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KING'S
PRINCESS
EMPIRE
★ OPENING TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 & 9.40 P.M.
THE KIND OF PICTURE ALL THE WORLD WANTS TO SEE
Your eyes will see the glory...
Technicolor
COLUMBIA PICTURES SIDONTI
RITA
HAYWORTH
STEWART
GRANGER SALOME
CHARLES LAUGHTON
JUDITH ANDEGON - SIR CEDRIC HARDWICKE BAŠTE SYDNEY-KALAKE SCHWARTZ ARNOLD MOSS • ALAN BADEL HARRY KLEINER · Produced by BUDDY ADLER Ducted by WILLIAM BIETERLE
A DECKWORTH CORPORATION PRODUCTION
Complimentary Tickets Are Not Valid 5 SHOWS TOMORROW
EXTRA MORNING SHOW
KING'S
11.30 A.M.
PRINCESS
11.30 A.M.
EMPIRE
1
12.00 NOON
ORIENTAL
AIR CONDITIONED
Final Showing To-day: 2.30-5.30–7.30 & 9.30 p.m. The Earthquaking Spectacle of a Sin-Swept World of Pageantry.... Plunder....Love and Lust!
KING OF ALL ADVENTURES:
THE
RON CROWN
A Cast of Thousanda, a Chine Petron Bobose
SPECIAL MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW AT 12.30- RETURN ENGAGEMENT BY PUBLIC REQUEST! James STEWART in "WINCHESTER 73"
CHINESE
CREEDS
and
CUSTOMS
by
V. R. BURKHARDT
ILLUSTRATED BY THE AUTHOR
Printed and Published by South China Morning Post, Ltd.
HONGKONG
FIRST EDITION ON SALE ON MONDAY, 24th AUGUST
$18.00
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1953.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
YOU GOT ONE HOUR TO GET ACROSS THE BORDER, OR IT'S YOUR FUNERAL.
21-10
OKAY.DRIVER.
GO DOWN THE ROAD A PIECE. (AND WAIT)
MANDRAKE GESTURES (YPUDTICALLY--
I CAN'T SAY MUCH FOR
STOP
INVISIBLE. MANDRAKE STEPS OUT. LEAVING HIS I CUTI-IMAGE
THE JEEP
CUING!
YOUR HOSPITALITY, WITZ || CHATEFI CAN'T ANYONE SEE THE KING?
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
Whew--THAT WAS A CLOSE ONE→
BUT HE SCARED OFF EASY!
FILM STARS ARE SINGING LEE GREAT WORLD
FOR THEIR SUPPER IN
LAS VEGAS NIGHT CLUBS
It
By JENNIFER JOHNS
Hollywood.
ns: "Contaminallag and danger-
ous to public health".
The filmis Charge
"It Came
At the moment the whole come in Vegas they have
to thing is little more than, a stori
Should cycglass.
tho comes to something believe that every Hollywood in an
star has his or her price. They trouble spread, However, when one has to leave Holly don't think Marlo will be any least four big studios will suffer wood to go in search of it. exception in the long run. Re- colossul With the film world in its turning to the almost gloomy "Second Chance present state, however, and stump atmosphere of Hollywood, At Feather River" with even the top stars I shouldn't be surprised if their From Outer Space" and "San-
theory
Isn't proved right any garce"
arce" all need spectacles. none too sure where their day now.
Profit Foutale: A struggling next contract. is coming ROYAL DISNEY FAN
Camera technician Milton R from, this is what I had to This may be no news to you Gunzburg who might have do last week.
but I hear that Bonny Prince been struggling but was bright in on the 3-D Heading east in the direc- Charles is an ardent Disney fan. enough to get
Also that his aunt, Princess specs, market has sold Co tion of the Boulder Dam Margaret, is with him all the million pairs of cardboard onku and with the thermometer way. So much so that she a viewers. He buys them at just bubbling around the 100 arranging for him to meet his over 6 cents ench and sells them
10 fil
into cents. Translated mark, I made for Las Vegas idol.
in less than
Nevada.
REAL " using"?
10.
un
in that fabulous state of much time in Britain as
As Walt Disney sponds as English
he his not prea this means that apends here, the arranging months has been £833,000. Las Vegas lies just north shouldn't be difficult.
Did someone say of the Boulder Dam and just An attempt is to be made to
3-D In a
battle south of a tough, scrub re- flm the musical stage version of
With The Wind". To location, "Gone
for "Hendo" (in gion called Death
Valley, evold mix-ups with the title the Mexico) two hundred mounted Leaving the dam and the musical will be called "Scarlet Indians and a hundred cavalry Valley out of it, however, O'Hara"
nen 'put on such a vivid per- Elaine Stewart (MGM's formance for the cameras
that (neither are relevant) it is
to 2011: the answer direction-to in this
Century's there were six real casualties.
Cavalry men suffered powder night clubs of Las Vegas- Marilyn Monroe) has some new
ideas about what is (or Isn't) burns and spear-wounds in the that Hollywood's top-line good for a star's publicity: chest while three Indians re- stars are heading by the just don't think it's good for a ceived fractures from horso dozen these days.
star to be seen out with so many falls.
