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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1954.
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By JANE ROBERTS
The big event of the week has been William Holden's vixit, to Hongkong while
1 vem To remember I was player by Wanda Hendrix. That two of his pictures have
rude about Donald excellent character actor, Walter een on "ESCAPE FROM quite
Housdem In
BLUE Brennan, is also in the cast, as FORT BRAVO" at the LAGOON or if I wasn't 1
Barlon MacLane, CAPITOL und LIBERTY meant to be but in "DOCTOR
It seems that the climax of the IN THE HOUSE" he's obvious- dim in the rescue by the Coast and "FOREVER FEMALE”
at
THE
vielims and a rather repulsive looking little man called Percy Helton another.
Clarenco Greene and Richard Rouse are the team responsible for the screenplay, production and direction-as they were in "THE THIEF".
treat- So the ment should be unusual.
The emphasis is on the seamy
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The EMPIRE. KING'S i frated picture much more Gourd of a mall tramp «le:umer skie of life, so you'd better not
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WHA
A
I did
change levelled "POCTOR IN THE HOUSE"
Jake it
enught in between gignniir ice-
of
OVERPOWERING
tuke the children.
PRESPECTA STEREOPHONIC SOUND
Three of the big flm companies - MGM, Paramount and Warner Brothers-arranged a demonstration of Prespecta Stereophonic Sound yesterday, The technical description of it that it's syslem
л1
for 101 directional
Stereo- Sound through the medium of a single standard width
optien track. enabrics
theatre to FINITE
- channel Stereophonic Sound without using prints on
which reproduce
to his laste. and PRINCESS. 1 under-
Keneth More i liked even
I haven't seen a preview that the next
than A better statul
In only very of the picture, but as the porti- celebrity to arrive will be "GENEVIEVE due
fact that he cular thrill of seeing a ship In the partially to the
ihe
uh- Danny Kaye, towards
completely Help of n more sympathetic role
nature. end of the month.
and Donald Sinden, the third controllable forces
fathire, though such es greal towering leebergs, Unfortunately "KNIGHTS professionn OF THE ROUND TABLE", slightly relating at times, is on is one that hasn't been over- complement to the played in recent pictures here, should be a welcome change, which was to have followed admirable "ESCAPE FROM FORT
Wishe we're on the mibject of In- lechers. I've had no more BRAVO" into the CAPITOL
to when we can enn 1 elmont unanita formation as and LIBERTY. has had to
per the it has drawn-is that the expect "HELL BELOW ZERO" ine pustpones for the same
hebiets in the ves of the the Bim of Hammond Innes sys "THE COM- Furudent.
WHITE tatning "THE Hilke two best-seller reason
L the melted MAND"
SOUTH", ut "SEA OF LOST phonic "I don't thank they were SHIPS should put you in the QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA
of all The Dean (excellently
mond for it, so to speak, the LIBERTY's screen is
Apri Bitudy played by Geoffrey still 1182. ready for its Keens and connecting link in
varlans The the
situations. CinemaScope debut. "Hattie" taking its pince vitriolle Sister another and the whole thing is such road tun CAPITOL ILLIE The
that My way
were
True il it "HALF A witdie matter. LIBERTY
Although Dirk Bogarde han a HERO".
that The EMPIRE will prob- bieter name hi pletures ably be showing "FOLLY Kenneth More I think the act- ing hitis belong without TO BE WISE, after "FOR- doubt to the latter. Bluff and and at bearty though his part was, he EVER FEMALE”
I don't know whether or not ing up. tu Indicate quite he act, but that's not al- From the point of view of the The KING'S and PRINCESS was able
subtly that there was
EL paying feeling ways a qualideation for stardomil cinema it'll be MACK SLADE".
the him and Intelligence beneath it all.
mention
the proposilon,
Integrator The LEE is showing the
I've never seen Jumes Robert- wicked
herself Unit, which is the only main womin British comedy, "DOCTOR son Justice give a ht per- Beverley Michaels because installation needed in addition IN THE HOUSE" rently with the GREAT to WORLD and will possibly bring back Moira Shearer in THE RED SHOES" after that.
