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KING'S PRINCESS EMPIRE
At 2.30, 5.15, At 2.30, 5.30.
At 2.30, 5.30,
7.20 & 9.30 p.m.||7.30 & 9.30 p.m.||7,30 & 9.30 p.m.
OPENING TO-DAY,
From the
Musical His "Hazel Flaga"
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LIVING IN
by
TECHNICOLOR
Janet Leigh Edward Andd
Fred Clark Sheres Noth
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TO-MORROW & SUNDAY-5 SHOWS DAILY
EXTRA SHOW AT 11.30 A.M,
** LIVING IT UP »
SPECIAL HOLIDAY MATINEES
PRINCESS
TO-MORROW 11.10 p.m.
An Indian Picture Suratya & Shazaml
Kapoor in
SULAMA PARWANA"
(The Flans & the Molti
with English & Chinese Subilties
at Regular Prices
SUNDAY 11,00 m.
DISNEY'S TECHNICOLOR
CARTOONS
at Rednerd Priern
SUNDAY 12 10 p.m.
Tycone Power in "CRASH DIVE" Technicalur
at Rednerd Prices
MONDAY 12.20 p.m.
Gary Cooper in "SPRINGFIELD
KIFLES"
Warnercolor
at Reduced Prices
EMPIRE
TO-MORROW 11.00 a.m.
FOX TECHNICOLOR
CARTOONS
TO-MORROW 12.30 p.m. Tyrone Power in
CRASH DIVE" Technicolor
SUNDAY 11.00 a.m.
FOX TECHNICOLOR
CARTOONS
(New Programme)
SUNDAY 12,30 pm.
Marilyn Monroe, Jane
Nansell in "GENTLEMEN PREFER
BLONDES" Technicolor
MONDAY 11.00 ..
DISNEY'S TECHNICOLOR
CARTOONS
MONDAY 12.30 p.m.
Richard Widmark in "NIGHT AND THE CITY"
Aft at Reduced Prices: $1.00 & 70 cts.
LEE GREAT WORLD
DAILY AT 2.30, 5.30. 7.30 & 9.30 P.M. SHOWING
The
TO-DAY
GREGORY
PECK Purple Plain
TECHNICOLOR imroduties WIN MIN THAN
Screenplay by EHIO AMULET · Directed by C0RENT PANRICH.
Produced by JONH BAYAN
INTERNATIONAL SOCCER WOLVES v. HUNGARIAN at LEE THEATRE only
EXTRA PERFORMANCE TO-MORROW.
LEE at 12.00 noon. GREAT WORLD at 12.30 p.f
"THE PURPLE PLAIN”.
ROX Y & BROADWAY!
GRAND OPENING TO-DAY Owing to length of picture pleash noto change of times:
A 2.30, 5.10, 7:30 & 9.40 p.m.
200h Coathay-fon arvioita
MARLON BRANDO JEAN SIMMONS MERLE OBERON MICHAEL RENNIE
-ÉLTÁSTIN SELLAIS
Desiree
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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1954.
FILMS- CURRENT AND COMING
The
KING'S,
EMPIRE
and PRINCESS have chosen one of the best Martin and Lewis pictures for a long time
Christmas as their show. Completely American In treatment, humour and sentiment, it's nevertheless fun for everyone,
Of equally universal up- peal is the costume melo- drama (I'm not very fond of the word "swashbuckler'') at the HOOVER — "Star of India". This theatre will possibly be playing "Crimes of Paris" between "Star of India" and the New Year show "Apache".
"The Black Knight" is at the
and QUEEN'S ALHAMBRA, "The Student Prince" at the CAPITOL and LIBERTY and "The Purple Plain" at the LEE and GREAT WORLD.
"Desiree" is showing at the ROXY and BROAD- WAY.
Marun and Lewis usually manage to combine their crazy
an unusual doings with
story and "Living It Up" is no excep- tion. The screenplay is adapted from the successful Broadway production, "Hazel Flaga", which in turn was taken from earlier show in which Frederic Murch appeared.
The two comedians are a pair of small town boys who like all the elly slickers for a ride unintentionally at Arst, but as events move too fust for ther, they're forced to carry on the deception.
