Page
KING'S PRINCESS EMPIRE
4 SHOWS TO-DAY
KING'S AT 11.30 A.M. 2.30 .P.M. 5.30 P.M.
AT SPECIAL TIMES
PRINCESS AT
11.30 A.M. 2.30 P.M.
6.00 P.M.
9.00 P.M.
9.15 P.M.
ACTUALLY FILMED
UNDER THE BIG TOP! Cecil B. DeMille's
GREATEST SHOW
ON EARTH
Color by TECHNICOLOR
PHONE BETTY CORNEL CHILTON BOROTHer
}
COLBITIC
HUTTON WILDE HESTON LAMOUR· GRAUME
THE PRO-ZAL BEITEN - LAWRENCE VEDIET + (KORETY GELEN DACCOLA - AKTURUCTIE CONCED
Duché de 500s a Boled. Pakras yra du ammerne af fighty Die Arus à lèy Dan
EMPIRE AT 11:30 AM.
2.30. P.M.
5.40 P.M. [9,10 PM. -
AT REGULAR PRICES!
PRINCESS
JAMES
STEWART
TO-MORROW
AT 11.00 A.M.
EXTRA MOrning shOW
VARIETY PROGRAMME OF TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS Presented by Paramount
Introducing
Ursula THIESS in
her that movie
ADMISSION: $1.50, $1.00
Coming
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL IN THE WORLD!
the most
daring picture over filmed!
MONSOON
to
CAPITOL
JHL 78945 THE MOMR OF
KING'S & PRINCESS
LIBERTY
OPGERY LEO DE SE
3 SHOWS DAILY
Special Times: At 11.00 4.m., 2.50 & 8.00 p.m.
The Picture that won
10 Academy Awards!
GREATER THAN EVER ON WIDE SCREEN! FULL LENGTH! UNCHANGEDI
TAVO D. GELZNICK'S PASS HEATEAREN HETORELL'S sure al de Du Lam
GONE WITH THE WIND
CLARK GABLE - VIVIEN LEIGH - LESLIE HOWARD OLIVIA de HAVILLAND
RITZ
Air-Conditioned .
A SELENICI FREERNATIONAL PIZTURE -TECHNICOLOR
THE CHINA MAIL, - SATURDAY, OCTOBER:
1954.
FILMS CURRENT AND COMING
There are comparatively Tew new Bimis being showit next week and what, there are will run for at least a week or so, it la hoped.
By JANE ROBERTS
many of the wise-creels that spark the film along.
This to a picture for all who iks thes drama strong and mainty and definitely not for children. WONDERFUL
SPECTACLE
The ROXY and BROAD-
Dick Powell, who took time |-WAY, 'won't be changing, off to make this film from the on which he con- until the end of next week, producing
thepo days, groes when they'll introduce "The centrates Gambler From Natchez", a through the ploture At a fast pace and there's one particularly
What a wonderful spectacle is picture starring the now clever little scene.
which,
"The Greatest Show On Earth", comer Dale Robertson. while sitting watching a tele- Ondl B. DeMillə adds yet am
visjon play ho wrote eme years other title to his lot of credite This will be a long run- before, he acts both the male with this, and what charmere ning CinemaScope produc. and female parts, complete with a principal characters are.
facial contortions. tion to be followed by the much Egyptian".
publicised
Ho's a
་
Hame time ago, when Euro- viewed obori Shay's Cinémare. Scope fim "Lucky Me" I spoke of the "reppat-haired beauty who was the star's rival, for the affections of Robert Cummings. That girl was Martha Hyer and hors was a very knall part, Now she's tontured, in, a. film pi her own, "Boaript year,"
She and her husband, District Commissioner in Africa, are trying to persuade the Masai tribe to give up one of their primitive practless-that of only allowing a now chief to take over the ruling of the, tribe after he has killed an energy.
It's a picture in which Martha Hyer has somo stii competition from the jungle creatures.
Don't Get Ideas About
Jane.
