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TO-DAY
QUEEN'S
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7.15 & 9.15 p.m.
RECKLESS MEN FROM THE EARTH'S FOUR CORNERS
READY TO FLY, TO FIGHT
TO WINI
Tyrone POWER
Betty
GRABLE
AYANK
IN THE RAF
BY POPULAR DEMAND!
SUNDAY MORNING PERFORMANCE
AT 11.30 A.M.
ALWAYS IN
MY HEART"
with Kay FRANCIS AT REDUCED PRICES! Gloria WARREN
CENTRAL
5 SHOWS DAILY
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BATMAN
with daring young Robin, the Boy Wonder
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LEE THEATRE TA PING. THEATRE
SHOWING TO-DAY
At 2.30, 5.10.
7.10 & 9.15 p.m.
At 12.30, 2.30, 7.15 & 9.15 p.m.
REUNITED ROMANCE ́
In Technicolor
CANTONESE DIALOGUE PICTURE PHOTOGRAPHED & PRODUCED BY GRANDVIEW STUDIO IN U.S.A.
EXTRA!
SPĘCIAL SCREENING ON
SUNDAY AT 11.00 A.M.
The Famous Indian Picture
"BASANT'
ONE SHOW ONLY.
ALHAMBRA
THE HONGKONGĮ TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1947.
FILMS & PLAYERS
“AMBER" DARNELL FOREVER HUNGRY-BUT CANT EAT
By GREG RAWSON
Hollywood,-Linda Darnell, who must be a svelte “Amber" but who possesses one of the healthiest appetites in Hollywood, has been taking pills to keep her from getting hungry. They have almost destroyed Linda, who is thoroughly miserable. Her doctor has been attributing the fainting spells sho has had on the set to the fact that drugs aren't for her.
"I'd rather linve a slight double chin and feel well than look thin as a rako and feel it." anid Linda.
The brunette beauly, who is temporarily an "amber" blonde, has a serious weight problem. Everything she eats produces fnt. Her case is the opposite to that other famous glamour-girl enter Ann Sheridan, who can consume bales of food' without gaining on ounce.
'British star Deborah Kerr arrived in New York on the some ship with j Madeleine Carroll. Deborah In hended for Hollywood to star in "The Hucksters" with Clark Gable,
Rumour has that Sarah Churchill, actress daughter of Winston, will play Sarah Bern- hardt in Curtis Bernhardt's inde pendent production to be made la Europe.
Tyrone Power needs ¤ haircut more, than any other actor in Holly- wood now that John Caradine is travelling, but he can't have it until he's inished "Captain from Castile," which calls for n long-haired hero.
Tyrone went to New York recently for the premiere of "The Razor's Edge. With Tyrone and Gene Tierney in the city at the same time their persistent avowals of "merely platonic friendship" fell an doubting
enre.
In Mexico, Orson Welles had in hire a wine-piece Mexican band for scone in "Lady from Shanghai." because he wanted 1 mandolin player.
A boy strummed to Rita Hayworth) while the other cight looked amused.
Ingrid Bergman's husband is back In filmland, but will fly to New York for the opening of Ingrid's new play. Ingrid, incidentally, is doing the Broadway play because she says she has found Hollywood life too easy and wants a change.
Viveca Lindfors, new Swedish dis- covery, has joined the school of "careless dressers" off-screen. She wears no make-up and doesn't care
Vivien Leigh Plans To Tour Australia
Vivien Leigh, one of Britain's leading actresses to-day, first formed the ambition to go on the stage at the age of seven. She was born in Indin, was educated in Enginnd, France, Germany and Daly and had her pro. fessional training frst at the Comedic Francaise in Paris and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
She began her career in films, with a small part as an "energetic secre
and ever since has a between stage and screen. She first sprang into tame at the
"The Mask of Virtue," age of 21 in a costume stage play. The part and play were trivini, but her beauty and charm, and her beautiful speak ing voice, attracted notice, and con- tract offers poured in.
She appeared in several. Alexander Korda films and at the same time ild serious dramatic work, finally Joining the Old Vic theatre company. In 1937 she played Ophelin to Lau- renco Olivier's Hamlet in Denmark. Shortly before World War II the title role in the film "Gone With The Wind" brought her International fame, to which "Lady Hamilton" added.
