KINGS 5
SHOWS
TO-MORROW
EXTRA MORNING SHOW AT 11.30 A.M.
"WHITE CHRISTMAS”
Completo Effects of PERSPECTA Storeophonic Sound
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At 2.30, 5.00,
7.15 & 9.30 p.m. At 2.30, 5.15, 7.30 & 9.45 p.m.
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"
&UE SKIES" - "WHITE QUISIMAS" ("CHOREOGRAPHY
"SNOW WHITE and the 7 DWARFS" and "NATURE'S HALF ACRE"
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SEVEN BRIDES
- FOR SEVEN BROTHERS“.
JANE POWELL
STARRING
AN 18-G-44 PICTURE
HOWARD KEEL
LOVE - MAKING SONGSI
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Johnnie RAY
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Donald O'CONNOR
Dan DAILEY MINI GAYNOR
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Maja Raduded 'Admission
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1955.
FILMS-CURRENT AND
The three big musicals running at the moment - "White Christmas", "There's No Business Like Show Business"
“Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" have proved us successful as they deserve, which mean that with "Sitting Bull" con- Hoover and tinuing at the "Drum Beat" at the Queen's and Alhambra there are few changes since last Saturday among the first run cinemas.
Of the others, the New York and Great World are showing a Chinese picture, and the Lee a Chinese opera,
Queen's leaving the Alhambra with the only English language change.
and
Later on next week it will be possible to sec "Johnny Dark" when "White Christ- mas" leaves the King's
"Hiawatha" 24714
finishes nt
Princess
when it
Empire.
Like Show
By JANE ROBERTS
The New Films At A Glance
Capitol and Liberty:
Showing-"Heven Brides For Seven A musical. Keel and Jaur
1
Brothers". Howard l'owell
Coming-Tennessee Champ". Prixe
Empire:
Showing--"While
King's and Princess:
the
iloover:
"There's N' Business Business" will
give way to "Theodora, Slave and "Sitting Empress"
Bull" "This Is My Love". The Chinese picture at the New York and Great Worki will have a five-day run and will be followed by "Mulaga”. For A Show" **Three surereds "The Violent Men".
#K*** 1 TO
which
"Urum Beat".
Its lume. felbow pawns and many mene
All the laracters.
a parsent in "Hiawatha" the yung Cajalaway 13
brave baselt. Dayotab bide Lovely
Chibinon Rendle Minnehaha,
Lhe 14 ing boastful treacherous Pro Puk Kerwis.
I haven't seen a preview, but apparrally the two leading men Pave been
Tor chosen prowess
jandledy stresses the swimming
u!z#{thec{ by
Edwards and Hats the
of terimis cups Lamen
Keith
New York and Great World:
fighting and its exploiters. Nhelley Winters, Keenan Wyen, Deway Martin.
Christmas". musical,
the IRO
first Vista Vision. picture In Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye,
Ellen. Vera
Rosemary Clooney Comlisz-Hawatha". North Ameri- can tribal warfare in pre- Columbus days. Vincent Edwards, Yvette Dugar. Showing "White Christmas".
above.
Coming-“Johnny Dark".
Car
racing. Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie, Don Taylor, Showing-SiLing Bull". A western. Dale Robertson, J. Carroj Naish. Mary Murphy.
4'oming-Thie
A
In My Love". romantie drama. Linda Daruri, Blek Jason, Dan Duryea, Faith Domergue.
in
Showing-"Loves of the Youngsters".
A Chines- picture Mandarin dialogue, Coming Mainga". Smuggling anet In Tangier,
O'Hara,
Mac.
COMING
Linda Darnell, who plays her elder sister. Faith Domergue, while portraying A girl who
in't all dowey-eyed innocence, is at least direct--Linda Darnell in a hypocrite.
Into this happy little couldron the plot Поря
Rick Jason and
Before it begins to simmer, boils over you will be able to watch these characters torment Ali the with cach
other malicioumess of everyday life.
