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KING'S PRINCESS
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3RD BIG WEEK!
3 SHOWS DAILY AT 2.00, 5.30 & 9.00 P.M.
PRICES OF ADMISSION:
$2.40 (F.5.), $3.50 (B.S.), $4.70 (D.C.) & $6.00 (Logo)
"A Picture of Highest Rank!"
-S.C.M. Post
"Deserves Every Word of Fraise!"
AUDREY
-China Mil
PARAMOUNT PRESENTE
HENRY MEL
HEPBURN FONDA FERRER.
VISTAVISION TECHYDOCKOR
War and Peace
ANITA
GASSMAN OM HONOLKA EKBERG
DINO DELAURENTIUS KING VIDOR
BACTION DHE DEVEL WAR, JOU PLACE IT LES TENSION
This picture will NOT be shown again in the Colony
within 4 months after the first showing,
KING'S at 11.15 a.m.
TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW
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OH MEN! OH, WOMEN!
COLOR BY DE LUXE
CINEMASCOPE
DAN DAILEY
• GINGER ROGERS DAVID NIVEN • BARBARA RUSH
TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW
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"DADDY LONG LEGS"
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ELVIS PRESLEY; LOVE ME
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TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW "I Died A Thousand Times” In CinemaScope & Color
CAPITOL RĪTZ
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"KISS ·TOMORROW GOODBYĘ" TO-MORROW MORNING-BROW
James· MARÖN, 4 Janet LEIGH,
"PRINCE VALIANT"
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11,30'DHU Tyrone POWER'S BURD HAYWARD "UNTAREDW:
THE CHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1957.
FILMS
Bill Travers As
A Romantic!
The Barretts of Wimpole Street: .
Most people who've ever read anything at all know the story
of the poet
Browning's courtship of his wife, Elizabeth Barrett. Happily the ardent wooing much of the sick girl so under the influence of her father turned out well and posterity has been given another Romeo and Juliet theme to drool over,
un-
It could so easily have gone the other way and a girl, pro- tecled-eyen harshly and imaginatively protected by u over-strict father, could have been taken by an unthinking romantle from a house of com- fort, even with too much dis- cipline, to a life totally unfitted to her upbringing.
The story of this courtshi has bad endless attention and
the new alm doesn't bring a deal more to the original love story.
Jennifer Jones has be come one of the first row of the cinema's sentimental ladies and adequately portrays the listless Elizabeth whose maloise due probably more to boredom than to any specifle disease.
WIZE
I can't think of anybody who could have taken this rather un- rewarding part more competent.. ly.
Caricature
Elizabeth Taylor would have made her more arch-and prob- ably refused to went that baldeous hair-do anyway-and the only other star in M-G-M's stable who could have taken the part-Eleanor Parker-would Probably have given the poetess an air of tragedy that this essentially practical person could never have possessed.
Bill Travers is surprise.
15 the A big hulking hunk of man as you may remember from "Bhowani Junction" and as such
He's
it would neem uimos1 impos-
Current & Compa
BY JANE ROBERTS
-This Week's Films
In Pictures
A scene from "The Barretts of Wimpole Street"
that
ject with which he is conver- forward with an artistic illus-
He Fant than Cousteau.
has tration of the enjoyment been diving for many years and con be found under, instead of
on top of the water. improving the equipment with which he does so all the time.
Now he considers himself to
sible for him to play
the TO- muntle role
one of Browning. Yet be
of the leading skiu he does so, so convincingly that divers in the world and couples
it almost makes one think that it with the fact that he has come the British screen has an actor and a romantte lead rolled into one for the first time for many years.
Sir John Gielgud plays Mr Barrett in the Shakespearları manner and in the way that we
King
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of this age imagine Victorian fathers to have been. I've
feeling that they nearly as dictatorial as we've been led to believe
and that Sir Jolin's Mr Barrett is a caricature of all the accepted beliefs about this very in- dividual species,
In fuct the whole story of the Barretts is dated and unless to be studying you happen poetry or are incurably romen- tle you will probably and whole thing just another in which Young Love Wins Through.
Skindivers'
Choice
The Silent World:
the
film
See this film for its visual effects and for the excellent commentary by the producer Jacques-Yven Cousteau.
Nobody is better qualified to talk or make a pleture of sub-
EMPIRE
"KING'S PD., H.K. M 22103
TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 PM
ANTHONY STEEL
QONALO SINDEN
ANNA MARIA SANDRI
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BLACK TENT
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AT 1156 AMANTE "THE PRISONER OF A ZINDA” DA
New Films
-At- A Glance
SHOWING
HOOVER and LIBERTY: "The Barrette of Wim- pole Street": Love story. Jennifer Jones, Bill Travers, Sle John'
Gielgud. KING'S and PRINCESS: "War and Place": Tol- stoy's immense work cut down to three hours of Borean time. Audrey Hepburn, Mel Henry Fonda Lom, Oscar Homolka, METROPOLE and STAR; "Bandido": Bold bad Mexican bandila again, Robert Mitchum, Qliberi Roland, Ursula Thless, QUEEN'S and ALHAM- BRA: "The Bilent World": Underwater flab- ing. Produced by
Jac- ques-Yves Cousteau. ROXY and BROADWAY:
"Oh Men! Oh. Women!";
mild A
guying of paychiatry, David Niven, Dan Dalley, Ginger Rosen, Barbara Bush.
