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KING'S PRINCESS
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At 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m. at 2.30, 8.30, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m.
SHOWING TO-DAY
The brilliant young stars of "Magnificent Obsession"
together
in a passionately beautiful love story!
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ROCK HUDSON BARBARA RUSH
JEFF MORROW
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CAPTAIN
LIGHTFOOT
PIN
CINEMASCOPE Jchnicolor
KATHLEEN YAN-FINLAY CURRIE-DENIS QDEA-GEOFFREY TOONÉ
THE CHINA 'MAIL,
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1955.
FILMS
"The Glass Slipper" is a delightful fairy story with
Current & Coming
BY JANE ROBERTS
Leslie Caron as the Cin- The New Films At A Glance
derella who
gets harsh.
words from everyone untii her wealthy prince comes transform the only wealthy
along to
world as
prinées can.
that
Let me say, before I begin o
Kew points bring up weren't all I'd wish for, that I liked the picture and that I'd recommend all but the most cynical to go to see it.
If Leslie Caron's Cinderello is itle too self-consciously pert and down-trodden by turns, it's
for: a role that calls rot
ine subtlety of & Cleopatra and I Michael Wilding's prince is more a whimsical playboy than fairy-tale Romeo, then perhaps that's a concession to the reall
EXTRA MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW ice of today. These two are at
KING'S At 11.30 a.m.
20th CENTURY FOX TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS
in CinemaScope
PRINCESS At 11,00 a.m.
Walt Disney's Feature- length Technicolor Cartoon "PINOCCHIO"
Reduced Admission: $1.00, $1.50
ROXY & BROADWAY'
feast essential
to the story, whatever the script writers have made of their parts.
What is sad is that Keenan Wynn has been introduced into this sweetness of the sugary sentimental little romance, as a friend of the prince.
Now what kind of a role is that for someone of Keenan Wynn's stature?
He stumps around in ex- traordinary clothes--presumably representing the Court dress of some mythical, middle European principality receives the con-
NOW SHOWING + THE 10th DAY!idency of the moon-struck
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
CINEMASCOPE
BRINGS YOU THE STORY TOKYO COULDN'T HIDE-
WASHINGTON COULDN'T HOLD BACK!
| 20th Century Fos prevents
house
Of
bamboo
COLOR MY DE LUXE
En the wonder of
STEREOPHONIC SOUND
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*FICILIRE
Karning
ROBERT RYAN ROBERT STACK SHIRLEY YAMAGUCHI
CAMERON
MITCHELL
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TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW At 12.00 Noon
ROXY:
THREE STOOGES COMEDY AND TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS PROGRAMME Presented by Columbia
BROADWAY:
TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS
PROGRAMME
IN CINEMASCOPE Presented by 20th Century-Fox
Roduced Admission
Roxy: $1.50, $1.00 & 70 Cts. Broadway: $1,20 & 70 Cts..
HOOVER : LIBERTY
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Kortakal'nobarin, imają tagastarlife Valuuttig? MAWE
Glass Slipper
LESLIE
CARON
MICHAEL WILDING
KEENANESTOLLE ELSA BARRY
WYNN WINWOOD Lanchester "JONES A
EN DECOLAND P
Though a BATHAN COLD CHARLES WALTERS EDWIN H. KHOFF
In MotroScope with Perspecta Stereophonic Sound Also: M.G.M. COLOR CARTOON in CinemaScope
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Performances To-Morrow
1st MAT. LIBERTY at 12.30
RIENTAL
AIR CONDITIONCO
4-Track Stereophonic Sound
CLARK SUSAN GABLE HAYWARD
CINEMA.SCOPËT › COLOR IN DE ŘAD
· In De wander of STEREOPHERIC FOUND
OF FORTUNE
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prince; and contributes nothing whatever to the plot. As a firm Wynn fan 1 would like- to re- gister a protest.
For the resi, there's Elsa Lunchester as a very worldly- wise, marriage promoting mother, and a fey, satirical and slightly mad fairy godmother from Estelle Winward-a well- known Broadway actress who returns to the screen in
The Glass Slipper" for the first time for twenty years. Watch her closely when she's in front of the camera, she's worth all your attention.
As for the dancing, naturally, as Leslie Caron's first love is ballet,
there's
3 sufficient amount of it to show off her accomplishments, but I do wish thut in her pictures the dancing would evolve naturally from the story instead of vin these infuriating dream sequences,
David Niven
Re-issue
The Lee theatre's return to pictures is temporary, There will be only one more film this month, when the Italian "Captain 'Phantom" finishes a re-issue of "The with Elusive Pimpernel", David Niven, Margaret Leighton and Jack Hawkins. After that, Chinese stage productions will take over until the end of September.
