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ASİ SAPERSTEIN'S
HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS
GO, MAN, GO
with
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Pat Bresla
menway Tony Lender dumture James Wang Hawa
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"SHABISTAN”
Starring: NASEEM
SHYAM. SAPRU
In Hindustani Dialogue
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Jean SIMMONS has won the year's best actress for her appearances in "YOUNG BESS" and THIS PICTURE
EXTRA SHOW ON SUNDAY AT 12.30 P.M.
JEAN
GIRIS!
DO YOU TELL YOUR FATHER EVERYTHING?"
Daddy would b
this book th
Oughter's
Grawer
THERE'S FUN AND DRAMA IN THE ADVENTURES OF A STAGE-STRUCK DAUGHTER)
SPINCER
TRACY
TERESA,
SIMMONS WRIGHT HE ACTRESS
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ESTHER WILLIAMS VAM JOHNSON - TONY MARTIN
FILMED IN FLORIDA'S LOVERS' PARADISE!
EMPIAD
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1954.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
THERE SHE GOES!
THE GREAT ROCKST
ROARS INTO THG JONDSTVERKS -THE CAMERA ATTACHMENT FILMING THE JOURNEY...
4:24
OVER TWO HUNDRED MUGSUP-WHERE NO MAN HAS EVER BEEN THE ROCKET FINALLY STOPS AND EJECTS THE CAMERA.
FILMS-CURRENT AND
If you are sufficiently in- terested to look up my urticle in last Saturday's
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis ·
By MARGARET BRUCE
10
imaginable.
DEL
THE CAMERA BOX PARACHUTES EARTH- VIARDI WRAT HAS THE CAMER, SEEN .
COMING
London, tense with the whisper "The Ripper."
The picture, that comes on next. 1 RETURN TO
China Mall you will notice & he result that the whole idea opening ahots show some of the PARADISE,” Taken from the remark which I would like to withdraw. I said that I had no intention of seeing "GO MAN GO" (KING'S, EMPIRE, PRINCESS). My sense of duty happily pre vailed, however,
to
becomes fumbled. This is a great loveliest pky, as Mr Cagney nas enough foxe
portrayal curry the through without resorting over acccutuntion.
To follow, over Chinese New Year, we will be able to see AND A to "THREE SAILORS and
The girl being Jone GIRL" Powell and the sallors Gordon MadRae, Gene Nelson and comic Sam Levene.
those of you who, like my self, have no interest in sports I can honestly say here is a pleasant surprise in store. To sports lovers il must be a feast.
The sport in question is basket. bali and the stars of the film are the Harlem Globe Trotters, so mus to make a return visit to This movie is very The Colony. much better than the first one they made, by popular acclaim.
Life
Filmed against an authentic Londen background in black and white, the most
afnister atmosphere has been achieved. Partly due to clever direction and owing, to be honest, a little to dim lighting, the main effect of terror is gained through the acting and personal appearance of Jack Palance.
Mr
an
photography Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, It stars Gary Cooper, seting a The long promised "MASTER part, which for a great deal of OF BALLENTRAE will follow the time allows film to be his on alterwards. Robert Louls
And a very good job ba 120. Stevenson's masterpiece
has makes of It. 1 found the film been almed in Teclinicolour in delightful.
The wonderful Scotland, Cornwall
and Mediterranean.
the scenery of the South Scas-the manners of the supported by Beatrice Campbell, natives! Although their
Errol Flynn is beautiful
view- Yvonne nowcomer
Furneux, point on certain social subjects Roger Livesey and Felix is very different to oura. This musical has stereotyped
Aylmer, so I'll be there.
Cooper
оп arrives with the screenplay,
Flight exception that the hero is unable
MOST SINISTER
island to And the people to pull the show together single-
The current attraction at the oppressed by a mud missionary, ROXY and BROADWAY is As he can't stand being pushed bended, and requires the servicer of George Edwards, Ira Gershwin "MAN IN THE ATTIC." Based around, he takes a stand which and Moss Hant to do nery good. on the play "The Lodger, this is inspires the others to rise and A refreshingly truthful approach. what must (for want of a better throw off the yoke.
