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"TEXAS CARNIVAL"
KINGS MAJESTIC
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER › 27, 1952, ◄
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
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a GREAT WALL Super Production'
Starring Shek, Fu
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ROXY & BROADWAY
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A DOZEN TOP STARS....... 5 GREAT DIRECTORS... Bring the best of Henry's storias alive on the screen?
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THE CASE OF THE VANISHING PANTOMIME ★
London.
TWO young actresses-Hy Hazell and Vanessa Lee have been
carrying a
load of responsibility on their shoulders (and ahapely legs) this Christmas. They are the West End's only Prin clpal Boys at a time when pantomime, as we have known it for generations, is struggling for survival. And it is the...principal. boys not.
the star comica- who must project the real spirit of pantomime.
Yes, Central London is down to mero brace of this ton pan year- Jack and
WEST END TWO CHALLENGE
THE ICE AGE
Jill at the Casino, Dick Whit- tington at the Palladium. That is all our top theatrical manage ments are prepared to risk, in an age when children expect to be wooed with the stupendous, star pars at Christmas. the colossal and the expendi- ture which such descriptions entail.
Claude Langdon's ice version of Miss Jack and the Beanstalk. Gaye has spent the past sle months learning to skate, it was one way of ensuring herself a
ON.....OFF
We seem to have been all film
That is why approximately wrong about those
£100,000 is being lavished or starlets. Just over a fortnight two ice "pantomime Jack ago, 29-year-old Susan Shaw
and the Beanstalkc (Empress
stepped on to a West End stage Holl) and The Sleeping Beauty for the first time--and astonish- (Empire Pool. Wembley). Why ed everyone
with punch- we are now witnessing polite leden,
point-scoring Per- cut-throat competition between fortnance as a juvenile delin- three
circuses Olymplo, Earls
quent in The Blue Lamp. Harringaywith Tom Court and Amold claiming a total cost of
£130,000 on the Harringay
show alone.
The big money is invested In the suburbs. Only if produ- cera net wisely zid quickly this year will. traditional pan temime retain its hold in the West End.
Now Miss Bhaw finds herself out of a job. The Blue Lamp of has been the surprise. Hop the season, the new girl, who thought she was establishet for start a six months' run, will fighting again for recognition,
TM'M TOUGH
See what has happened to
"Never mind, I'm tough--and some of the other supposedly time is on my side," she says. hardy annuals Charley's Aunt, Time is also on the side of Knights Were Bold.
London sees them.no. more;
have, it seems mors' ativanced revue fallire earlier this year
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TO-DAY
JÁLEŇ MASUM ANN TODD
WHITTINGTON :" Viletá Lee
JACK: Hy Hizit
But what has happened to the London stage production of
JAD.
SILVER CITY
29, M. Bon of the Musketeers
The Girl in the White CRIRVAR
7. Singin' in the fain
S. The Liisa Love Story
of Beethoven
PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS
The Rose Tattoo? It was first Caplos of photographa projected a year ago. Since
gothet
The Private Secretary, When her fellow, ex-starlet, Diana then the Tennessee Williams taken by the South China
Dors. Miza Dors, whom
we cult has met with a check Morning Post, South China children born into a TV world laughed at on the screen, show- Summer and Smoke was a com- Sunday Post-Herald, and
ed her meltie in a West
Fallon will so wait, le cones China Malk Staff & Phold taates. Peter Pan, being immor. She gets her second chance in Unul Brush audiences become graphors are, on" vidw in tal, and Where the Rainbow the American comedy-thriller, Streetcar minded odite mo the Morning Post Building. Remalas. To. Be Seen, which (World Copyright keittords-London, opens in London soon after Express Service.);
Bads (this year at the Prince's) alone survive. In place of the others-magical shows and TV's Muffin the Mule.
TESTING TIME
Christmas.
BUC
In their race for stage cess, the two girls are running closely at the moment Diana Now I worn West End looks like passing the post first. pantomime producers: their I note that Jack Hyiton is the testing-time is come. Let them presenter of both plays; he ob give the children all the glit- viously believes in Mr Rank's ter, sparkle and spectacle they former starlets. expect from falryland. Spend
more none dions-are--with. on this then on the comics.
the children-all
and wind: fairyland be the year round; longs to Christmas and it is a theatre can do
the one
CALLING MAGNANI
Anna Magnani, Italy's No:- 1 screen exponent of sul- triness, may soon be going to Hollywood. Tennessee Williams wants her to play the heroine in a film version of his latest
mote
persuasively than TV. ove all, make the story the Above most not the least-important drama, The Rose Tattoo.
feature of the show; and keep
the
Mr Williams, claims Magnani,
new
to the atory the children have had her in mind when he wrote
story. Since g read and know by heart.
SIGN OF THE TIMES heroine la modelled firmly in FOOTNOTE: Comedienne Lu the "Streetcar" convention, I eille Gaye is the "Dame" isce his point.
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