Swashbuckle
And. Blarney
SHOWING
HOOVER and LIBERTY: "The Class Slipper", The Cin- derella story with a psychological twist. Leslie Caron, Michael Wilding and Kenan Wynn, KINO'S and PRINCESS: "Captain Lightfoot", Adventure and romance in nineteenth century Ireland. Rock Hudson. Barbara Bush and Jes Morrow,
LEE:
"Captain Phantom". Romance in Italy between un Army captain and a princess. Maxwell Reed, Frank Latimore and Anna Mariu Sandri.
NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "The Human Jungle”, A flinty-øyed defective vs. an equally hard erime ring. Gary Merrill and Jan Sterling.
QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "Vera Crus". Two soldiers of fortane use the Mexican uprising against Maximilian for their own purposes.. Burt Lancaster, Gary Cooper, Cesar Romero and Denise Barcel.
ROXY and BROADWAY: "House of Bamboo". American gangsters in present-day Tokyo. Robert Ryan, Robert Stack and Shirley Yamaguchi.
COMING
EMPIRE, KING'S and PRINCESS: "Itell's Island". Crooks, killers and a dangerous woman search for a stolen ruby on a Caribbean island. John Payne, Mary Murphy and Francis L. Sullivan.
HOOVER and LIBERTY: "The Prodigal". Ancient history In full costume. Lana Turner and Edmund Purdom.
"If the Deck". A peppy muslest with a 'Inlented cast. Jane Powell, Debbie Reynolds, Tony Marlin, Vie Damone, Ann Miller and Russ Tamblyn.
NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "Gog", Science-fiction. Richard Bean, Constance Dowling and Herbert Marshall. "Santa Fe Passage", A westeru. John Payne and Faith Domergue.
ROXY and BROADWAY: "Ulysses". Kirk Douglas is the
Greek hero.
"The Seven Year Kch". The moral is not to go on hollday leaving your husband to the mercy of the girl next door. Marilyn Monroe,
whose introduction to pictures this is-Sarita Montiel-until she shows more of what she can do, she will remain among the discoveries who have Kot no further than the distinction of of being "discovered."
Moira Shearer
Returns
"The Tales of Hoffmann"
at the Empire is a picture. to be revisited, if you have 'seen it before and one to be seen at all costs if it has passed you by on its pre- ¦ vious journeys through the Colony,
Moira Shearer, Ludmilla Teherina, Helpmann and Mas- sine all together in on Alm constitute a feast of ballet 'would be criminal to miss.
And the latest nows From Hollywood
It
Mud Pack Ordeal
For Film Stars
Hollywood.
Women who are victims
of mud packs from beauty
parlour bouts will under-
QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
290, 2.13, 720 & V50 man.
SHOWING TO-DAY
GARY
BURT
COOPER LANCASTER VERA CRUZ
SUPTESCOPI
TECHNICOLOR
A NÉZATLANCASTER PRODUCTION - BEZZANDO MARE SEVEN JUTUSTA.
SHOWS
!
5 TO-MORROW!
stand some scenes in a EXTRA Biblical film epic much more. than male viewers will — even though the scenes involve men.
The whole thing involves men up to their knees in mud in sconts in "The Ten Command- ments,"
It seems mates may not realise these actors are suffering, even it they are getting paid for it.
Bul women
because will, they've gone through the same thing beauty shops.
Mud dries and, in so doing, shrinks and pulls and stings, as my mud pack veteran
will
testify.
Thus
.
A scene from "House of Bamboo".
women probably will suffer twice as much when they sunflattering a guise as the bidder, the price for his pans
see the children of Israel with by Charleton producer can imagine for her. is to go to the rebuilding, of his Moses played
plantation in Louisiana," where.
Fleston--in "hard bondage" in 1 is perhaps signißean! that she has been relegated, in we gather, his faithful "People" mud pits, source of bricks.
(wife, children, tenants, slaves
The suffering is reat pain in "Captain Lightfoot" to the role we're never
the film. A women may have told who these of prospective mother-in-law to
"People" are) patiently
and 15-minute mud pack await the spotlighted Mirs Rush--a
the wind up with a rose colour on sure sign that she is on the way their lord's return with
Dejected at
her face and tingling skin.
But the sequence colled for but to becoming a character actress necessary crpital,
not in pictures before she's had half the defeat of the
downhearted, is in
much more extensive immerston a chance to be a heroine,
S Lancaster, on the other hand, in the mud up to periods Rock Hudson is well-Rock is out for nobody but Lancaster, several hours, and the result is
and in splic of a slightly fals
also a very painful sting.
Historically speaking, the brick grin (apparently practised for
pits in the picture like a sort of trade- duction date back to about 3200 mark) he comes over as a B.C.
nore real person than Cooper
Hudson!
