch with a bow and arrow
is enthusiastically approved by Richard Todd and Joan Rice while on forest location for "Robin Hood" at Todd plays the title Burnham Beeches. in England.
role and Miss Rice charms as Maid Marian. Disney is personally supervising this Technicolour production which Perce Pearce is producing at the Denham Studios.
A Cockney
By ROY NASH Hollywood visitor taking note of the way Londoners talk is Lizabeth Scott.
She needs a Cockney ac
at reat for "Stolen Face" Riverside, but we shall hear it in only part of the pic- ture.
دازه آکوار
rates Scott has two Only one H London gal t Vitted ut theft requires the acreat For the other, an Ameri- can convert pianist, Miss Scolt's votre wii be ifs usual transatlantic self
Eye-catching items I !h £2,500 wardrobe whah she brought from America for the picture include a pale pink lace and not negligee, glittering even-
KOWNE and black
Jerse Pyjamas with a gobi overskirt
Miss Scott is not one of thos ny-away Hollywood stars whe can't wait to pack then bags as
as they Bn.sh Alming. She is planning siglitser- Just shots of Og after the "Stolen Face" are completed m Dermabes. I meludes a trip t Wales where she hopes to spend i C'huistimas.
TRACY'S RED NOSE They may be panting Spence, Tracys nose red at Elstree nex! spring.
plans work 1 present chut he will be coming over Lu
bo a schoolmaster who |dug
comes & clown in "The Romancy
enry Monafee
M
I will be genial, white-hai e:
Tracy's second piano
He made Edward, My par Elstice three vents age and la Is one Hollywo
star who 14 always happy to pay us a retur. VISI
I like everything about Eng-
He told m land, even the tes," ance, they'll be keeping the stres kettle boiling for tim
At the moment he's making a Atlantic crossing in the revers direction as the Captain al th Mayli wer in Bollywonel's "The Plymouth Brethren,"
they
FAMILY SQUABBLE Fabng
studas, where like
tackle out-of-the-rui subjects, have an unusual then
This Day is Ours' when skurts production next month.
F
concert a girl who is born deaf and the effect which he
decided HAROLD CONWAY'S Show Talk has on parents wh
that his former Communistic background would be bad for
the box-office Now they want public will to see how the react.
do not believe the Brit
hammer or sh public care a kle about the politics of the entelajners In show business you are either good or bad.
1 Larry Parks is good
J
"Love Is Better Than Ever" be praise wil receive the same
that he would have done if he had admitted that he was ou a member of the Liberal Party will from nie. At least, he
anyway.
UP THE WALL
Redgrave Will Play
A Star In Eclipse
it stage.
I C
الف
stud a man
that Mr Watt's Pinewood that he is putting present day, is turn went on too long. But up the top comedy effort of affinity belwern what a a good comedian he ist his career in a film of "The woman who He can be alternately witty und grotesque; he can produce Importance of Being Ear.tive to each other.
mad look in his eye as easily nest."
o: he can
tie his legs knot or throw away Itne,
funny
disagree about her upbringing and education.
Written by Nigel Baich: from roved by Hilda Lewis, it will be darle
by Alexander Mackendrick, whom flmgoers kitow bet f the light-hearted "Whisky Gaforr
"This Day Is Ours" is the first 何 programme of nine films
just announced for Ealing.
Others are adaptations of best by Cruel Sea," sellers The
"A Town Nicholas Monserrat, Like Alive" by Nevil Shute and
The Shadow and the Peak," a study of white-coloured relations in Jamaica to be directer! e Robert Hamer.
in engine. Hart, who made a hit Vera-Ellen's perky girl friend
FOR MICHAEL RED. aste the part italiantly on the 14 tank Miss Ellis GRAVE 1951 counts as
it is at in ould stand as to M: Belgrass if she got the year of glory.
vely atisfacto als phamve pressive tally:
ASHCROFT UP-TO-DATE Best British screen per-
I quote for you a significant formance (in "The Brown-
the author. description
HERRINGS ON SNOWDON So far as I was concerned
N Terence Rattigan, about his new
There are also two typical the best things in last Mon- ing Version"); laurels
actor and
play "The Deep Blue Sea"--in day's Midnight Matinee, in als Shakespearean
One, "Head is to Ealing fantasies. Perry Ashcroft Stratford-on- which
In The Clouds" concerns ย of the National Playing Fields producer at Association, were the antics of Avon: present reports from
"The play, which is set in the crazy grow-more-food campaign Max Wall.