BYZANTINE ERA Theodora,, the slave girl who rose to be Empress of Byzan tium,
was thought interesting enough by Van Loon for him to included her in his col- lected "Lives.
have
It's nome ume nga since I rend of this "crowned courtesan" as he calls her, but my recol- lection is that he saw her as u remarkably intelligent woman mai quite just for those dog- Calog days.
She has a very turbulent time Lit "Theodora, Slave Empres" Jezebel's apparently sharing
passion for chariot racing and Intrigue,
igue, but finding thine, un- Nice Jezebel, to be a champion of the peoplo.
very
Theodor is played by n lovely Italian girl, Glue Marla Cannic. Her dyai is an equally attractive Greek actress, rene anch Justinian himself is Pape Marchual from France. George
rather like the director's reason for choosing this subject for his two million dollar, year- make eple. Considering Cecil director De Mule the greatest
murder Maureen donald Carry,
Queen's and Alhambra
Showing-"Drum Brak",
Alan Ladd,
Violent
A western.
western drama,
Men' A extra Ford,
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th
Roxy and Broadway:
Vincent nuttabes
Day won
accomplish- appearate
1 whams
Yvette Dugby's iments Inchuric
the New
al York sing play with Walter Humon
she was seven, aut a atrore res rent appearance on the sUOMI
in "The Great Coraso,"
Space ships
rivals of Red
nTe
of
the great Indians
Is the affections
these juveniles days, mure's the pity, but let's hope there
some faithful followers to whom the
still tucans some-
thing
are
RACE IS GOOD
If you can believes 10 hor Lauric Us Der designer then yuu'll be able to take "Johnny Dark" in your stride, I find it rather hard to edit her with anything much, the secins afraid of incapable of positive nellon af quy mort Her acting unconvincing her looks Insipid
ní
دورا
16
that her studio
Coming-The
with some
Glenn
edward G. Robinson, Barbara Stanwyck.
QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
2.30, 7.15, 7240 & 920 pow.
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SHOWING TO-DAY
WARNER BROS -
They called
him
Injun Lover
CINEMASCOPE:
NOTHING, BEATS THE EXCITEMENT OF
WAGNERCOLOR · STEREDMIONIC BOUND
ALAN LADD DRUM BEAT”
יידיז -
★ NEXT CHANGE ★
CINEMASCOPE
Dianna Mn
FOSTER · WYNN
A COLUMBIA PICTURE
her
of historical spreiscles alive be notes that the Byzantine era has The far been tackled by the great mant
EVERYBODY GRIM The girl who changed 11> the character played in The Caine Muthy"
-THE
VIOLENT
starring
MEN
-AND
WOMEN
SLEDFORD- STANWYCK
EXETARD
ROBINSON
TECHNICOLOR | M
is paired with Glemt Ford in TO-MORROW MORNING AT 11,30 A.M.
This time. ish'l 50 Instead of getting her man in the last reel she has to
10 over hand hin
Coming "Three For A Show".
fram musical adapted Alaugin alary. Betty firable.
A
H
"The Violent Men". however. May Wynn lucky.
Jack Lemmon, Marge and Cower Cham-
plon.
Showing "There's No Business Like
Nhow musical,
Dun
Business". A Kihel Merma Dalley. Marilyn Diturae. Donali O'Connor, Mitzi Gaynor.
Corning-Tbeodura,
Spanish and North Africah, and has more fights to the cellulose fest that have been quite some time.
1
There's the same conhet be
wife 111 wi tween hustat "This Is My Love" in "The Violent Men,** The cripple thus time is Dan Duryon al wife with the roving eye Philh
U
ן
Slave
Km- Alleged incidents prrks" in the life of Justinian's Empress. Glanna Maria Canale, George Marcha),
morgun
11 has taken this Howard thughes discovery quite
Time to reach starikom in spite of the promining she's been ven They've changed her fler lest in the process und
1017 there's a much gloomy girl of her fest
Ventetta.
