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KING'S PRINCESS EMPIRE
AT 2.30, 5.15,
7.20 & 9.30 p.m.
AT 2.30, 5.30, AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m. | 7.30 9.30 pm 4 SHOWS TO-DAY
DEAN AND JERRY TAKE OVER THE CIRCUS...
IN THE MOST HILARIOUS SHOW ON EARTH! *
DEAN
JERRY
MARTIN and LEWIS
1. HAL WALLIS PRODUCTION
3 RING CIRCUS
INROUAN
VISTAVISION
MOTION PICTUNI
MEGN, FIBULATI
„WALLACE LORO - ELSA LANCHESTER - KRIPH PLYNČYS to DON MCCURRE - A PAMOỰM TICTƏN
Co-Staring
FOARNE DAU ZSA ZSA GABOR TECHNICOLOR
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1955.
FILMS CURRENT
Three Ring stars the
now
Circus' famous
comedy team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis and manages, with the exception of one ghastly gooey scene with a custard machine, to be quite amusing. Perhaps this faint praise will irritate you if you happen to think this pair are the funniest thing since the Marx Brothers" (as some people do). Not being one of them I'm at a disadvantage in assessing the laughter value of this latest piece of fool. ing.
cer-
However, they are tainly slick, some of their.
Presented at KING'S with Perspecta Stereophonic Soundtricks are original and even
★ TO-MORROW ★
KING'S
PRINCESS
EMPIRE
5 SHOWS
At 11.00 a.m.
5 SHOWS
"3 RING CIRCUS"
Extra Show At 11.30 a.m. at Regular Prices
20th Century-Fox
TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS
in CinemaScope
at Reduced Prices
"3 RING CIRCUS" Extra Show At 12 noon at Regular Prices
HOOVER LIBERTY
CAUSEWAY BAY TEL7237!
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AT 2.30, 5,30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
TOP SECRET!
It will blast you from the ocean depths to the
Secret Island
STARRING
GENE KELLY
AN MGM PICTURE.
MOST POWERFUL UNDERSEAS
EXPLOSION EVER UNLEASHED BY MAN!
Screen Play by
JOHN JUSTIN BERNARD LEE JEFF RICHARDS FRANK HARVEY
ROY BOULTING for by High Abbey Bracey JOHN & ROY BOULTING
FatheACOLL'S OVER Prodsend
SUNDAY MORNING MATINEE at Reddced Admission
HOOVER at 12.00, noon
James Stewart in
"NAKED SPUR"
with Janet Leigh
LIBERTY at 12.30 p.m. Joan Crawford in "TORCH SONG" with Michael Wilding
LEE Theatre
AIR-CONDITIONED AND OZONIZED
TO-DAY AT 1.30 & 8.00 P.M. MAYFLOWER CANTONESE OPERA CO. ADMISSIONS:-
Matinee: "56.00, $4.70, $3.50 $1.50 Tax Incl. Evening: $8.90, $5.00, $4.70 & $2.40
ATTENTION!
Reserve Wednesday, May 18th
at 9.30 p.m.
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for the GALA PREMIERE of the Film
#1
“Front Page Story'
Starring Jack HAWKINS and Elizabeth ALLAN at the LEE THEATRE
in the presence of
H.E. Sir Alexander Grantham, G.C.M.G
and Lady Grantham
All Proceeds in aid of the-
HONG KONG COUNCIL OF SOCIAL SERVICE
TICKETS, PRICE $10, $5 & $2 Obtainable from the Council's Offices, Room 403, China Building (4th Floor): opposite King's Cinema
the old ones are injected with a freshness that makes one admire their timing
The
their background for clowning is circus run by a glamorous female Joanne Dru. - The big draw in the show is an equally eye-catching high wire arist with an inflated ex and a temper to mate This is a tailor-made role for Zsa Zsa Gabor, who delivers "darling, I hate your lines at Joarne Dru with gusto.
her
realistic
Miss Dri forced by the financial state of the circus ta swcelen her dislike for the top out- money spinder into ward
show of
an
co-operation still manages to get back some silky cracks and has the satis faction of winning her man in the end.