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what sort of costume she seen in Sue who wants to be rid of George. as long as it's decent and comfortable, so it looks as though he will have simple, her studio hoped to build her Although Viveen looks charmingly | to ogrev,
up as a glamour girl and would be happler if she would look that way off-Bereen ns well.
George Sanders, famous lady- hater of the screen, was out of character recently when he told friends he did not want his wife, Susan Larson, to get a divorce. It's
Jeanette MacDonald will be called and "Mrs Jose Iturb" in "Birds Bees," simply because Jeanette marries Jose in the pleture, and Jose plays himself, Jeanette's husband, Gene Raymond, Is hoping fans in the hinterlands who are not familiar with the private lives of stars will not get confused and think the MacDonald Iturbi alliance is real.
Leads Song Hit Parade
The popular "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe," is only one of a music-box full of songs sung by Judy Garland in the new technicolour musical, "The Harvey Girls," showing at the King's Theatre. The picture is laid against a background of the carly West. John Hodiak plays opposite Judy,
Robert Montgomery Directs First Film
BY HOWARD C. HEYN Hollywood. Audrey Totter, his leading lady, is "The Lady in the Lake," the first strikingly attractive, but looking into picture to be directed by screen actor even her lovely eyes for most of 104 Robert Montgomery, is a cinematic minutes is slightly trying Miss Tot- experiment. It would be interesting ter, one of the newer screen per- for that fort alone, because the pro-sonalities, has advanced rapidly in ducers of American commercialised the past year, but she is distinctly at entertainment rurely risk experi- o disadvantage performing to д mentation.
camera instead of a person. Her truc dramatic nblity cannot be fairly assessed in this role.
However, she will appear with Montgomery again in his next film, "Upwards to the Stare." This romance will be Montgomery's second direc- torial assignment, but he will also be
This is a mystery Alm, based on novel of the same litle by Raymond Chandler. Montgomery plays a role, as well as directs, and the picture is his first for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios since his lengthy war service. His part in the film is that of the detective, and the audience sees the entire action through his eyes. This means that, most of the time, the Press. other players are emoting directly into the comera lens, and that the camera-shifts just as his eyes would move.
HIS OWN IDEA While this is not a new device, I Lately, aho has been playing In is employed throughout a feature- "The Skin Of Our Teeth” at the length American aim for the Bist Plecadilly Theatre, London. After time. The idea was Montgomery's, going to Hollywood with her husband and perhaps it is just as well that he Olivier to make a film, she plans to has now got the trick out of his mind. return to Engial to recruit with Effective for occasional sequences, it him a theatre company under the becomes distracting after four or five nuspices of the Old Vic to tour Aus- ¦ solld ́reels of flim." tralia.
MEDAL OF MERIT
FOR WARNER
The U.S. War Department recently announced the award of the Medal of Merit to Mr Jack L. Warner, vice-president of Warner Bros. pictures.
· Even before the United States was
actually involved in the war, the
War Department sought Mr Warner's
seen in E. consistently and conven- as an actor. Associated
fionally,
Lou Gehrig's Rise To Fame
How an eager young athlete, in- spired by a woman's love, becomes one of the most popular Sgures of American He, makes up the absor- bing real-life theme of "The Pride of the Yankees," Samuel Goldwyn's newest production, now at the Alhambra.
Particularly disappointing to ad. mirers of Montgomery's exceptional Gary Cooper has the starring role talent as an actor is his appearance in the picture, which brings to the the camera only at the begin screen the authentic career of the
ning and at the end of the picture, as a commentator, and In. briet glimpses In between, when he happens to pass
mirror,
Inte Lou Gehrig. Drama and romance and action are skilfully blended in the film, which authen tically covers the highlights of the famous athlete's life from, boyhood
ALHAMBRA
NATHAN ROAD KOWLOON PLEASE NOTE SPECIAL TIMES:- TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.00, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
TO-MORROW AT
11 A.M.
SHOWING
TO-DAY
of a PUBLIC HERO!