This is one for all the ballet enthusiasts and many young dancing pupils here.
nt
concur. formance, so it's only necessary
that sby
be's Also In "DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE".
"SEA OF LOST SHIPS" is the HOOVER'S current show and they'll be follow- ing up with the temptingly titled "WICKED WOMAN". The QUEEN'S and ALHAMİRA have "LUCKY ME" and "NIGHT PEOPLE"
still draws au- diences at the ROXY and BROADWAY.
HERO" svens "HALF A preach that thrift doesn't pay. Etel Skelton's penny-pinching, shown savings-minded boss is up as a hard-hearted uncharit
while driver, sinve whle
wife Skelton's spendthrift treated as
sympathelle character.
Getting into debt by buying a house too expensive for them. Is a praiseworthy project and, on
In
A
bo
those of you
Incidentally, admiring the clear, concise way in which Goumont British re- port and in the news will be Interested to know that the
LEE Theatre has nequired the
sole right of releasing Caumont British Newsreels.
A PITY
From the Press Book, Richard which sound tracks have been
in magnetically reco
recorded. Egun
fend the inale
Briedy this means that from "WICKED WOMAN" looks like
three speakers hidden another "find". His type of fuce the the
dual behind the screen the sound can individual? all POSSESREA
the features
Box either be spread to cover make
nose, whole screen, pinpointed to the Omec idol-well shaped
follow right or left, or slowly full lips, strongly shaped eye
the actor whose voice it's pick- brows and dark in colouring
I
before
owner
50
It's
the
from the story and photos she to what he's using already, only And and costs about HK$5,000. looks pretty overpowering will get all the publicity she from the viewer's angle, the needs from the posters.
comparatively low cost means The story centres entirely that
won't WNET
have around The woman und her beggared himself with on "famme fatale" qualities. expensive installation and have Richard Egun Is
ono of her to economise correspondingly.
Meeting Mr Holden .
and from stage double pull screen for this actor.
When I asked him about the challenging slogan coined by the film industry that
fat
And now to "LUCKY ME" in CinemaScope. What
plty As you may have gather that the makers of this picture, ed from Films-Current using a show business theme, and Coming. William Holden didn't take advantage of the
"Aims tremendous possibilities of this has been one of my favour-
It are better than ever" he said duction numbers, process for showing big pro-ites for a long time.
was with some misgivings that he thought that though it In most of the song and dance then that I went to meet hadn't been true for the past sequences Doris Day is entirely the great man in person -
few years, the very real threat atone and I found I wanted a
by television represented Hitle more than just her so many film stars are very least in America) was forcing thesaluntee box prettiness to keep different propositions off the flim companies to be more my attention on the vast screen.
courageous and experimental.
Instead One number is put over in a
of repeating You can gather my real life formula after one type of film a botel backyard, another in ritting room and yet another (n impressions when I say that as had made a alt,
they far as I'm concerned, William dream sequence again) to a
beginning to realise that tho background of nothing
bat Holden can appear in the most
interest would Lag public's out and out horror of a film twinkling lights.
If the songs had been hits (though that's hardly possible) again if they merely rested on
their even eir cars.
In his opinion too they were then perhaps Doris could have and the column won't
the interest focused on her, murmur! kept
following the right lines by without the help of a built-up On screen ho looks far making more pictures with an
more people, i younger than in his pictures international background and
appeal. While but the poor girl's material just and there's a compiero absence nat
nationalism was a very ino didn't have
screen.
the
were
way, it wouldn't sell American pictures a world markets and they were designed just as much for these as for home audiences.
the surface, all the old "play safo" axioms
to scem reversed.
With Red Skelton, playing his
of flamboyancy in his conversa- wife, is Jean Hagen and you'll A Scots number with Phil tion. The word applied to his thing in its limited
And Foy Jnr. see too, Polly Bergen, appearing Silvers, Eddio
co-star. Ginger Rogers,
In roodhouse Nancy Walker came over best "FOREVER FEMALE" la just as herself, sequence.
of all, but oven that was per- as true of him-he actually is formed in an empty ballroom charming in the nicest posalbio with a plano as the only real stase of the word.
