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KING'S PRINCESS EMPIRE
At 2.30. 5.15, At 2.30, 5.30, At 2.30, 5,30, 7.209.30 p.m.||7.30 & 9.30 p.m.||7,30 & 9.30 p.m.
TO-DAY
ON PANORAMIC WIDE SCREEN
Bob's Hilarious As The Meticce
Of Venice!
CASANOVA'S BIG NIGHT
Color by TECHNICOLOR,
Saving
BOB HOPE JOAN FONTAINE
BASH. RATHBONE AUDREY DALTON HUGH MARLOWE
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ALSO:
LATEST PARAMOUNT NEWS
KING'S
MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW AT 11.30 A.M.
CARY COOPER in
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, ́ 1954. **
FILMS-CURRENT AND COMING
"Romeo and Juligt" was
not supposed to fade off the KING'S and PRINCESS "CuaДnova's
screens unt!!
Big Night" and we were jollied along, after the initial surprise of hearing about "Made in Heaven" by "held- overs" and "final performan- The ces" at the KING'S. PRINCESS found the going a little harder and fil that all the words I'd saved up for you about "Made in Heaven" are now so much waste paper, 218 it's come and gone.
"Casanova's Big Night" will be followed by "Ride Clear of Diablo" at the KING'S and PRINCESS while the EMPIRE will bring back "Beat The Devil".
"Rhapsody" continues at the CAPITOL and LIBERTY until the end of next week when the next change will be to "Valley of the Kings" with Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker and the newcomer
By JANE ROBERTS
Van Johnson, Robert Francis and Fred MacMurray In "The Caine Mutiny".
“DISTANT DRUMS” from the Argentine, Carlos mas pantomine,
**
7
A Warner Bros. Picture in Technicolor AT REDUCED PRICES:
$1.00 $1.50
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Walt Disney's
PETER PAN
TECHNICOLOR
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NOW AT
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JOSÉ FERRER Academy Award Winner
Cyrano
CoSTANIMAT
de Bergero
MALA POWERS
ADMISSION:
Produce by ETSALLY KRANTI by MIHAEL JOROOM
$1.50, $1.00
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See it Now!
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GARY COOPER ERGEANT YORK
4 War
Bet Factor
193 Baka Šumen » Tur facho » à Nourt Nuts, fol.
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EMPIRE
SPECIAL MATINEES
SUNDAY, 7th NOV.
MARLON BRANDO JEAN PETERS In
"VIVA ZAPATA”
MONDAY, 8th NOV.
TYRONE POWER
in
"BLACK SWAN”
In Tochnicolor
AT REDUCED PRICES: $1,00 & 70 Cts.
RITZ
HIS FUNNIEST;
DANNY KAYE
MAI ZETTERLING
TO-DAY
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.30
& 9.30 P
PICTURE YETI
[{\\p.m.,
Tianmpson.
The result is a sort of Christ- with all the stock Jokes played to the hilt. There's Hope, the self-avowed
Hope,
pictures, then came a complete indeut until he played the character part of Joan Crawford's handyman in "Johnny Culine".
Now he's back again the reluctant
with (1 At the LEE and GREAT toward;
lover with dreams above his supporting role in "Casanova's WORLD you can see "Tazo. iccomplishments; Hope being Big Night". Perhaps he's getting Son of Cochise" and then a chosed! by sinister characters a second chance to become a big
name on the screen, British picture, "The Beach- etc, etc.
name like his 1010 comber".
temptation to pun is too great fui me to resist, so let me get It
reasons
WHITEWASHING
"Overland Pacific" is on at out of my system by saying that length about the Apache tribe The Inst time I wrote at any the HOOVER with an I kept hoping that a big loughi
*** of Red Indiarus got a polite Italian picture following it, was just round the corner, Let
a reader who wanted to The English title is "Son of me also admit that i did enjoy reprimand from
put me right on a the picture, but more for Lagardere" and it, in turn, fraternal
Cumbe of points connected with than front the history of this warrior will give way to "Act of genuine amusement.
nation This time I'm up- Love."
The whole thing based on proaching the subject with some The generally
trepidation. with the Cusanova success of QUEEN'S and the real
Indies. For valuus reasons Bob ALHAMBRA have a stayer in The Caine Mutiny" and plan to put on "Duel in the Jungle" when it finishes next week.
The
Hope poses as the great lover and Hels mixed up in the in- trigues of the powerful rulers of the Italian citles.
