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TODAY!
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1953.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
SPINNING TWO PEOPLE
UNDERGROUND,
~INSIDE THE
By Lee Fall and Phil Davis
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its splendor, laughter, un- curbed excitement!
GABRIEL PASCAL presents BERNARD SHAWS
"ANDROCLES AND THE LION”
Ting
*JEAN SIMMONS VICTOR MATURE ROBERT NEWTON - MAURICE EVANS
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AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 PM.
COÓW EXTRA performanCE ON SUNDAY
CAPITOL at 12.00 noon 11 LIBERTY at 12.30 p.m.
NEW!
THE
CORONATION HS AN IMPOSTORI
KETRAYAL OF A ROYAL LADET
RETÁKLE ON
ZEBA CASTLET
PRISONER OF ZENDA
FIRST
TIME
IN
TECHNICOLOR
YG
STATIKA
STEWART GRANGER DEBORAH KERR
LOUIS CALHERN JANE CREER
LEWA STOKE ROBERT DOUGLAS
JAMES MASON
AS KUPIRY OF HINTZAU
"Scrash Payt
JOHN L. DALDERSION. NOEL LANGLE
D RICHARD THORPE
PANDRO S. BERMAN
ENG atury
Hollywood's Scissor Men Are Hard At Work
have been' busier
By JENNIFER JONES
called
not sure. For the time being I'm ranch, then go East to look at
to you). "My next picture? I'm
going to take a holiday at the
Hollywood. Speaking for. film-gdere Wilding as barons--with Greer Kerz and Spring, besides headlining everywhere, the National Garson, Deborah
Elizabeth Taylor as "domes" Easter Council on Freedom from (old English version) in a little. daffodils and bunnies, has this week been Censorship is doing its beat technicolour production affecting the censors.
to blunt the snippeting of "Magna Carte. Yes, it's in 3-DI The above gentlemen, the censor men. Chief out-
I met FRED ASTAINE armçı with the most cry of the NCFC is against shopping at the Beverly Hills vicious style in scissors, an attempt to censor not Five-and-Ten (Marks & Spencers
than only major pictures (which they've ever been before, may need it) but also What is more, by the way library and school documen- things are going it looks as taries which most certainly my dancing schools." Fred. hus though they won't give up don't and couldn't offend 00 of them. Some look, some
business! when the Spring fever has passed. By mid-summer you'll have difficulty in finding 50 much "damn!" in any production from this celluloid city.
Not that the censors are getting it all their own way.
anyone:
The battle isn't surprising. A chief censor gets over £2,000 a year-end even censors have to as Justify their existence. Hence the Spring. fever with the SCISSOTA!
Barons and Dames Get ready to see Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger and Michael
SUPERB BUT UNLIKELY
Says Sue
Dawson
TF one finds it credible that: A. a man can be really in love
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TO-DAY ONLY: AT 2.30. 5.30. 7.30.
& 9.30 P.M.
PRESSURE SICH DANNY AND LIN
WMA D SONG IN MY
with a woman, know his love is returned and yet lie HEART
to her from start to finish. B. an adult son who has been on the best of terms with his father will not bother to find out what has happened to the prodigal parent, even at the time of his own wedding, C. a woman who really loves will not make every effort to stay with her man whom she knows loves her, or to find him when he la lost and down-and-out; if one finds it easy to believe all this, then one might say that "Carrie" is the perfect tragedy.
But no, I think, whatever Chicago, to stay with her pessimists may, that the unre- sister and brother-in-law. She lonting
succession of faintly hates her fruitless work at the possible but very unlikely frogle factory, and when the of the developments strains too much sewing machine. nedles 'goes one's capacity to believe.. Per- through her thumb and the is haps Theodore Dreiser's original marked, train - acquaintance "Slete
which Charlie steps in. Later slig
ROXY & BROADWAY everything more convincing.
SHOWING TO-DAY: 2.30–5.30—7,30 & 9.30 P.M.
They
* The drama of a mai
The
Steel Trap
Amal? me, warringr
JOSEPH COTTEN TERESA WRIGHT
Halasand. by 20th Century-TOE **
LEGATE, SWIEDER Pendection
@TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW -
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A SELECTED PROGRAMME
ORİTECHNICOLOR
CARTOONS Presented by 20th Century-Fox
At Special Reduced Prices $150, $1.00 & 70 cts.
SHOWING
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BROADWAY
Special Children's Show Lotest 20th Century-Fox Technicolor, Cartoons
Reduced Admissions: $1.20 & 70:cts.
Cathay
SAT 2.30, 5.30,
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THE TRUE STORY! THE REAL THING!
WITH ANIMATE FAIRY TALES
FAMILY FILM FOR YOUNG AND OLD ALIKE!
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
·ALEO:- Bu SYMPHONIE
EN BLANC
-A TREAT TO LOVERS OF ARTI
"FIRST RUN IN HONGKONG AND KOWLOÓN.
TECHNICOLOR
情淚心聲
the Ball
the screen play 18 taken, makes-meets-gentleman George, proud, 10, 8. LUXURY LINER"
Rentle and sincere, who is in 11, 3: That Forsyte Woman the liquor business and, though 12, T. Fiesta Parts of the film are
deeply
he never tells her, has a grown 13, tv. Song of Love touching and others, such as the
up family. Unfortunately, his 14 X. Take me Out to iron-burn on George's trousers, hard green-eyed-arenste-wife
Chime sheer genius. The ending, by the (Miriam Hopkins) balds all the 15, O. Henry's Foli Hausa way, 15 not unlike that U purse-strings, and he can get 16, B. The snows of Kilimanjaro Charlie Chaplin's "Limelight," nedthen divorce kor money. except that there is no actual dough ogniz Carric death, The whole thing is told neither of these things superbly acted, as one
would when she "marrica" him in *xpect
Sir Laurence New York. In fact, she seems Olivier and Jennifer Jones in
extremely gullible .all along. the lead. They are well up- Some would ported by Sana Beer in a That brings us to the time for brief but brilliant characterisa- à
change-over a complete
with
call
It trusting.
of
the lives of
tion of a boarding-house reigh- circumstances in bour, and Eddie Albert as the there two, which leads, finally, cockey Charlle who is both sweet
to the pathetic, almost be
Carrie's saviour and downfall, lievable ending.
In case I have not made this
It is a story of America at the turn of the century when clear, "Carrie" is a picture Carrie comes to the big city, more than well worth seeing.
PRINCESS TO-MORROW
EXTRA MORNING SHOW AT. 11.15 A.M.
TARZAN'S SAVAGE FURY
Starring
Lox BARKER O Dorothy HART AT $1.50, $1.00
NEXT CHANGE AT
EMPIRE
FINAL SHOWING TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5.30,.7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
Due to there being only ono print of this picture in the Colony wo will bo playing it exclusively in our Theatre,
*Paramount
presents
ALAN RAYTY
LADD-FIELD