Learn the scrot that the cheur. ing millions never know and even the women be loved had to quaka!
Private Life
SAMUEL GOLDWYN
pisionta
GARY COOPER THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES
THE LIFE OF LOU GEHNICI
TIRESA WRIGHT BARE NUTH WALTER ERENKA
VELŐÍ OMG YOLANDA THAI HON! and die Crea
Directed by SAM WOOD
Beloved (roogh RC Radio Pictures Ind
The Famous Indian Picture
"BASANT"
MAJESTIC
THRILLING TOGETHER!,
VAN JOHNSON Esther WILLIAMS
THRILLOF AROMANCE
TECHNICOLO
Introducing
THE METROPOLITAN OPIRA STAR
LAURITZ MELCHIOR TOMMY DORSEY ORCHESTRA
And Bla
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EYE- FULL! Gorgeous 'Spectacle! Song hits!
Fun!
AN
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PICTURE
ORIENTAL
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THE WONDER PICTURE OF ALL TIME! FOR YOUNG & OLD!
for your happinessi
WALT DISNEY'S
13 FICHNICOLOR FEATURE
Snow White
and the
Seven Dwarfs
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MWANCHAI ROAD WAN CHAI
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AN M-G-M'S MUSICAL COMEDY MASTERPIECE!
Rod SKELTON
Eleanor POWELL in
"I DOOD IT"
with Jimmy DORSEY and his ORCHESTRA,
Boys Gliding | Airadiograms
Record
Figures recently issued by Head-
Re-introduced
Passengers on BOAC aircraft may
to the peak of. His career on the Air Force, show. that. 1940 has been part of the world. This re-introduces quarters, Reserve, Conmmand, Rosal once more send alradiograms to any
Cinema Guide Yankee Stadium in 1039 when Ke
SHOWING TO-DAY
afd, and asked that he bring his 30 QUEEN'S--A. Yank in the RAF. years of motion picture experience | KING'8-The Harvey'. Giris, Into the preparation of arming the ALIIAMBRA Pride of the Yankees, country, "Mr Warner thereafter re- CENTRAL-The Bat Man. crulted and provided producers, writers, directors and technicians for
the Armed Forces, in, addition to
NEXT CHANGE,
making hundreds of training films | QUEEN'S-Stiver Quocti,
at the Warner Studios. Ho super- KING'S-The Amusing Mes, Holll- vlied; the production, of a' largo day. number of recruiting films, and also
alded the sending" of thousands of ALIIAMERA-Submarino -Halders,” – Aims overseas for the entertainment| CENTRAL---TEC
(final of troops.
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memorable "Lou Gehrig Day" at the
popular -uniong a record year for Britain's Air Train- servito said goodbye to baseball forever.
Ing Corps Gliding Schools. Nearly travellers before the war, 3,000 cadets passed gliding courses
Messages will be limited to Gehrig's romance with pretty
during the year and over 100,000 words, including the address and signature, and will be accepted for Fleanor Twitchell
"launches" were made. of Chicago, a
the time being in plain language, or romance that soon blossomed into
In May, 1945, the pace of glider code.. marriage, motivates the "action, of
training was stepped up."" and since- the story, which deals far more with the man himself than with his
then 4,000 cadets have been trained BOAC radio officers only if the air- Atrodiograms will be accepted by compared with 6,000 trained craft is more than three hours flying achievements in the diamond, Teresa during the war. Wright, who played Bette Davis'
distance from its terminal destina- daughter in The Little Foxes," has Gliding in the ATC was introduced tion, and ore subject, of course, to the part of Eleanor,
In 1942. It gained immediate popula "operational requirements." It is
out. rity with cadets, and there are now pointed
that alradiograms The cast includes Babe Ruth; 84 guding schools-equipped with originating on the ground and ad- Walter Brennan, Dan Duryea and Kirby Cadet gliders-operating in the decased to aircraft cannot yet be ac- Virginia Gilmore. Added features United Kingdom.
cepted. are Veloz and Yolanda, dancing stars, and Ray Noble
The gilding courses last for about Instructor give up their spare time and bis Orchestra.
eight week-ends, and more than 700 to teach the boys.