First of all there's the mon "The Another highlight 1s the they call the bass 'män of the
dream sequence
which circus. Nothing is too large or Debbie Reynolds, Dick Powell too small for him to tackle. From
artists The latter had its gala and Anno Francis talte part. temperamental
and to world premiere in New York It's a ballet depleting the two. mcrupulous "operators""," on August 24 and will have girls fighting for the affections rough edges on the elephants
of the author and gives us a hooves, they're all in the game its British premiere on plimpse of the old Dick Powell
for him. October 14, so we're, not in his dancing days some yentu
Charlton Heston takes this very far behind the times, on many filing go.
part and inakes "Brad" a really here in Hongkong.
briefly mentioned Alvy
in The LEE and GREAT Mcore, but this former stage personable character in spite of
star with the crew cut and the harshness he has to use
arder to kotp the tough. circus WORLD have got a de clipped speech deserves more performers in line. Of course, ho lightful little comedy in than a passing word. "Susan Slept Here" and character with no looks but one do this by letting his heart of I'd like to see more often in gold peep through from time to they intend to follow it with hims.
time, but who wants subtlety in "The Greatest Show On Earth'. a re-make of "The Magnifi-
"A prude?" said Jane cent Obsession" and later on
Also on hand to supply laughs
Then there's Cornel Wilde as Russell with that famous with "The Creature From and a little pathos is Glenda
Farrell. She's still got the same "The Great Sebastian". He's a half-smile, half-sneer. "No, The Black Lagoon”.
the I don't think I'm that." fascinating way of talking and trapeze artist who rico
which in show though her looks are a lttlo centre ring, "Pushover" in the against her now, her trim figure business means that he has the QUEEN'S and ALHAM- would be a credit to any twenty star spot of the show. Until he's signed on, this place has been BRA's show, introducing year-oldi.
Betty Hulton'a end when she's yet another new personality The former columnist, Harriot moved to Ring One to make way
Kim Novak and dur- Parsons, produced "Susan Slept for him the fur really fles. ing next week, for two Here" e if you can spot the
be days, there will the woman's touch." English version of Jean
Cocteau's
Terribles".
CROWD OF CRANKS
To Heston falls the task
of
telling her that she's to take second pluop and until the Aiyer fascinating Frenchman
**Les Parents "King Richard
the across
Scope
screens
end.
CESS and EMPIRE they're *The screening
Greatest
At the KING'S, PRIN-ad and wife, George and
has!
RE
the
son
around whom the volves.
picturo
Michnel
TO
Says ROGER LAWRIE
Roslining on a chaise-langue in a Paris hotel, wearing bright coral earrings, a brilliant tan, and a turquotes drres dung 12 frago ekdin, she spoke without malley but with a deal of quiet conviction.
It is true yter sizes Jano was lant in Europe. And ever since then we have been hear- ing intriguing rumours of Jane the Sunday
Teacher, School Jane the Choir air.
Bo I might her out in Paris
the thing straight. નાખત Jane, tha Caration
wra a Loup
other
and
to sweep her off, her feet she And The Crusaders" will Jean Cocteau's play "Les takes it badly. Cornel Wilde is
has been very leable an Sebastian, with t ride
Cinema- Parents Terribics"
adapted for the screen and given his broken accent, gallantry and next week-
titio the English
"Intimate Galle gestures. All are in keep-zember of Relations". The players are with the character he plays Hollywood..
three with Along Warrender Harold
and Mariah
pizie che makes records of re- the
maladjusted what a physique the man
1igious congo. "They're rpiri- Yvonne;
Ruth
Both Gloria Grahame and fuels. They have bounce Denning Leonie, the strong-minded
sound noting 13ka Show On Earth". This will sister of the wife and Russell Betty Hutton, as elephant girl hythm. They really move, boy!!
and trapeze artist respectively, They are in love with Heston, but hymne"
lo Sebastian
She shock off a snatch of always there's
"Gimme That Old Time Ball- complicate matters.
gion.
She whs right-It It's a very strong story con- Gloria Grahame has known sounded nothing like a hymn. In the Causeway Bay
Yvonne's corning
morbid,
Sebastian before and when he "We figure that if it means district the CAPITOL has
possessive love for h 6. makes a play for Betty Hutton, anything religion must come
of bim as that record-breaker "Gone She still thinks
gives her sume friendly advice. no life "during the week as on Sunday. I was this isn't well re-well as With The Wind". It's child in spite of his 22 years and Naturally
is horrified when her sister ceived and the many little brought up on the Bible-1. being shown concurrently at 19
Lconio telis, her that
lils asides
between the girls are always have one in my dressing- the LIBERTY, while at the reaso for not coming most amusing. Both girls are room." HOOVER "Scarlet Spear" her
home
decorative, can act and do much to add to the interest of tho is on.
flim.
be on for about a week and Ensch then for a few days only you can see "Monsoon".
Ls that one night he's been with a woman. She persists in imagining the woman At the end of next week as a scheming slut who's led her the HOOVER will be chang- innocent baby astray. ing to the Errol Flynn- However, strong though Gina Lollobrigida romp plot is, it's surpassed "Crossed Swords".
the
characterisation.