PP Vegas: soven
or
a
35
Tho
expense
D
Briefly these stars are sur- different men as they usually A sequence showing mounting their money worries, are. Some the men I'm sup- actual signing of the treaty in by singing for their suppers in posed to have been out with Korea will be included in a new dum "Cease Fire". The story Nevada's gambling casinos and I've never even met." luxury hotels which all seem to Elaine, who plays a fast-and- tells the operations of a combat be concentrated in one whirling loose girl in her new Alm, "Take company at the front and the
The High Ground", Isn't like historical event will be used array in
million that at all in real e. She the climax of the picture.
she smokey When the film Torch Song" tourists flood into Las Vegas doesn't drink und
Bad cach year and spend something only one cigarette a day.
its preview last week on an When like £15 million trying to beat
you see "From Here to audience picked by studlo chiefs, machines.
hines. Etemily" with Montgomery the, audlence wasn't all that the dice and stot
Deborah picked. Usually not more than When they have lost won Clift, Bert Lancaster,
It numbered hundreds. their night's money they then Kerr and Donna Reed, look out expect the hotels. to provide too for Frank Sinatra who was reason: Joan Crawford invited serious 20 of her women friends and of con- so determined to get a something in the way solation (or celebration) in the role in the film that he flew women still can't keep a secret, 14,000 miles from location in with the result that almost all of night-club supper rooms.
And the hotels and casinos Nairobl to Hollywood and back follywood seemed to be there..
Paulette Goddard who has provide them with just that to just to make sure of things.
villa in Spain writes that. sho the tune of some £40,000, worth He got the part and, is of free floor shows every night. happy-go-lucky soldier, provides finds that country the cheapest
thni death in Europe. Not A floor show isn't a Boor show... the. flim world with
without in Vegas, however,
a scene it won't forget for a very should worry her all that much. She is a militonairess in her own Big Name and at present every long time.
Jean Peters is one of Wiose right. hotel vying with every other hotel in trying to get the biggest. stara
For Jive Fan Only: 1 bumped who star
never forget their In recent months names in the friends. She will take her 17- into a new expression for "great" thows
included Jane
with her year-old sister
to the other right among your set. was "nervous". I Fowell, Betty Hutton. Van John Europe when she joins Clifton The word
the jive Zin Gone Nelson,
Zaa Webb on location for "Coins In didn't dare ask what Recently Fountain". The
a word for 'nervous' wasl In fact any celebrity who can school-friend visited
ner and shc couldn't dance or sing (and many who explained that can't) can collect up to £12,000 afford h trousseau to got week for footing it on the married. Jean saw to that. She foor shows.
bought the whole outfit for her. During a travel pause ut the Even while 1 was there casino and hotel proprietors told me Waldorf, New York, Van Hedin 60me that George Raft Was on his found himself in the
Harry way
renew a dancing act, sulle that ex-President which he hasn't put on for 20
20 Truman once had, I got back to years. When Hollywood I checked up on this. Vegas It was true all right and George
hesitant about wasn't reasons:
son,
have
Gabor, Frank Sinatra, etc.
ما
the
"Nowadays things aren't good in the picture business. Considering the money Lag Vegas offers, any guy would be
a fool not to play there.
in
off well.
Betty Hulton's visit to
Wald When she went there sho the film was high and dry in world. Now thanks to a colos- sal performance on the night club floors three studios are trying to sign her up:
DOUTORS WORRIED Tell it not to your Ministry of over here
Within the next few weeks Health but doctors Shelley Winters will take the are worried about the use of Nevada route and collect four, palaroid spectacles for viewing The Brst group of times as much money (nearly 3-D films. £3,000 a week) as she collects doctors to come right out into complaints Hollywood one film salary.
the open with their The only one to resist the belong to the Chicago Board of Sterilisation or not Vegas lures at present la Marlo Health.. Lans who maintains that he they are banning the re-issue ci spectacles on the ground doesn't want to sing in "Smoke the
causing
дл they are filled gambling places." So for that. he has been offered £0,000 a "epidemie of eye diseases",
Doctor Herman Bundesen week to put up with the smoke
(President of the Chicago and-the gambling.
So far he hasn't accepted but Board) has branded the glasses
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The Strange DOOR
CHARLES
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QUEEN'S
At 2.39, 5.14
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QUEENS ALHAMBRA
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SHOWING TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
IT'S REAL! IT'S HUMAN! GREAT ENTERTAINMENT!
The Finest Family
From the company that gave the screen such great family pictures a "Stars In My Crown'lga "Father Of The Bride" and many others, here is K. warm and wonder- ́ful.story for all to enjoy L
Picture of 1953!
GREER GARSON WALTER PIDGEON
"SCANDAL AT SCOURIE
TECHNICOLOR
AGNES MOOREHEAD - DONNÁ CORCORAN
5 SHOWS ON SUNDAY
ROXUE BROADWAY
SHOWING TO-DAY
-AT-2.30, 5,30, 7.30- € 9.30 P.M.
CS. Forester's greatest story dirt of high adventure on the high tens
Sailor King
the
STARRIKO
JEFFREY HUNTER MICHAEL RENE WENDY HILLER TANK BUCATIO Sachit by BYT JELENN » Bazów Phy by VILZONE MON
TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW AT 12.00 NOON
ROXY
A Selected Programme of TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS
Presented by Warner Brothers Reduced Admission: $1.50, $1.00 & 70 cts.
SHOWING
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BROADWAY NEWEST TECHNICOLOR CARTOON PROGRAMME Presented by 20th Century-Fox & M.G.M. Reduced Admission: $1.20 & 70 cts.
Cathay
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
The first EGYPTIAN PICTURE show in H.K.
A MODERN EGYPTIAN PRODUCTION WITH LOVE, HUMOUR, MAGIC, MUSIC & HORSEMANSHIP!
الريسوري فرار
PRINCESS
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ISLAND
·ENGLISH SUBTITLES --
With SIX FAMOUS EGYPTIAN STARS