For
Dean
AND COMING
A By JANE ROBERTS
Jerry Lewis in the "Three Ring Circus"
Not A Second
"Third Man"
יי
experiments, and from the start he is resented by the dead man's assistant. Gene Kelly is the American and John' Justin his unwilling lieutenant.
Bernard Lee and Patrick Barr Carol Reed has taken
3 are there to add interest to this "Third Man" theme for pleasant picture, which
The Man Between”, but filmed in Guernsey.
has made his central charac-
was
ter, not a cynically clever Thrills & Smiles
romance there's Martin to quicken the pulses of black
marketeer with #
the two leading ladies and touch of genius. as was With Edward G.
there's a competent character Orson Welles in the earlier study of a circus manager by Wallace Ford.
Highlights: Jerry Lewis drill, ing the elephants with Army
doing commands; Lewis rapid-fire change of hats, talk- ing on the personality of each one as he wears it. and. Mar- in's easy singing.
Suggested cats: That stickily revolting custard machine at and Bisur Lanchester as a boarded lady.
picture, but a rather sorry individual whose degeneracy, because it lacks dash, fails a
QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
the law, being persuaded to "SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.40 P.M. tell all by two tough in- vestigators
·Edward G.. Robinson is the tougher of the two, but Briau Keith is more good looking, so in spite of knowing all the the answer, between them, poor girl doesn't have mich
of a charizE.
I haven't been able to see this picture, but it's a new one, released this year, and looks as though it might be quite good suspense thriller with large splashes of cornedy.
Newspaper Film Coming
The Lee theatre is tem porarily devoting itself to Cantonese opera but will be back with pictures again on May 18 with the British newspaper subject "Front Page Story" starring Jack Hawkins.
The policy of this theatre is different from others in Hong- although it kong in that occasionally shows an American picture, it does not restrict itself exclusively to these products of but Iries 10 Plus the stipulated number quota pictures, cater for the small number of people who prefer British and Continental Aims.
be
This does not appear to generally known and naturally will only continue as long as it
is Anancially successful.
Alms Amang the French
three in "Tight Spot" we have coming to the Lee are
from Peter Cheyney wise-cracking Ginger novels and there will be more
taken
to excite either compassion Rogers on the wrong side of the romantic-historical type.
or perverted admiration.
His is a shadowy character in a city of half lights, with the loyalties of East and West Berlin occasionally shining through in an attempt to give meaning to the whole thing.
A 'Documentary James Mason fits through the
Of Martin Luther
suspicion ridden city of Berlin. We meet him first as a menace to the happiness of Hildegarde Neff, a German married to an English Army doctor.
scene of
the the
"Martin Luther" "traces
He apparently has some hold the stony path trod by the 16th century reformer from over her, but whether it is poll- tical or amorous we do not dis- his obscure "days 23 an cover for some time. The situa Augustinian menk
complicated by to the tion is
on the centre of discussion he had arrival become by the time his husband's sister, Claire Bloom. "heresies", had been accept- At first charmed by her sister- ed and incorporated into the In-law, whom she is peeting for Augsberg Confession of the arst time, sisterly devotion turns uppermost when it ap Faith.
pears that her brother is being deceived by the wife he trusts.
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The Bind is a chronicle events, rather than, an attempt to translate the soul-searching doubts and fears of a man whose logic was at odds with what he had been taught, into everyday language.
I turn she too comes under the spell of the man between, ' and through her he gets chance to redeem himself.