Shy has an
of the
picture
Ale interesting in This Is My Love" as dots
A Kind Of
Irish
und her personality lukewarm If a flying saucer landed Longford was asked to appear,
It may thought she would make a good at Emiskerry, Co. Wicklow, bu decilned because he didn't foil for the aggressive Tony Cur the villagers wouldn't
and
seen
Fuster.
QUEEN'S
WB's Technicolor
ALHAMBRA Columbia's
VARIETY Dianne "CALAMITY JANE"
He's so busy spiking the guns
G. land-grabbing Edward
scheming that
Of
Robinson
and! wife, Barbara Stanwyck, May feels she's got getting her fair
and sbare of attention leaves him for a more interest- ing partner.
Everybody is grim in The Men" none of them Violent have much to be happy about anyway. In spite of his wealth Edward G. Robinson is a cripple and despised by his wife, who with bla is having an affair brother
A
She in turn is merely being used by the brother who
friemt.
The Kirk second daughter, for whom Glenn Ford falls after May Wynn has walked out on tim, doesn't feel there's any nature for them almost and Clean Ford, with
the him, is everyone against unhapplest of the foll
Western
us Mr Beet- uncertain #177
had
some investment cake on such want to do an actor out of a animal as a horse. even job.
However, as the camera its but I feel that both he and look up from their stout. Eventually
Miss Rush's toes picked up Hudson's cont behind the tree, ibus suggesting he his rival. Don Taylor, deserve When you've
the were trolden on to everyone's
and there was i was in two places at once, the something better.
Dublin bus make way
satisfaction, for It's a likeable Alm, however,
general exodus to the castle scene had to be reshot. Again Arthur und
and his co-robber the road
ruce from
his grounds to watch a scene shot Hudson the King
examined jewels, cursed, background
run, Canadian border to Mexico, kaights, and the Battle of against the
Mountain. Rock and hid behind the tree. Again which forms the loty of the Agincourt has been fought Sugarloaf
Hudson and an accomplice ap- the director was dissatisfied-- ilm, most exciting
in the fields next to your
this time with Hudson's techni- Tong Curtis
peared in tweed Jackets, beaver 1 {ገሮ Idealistic
farm, then web-footed hats and
A masks.
green- que in pulling mask from nose. about the prosulc
one trousered technician explained Not until the seventh time of subject of sports car designing, Martian becomes just but when he descends in actual of those things.
that the scene was to be their shooting was everyone happy. getaway after robbing a coach. driving he appears very much
GOOD GOING A volce culled: "Quici! Roll In character.
ts
The 54,000-acre demesne
in
ان
Europe.
It's an uncomplicated char-Powerscourt Castle, close by neterisation not calling for much Enniskerry, covers some of the
scenery more than good looks and dash. Anest both of which he wears like Henry V, Knights of the Round
Table, and many were made here.
found
of
HP Hudson pulled down his We began to understand why mask, examined the jewels in sixteen days' shooting et Powers- his hand,
they were
to yield only court was going
minutes screen fakes, and hurled them aside, twenty-five
tu time, and why two and a half uttering a curse acceptable olher film)
family audiences. The two minutes 'In the con' at the end robbers ran behind a tree, of a twelve-hour day was co- leaped on to horses, and gallop sidered good going.
to watch over
01
ul
second skin
kn Chase and Paul Kelly in secondary roles are their urmal
We flow urtent scives competent
and the
inc itself glued me to the edge of Hollywood company shooting a scenes for Captain Lightfoot, my seat
story the blood-and-thunder Interesting sidelights on
and British dra- highwaymen race are the police crganisation
the 1820s. for keeping the roads clear for goons, set in a 1,800-mile race and the news-
The first thing we saw paper and radio coverage from side the castle was a gentleman a helicopter. From a TV angle in wig and knee breeches, the course
offered ក.
