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¡WHAT'S THIS DEAL JAKE HMADE FOR THE KANSAS KIDP
THAT CHARACTER DAVE EM TEN GRAND JUST TO SPAR WITH THE
KID.
{WHAT'S THIS.
CLOWN ODIM” 4 TRYIN MAKE A FOOL GUTA ME?
THS IS HIS METHOD CLAIM YOU'LL BE
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pre-war
MILLER
and
both tho
Poznan Opera Ballets aro
Warenw
and
TC-
presented.
Unfortunately,
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it's on for two days only, all i can say is that if you Ilke
example
gest you follow my and go to see it quickly.
will be Richard Widmark taking the high ground for most of next week at the CAPITOL and LIBERTY and scheduled to screen succeed him is another
in Lancaster toughle Burt "HIS MAJESTY O'KEEFE”.
Lyle Bottger has the office of MILLER STORY" he's a genial cerious music and ballet, I sug- Civil Administrator. He has pawnbroker! ronny pre-war slights to maka
*THE GLENN I mentioned the now vanquished aristocracy Two films
long picture-it, Inst week as due to start pay for-so has his girl friend, STORY" Is
Jan Sterling. Born on what I runs for nearly two hours, but yesterday and which I didn't believe they call "the wrong I didn't feel the need to det have space to tell you uldo of the tracks", she tries to once, Even folt sorry in the about were "THE EDDIE feed her wounded pride by
lust ton minutes when I could sense the end drawing near. CANTOR STORY" and ging down John Payne. "THE VANQUISHED". Payne. дв ex-Confederate The former is on
This will have a particularly MAKES HIM CREDIBLE the oficer and a member of one of
leading QUEEN'S
the Galeston's
strong story appeal for Hong- kong people who WCTC hero ALHAMBRA
should flies, is ostensibly as intent
Unlike
"*success the bufore the war. The name ou bumbling the beaten upper hard way" stories, have quite a successful run. classes as Bettger, but we sat really are you feel that hest: David
this om "O'Keefe" to them won't mean O'Keefe, the central discover that he's really Si Eddie fot it you 115ની to like
man who actually hall character in the Alm, but his the neutral Peace Al struggled hard to get to the daughter
Dalry.
tntight Cantor's style on the secreum andl
ministrallon, admired his voice, then you'll
Lop. It may have boen due, là dancing here until 1940. like his life story. For Keeft
The now wealthy Jan Stor- part, to the proportion of lind
I can't claim personal know- Brasile, Interpretation of the lag, though attracted to him, balanced against the time fave time-but my informant, Alleen allotted to the ups and downl, jego of her--she was before my role of Eddie Cantor is not ke in still bitter enough about her to the sequences
when Millet a painting of
person--it's 42
former treatment to want to
can tell 50 Jan photograph.
completely make the old families,
wes in the big time, but I pro Woods, who Includ
for to give the
the stories of old Hongkong, know script writers ond to Jamel her well.
What a peculiar history her So there we have the stage Stewart who made the chat father had, it even part of the
Exiliful reproduction of thing Juhn Payne, suffer,
Was A
most
credit to the
Millor
Volce, facial contortions iowmerismis
the
sånger
tor Di of
Glenn ruther than an impression set for action. Oh yes, I forgot
sa at the the
himself. THALIA
the sympathetic and And this to mention Coleon Gray, photograph is probably what
lee girl-childhood sweetheart time so completely credible. most of he admirers will pre- of John Payne.
I always feel I'm cheating fer,
1 showor praise unresorvadl on a Alm-it reem unfair the actors
and producing star because naturally some section are better than others and laud the lot makes the betid parts lose their stature.
CANTOR'S VOICE
Your hear Edile Cantor's vodce singing the 17 songs in the picture in the dialogue it's the volee of Keete Brusselic,
There's sequence in which
Ziegfeld il
There is plenty of action weaving in an out of "THE
VANQUISHED"-oven the girls Aght-o in it there should bo something for everyone.
I
who
book from which the flim was taken can be believed.
He came to this port of the the world from Savannah in 1870s and after a short stay in that important Hongkong for step in modern business--"con- tuct malting"-found himself in Painu. The pearl fishing ha was engaged in, naturally enough, brought trouble, not only trom his business rivals, but from his friends.