Martin, doctor you woukin'! allow near an out of condition goldfish, has dinghosed Lewis us Auffering
vilecis from the
al rado activity and given in only a short time to live.
Ajung comes it newspaper reporter with the iden of grant- ing (with great publicity of course) the lust wish of the "dying" man. Janet Leigh pr sundes her newspaper to finance a trip to New York for Lewis, in the book with every thrill
thrown in for good measure.
By the time Marun has dis- covered cover where his diagnosis went wrong, it's Impossible to back out of the Aituation nodi with an "in for a
penny, in for pound" gesture he decides to help his friend take advantage of the big city's interest,
pair's The crazy
doings in New York constitute the matin part of the picture.
You'll no doubt have heard of Sheree North who had such a lot of publicity at the time that Monroe wasn't doing Marilyn all that her studio required of her. In this fimm she dances a
Lewis number with
that can only be called exuberant.
By JANE ROBERTS
Ann Blyth, Edmund Gwenn and Edmund Purdom in a
scene from "The Student Prince".
Napoleon and Desiree (Marlon Brando and Jean Simmons respectively) are watched with apprehension by his brother and her sister in "Desiree”.
from all of which
he escapes
It's one of these Ruritania musicals with the Crown Prince fuced state being of a smeli
sequences in
which Edmundh Purdom is required to sing.
Two stars almost make off with the acting honours in The Purple Plain": Maurice Denham
the fussy little wingless wonder who eventually cracks up, and Brenda do Banzie, the formidable. Scottish missionary with the humanity of a saint. Some of the beat scenes the
picture are
the seld ex» between Gregory Peck
changes
as tho very gallant Squadron
Leader, and Maurice Denham.
H. E. Bates, the author, bay- ing been in the RAF during the war, has an excellent insight into the relationship that would exist between these two.
Peck, easygoing by nature, hás been mado even more care- leas of his personal safety by the death of his wife in an air raid. He is also a filer, making an even wider gulf between the non-flying Flight Lieutenant and himself.
Cseritini
which When the aircraft of Peck is the pilot, Denham the passenger and Lyndon Bruck the navigator (very good, this boy) crashes in the jungle, their difference in mental make-up comes to the surface,
By this time Peck has met a naft-spoken Burmese girl who has given him a new interest in life and It's thoughts of her that spur him on to making the superhuman effort of getting the three of them back to base.
"The Purple Before leaving Plain" I must mention Bernard Les
At the beginning of the picture 1 thought he was mis- cast as the RAF doctor and that he is much more at home as an NÇO, Before wits over changed my mind and give him full marks for a very sincero performance.
NOT FIERY ENOUGH
The chief difficulty that must have faced the inkers of "Desiree" was how
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to make
both Marion Brando andi Michael
sympathetic characters without sacrificing
the interest to be derived from their conflicting Ideologies,
The despotle Napoleon could never have anything in com- mon with Bernadotte, the mun of
peace, except a love for the vanic woman and in order paint the former in more glow- ing colours than he would seem to deserve it's been necessary to make Bernodolte rather a
cold
man.
Now don't point out to me that either of them were sup- posed to be this or that in real life; I'm thinking entirely terms of whal makes an interest- ing
picture and for this there must be sufficient contrast be
characters to tween the main enable them to sland out de-
with the decision of renouncing to the gentleness with
one from tho other. which Brando plays the very Napoleon puts definite
him 100 close to the serious Bernadetto
the girl he thinks he loves or turning his back on the country he's been educated and trained
spectacularly, naturally.
Had she really lied in those thel days I can't help, feeling
would have Patricia Modina
to pneumonia, Succumbed dressed as she is in the plature to rule. Draughty old castles are not the places for plunging neckline. However, she looks a dream und that's all that matters in Alm of this kind.
The attractive voice of Elton so Hayes is heard in a ballad he wrote himself and other music Is played by the Royal Philhar- monic Orchestra.
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the
PUBLIC SPIRITED
"Crimes of Paris" has a lurkd- looking press took and appears to be on the lines of the Montes!
stirred up that hos Case much mud in present day Italy.