In spite of the loopholes in the piot and the somewhat unreal characters, this film still bas enough polish to show the dis- tinguishing marks of a Carol Reed production, although it cannot be called a second Third
His single-minded purpose is taken for granted, and the body of the film is taken up with his fight against the sale of in- dulgences authorised by the Man",
Medici Pope Leo X and his cum- paign to
lead the Christian Anglo-American
Friction
world back to the Bible for its religion, rather than depend upon the interpretations of the
Church intelligentsia. "
In the title role is Niali Mac-
A research station where Ginnis, a veteran of the Old Vic theatre company. with the rest the conflicting personalities.
of the cast taken from Ove dif- of the workers are as much ferent countries. The film was
shot by director Irving Pichel in difficulty to be overcome the West Germany and is a pre- as the intricacies of sertation of Lutheran Church technical problems forms Productions.
the background of "The This is a serious picture with Secret Island". few light touches, but great at- tention has been paid to ac- It is a British establishment curacy and cinemagoers to whom to which an American specialist' the subject appeals will not ind i posted when his predecessor cause to complain of licence has been killed during torpedo being
taken with historical
facts.
Light-Hearted & Movieland's
Off The Rails
"The Titfield Thunder- bolt" is an ancient railway engine that gets pressed
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The New Films At A Glance
SHOWING
EMPIRE, KING'S and PRINCESS: Three Ring Circus". Marlin and Lewis on the loose in a circus. Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, Za Zsa Gabor and Joanne Dru.
At Black Rock". Dis HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Bad Day At
cunting at a whistle stop in America's south-west, a stranger stumbles on a four-year-old, mystery. Spencer Tracy, Robert-Ryan, Dean Jagger and Waiter Brennan. NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "Modern Times". The world famous clown playing th one of the pictures that made him famous, Charile Chaplin and Paulette Goddard. QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "Battle Cry". The US Marines
on duty and at play between 1942 and 1944. ROXY and BROADWAY: "Mariin Lather". The story Is based on the life of the 16th century reformes. Niall MacGinness.
COMING
HOOVER and LIBERTY; "Secret Island". Anglo-American.
co-operation in a research scheme. Gene Kelly and John Justin
"Green Fire". A search for emeralds in South America is hindered by the glamorous owner of a coffee plantation, Stewart Granger. "Grace Kelly and Paul Dodglas.
KING'S and PRINCESS: "Smoke Signal". A western in which the hero faces a court martial for deserting to the Indians.
Dana Andrews and Piper Lauriči
NEW YORK: "The Tiffleld Thunderbolt". An English village runs its own train service. Stanley Holloway, John Grez- son and Naunton Wajne.
GREAT WORLD: "It Started in Paradise". A designing woman discovers that something beside ambition is needed to run a fashion house successfully. Jane Hilo, Ian Hunter and Muriel Pavlow.
NEW YORK and GREAT WokLB: "The Man Between". Intrigue on the Frenler between East and West Berlin. James Mason, Claire Bloom; Hildegärde Neff. QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: “T✯ht Spot". A zangster story. Ginger Rogers, Edward G. Robinson and Brian Keith. ROXY and BROADWAY! » “Our Girl Friday”. An attractive
irl on a desert island. Joan Collins.
Great Lover' Celebrates
His 21st Wedding Anniversary
Hollywood. roles rather than considering ever will, Boyer said proudly,
...
لان
A one-time "great lover! me as a human being. In my if Mrs Boyer has her way into service in the cause of of the screen observed his own right. I begged to be ex
cused on behalf of Mrs Boyer, The suave Frenchman, who at progress,
21st wedding anniversary who would rather not say any 55 is still handsome, even though To the delight of the local recently in the seclusion of thing.
balding he now wears a toupee haulage company, the authorities
"But even if she
when appearing in a movie- decide to close the railway sta-hia Beverly Hills mansion, a tion art Tichfield, reckoning model husband and father. chuckled the actor who's made has seldom been as busy as at movie love to nearly every top present. He has just completed without the independent spirit of the villagers. - Refliking to "We celebrated quietly at feminine Hollywood star of the a picture "Cobweb, in which take their virtal removal from home, just the three of us," post-Clara Bow, pre-Marilyn he plays the role of a doctor on
the star
of a mid-western psy the map, lying down, they decide sald Charles Boyer, referring to Monroe era, it would be a far to run their own service, and his wife, the former British ery from what the public ez Chiatric clinic their difficulties make up the actress, Pat Patterson, and pects to hear from her. We His co-stars are Lauren Bacall. picture.