"HIS MAJESTY O'KEEFE"
"PARIS EXPRESS" will be moking way at the ROXY and
So let's pay that I detercsi BROADWAY for an Tuaiian am faint resemblance in "BLUE Follies called "TOMBOLO" or "BLACK IN THE NIGHT which I say is,
in colourful forn, the Will Rogers PARADISE".
a trader ape, with early history of many D very long the Jr plays the part of his own
Richard Whort As the youn in these parts in the late 10th fathce This
Like "PARIS EXPRESS". arranged was
when the haven't scen A some years before,
proview of dance band artist, with an uns century.
play his kind of musi The other two big pictures Cantor picture was Arst dis "TOMBOLO", an that it's dist-to
although the commercial typ moving our way next week are the cult to give you cussed-Eddie Cantor at
more than a paid Priscilla Lane
and "ROMAN had the "MOGAMBO" time having just played himself rough outline of what it's about,
June Allyson parl--that en HOLIDAY". 111 "THE STORY OF WILL
and kooping thi Aldo Fabrizi heads the east couraging ROGERS".
the wur also in "PAISAN or artist on his chosen patha gin much like her in look The part of Eddie Cantor's "OPEN CITY")-as the guard- very wife is triken by Marilyn lon of an Allied arms dump on and fresimess. Erskine, who's not been seen in the Vin Aurelius, near LeghornZ. anything particularly specta- rular so far, but has been on the screen playing steadily for some years. This is bright, cheerful entertainment.
VULTURES' SHELTER
TWO NAMES WILL SELL
Now "MOGAMBO" haş in it Glen Milor's father is played at least two names that will sell by that perennial hick from the the picture before anything need slicks, Irving Bacon. When be said about the story. I mean, you hoar him incredulously of course, Clark Gable and Ava Tha dense forest of Tombolo working out how much his now Gardner. Ava is quite one of which lles on both sides of the famous son is going to make of the lovellest women
the sale of his records #i be at the KING'S, EMPIRE and road between Pisa and Loghorn omits (American) a ploce, jüsf Clark Gable's charm a little
shelters the vultures who make Uving from stealing from these dumps.
"THE
VANQUISHED" will PRINCESS over this woote-end and go on Into next week.
After a war, there's always as much high feeling between victor and vanquished as there the victory. when was before the outcome of the struggle was still uncertain. Look at the results of the 1930-45 war-DOW How nearly nine years over.
much
morc
bitter
are the feelings after a Civil War, when you might have been fighting your own relatives, brought up In another part of the country and in different environment from yourself.
'They're deserters
+ quoer
all of
on the screen today and although I find
on the more elusive after all theso it back and meditate
(TEN MILLION, years, ho's still a number one HK$10,000,000 in case you're like me and are box office name
The by
that! noughts) band bothered
Country Jungle Technicolour)
In used
"MO- nationalities, James Stewart is going to make
und Al- war criminals, escaped prisoners from the film of the life of the GAMBO" is Kenya
the object of the ex- of war and the women who prey successful record-making man,
by Clark Gable on them, 30 far the setting
but big game hunting. looks promising.
anthropological research there's an awful lot of game to make exciting film
Reviews I've seen are dated early 1950 and the consensus of opinion seems to be that it's an
Interesting melodrama".
but
ali
I
OFF THE TOP SHELF
wonderful abou
Grace Kelly
There's the most
session scene in the Alra shots.
Jam
in which Glenn Miller site in.