of an for turning the top of Snowden
into It is true
herring farm. and a
The other, the work of T. E. are mutually des-
B. ("Lavender Hill Mob") Clarke What is significant about that? is about a small railway which and la The words "present day Do you escapes nationalisation Wil 1952 be Redgrave's glory know how many contemporary. taken over by its passengers, ali
whom of
are anxious to fulf Peggy rules It may well be-fo: non costume year, too? he is to start off with the biggest Ashraft-one of our three lead-youthful ambitions to drive the
played actresses has I mention these facts because stage role any actor is likely to ing
the London during
pust I don't recal ever seeing Mr capture during the next twelve
year: Just two-and-a-half. Wall in a Alm, and I'd like to. months.
This is the "hero" of Clifford The half refers to "Edward, My He also seems to me the kind
Odets's Broadway drama, "The Son" by the time that story got of comedian who could carry e
Country Girl"-a one-time po- up to date, Miss Ashcroft TV series. I sopo he does."
She plays a young woman who stor now in his a pathetic, inebriated old lady
havoc in A Scottish TIME MARCHES ON DEPT pular theatre
to "character." causes From my tent in the circle it fosties, grown seedy and uncer she was back
Miss Ashcroft, like John university in this adaptation of appeared that Frankie is get-tain of himself, facing eclipse as
stage comedy, favourite.
Gielgud, takes most kindly to u James Bridie's ting thin on top,
In New York the play created sense of the past when on the What they're saying about her NOTED AT RANDOM д minor sensation. Despite the stage. But an occasional change performance is that it confirms TONY CURTIS and
audiences is good for the best of stars; so the bellef that British studios Janet author's disavowals,
discarding the have found a bright new come- Leigh cutting short their Paris tried to identify the leading I am glad she
dienne. honeymoon so they can see character.
and Vivien Laurence Olivier
Henry Sherok and the Ameri-
new part will be
THE VOICE at anything she has Leigh on Broadway. "We bem can actor Sam Wannamaker are dramatic
Once a BBC effects-girl, dark- Shakespeare, Mr think Olivier is the greatest at presenting The Country Girl" tackled
was chided by the haired Miss Hart was told "You'll in partnership-a pre-Wet Rattigan short
honeymoon our
raiher
that" when she attended dramatic find for hils Edinburgh. Before that they Is Sylvia?--for resorting to the
school. than miss our pents
alightly cracked performance," says Tony, who have to find a star
Tatilgan felt challenged: What- has to be back in Holywood in car a woman par who flippancy of his early period.
is one of her greatest mid-January to appear in My Redgrave as the falling actor's ever the writes may about "The voice True Love" for *UI..... Grola wife.
Deep Blue, Sca," they are un charms: Her role in "What Bay. What about Mary Ellis? Ned-likely to focuse him this time of They was played
stage by another Betress who Grat and Hector Ross are the stars of "I Am Stranger," grave did not have her for his being "alppant." which is in production at the wife in the fling of "The Brown (World Copyright Reserved-London Owen a great deal to her voice
Express Sproles.)
Yvonne Arustid, Viking Studios **** Bersinding Verston" though she had
mtrticy for once
Der
In
20 Diane
in "Happy Go Lovely," gels # much bigger part in "What Say They?" at Southall, was
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tor alive and we prefer to cut bore tour of six weeks opens in critics over his last play-who never go for with a voice like i
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DAVID AND BATHSHEBA
TECHNICOLOR
starting
GREGORY SUSAN
PECK HAYWARD
4
BOOKINGS NOW OPEN!
SHOWING
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Cathay
AT 2.30, 5.30,
7.30 & 9.30
P.M.
Spectacle! Action! Romance! Intrigue!
See mighty combuts in the days when knights were bold!
When Venice was at war with the Turks!
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A French Super Production
ORIENTAL
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Final Showing To-Day: 2,30-5.30-730 & 9.30 p.m. A Very Good Comedy with Plenty of Laughs!
SPENCER
JOAN
ELIZABETH
TRACY BENNETT TAYLOR
IN
"Fathers Little Dividend”
Commencing To-Morrow: Bud Abbot & Lou Costello in "RIO RITA"
SPECIAL MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW AT 12.30 Marta Toren in "CASBAH"
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