their son, Michael," 12.
lead the life of a sedate, hap and Richard Widmark. The day character with the who whoop it up" he clsewhere” MED
are not the type of pily married couple, as domes before starting that one he had
of ticated as any in America or
As sportit alcohólic beaming, Stanley Holloway leads his support to added. "Mrs Beyer does not Ahe_scheme_zrovided that the ice night do drinking-hours on the train are The othe made, attractive, to him, and John Gregson, As the
"a" work
down from Paris where he had Just completed a French movie, Hollywood considers the "Nana" opposite Martine Carol Bart home_ng of the tow TGWS- paper editor cabled us from that down the years have, wild-
stood
the onslaught of the "Cobweb," Boyer took of across the Atlantic requesting curious. The Boyers have occu of to star in a half-hour filmed squire, is changed with "getting
Mrs Boyer to tell his renders pled the same hillside mansion play for "The Four Star Play the mécessary permikadon Line 4d be re-opened, aby koondber le with a screen,
severation they married on house," the television enterprise lover, Tight-hearted and
February 1934, and have yet to of which be is co-partner with sunt Bose for press proterapers is Dick Powen and David Niven. screen, their living room And they United Press,
noʻriniai" at all.
THE LOVES DI
Battle Gry
PEOPLE
ARE THE LÖVES OF YOUNG PE
IN THE BATTLE IS FAR AWAY
NANCY JAMIES RAYMOND
HEFLIN RAY FREEMAN OLSON WHITMORE MAS
DOROTHY
ANNE
HUNTER MALONE FRANCIS
tamaks omgaani vì MiquY BIOL « CONIMÜASCOPE.
NEXT CHANCE
Return Engagement “SARATOGA TRUNK"
Gary Cooper
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· Ingrid Bergman
TO-MORROW AT 11.30 A.M. ONLY
QUEEN'S
Columbia's Technicolor "HELL BELOW
ZERO"
with Alan Ladd
ALHAMBRA
RKO presents Lex BARKER
in
"TARZAN'S SAVAGE FURY"
AT REDUCED PRICES ·
POX Y & BROADWAY
★ FINAL SHOwing to-DAY ★ AT 2.30, 5.33, 7.30 &.9.30 P.M.
ALL THE SPLENDOR...THE DRAMA..THE HEART.OF...
Martin
Luther
... FILMER WHERE IT HAPPENED BY
LOUIS DE ROCHEMONT ASSOCIATES! -
Released by 20th Century-Fox
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TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW.
ROXY: At 12.00 Noon
A SELECTED PROGRAMME OF TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS Presented by. 20th Century-Fox
BROADWAY: At 12.30 p.m. A SPECIAL PROGRAMME OF TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS
Presented by
Fox & Warner Brothers
Reduced Admission
Roxy: $1.50, $1.00 & 70 Ch. Broadway: $1.20 & 70 Cts
REPEATING TO-MORROW ด BY POPULAR DEMAND From the files of the FBI
"THE STREET WITH NO NAME" Starring Richard WIDMARK Mark STEVENS Directed by William Keighley " Produced by Samuel G. Engël A 20th Century-Fox Encore Triumph! BOOKINGS NOW OPEN!
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TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 and 9.30 P.M.
SHOWING
CHARLIE
CHAPLIN
MODERN
TIMES
The Move Thai Ser the Whole World
ughing.Is Dáing D'Again!`4
[& CHAOLES CHAPLIN – AUTHO
UNITED ARTISTS
MAUCSTIC 7.30 9.30
BARBARA STANWYCK
a woman of fire!
RONALD REAGAN
in a land offers
AT 2.30, 5.20,
P.M.
CATTLE QUEEN
OF MONTAND
**
SUNDAY AT 12.30 PM. AT REDUCED ADMISSION Dean MARTIN and Jerry LEWIS THE MY FRIEND IRMA COES WEST"