COMING
HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Friendly Persuasion": Gary Cooper as a musto loving_Quaker forced to 1200 the possibility of violent action KING'S and PRINCESS: "Back From Eternity": Imagine the Ekberg, in
a jungle" fantowy). The доп are Robers Byan
·kod Rod Bialzer, METROPOLE and -STAR: "Pillars of the Sky": A western favoured with revivallam," Jen Chang- lor, Dorothy Malone, Bond, Keith Andes. QUEEN'S and ALHAM- CABRALETink of Hell": More Journeyn ·tato #pion. Willari Helden, Virginia Lelib, Lloyd Nolan, ROXY and BROADWAY!
"Robers' Wagner39 Jettray
Hunter, Hope Tangr
In addition this there is u
that helps the film along. So often
this kind of film
narro-
hindered by a limping tive that, while trying to be helpful, aucceeds only in taking the viewer's сус off the things that are taking place in front of him. This is not so in "The
Silent World.”
The stars though are a dif- ferent matter.
There was a time when Henry Fondo, though, grimtų could usually be relied upon to break into a mile somewhere during the picture. Nowadays he seems to have become a rather super- annusted
pupil of the school that thinks that the deadpan face and the tortured expression la the only means of expressing emotion.
In HYVAS and Pease" his dedication to the latter is bel- ligerently morbid and in à dim of Hitchcock's that shoulit be coming soon-the preview of which I saw the other day-he looks as though he was about to burst into tears at any moment.
According to the newspapers he has just celebrated his fourth marriage, at the age of:51 to a girl in her twentien, so I can't sce what bo's got to be so miserable about!
Mote realism on the screen is a very good thing, but
ac- complished actors who con sistently take morbid parts and play them with even more dole- Tuindss than the script writer Intended are only doing them- selves harm. and not amusing the public thereby.
99 MINUTES
COSTS £400,000
for J 80-minute
BUDGET
colour television show- £400,0001 That is the fantastic aum set aside for the one-night- only TV production of "Cin- derella" in America next month. And the star is' Britain's Julle Andrews.
It is the most expensive production evor-but Americans consider it worth spending to attract → 30,000,000 viewem. Rodgers and' Hammerstein tre being paid £100,000 for writing the words and music.
Comparison note: most expen sive British TV "spectaculer" would cost inside £20,000,
GLADYS COOPER AND
Injury
pleasantly worded commentary THE MUSCLE MEN
ia TAXPLANATION behind tho
rehearsal
which forced Gladys Cooper
out of that odd-sounding American musical "The Crystal Heart." It was all in the cause of art.
Director Bill Butler
says: "We wanted the show to be cast realistically. We could not nd dancers who looked like rough sailors. So We hired beefy red muscle men."
He Couldn't
Care Less
Bandido:
Gladys Cooper had to be "tossed" uloft" by the beefy men in the show; then a girl dancer bumped info her 1 frac- accidentally. Result: fured breastbone. She gocy back into the show ("Business isn't at present too good") this
It seems almost impos- sible to imagine Gilbert week. Roland without a cheroot in his mouth, or Robert Mit WHAT BRITISH chum without a lazy leer.
Both are in character in FILMS EARN
"Bandido".
1
To take the
FTER all the talk about big first, let's
for British his disassociato him from
opportunities customary roles and put him flms in America, at last the into place the man who real figures come in, They show in that 50 of our films earned just played opposite Garbo "Camille",
In that he was the over £582,000 last year. Three Italy, romantle-lover, full of all the other countries-Mexico,
into things for which Shakespeare and France-push Britain
fourth place as a dollar-earner. gave him credit,
Having falled to achieve the publicity of his leading Indy, now become the Roland has personification of the soldier of fortune. He quirks an eyebrow, an air of carelessless, affects tilts his hat over his brow, shrugs a shoulder, and generally behaves as though, he couldn't care less from which direction his next dollar ŵvas coming.
Expect nothing more of him in "Bandido".
It's a good adventure tale, the pace is fairly fast and if you've been lucky enough not to have come into contact with the com- plicated banditry that
Missed for politics in the early days of American politics, you may even like the plot,
Why The Misery,
Henry?
War and Penco:
Having covered this mam.. moth film already and I'm surprised to find it is still running, in spite of the amount of publicity it was
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Filmed in MEGASCOPE
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THE
SILENT WORLD!
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The Silent World"
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RESCUED FROM HER "PRISON" HOME, TO KNOW LOVE FOR THE FIRST TIME!
That "Many Splendored"
star mor
beautifuk and
than [overy
Dean Elizabeth
I shall love your
to the andran
beyond
Robert
JENNIFER JONES JOHN GIELGUD
BILL TRAVERS - VIRGINIA MCKENNA ..
THE BARRETTS OP WIMPOLE STREET
MARY JE ÖNERISCOPE 100 METROČILER semana
JOHN DICKTON - FRIDAY KIDNEY FRANKLIN SAM TIKVALIT
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M-O-M's HORROR HITS
INGRID
LANA "TRACY·" BERGMAN " TURNER
DR. JEKYLL and MR. HYDE
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ROBERT MITCHUM URSULA THIESS GILBERT ROLAND
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TWO ONE ACT PLAYS
“DARK BROWN”
"HIGH TEA”
by
and
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· Hugh Millor
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