น good opportunity for shots of some lovely reentry, the State of Nevada looking particularly attractive.
THOSE EYELASHES! Smugglers beware! You may think you can outwil the police, but just wait until a curvaceous lady secret agent looking like Maureen O'Hara is put on your trail.
oul-
smoking a large sigar; the first thing we saw inside was Rack Hudson-otherwise
'Mr Beef- cake-m improbably handsome. six-foot-three, who plays
the title role and described the film bo us DR
kind of Irish Western, only it's the British, not the redskins who play the 'heavies,""
Wo watched him play a ball- room sceno with co-star Bar- With one, or at any rate, not barn Rush. They danced a few more than three sweeps of har steps, then Miss Rush yelped, beautiful eyelashes, she'll have pouted prettily: "You trod on guessed your hiding places, made my foot, sir." Hudson denied deductions about your source of it. Mias Rush insisted. "I tell supply, won over your accom- | you, you treadod trod", plices and ruined the market for || "Out!" cried conteorie, whatever you're trying to soll.
►
And if you want a course ini: FROM DEBRETT how to accomplish all this,, phy
visit to the New Work or the While they sorted
this out, Great World next wook and we had a look at the chat lat, watch
her nt work in and found it not unlike a pagó Trom Debrett, The Hon. Granla Wingmold she gratuitously tells
daughter of Lady Mocdonald Carey, she's been Powersebut, has a small pari; around-and in har travels has Lord and Lady Mount Charles, apparently learned from people who loaned Slan's Castle to the who haven't yet been discovered film unit, appear as nobility in by Scotland Yard or the FDI. a carriage robbed by highway-
Her mothods and results musi
man Hadson: shots of Beau Sava ostred « few raised aro Pare Castle Include a portrait brows in those sugust establish of Lady Lambart and son Sir Olivery in period costume. (SIE. i takou place on the Oliver obligingly drove a tractor Mediterranean seaboard, both for the smit); while the Earl of
ed off
Doris Day
Howard Keel
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"It's wonderful A noment later they sur- Allums," our taxi driver prised us by emerging again us on the way back. "Fella was from behind the tree. The tellin' me they fit that Hudson pationt technician explained lod with a brand new set of
tweeds, galloping
then horgemen
rub them with were doubles; that the studio sandpaper to make them look disked to see such a hand- old. Can you imagine, now?"
the
Colony's New Theatre
With a minimum of publicity, the New York Theatre opened its doors to the Hongkong pubile fast Sunday. There would probably have been a much larger blaze had the opening date heen more certain.
Postponed several times, it wam't until Saturday morning that the licence was received, and the rush to take ad- vantage of the Chinese New Year holiday business resulted in several minor details being overlooked.
Literally within Walking distance of each other, there are now four first run cinemas at Causeway Bay and one can't help wondering if they'll all pay. There are strong rumours of one of them changing its status shortly, but this will sull leave iliree very close together.
Belush, American and Chinero plotures will get a show- ing at the how elseins and there's a reasonable hope that the first will be allowed longer running time than the paltry two days mid-week that they've almost invariably had in the past, irrespective of their merit.
The British comedy, “MAD ABOUT MEN” Was a Teod choice. Not too heavy and with plenty. In 16 to amuse Chinese audiences, it went well with the holiday atmosphere. Having the same owner (Be is the first to control a plo- ture house on each side of the harbour), the New York Theatre will release is pictures concurrently with the Gresi World, hitherto ́ssociated with the Leo.
the plotures to which we can look forward_ aro
11072="THOKE" starring Charles Laughton and John
Mille; Richard Burton, representing, the warlime RAF pilot. Douglas Bader, in "REACH FOR THE SKY') LauroNDO Olivier's production of "RICHARD ZII” In which he also takes POKE MIKE "LIND "Vævtting ""PUN BRA THALL/NOT HAVE THERE","
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