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KING'S MAJESTIC EMPIRE
AT 2.30, 5.15,
AT 2.30, 5.15,
7.20 6 9.30 P.M.
7,20 & 9,30 P.M.
AT 2.30, 5.30,
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EXTRA PERFORMANCE TO-MORROW
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13,
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FOR FELLA WITH NO HEAD, HIM CAN SURE SEE WHERE HIM GOING.
AND LOTHAR PURSUES THE WEIRD FIGURE IN
THE DARK NIGHT!
1952:
By Lee Falk and Phil Devian
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KING'S
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MAJESTIC AT 12 NOON
EMPIRE AT 12.30 P.M.
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LIBERTY
A BOMBAY TALKIES PICTURE
"KISMET??
in Natural Color
'Starring: Ashok KUMAR ↑ Mumtaz SHANTI
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AN INDIAN PICTURE
TWO NEW "FIRST-RUN" THEATRES
Hongkong's "Empire" And Kowloon's "Princess”
"
It seems to be the accepted thing that every new cinema in Hongkong should open with a musical. After some impressive ceremonies, “Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder" was shown on Wednesday at the luxurious new "Princess" in Kowloon, and on Thursday-"Just for You" at the magnificent "Empire" in Hongkong.
Prime
-IN VAIN-
Sue Dawson Waits for
the Sun to Shine
Sir Robert Ho Tu opened had something in eterman. They the 'Princess", hien has a were both about show-people goldfish fountain, autcmalle- one Hollywood and tho other changing multiectou: flood-Broadway. You get a farcina. lights, pastel shadei in decora. - ting peep into work-a- tion and the most splendid drop day Hollywood in "“Rainbow curtain, a glittering crass of gold Round My Shoulder", which is a and the only one in the Colony lucky-break story of a newly to draw up rather than across. hired mesenger-girl, Charlotte
Sir Arthur Morse opened the Austin, whose
4.IFE and Love's Eternal minutes-but chance to starTriangle the heart-beat in nothing more Empire" which goed la
to they lead for gay with Frankie Laine and Billy
than David Onishings, and with harlequin Daniela is very.
nearly checks, boasts quite a new de- dominating Grandmarna. Fran- blare the advertisements for well) in fast though dignified parture in ceiling design. On kle Laine makes frequent ap- "Walt'i the Bun
sentimental drama at its best!" Wayne getting older (he, ages spolit by
that is 'con- the outside a sculpture of bold poarances, mostly accompanied Nellie." Take all but two of
Bhinek, singes. Perhaps design pletures "The
of summation. As far as tho Minister Tung Cheuk and the by his own translation of the those words with
a pinch
of effect on the film goes, it is Girl Singer The Sim in a rather nevertheless delight his fans.
word song,' which should salt. 'Sentimental Drama' is the
certainly
for the catastrophic, alarming mixture of ancient
answer, but on second thoughts, picture folds up feebly with A story with rather more of the history and modem ́art,
not so ouT The
about the Wayne the vetoran marching human touch and a different type 'drama'. Thpt West comes into it too, though, of voice-Bing's comes into the other Oxford
criterion, the with the band in his small- Dicth for further down the sculpture must For You" Bing Crosby word thus."
nary, defines the
town-grown-big, amid a great there is a Greek beauty with Is a Broadway producer ond auccesS-
set of events deal of nuise, Nothing much is harp and precious little else. wyman. Complications arise, for his play and leading to catastrophe up like a pricked balloon..
ful composer, falls in love with Jane having unity and progress of a 'reached; the whole thing withers European and Thailand dancers on follows suit when Jans Wyman come and even a writer have a torn up while he and his teenage Or conmummation," place in the placque, one gather, on a holiday, planned by Pada Bing son and daughter, Natalie Wood, Fre
Thero 18. however, Jean but no-one is quite so prominent so that he may get to know hi
This Baga of burber Ben Peters. She is David Wayne's as the girl from Greecet
rather neglected children better. Halper's feels embroidered temperamental, dissatisfied but Everything revolves itself in both freely films, of course, and both, by the crops up regularly, every
with catastrophes ono sometimes adoring young wife, ten whose one object is to get to way, are superbly photographed in Technigolour.
Chicago. But she turns out to be one of the catastrophes, and alent disappears rather less than
Both theatres
scat around seventeen hundred people in utter comfort, and have large car parks to accommodate their pat rons. Even the opening pictures at the 'Princess' and "Empire"
The Princess" is owned by the Hongkong and Kowloon Entertain- neuil Co. ar" the "Empire" by itarry Odell's Co...monwealth Enterprises Corp. Ltd.
SUE DAWSON
LEE Liberty
TO-DAY AT 2.30, 9.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
A NEW KIND OF LOVE STORY!
FONTAINE-MILÏAND
WRIGHT
Something To George Stevens Live For
Production
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GREAT WORLD
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★ FINAL TO-DAY ★ AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 9.30 P.M.
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and fiery-eyed! She acts vehe- mently and makes the most of
dul script, David Wayne sulters nonde-script too, as the ordinary little barber, of Sevilinols ho is just-gvell, grdinary. But he has one rather bright drunken were,
Hugh Marlowe as the other man', and all the rest of the cast do their bit quilo competently, but oh dearl Thwendeth Cen- tury Fox doesnt give them much of a chance to shine.
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As for poor Nelle, looks as though she will have to wait ill Kingdom Come for the mus to ahine; yours truly waited hopefully thrtaugh the whole picture, but I never pooped through the tedious drabness.
Beind about an American small-town of the early twentieth century, perhaps that country can better oppreciate this 'anall-time" film
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