He told me that his present prop.
top notch trip is mostly business and will variety artists, Eddle foy Jnr. remain so until he gets to Rome established British favourites an and Nancy Walker filled the bill via Tokyo, Calcutta and places Alistair Sim, Roland Culver. well and Robert Cuminings en route. The business side
and Elizabeth looked remarkably
with Paramount's views. handsome connected
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TO BE
"FOLLY
WISE" is based on a play by James Bridle and has 15 it such
Martita Allan.
Hunt
As two not Very
OLD CHESTNUT
I mentioned that old chestnut about juvenile delinquency and the bad influence on children attributed to alme and was glad
1s to discover that he shared my
for the length of time he's been new Vistavision process which We both thought that an
loads.
playing road about
most
others
found less
I described bacle in March.
Cagney** "thé
nwful lot of rubbish was talked WEST'S WILDEST
the In Rome he will meet his about this and that while boys Having mcan
in wife and in Paris his daughter might imitate the mannerisms of "JACK SLADE" Is based on lack of Imagination used
actual production of the and then his real holiday will such screen toughles as Bogart, the life of awe of the Wild the
let me say how I liked begin. He said that he wasn't Robinson and picture, West's
personalities. wikiest He lived in the middle of the the colour. It's Warner Brothers planning to start working on actual Alm Incidents left Utils
impression at all, WarnerColor and compares Alm again until September.
Actually this is a well earned worth a thousand words in the 19th century before the stay favourably with
The maxim that a picture is of the railways, when the stage
** rest.
since June last I've всеп. coach was the only means of
The actual screen Ininge is voor he's made "ESCAPE FROM 20 of films just wasn't true. the various travel between
than some of Its FORT BRAVO". "EXECUTIVE Comics and blood arid thunder towns and posts of that rugged more cicar
THE MOON Is books were far more harmful.
My "SABRINA FAIR" and country. This must be a highly competitors too-I
overall inipression of glamourised version of his blurred outlines.
one he's just
William Holden was of a maji short life history, although the Perhaps, having Kono fact he killed more than 20 men "LUCKY ME with very high Your Alms a year has been his but with a sense
plototCOUNTtly com
"GIRL”, veriously interested in his work. of humour hoped indeed Doris Day, is apparently true,
The picture appears to be an Robert Cummings and Phii average in the past, but it which stripped the concentration probably be lear than this in of any pomposity. Impatient of attempt, if not to whitewash Silvers being
tired of "thy tha future-two for Paramount exhibitionism and -- did I say some favourites on the lighter side of and one independent picture. hird, then to dig up
before-good looking? motives for his hatred of entertainment expected too
hla
Jano Roberts fellow men. The relationship much. between his wife and himself
COMING TO
KINGS PRINCES
SINGLE-MINDED
I haven't mentioned the cop-
Unlike la fronted with sympathy and per-haired beauty who had a
many alm actors, there's a suggestion that the supporting role. Slic really a single-minded about his career Walon Holden le completely. mao, ruthless killer as he was gorgeous girl and how clever of Ho not atted of the fago aldie was also capable of affection. ·them to. dress” Her 'älmöst": "ari-
Barton MacLane grimaces tirely in shades of terra cotta is college days in Pasadena and his way through the picture as and copper. Martha Hyer, very happy with, the some a drunicen outlaw and in quite her name and I'd like to him actor Inevitably co
what roving existence to which a small part is Jolin Litel. More of
of her."
i
"SEA OF LOST SHIPS
da to see "DOCTOR IN THEM HOUSE" and thoroughly enjoy. yourself.
Dirk Bogardo la the act in the North Atlantia, Toka oung student doctor and the Derbi and Richard Jugokal, are three old sweats RROW AT 12.30
who never in the American Coust
Quara FAB their examinations and service and although...... couldn't care Idea are Kenneth friends to start with (tho've Mileys Donald Houston and been brouing » SCHEIN
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*kai, mentforseti va fove, much" working with the
"FORT BRAVO";
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STEVENS
et stabs orsMIS DAY - RODZIE CUMMINGS
ALL HE BLORIES MONE
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