Arnold Muss plays the Doge of Venice in real Demon King
while style.
Basli Rathbone AL The ROXY and makes a
most convincingly re- BROADWAY is "The Raid", sarceful gentleman's gentleman.
J
Fontaine must have
In othe of those im gossip accepted her part for the fun she columns thus elinu to the out of playing it. fringes of the movie trade k Atter a long absence from the burrs to a horse's tall I read screen, the face of John Car-
be up redine will probably that Bob Hope is
giving rooking
the quile often again now. Blons 12 which
scell Those
in smaller
Hope personality is the centre gaum, mournful features used to of attraction. He and his advi- figure prominently arra dave realisest that funny
£177 be,
though these romps there's a very definite limit to their appeal.
an
It is rumoured that the new
will
the IT Hope
sect character of
American comedian now dead-Eddie Fay. I wonder if he'll be able to do it effectively.
Or
<>
n
you chuckle and you're
Tough of him to pretend to laugh even when he's not being particularly funny.
❤
A STAR IS
A STAR
By Dilys Powell
the film of
The white man plays a second-
role ary
in "Taza, Son of Chehle" for everything is geen though the eyes of the Apaches, it's one of the many reetut al- tempts to whitewash the Rel diane after all their years of being the traditional enemy
of the palofaces.
Ar a demonstration of urlag elity its rating is vill, but the reenery is superb and has been pielegraphed extract the maximum
umouni of drama from its barren mountains and vast distances.
The
$
time is 1872 when the Indian wars were virtually over.
magnified, glorified and served up as a plece of bravery destry- Ing the highest commendation.
The incident in question the burning by the Confederate: of the northern town of St Albans, Vermont, in retaliation for the sacking by the Union Troups of Atlanta in Georgia.
It wasn't on neeldent of war or the fact that St Albans ny In the path of advancing
ur
retreating soldiers; it was just a .brutal, premeditated destruction of the homes of innocent women and children who couldn't have had less connection with the Burolog of Atlanta,
Yet "The Raid" presents these barbarions on heroes. It says that "For Jeff Davis... For Leo... For the glory of their baloved Southland they rode agalsi",
I haven't seen the film, so I don't know how they've justified the act, but from the story, every move made by the band of Con- federates is on indictment.
Led by a Major and a Lieu- bemut (Von Hedin and Lec Marvin respectively) they break out of Unton prison in New York State and make their way to Canada.
From there
they unostenta - Llously filter into St Albans and proceed to wheedle their way Into the favour of the unsuspect- ing townspeople.
Among the triends Van Heflin makes, the closest are a young widow, her young son, and a one-armed Union captain. It wouldn't be possible tu And three less worthy opponents.
Don't imagine that there's a etvinge of heart in the last rel either--the raki is systematically planned and executed as an act of revenge and how the producer has amtrived to pull Yun Heflin through the picture and out the other side still n sympathetic character is something I shall be most interested to see,
INSPIRED FOOLING
If you didn't have a chance to see "Beal the Devil" when it was first played here in September you'll have a second opportunity next week when the EMPIRE is bringing it back.
This piece of inspired fooling enormous fun and well worth second visit even if you saw It before.
It's directed in a Continental way by American John Huston ja shaky peace between Cochise, and the cast (Humphrey Bogart, Gina Lollobrigida, Jennifer Chief of the Apaches, and the
Robert United States having been con- Jones,
Morley, Poter time Lorre and Edward Underdown cluded A last spurt of fighting breaks out, however, after the head the list) work as a perfect
team. death of Cochise, with are- bellious faction
of the in one
treacherous tribes backing the Geronimo against Taza and the. 667 white men.
helors
taking
the
“Tirepitz” Attack Makes A Film
John Mills
Few
18 stars
in uniform
cari have through so
parts of many war films.
one Now
19
In Lately.
whatever
As it's impossible to deal with Kuise he's appeared, It's been rather
TN King Vidor's autobio- the film from the acting angle, like watching your favourite
I must mention what appeared brother dressed up as on Indian, - A
graphy "A Tree Is A to me to be a production fault. pirate
Casanova's Tree"
the similarity between again. (Longmans, 188.) It was deble. You know he can make there is a story about Lilian the fentures of many of the battled their way
fond
Gish in 1926 which has a dia.