The wife
Tho third girl starred Dorothy Lamour na the gum- the chowing Phyllis whose looks are by the so much mere glamorous than sho herself cares about being Apart from a few production an untidy, numbers we don't see a great
Ficbbery and murder is
staring vacillating diabetic; her husband deal of Dorothy, but look out thame et **Pushover"!
a dreumer at besi, a wealding for a shot of the crowd watch Fred MacMurray ond iatru-
That her sister-ing her act her old sparring ducing Kim Novak. Her apon in any case.
and emcien!
beautifully in the Road flims is there eat- have sors, for
De some
groomed-should, after having ing popcorn. Hope! chosen to show her to is as a
them for 23 years, bad girl and you can judgo for lived with
love with him is yourselves how wise they were still be in
counting the
or difficult to understand. by
number starring roles she receives after this
Carey initial effort. Phil and Dorothy Majone featured.
A
WEE BIT DIFFICULT
THOSE DANCES
And how did she reconcile that with her standing as high priestess of physique?.
"You mean the high-pressure stuff about my figure?" she said, "Well, that's publicity.""
And her dances?
QUEEN'S & ALHAMEKA
SHOWING TO-DAY
she whisperer að
KILI HIM!
Pushover
·A STORY OF TEMPTATION
FRED MACMURRAY PHIL CAREY
KIM NOVAK
`A COLUMBIA PHOTŪRS
SUNDAY MORNING SHOWS
QUEEN'S
5 SHOWS "PUSHOVER"
Extra Performance At 11:30 am.
ALHAMBRA
At 11.30 a.m. Only "AT WAR WITH THE ARMY"
Jerry Lewis -- Dean Martin
Reduced Prices:
$1.50, $1.00 & 70 cts.
ROXY & BROADWAY
TO-DAY
2ND BIG WEEK! Owing to length of picture please note change of times: AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 & 9.40 P.M.
20th Century-Fox's first production photographed with the newly-perfected
Anamorphic camera lenses in
SPENCER
TRACY
ROBERT
WAGNER
JEAN
PETERS WIDMARK
RICHARD
Dece
EDWARD DMYTRYK
CinemaSCOPE
Broken Lance
Color by DE LUXE
I CONANÍ 4-YEACH HIGH-FIDELITY. MAGNIT PRICTICIA)-STERIOPHONES BOUND.
ADDED ATTRACTION! CinemaScope Short Subject
"NEW HORIZONS" In-Technicolor
TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW AT. 12.00 NOON",
ROXY
Gary COOPER
In
"HICH MOON”
Relcmed thru
United Artists
WBROADWAY
A SELECTED · PROGRAMME OF TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS Prosented by 20th Century-Fox. ".
Reduced Admissjon
*Listen she said. "I don't ROXY: $1.50, $1.00 & 70c. BROADWAY; $1,20 & 70c.
see anything wrong in a slick dance. As I do them there's nothing in them that would offend my grandmother.
So long
as my films finish with a good moral," she said, "In happy. I'd never make a Alm with a bad moral,"
I've said nothing yet about James Stewart, You never see
And the film she was making his face in the film, he goes
now in Paris-any dances in It's a theatrical situation and right through it disguised as a
that? such clown, but he's 20% a good are the players treat it pa Instead of behaving as
for this and although dream most reason Alm actors do and ignoring the he's killed someone, he's such
they ust the stage lovable person that you'll find un yourself in complete sympathy technique and treat it as audience, delivering the punch with him. lines of their parts, gazing it straight in the eye moving down stage and centre to do so.
Debbie Reynolds, in looks, is combination of many young stars. She most closely resem bles Ann Blyth but there's a dastr of that other young Bern- bardt. Maggio. McNamara about
SHOWING ht
TO-DAY
CRAWL-AND-CRUSH GIANTS SO TERRIFYING
"THERE WAS NO WORD TO DESCRIBE +4
PURANTER WARNER BROS. MAN
THEMES WHITMORE - EDMUND GWENN - JOAN WELDOM - JAMES ARKESS
SHOWING
TO-DAY
camera,
The son's struggle to become his an adult in the face of mother's sliding love is well done by Russel; Enach his
into childishness,
In "Busan Blept Here" she lapsed
well and though irritating, are quite does exceptionally when I say that I'd have dif- character.
Al-
in
A brief spot in the show found for Henry Wilcoxon and I thought it was rather-sur- prising, when I saw how well ho's worn, that we don't more of this competent actor.
try
BCD
"Sure," she said. "And if they up some snappy little costumes for them, I won't cry. "After all," she repeated, smoothing her dress,
"I'm no
pruže."
Wilding's Legs
HOOVER
CAUSEWAY BAY
TEL
72371 MA
SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
Filmed Amid The Mystery and ́ Peril of Darkest Africa!