provides the with Louis Armstrong and other woman" interest and al After "TOMBOLO" the ROXY Gene Krupa in a Hariom night hough her husband is with her and the BROADWAY will
B pri the expedition, this doesn't showing "BENEATH THE 12- dub. The jazz played then
absolutely off the shelf and teler her from tracking down MILE REEF 20th Century although I'm the
10. Sable, "THE VANQUISHED", set in Fox's CinemaScope picture. admit that
of kind OF Ava. Gardner,, a showgiri from a Southern town called Again, no preview,
next to a picture,
music had formed the basis and he Big City, is given the name Galeston, tells of the aftermath there's promise of Опе
cven
"Haney Bear" to even up of the American Civil War. week, I'll let you know
have got tired of it. it for chances against Grace Kelly Yes, I know we're beginning to about it when I've scon it. provided just the right shared the direction is in the bands know this particular piece of
seen and touch to contrast to the sweet- American history backwards— Something I have
es of the
of the aim. but. In this picture we're at can thoroughly recommend is s
however, Miller's
feelings motivating (sorry about STORY"
music, and there was a great havingTM It's gala
deal at it, nover cloyed-in that word, it seems to be the premiere at the LEE on the spite of ita deliberately soothing only one that nts) the dislike 13th, after you've all had a of tho Southerner for the chance Northerner.
least allowed a glimpse at the "THE GLENN MILLER Somehow
Tho leisured manners and
to 500 "THE MAN texture.
post
The FROM THE ALAMO”. GREAT WORLD comes in this one too.
on
Yes, it's a great pleturo and 1 could Bit
happily through it again.
Very
HEARTWARMING
John Ford.
AUDREY'S COMING
"ROMAN HOLIDAY" will having ila gala premiere on. 14th-next Wodnosday that You're sure to have hoard particular about Audrey politeness of the pre-war
pburn's rapid rise to fame as Southern aristocracy must hayo
consequence of her perform- angered the Northerners Im-
to in
and of measurably. Of
Midwork changes will be clence course,
of the
picture North Had an upper class of its
“STALAG. 17! returning for geral. I saw it in but
GLENN two days to the EMPIRE, "THE it year. loved It and intend own,
they
out- numbered by the bustling mid- MILLER STORY" whatever you YOUNG CHOPIN" going to sing it again-in spite of the dle class get-rich-quick gentry do. It's
PRINCESS'S spine-chilling mock- who had no time for the con- "Heartwarming", "Human", "A and "THE LOVE LOTTERY" ridesty In the newsreel show- siderate behaviour they labelled Polished Production" - besides moving back to a short spell it her accepting her Oscar,
"decadence".
were
tho
Don't
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niss "The
all the cliches like the KING'S and
being a really fine picture.
Tho
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at the QUEEN'S.
Aer I've Been it again 1/11
The South, on the other hand,
title role is played Eve høver rovlevo ₫ you my second impressions. had very few of this type and superbly hy James Stewart, STALAG 17" as it was run
tune I took over of that few, most were trash, Ro's sill got that corn-crakte- ning at the Hence the apparently snobblah voice that rises to a shout when this column. However, what SOTLIGHT ON A attitude of the majority of the he gets excited and a lot of the would have said is that Wil-
LITTLE AUDREY Southerners to
anyone outside Stewart mannerisms have been am Holden's Academy Award their own society.
Incorporated into the character for his part-in it was wall.
Judrey Hepburn is the star that of Glenn Miller. But, as usual earned,
supporting Slavery was on integral part with this actor, they seem to at characters are excellent ever of second feature fim. "Monte of this
personally Co Baby," genorally released #Animal" whom I féeling-the manual the man he's trying to interpret found work of the staves freeing the to us
repulsive, but
ren in month. At least, the posters enough) and that it was neat she is tho stur. whites for the practice of the
Hood manners the Northemers June Allyson of the twinkling y pit together, so despised.
The fow. non-society
then, were Northern
eyca (always, to my mind, the whites nicest thing about hor) plays in Mrs Miller with a sincerity that
sympathy, if only to get over I think fow stors could: match. with tho people who had humiliated them.
GRUDGE-BEARING
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las Hepburn appears for alat 13 minutes, looking pretty boldered us a film star whose bu has been kidnapped by mako. The rest of the ple
00 minutes is concerned. the baby and Ray Ven
Miss Hepburn
Honry Morgan (who
I was made in 1951 is Warmww mentioned as having a support and the cast is entirely Polls tu band.
pl
Importance.
ing part in "TORCH SONG" a From the list of maurie played a long way after them in wook or so back) is Miller's in it I should say that It Is best friend a ears and with passion for well worth being for that likable person some. For the acting I cannot he is too. And look out for Big
Human whom you last saw as a Compra den somial in
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