Pinewood's moral for today. Miss Gish |
Several times was playing the death-scene significance of a piece of action
1 missed the "Above Us The Wave." story in
"Laby not immediately recognising battleship "Tirpitz" by Britain's of the attacks on the German But there's a limit to your patience and toleration. Sud- Boheme,”
the player. This could have been human torpedocs" and midget denly you realise that the She had been preparing her- remedied by more variations in genuine chuckles he provokes self for days, und when she dress and make-up and is submarines.
she was serious mistake in art action plc- are getting fewer and the line appeared on the set of tolerance is having (o behol.ow-checked, with parched ture. stretched loo tightly for com-lips curling outwards; she had, Rock Hudson makes a likeable John Gregson,
she said, "succeeded in removTaza with just the right amount win and James Robertson ing all saliva from her mouth of authority in his voice, though Justice, I think Bob Hope and his by not drinking any liquids for it docin't seen compatible with friends WEN beginning
Picture is based on a best- keeping the present glorification of the to three days, and by realise this when they planned cotton pads between her teeth red men to make a son of the seller of the same title by C.E. "Casanova's Big Night", To and gums even in her sleep."
Print Cochise
a more sergeant. Wara and help him out they've drawn on The death-socne was played when he tune out for the re- who served together during the
tulented such highly
feature out; Vidor decided to keep the servation
auxiliaries! Barbara war players as Vincent Basil Rathbone, while
Price and camera turning until the actress Rush is his faithful Indian maid.
as his was forced by the necessity of leading lady they've thrown in breathing to make a movement, a person you'd hardly expect
fort
Fontaine.
No movement came,
Panic-
REDSKINS AGAIN
The early communications problems of the USA form the basis of "Overland Pacific".
to see in a Hope comedy-Joan stricken, he stopped the camera: still no movement. At last Miss Gish was called by name. She opened her eyes and took her The two handsomo he-mon, flent
hero and heavy respectively, the deep breath since scene had started; for the past have been friends during the days sho had trained herself, American Civil War but find that sámehow or other,
Lime brings along without visible breath-
MAJESTIC
QAIR CONDITIONED ZIEKE
SHOWING TO-DAY --- ́ ́AT 2.30, '5,20, 7.30 &
9.30. P.M.
ON WIDE SCREEN
THE MARINES* GRIATELY HOURI
marka JOHN WAYNE
A REPUBLIC PICTURE
TO MORROW - MORNING SHOW AT 12.30 P.M.
WITH A SONG
HEART
to
Mills heads an all-male cast which includes Donald Sinden, Michael Med-
the in
Motilla..
James Benson
13th Submarinė
It will includo official flim, hitherto unseen by the public, of actual undersea operations.
different
A strange and
а
love?
Kettards. One becomes
gamblar, not only with money, Hdg prepared to "It was necessary to was her but in land.
back his Investments with lips before she could arcak." And
forco let a little matter doesn't and in 1924 tree is a tres,
like
bribing Red Indians to kil Mr Vidors account of his his own people stand in his way. His friend works for the.com- peny milway
star was a star.
1
from:
work as a film director the First World War to the
Hollywood "ngurés,
iterate
ongagod Itt building
J
that he had hoped
present day in the storý of ni would run acrosa the loud had man captivated by the cinema bought.
mont books by fámbus)
William Bishop is the gambler, It is with Jack Mahoney the rail mah and Irunde styl Peggio. Castle and Adele Tergens of good stories the two girls who get in the WB. Hearst discovering that way of the lighting the wrong baronial hall from Bucope had been installed in The hia non-house, Eliner Glyn sort 67 Monte Cristo story of telephoning one Sunday to
vehgognoo, filmex In Itşify: The suggest that in a passage played son is fossano Brazz who troika under, bearskins played in "Three Coin In sho John Gilbert should oness...the heroine's cheek with 7 his tyo Trave
Goldwyn haranguing
this
hea
crat: "And tell you that
moenie "Imit "th love scopo "leyòr (put to filin Whole goddamnéd· Pict
And it dééngs't' ganarTA
of the mioritics, and thle worth
pogrids
Son of Lagardero" is n
and
Murder, and midden death fre couitnonplace is "Son of
o If you like ple
| Tales Will the kidnapping at p
young girl thrown in for good
thedisure, so it you · like your pleturon to strewn with corpses, this is your meat.
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HE LED THE APACHE NATION'S WILD REVOLT AGAINST GERONIMO'S PILLAGING HORUEST
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Joan
Louis JOURDAN
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