Scarlet
SPEAR
IN COLOR BY
TECHNICOLOR
Michael Wilding, in London on, brief visit, falkod about his Lyla Bettger snarls his way legs. He has just dulated playe through the picture as the Gering Prince Charming in a man clephant trainer and apart Hollywood version of from a couple of minor people called "The Glass ficulty in recognising her again.". Harold Warrender's shambling who
to break up the That pert its no reflection on her acting portrayal of the husband who Greatest Show On Earth, he's ballerina Lexile Caron played ability.
because of his wife's negleợt of the only obnoxious person in it. Linde his time in tights as and Mr Wilding, spent While we're on the subject of him for their son 1263
I could have done without her dancing partner. Jooks,
the older Dick Powell iven into the arms of the girl
Before he went to rehearsals wipe becomes fils son's mistress Cecil B. DeMille's platitudes in gets the more ho seems to w
is slightly overdono. Ha'a n. poor the background from time to he found there were whispers resemble Jon/E/ Brown, Not
fish and one wonders where the time, but in a harmonious flimround the studio. Terribly enly in Eudial stricture er family's income comes from, a lasting me than 24 hours It's confidentially they werD asking TO-MORROW SUNDAY MORNING SHOW AT 12 NOON -ho seems to have copled the apparently his inventions never easy to forget these odd dis- everyone they know what my comedian's expressions too.
come to anything,
cordant notes.
legs were like. They came to Liz: (Elizabeth Taylor, his
WALT DISNEY'S Technicolor Cartoons
tying.
**
boen
much of
A lovely, brassy, brush, lovabis wife) and asked her, joo. She bim to take the whole family said: "All right, I suppose. I to even if you've seen it before.. never really thought. Finally, I've seen the trailer of "Mon- to put them out of their misery, soon" though not the fim self. I unvelled my legs. From the trailer and press book
looks
pretty powerful place of drama.
I suppose it'a poczable that a "Immediately after having goen young girl with all the slang. the picture I thought he growly talk and sloppy 100 accoutre overplayed the pathetic sido of ments of the teenager could the pant. On further considera- conceivably fall for an obviously on though, I realised that I've fortyish author, but I found it often met people like hiro,
"They were so relieved. They a wee bit difficult to swallow.
were scared I might appear The girl Medeleine, beloved
knock-kneed in ballet lights," However, having accepted by both father and apn, lo a
and they would have to film It's set in India and is about someone else's legs on my the pill, the result is very satis Swedish actress, Elsy Aublin,
and the most nearly normal a men and hic fiancee who go to body," among this crowd of cranks.''pay n last visit to the girl's Debbie is a young juvenile Even she, however, was on the family living in a small Indlan AT 2.30, 5.20, delingluont who's in custody point of committing suicide when village before leaving for Eng
land on their honeymoon wer Christmas for having hit a picked up by fathor George, Folleeman, over the head with a bottle. The two
policeman
such an apparently who're supposed to be guarding discover that the money Goog duced when Leonie and George her bear bar ho malice for her and borrowed from Leonte
stormy
sister younger. affront to the force though and asterably to help in farthering has been brought up by the fool porny, for, the child, t Lindenlentino uzeocarola, and, pocentric father to believe that
Madelaine turn
been instincts. fick Powell, a successful author used by her ca Michuti. who's about to write a book (or work goodness it's all) in the The brother is a moody fel- 2. Num. X forgot which) on family," wryly remirks Loonie, kw, still brooding over his un- Juvenile delinquarey. They dink!
MAJESTIC 7.800 9.30
MARCONDITIONULARES
WILLIAM HOLDEN
::
A lovely take of irony in Jain Douglas), she has
cool
Hor
THE MOON IS BLUE take her to their friend Well hadith incive to aga hould always follow her
TO-MORROW MORNI
SHOW:
GUN FIGHTER"
12:30 P.M.
might give has a happier - The sưrengut for the "chardc=" Christmas then she'd have. In terisation Tem in the Lighting geol" and "at the same time he twists, and fuster of Momotions, and iga chuld collect maleriet for his dosequent, neilonNA EVEN
path
Alvy Moure is cast is Powell's might
„wle who left him dur
"And over;tham |
HARRY ODELL.
says
Take your kids to see Cecil B. tillo's “THE GREATEST ON EARTH", the
circus'epic... ever!
They will want again) and, again..
JOHN BENTLEY MARTHA HYER
Reduced Adi Prices: $1.00 & $1,50
KAI-TAK PLAYERS
NEW STAGE COMEDY
"ESCAPADE"
Logar MacDougall