word) be called a fantary on the particularly appreciated the
A local gle, played by beauti- cach critic is
of Jack the Ripper, whose ful Koberta scene in which
Haynes with the escorted to his scat at the open- identity I think I am right in
#weetest sincerity, attaches her- ng of the all-service show by saying. wns never in SPORTS MACHINE
fack self and when she dies bearing two sturdy marines. A situation established. Directed try James Wong 1 and 5: easy to imagine,
a daughter, he leaves the island Howe, the Chinese cameramanı, Gordon MacRac
Years later he returns 10 his sing: as it tells the
story uf
and Abe pleasantly as always,
at
own daughter in time to rescue her freen what he considers an Saperstein's dream of the perfect the same time manages 10
and he remain an awfully sports machine and its materiall-
nice chap
happy love affair. remain to care for her always. Lation in this team, It shows and a manly one. But it is
A slight plot perhaps, but it was the difficulties he experienced in the dancing of Gene Nelson
the sense of reality tha: made Retting it accepted for League that lifts this musicnt above the
the Ben so enjoyable. The back. matches and his ultimate success, crowd. He is surely the white
ground music, written by Dmitri But, above all, it shows these hope where future fim dancing
Tiemkius does much to Increase artist:
concerned, especially since work,
Fresh from his success in this cimosphert. I rekommend renowned for
to his only possible rival, Ricardo "SHANE." this most hideous of this unusual pelare. their ability rend clown with the ball, a clowning, Montalban, never dances these screen villians ænds cold shivers "KING OF THE KHYBER that comes from complete days.
down your Apine as he cleverly emotes
SO RIFLES bringa Tyrone Power mastery of the art of handling.
in the part of in Cinemascope, supported by All the play sequences give the
the murderer. Some of the Michael Renate (why decent he Impact is removed by the greatest pleasure, though Mr
starring parts?) and Terry get Saperstein's
Fife,
psychopathic excuses plier up Mence. The story in a very <xeil- private
for this child of nature his ing one end an ideal subject for portrayed by Dane Clark, proved
I will revier It mother was a bad lot-and also Ccmarsepe. considerably embarrassing.
the by
suited playing of next wrok. predly Constence Smill
ith as the landlady's daughter, a music "THE ACTRESS" at Miss Jane Powell I found hail actress and a very ungainly CAPITAL and LIBERTY is a
to be put imity Somebody has taken dancer, who refuses
delightful comedy this sweet little girl with the cut of her understanding of the ring Jean Simmons and Spencer rather childish fuce and an lodger by repeated warnings, the Tracy. Whilst admittedly one angel's voice, and "groomed" burning of bloodstained coals of the beat dramatic netors, Mr cropped yellow- and the odd behaviour of the Trace is also superb in comedy brittle ile bundle of man himself. Perhaps she felt, and he plays his part of the sincerity to all the secnes in haired,
vivacity as jarring to the semies
es with justice, that he was just a
actress further with humour and as a creaking hinge. It is still little too obvious to be true,
tenderness. Miss Simmons possible to
her songs, pas
Cijoy
charming and together when she isn't shouting gally
make a flm that I urge you all with closed eyes. But have a
to see. You should enjoy every look at her hats there must be
moment. a laugh there somewhere.
Since the picture la concerned submarine crew, the with
'They arc
'
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"I am surprised that Mr Nel- has not already been snatched up and starred' indi- vidually-partntred if possible Vera-Ellen, His original by Ve appearance In the Doris Day picture, *TEA FOR TWO" inus surely be remembered by
many?
pathetic.
A further reference backwards, In my review of "CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY" I men. +tonce the star quality apparent in one of the negro actors-his
Sidney Tam โร Polliery and he appears again in an "GO MAN GO" as Saperstein's right-hand
Не man,
lends her
which he appears,
de
I must also advise all plano enthusiasts to go and hear one of the team playing Clair Lune- with his hands on the key – board upside down,
WELL NAMED
The next change at these three Cinemas will be "HERE COME THE GIRLS." which will show over Chinese Now Year. It is well named because I do not think it would bo possible to find more beautiful else, girls on view anywhere And there are enough well set musical numbers to show them up in all their glory.
Bob Hope plays the oldest chorus boy on Broadway, and understudles Tony Martin be- of the threatened murder cause of Mr Martin by an insanely Jealous rival for the hand of the beautiful Ariene Dahl
Rosemary Clooney made her film debut in this film, although It was not the first to be re
into
19
I do not think that it possible to call this a mystery, but It is quite certainly a con- vincingly ugly horror story, full of thrills, the greatest being the chast of two cabs across the descried night strecta
tho
star-
15 Chdy
VERY EASY TO LOVE The Chinese New Year, at- of traction is to be Esther Wil-
and llafis, Van Heftin
Tony Martin in EASY TO LOVE." The aim is easy to love, very casy: Utterly frivolous, magal- Acently
staged in glamorous settings, the story doesn't mat- ter a bit.