Aftermath of
Civil War
The
of
in the Cecil B. DeMille pro-
And women in the audience and to me he steals the picture. who take the trouble to explain story may be obvious and to their menfolk that the actors smacking of the two-a-penny are really in pain, may be romances that flood the book-
the routine in a beauty shop?"
stalls these days, but the two greeted by a retort such as this: "Well, if it hurts so much, principals are such personalities "Vera Cruz"
opens by that they keep one's eyes glued why do women still go through telling us that the period is to every movement and one's immediately after the Civil cars pricked for every salty ex- War in America, when the change. peasants in Mexico. were revolting against their French overlord, the peror Maximilian..
the not-too-well
"Ulysses" Gown
The Emperor Maximilian_ap- pears only briefly in the picture, Em- though to give Hollywood due credit, he is at least shown as
Fashion note: Silvana. Man- bridal the benevolent, well-meaning geno wears u hooded
When writing of "Captain A civil war is always fellow he undoubtedly was, the gown in "Ulysses" which would Lightfoot" I feel tempted Mecco for mercenaries and double-dealing being attributed be right in style at the present
ity though deaned to his faithful though misguided time-even
lincs to add an "H" to every word into
Cooper adviser, played by Cesar date from about 1000
B.C. beginning with "T", for to hostilities ride Gary
Romero.
Designed by Guillo Coltellachi, be sure now, it's so full of and Burt Lancaster,
Cooper is a softic at heart, Denise Darcel doesn't make a it is of pure white jersey the blarney and the sham- in spile of his quickness on the very exciting decoy-her looks and follows the lines of an un- rock that this English draw. Although prepared to can hardly be descibed as allur- vient Grecian statue: The hood the sell his services to the highest ing. As for the new discovery falls in soft folds from the back woman is experiencin*
of the head to the waist, shame of her life writin'. about these gallant
men who attempted to bend CAPITOL RITZ
the daylights out of us century ago.
I'd hate to stir up controversy
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in the correspondence column, but it seems to me that if those HOOVER at 12.00 hotheads across the 'sen were
na disorganised, as prone take advice from their women- folk, and as mistrustful of their leaders as are the under ground members of Ireland's fighting army in "Captain Lightfoot" then they deserved
be dominated to
by
the unmentionables,
SHOWING TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5,30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
Giant Wide Screen!
{SPECIAL MORNING SHOW! TO-MORROW at 12:30 p.m. Gary Cooper In "BLOWING WILD" Warner Bros. film
One thing does emerge from this (in splio of the above)
itio pleasant
swashbuckler, and that is that Barbara Rush Is a lively addition to the rather poor crop of starleta we've been fued with, in the last couple of years,
Kathleen Rynns docm't need Any praise of mine so commencl her to the discerning picture- per. She's a fine actress with unurumi looke and a proclivity for" appearing on the screen in
Final at 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m.
"A FINE FILM...
A GEM!"... Life
HECHT-LANCASTER presents
MARTY"
ERNEST BORGNINE and BETSY BLAIR Stay and Szwiplay by PADDY CHRLEFSAY
Chached by OELLES SANN Prodica by HAROLD MOCHT Reisased the United Artigia
-To-morrow. - "REBECC A” Sunday Morning Show At 12.30 p.m. Tony Curtis in "BEACH HEAD"
TO-DAY
AI 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m.
Walt Disney
"morrow Morning Show
At 12.30.p.m./ "HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN”.
MAJESTIC
OPENS TO-DAY
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.30
}
& 9.30 P.M.
FIRST SHOWING IN KOWLOON
TARZAN'S TOP ADVENTURE!
and for Purses
TARZAN'S
nosaĀMSCOST
Extra Performance “VERA CRUZ" At 11.30 A.M..
LEE Theatre
TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
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CAPTAIN PHANTOM
FERRANIACOLOR
An Italian Picture — English Version PERFORMANCE TO-MORROW AT 12.00 NOON
"CAPTAIN PHANTOM”
EMPIRE
GRAND OPENING TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 9.30 P.M.
.A FILM TO SEE AND SEE AGAIN...........'
The Daily Telegraph. .....RICH AND SPECTACULAR.....BEWITCHING DANCING.. ‚ A GREAT TRIUMPH . . . . . .AN EXPERI- MENT WHICH DESERVES TO SUCCEED."
The Daily Mirror, "ANYONE WHO CAN'T FIND BEAUTY, BOTH MUSICAL AND VISUAL, IN "THE TALES OF HOFFMANN" SHOULD HAVE HIS HEAD EXAMINED..
Sunday Graphic, *.....THE SINGING IS IMPRESSIVE, THE DANCING EXCELLENT AND THE ORCHESTRAL MUSIC MAGNI- FICENT.....
Evening Standard.
TERZON PUMS Neste
MORA SHEAREN ROBERT HELPMANN LEONIDE MASSINE
The Tales of Hoffmann
-Colour by Tashnicolor co-starring
ROBERT ROUNSEVILLE • PAMELA BROWN • LUDMILLA TCHERINA
ANN AYARS
Levitan SIM THOMAS STECXAM, BAT, WI THI ROTAL THELMARMONIC DACKISIMA MICHAEL JANTES PO ENTRIC PATSSONNER
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