It claims to be based case "which shocked the entire eity of Paris" and the company filming it states that their inten- tion was to demonstrate how close co-operation between police and the public can bring about justice, even when con- mest skilful of fronted by the criminals How public spirited! The latest American_actor to join King Arthur's Court IN Alan Ladd. Complete with the period, page-boy hair-do of the black and white costume, and his well known grim look, he can- ters around mediaeval England avenging wrongs and getting locked up in castle
dungeons-
You'll see various other well known character actors in "The Black Knight", among them Andre Moreli who played the part of the servant so well in Elephant Walk"; piercing eyed Jehn Lauric and the televiston star Peter Cushing.
L
at last TC- Betta St. John,
native leased from her
giri roles, is the princess his father has chosen as his bride and who hadl drcided sto will marry him only if he becomes more human.
Ann Blyth plays the part of and although I always seem to be complaining of all black Kathie, the little barmaid in the and all white characterisations town..of Heidelberg where on the screen, in this case 1 Edmund Purdom, the Student would hava preferred a mhore
order Prince, has gone to try to learn fery Napoleon in
to more case of manner.
allow Berindotte a few more degrees of warmth.
In spite of everything, if I only one film over could see
choose the holidays,, I would this one. It has enough British accents to make me feel ot HOGE home, Brankió ind Rennie aro always good to look at, how- ever much I may disagree with their conception of a part, and as Jean Simmons
as Dealree. In addition, there's perfectly cast the indestructible benuty and poles of Merle Oberon as the Empress Josephine. Happy filmgoing.
Jahn
Louist Calibern and Ericson, both of whom were in
featured fre "Rhapsody" Purdom's father and rival cre- spectively!
RURITANIA
mystery man behind the кcones is Mario Lanti whoso
all the Sigmund Romberg's operetta, voice is heard in "The Student Prince" has been times performed innumerable
but, as she did in "Rose Mario", Ann Blyth secins to give it a new lift.
The Pickwick Papers
January 12, 1955
9.15 p.m.
the Lee
Theatre.
Clare Keswick
Chairman
Première
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QUEEN'S
5 SHOWS TO-MORROW
**THE BLACK KNIGHT”'
EXTRA PERFORMANCE AT 11.30 A.M.
QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
4.30, 5.15, 7.30 & 9.30 pm,
220, 5.30. 7.30 A
SHOWING TO-DAY
HIS BIGGEST ADVENTURE!
Technicolor
COLUMBA VICTURES pessets à LÁNCÍCH PRODUCTION
ALAN LADD
The Black Knight
PATRICIA MEDINA
******** QUEEN'S
SPECIAL MORNING SHOWS AT 11.30 A.M.
DEC. 26th SUNDAY
Columbia's
ALL-NEW VARIETY PROGRAM
(3 STOOGES —— COLOR CARTOONS)
DEC. 27th MONDAY
Walt Disney's Technicolor "PETER PAN”
AT REDUCED PRICES!
CAPITOL
THE HOME OF
LibertyY
3 SHOWS TO-DAY. AT 2.30, 5.30 & 7.30 P.M.
ON PANORAMIC SCREEN
A NEW UPROARIOUS ROLE IN THE CAREER OF THE WORLD'S FUNNIEST MAN!
W-1
RED
SKELTON
MGM
THE GREAT
DIAMOND * ROBBERY
GALA PREMIERE TO-NIGHT AT 9.30 P.M.
THE ROYAL RISQUE, RIOTOUS ROMANCING OF
THE STUDENT
COLOR Galety!
V Hear SIGMUND ROMBERG'S
serious songs
TİLİ
PRINCE
·M-G•M2 rolliók musical of the who would rather romance than rufel
ANN BLYTH EDMUND PURDOM JOHN ERICSON-LOUAS CALHERN AFRONO CIEN
AND THE SOPISING VOICE OF MARIO LA Z
with PERSPECTA STEREOPHONIC SOUND
Special Moming Show on Holidays At 10.30 am, dally
LABERTÝ
CAPITOL
25th
26th & 27th
25th & 27th ́anfy M-G-M prosents
TOM & JERRY Technicolor Cartoons
(The programme will be changed aver