Ramon Novarro Condemns
The Modern Screen Lover
As Vulgar And Uncouth
Miss Williams does. Sho 19 just as lovely, with a beauty that appears
to emanate from exercise, not starvation, and has plenty of opportunities to wear quite ravishing bathing dresses
and (although a little lost in an exciting water-ski number) sho swims deliciously at regular In alternated with some very good
Ramon Novarro, revisiting in comfortable obscurity the London that mobbed him as a silent star, set the film world talking_by_condemning the modern screentervals throughout, and this, lover as vulgar and uncouth.
dige, ys: "Tamion
THE ACTOR
whole
will be
The man whose mute and tender embraces spoke songs from Tony Martin, makes as near to good entertainment leased. She is immensely at-louder than words finds his vocal successors too rough as you'll get. A lovely escapist tractive when she is singing, and ungentlemanly in their screen approach to women.
a treat for the film: but joins in the dances with all
family, the careless abandon of a girl
Does the prcent nim genera- on the love scenes. I have
The following film tied in to a straight jacket. She tion agres?
made a lot of pictures but had "GIVE A GIRL A BREAK” plays the part of Bob's girl-
THE PRODUCER
very fow big romantic mo (Debbie Reynolds and The friend, who repeatedly tries to Herbert Wlpox, a man who manis. Sun, where, they do Champions warn him that he is only allow has done probably more than occur wo must play them in a ed on the stage as a target not any other Brid
"THE GREAT BIOUX UP- film-maker way modern sudiets can ac- RISING," starring Jeff Chand- for over-ripe fruit, but knives. to loop romance sweet on the capt."
Mr Hope is absolutely on top screen in this blunt.
ler and Falth Domergue, is on down-to-
GREAT of his form, and at the best of earth
now at the LEE and that in the musical numbers,
Stewart Granger, KETERT: | WORLD. Mr Chandler, un at- Novarro which he wrecks with
quity lever who has beun luown to tractive actor with prematurely a few night.
But, you see, the modern woo with Jeft
Louches, Miss Dahl Is Doinama public is scared stiff of says las batween
cantly uppercut grey hair, has never before been shota of in a film about Indians without completely lovely in the costumes aiment. Give It a tender "Pau Brummell" at Elstree:
period that even the love scene in the old style and I
being one of them. would hate to cross faint gloss of technique she is it goes hot and
cald
However the Chief in this worda with Ramon Novarto
outdoor sport acquiring seems almost redund- embarrasemECIDÍL, or simply, became he
particular Wed ant. Even amongst the beautiful giggles. It much prefers the
one of my played by a born and bred 2 Edois, but I assure Sioux called. firett giris of the title she
John War Engia. is out- sock-'cm-and-leave-tm kind of standing.
bf the Mr Martin seemed to lover.
today heroes
The story tells how a discharged, trail be as deter you like Union medical officer becomes
174 be singularly at case, But "But ife: not only the
involved with a horse-rustling he sings his sungs pleasantly who have lost the gralle fouch, when the fituation requires. it.
"After all, enough and doesn't interfere too, The women, also have grown in
Many a time I've the whole of the Sioux nation character. much with the action.
100 hard-bilun and sophistic- ITALIAN MIX-UP
played the sort of fellow no onto the warpath. After many abød -- fas unwomanly allo-
with expurge the old girl would'want to introduce a vicissitudes the danger is avert-
tonka, 45 Laughing though, that modern actory s
of the
This will be followed by tach
English
called "WHERE
Italian comedy with titles, ZAZA?", starring Nino Taranto technique
this fashionablë with
14
got to you've to act ring which threatens to drive
her thother, but I've had to be ed rough to at a rough story.
like "I would
to think
and Isa Borzizza, a mix-up in- Anne, but it didn't come off Richard Burton esa still makch volving twin brothers who have very welÍ.” never met-one a gangster," the
other shown
And
Chand would expect,
Titelome DESERT LEGION," Alan Ladd and once Arlene Dahl, the next change. It is just about the most ** improbable story that you are
cortie across. Here we kely to have Hidden city, a Utopla ruled over by an old man and
love with the heas of the old THE ACTRESS
silent echool--plus words. producer af musical Márgatroy・・ Lockwood, the
THE CAFTIC haražna "Laughing Anne,"
af
Lastly. the KING'S, who, however many hims
comment from then, af EMPIRE and MAJESTIC will makes, will ver live down Majdalany::
the Delle Malt fllmöritle Fred appear the long awaited the nome of The Wicked "MELBA" with Patrice Mursel Lady, looks at this way:
“HỎI, cuando Alo in the title role and a aplordla
Algerian beauty than Nordic old chivalry performans from Martita Hunt gone out of srecu love lovers they deserve an National Miss Dahl I have yet to see
her teacher, Madame MaS | BORICION; but then it's gone out but the choal. Although not a
Aske Chercher la ferime-war hip daughter,
I believe tisat 'wonnen
beauty,
(3017] [98; Kool - tille" and Alma. 17 the ladies like to Be 'slabpot Iffat but that, 'is AIR
I musical in Bloraphy it is "a farmely at firós, of the donă.
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ti Java wh him, we the age of that is their
will really Post The QUEENS and
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claimed to be oyees Oxlest: wardrobe of the}
what are we com about? „fyzére's plenty. of-nation: too, sind 17 Ladd has one or two very edasiye”, hand
he In
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