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* KINGS
RED SKELTON
• WHISTLINGK
IN DIXIE
wich Ann RUTHERFORD ·
George BANCROFT
Guy KIBWEX • Diana LEWIS
Peter WHITNEY
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Predced by George Helad
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1:1000 HOWLS!
picture ever
ALSO LATEST METRO-NEWS!
COMMENCING TO-MORROW
Gable's back
Garson got him
in M-G-M's exiting soon Adventure
screen
CLARK GABLE. GREER GARSON
In Victor Fleming's Production
"ADVENTURE".
JOAN BLONDĚLE THOMAS MITCHELL •
·TO-MORROW AT 11.30 A.M.
IT'S A MIRACLE!! A'MIRACLE OF MIRTH THAT ROCKED THE WORLD!
"THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S GREEK" Starring Eddio BRACKEN Botty HUTTON A PARAMOUNT PICTURE AT REDUCED PRICES.
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QUEEN'S
WHAT MAKES A GORGEOUS
GIRL GRAND ? SHE'S GOT IT!
Krd-Kiended?
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METAL
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Chate MATURE JOHN SUTTON CAROLE LANDIS
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1947.
AMERICAN FILMS ARE SLIPPING
by
BOB THOMAS
HOLLYWOOD.-American movies are not as good as they used. to be. This is the opinion of many film sages, and Director William Wyler is one of the first to offer some whys for the situation.
That American films are) slipping is evidenced by several factors: 1. The large number of foreign films in the lists of 1946's "ten best," 2, decreased theatre receipts; 3, critical pannings of many expen sive productions; 4, current shakeups of studio person- nel.
Regarding this matter, Wyler wants it known that he likes Hollywood, but he sees trends that are damaging the industry. "The trouble is that making pic tures here has become piece-meal work," he told me. "A flm thrown together by many hands, with no particular guidance along the route! And дру one of the hands can louse the whole thing up.
GUIDING FORCE
"To make good pletures, there must be one guiding force. not necessarily the director, although he is in the best position to be it. Nowadays in the big studios the director allowed very little Inde. pendence; a script is shoved at bit and be in told to shoot it as is:**
Wyler recalled when he started as director at the old Universal in 1028. He said directors were handed scripts and told in do any thing they wanted with them.
"But you can bet if we didn't get picture out of it, we were Cained." he added,
a
The director said that now a big studio might give a director a story and tell him, "We realise it's a bad script so if it's a bum picture we won't blame you." The result is one big happy family within the studio and worse pictures in the theatres.'
ONE A YEAR
The altuation won't get any bet- ter until directors are given more
said. independence, he
And then, they must take more tinc und trouble with their pictures. He and Frank Capra and George Stevens are allowing themselves only one film yearly apiece.
"It took me three years in the army to really know my characters in 'Best Years of Our Lives"," he said. "I often think how much bet- der my other films would have been if i had as much time." Some of his Heights,"
7.15 & 9.15 p.m. other Aims "Wuthering
"The Little Foxes," and "Mrs Mini- ver," all of which did all right any- way.
WHAT MAKES A MERRY MUSICAL MARVELOUS 7
IN TECHNICOLORE
JAMES GLEASON. - PHIL SILVERS WALTER
CATLETT MONA MARIS - FRANK ORTH
PELJSKINJE
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IT'S ‘A SAUCY, SPARKLING STORY OF THE NIFTY, NAUGHTY NINETIES! ERNST - LUBITCH'S PRODUCTION
"HEAVEN CAN WAIT
Starring: Gone TIERNEY Don AMECHE A 20th Contury-Fox Technicolor Picture COMMENCING TO-MORROW
THE NEWEST, biggest, BALMIEST HIT! Bud ABBOT * Lou COSTELLO in “PARDON MY SARONG"
Oil, Food Exports
Are Banned
effect has been served by the Muni-
elpal Government to the Maritime Customs.
The Yuan has issued this order In view of the fact that the export of edible oils is one of the causse which gave rise to the recent jump in prices of some daily necessities.
The Executive Yuan has instructed the Shanghai Municipal Govern- ment to restrict the oxport of edibly vegetable oils and mincolinucous The Yuan's order restricts export foodstuf
of such foodstuffs as beans, peanuta,
This new ordár: is effective: “Im- || sesame mediately. Official notice to this 'others.
Beeds, collon seeds, and
Wyler received an Oscar for direction of "Miniver."---Associated Press..
EDITS NEW FILM
MAGAZINE
now
Mr J. L. Hudson,, well-known British author, journalist, and war correspondent, is associate producer and literary editor for "This Modern Age,” a monthly film magazine.
Mr Hodson took over from Mri George Ivan Smith, who is now in New York as chief of programme planning for the United Nations In-. ternational Network,
As an author, Mr Hadson has written nine novels, and his plays have been produced by well-known British companies. He also wrote the
commentary for "Desert Vic-
tory."
At one time he was news editor of the Manchester Daily News, and during the war he was a war cor- respondent in France, the Middle East und Burma.
Gable And
More Gorgeous
HERE'S RITA HAYWORTH, moro
gorgeous
than
ever, painted by artist von Hentschel. The popular dancing star appears in "My Cal Sal," now at the Queen's Theatre,
SID FIELD IN LAVISH BRITISH MUSICAL
Showing at the Lee Theatre this week-end is Britain's first technicolour musical comedy, produced by Wesley Ruggles, the American director, for Rank at a cost of nearly £1,000,000.
Commissioned by Rank to make a musical that would out- Hollywood-Hollywood,—Ruggles.
Cinema Guide¦|brought his own team of music
SHOWING TODAY
QUEEN'S—My Gal Sal.
KING'S—Whistling in Dixie.
ALIŁAMBRA-Edge of Darkness,
CENTRAL-Edge of Darkness,
NEXT CHANGE
QUEEN'S Flying Tigers.
KING'S Adventure.
ALHAMBRA-Blues in the Night.
CENTRAL-Blues In the Night,
Garson
A TENSE MOMENT in “Adventure," nów marital comody, starring Great Garson and Clark Gable, The
film comes to the King's Theatre next week.
writers and dance, directors from America.
They knocked out several songs, including "So Would I," "It Spring Were Here To Stay" and "My Heart Goes Crazy," while "The 'ampstead Way" was written for a new dance which is proving very popular.
Since beautiful girls is a "must" in a musical comedy, Ruggles bad talent scouts all over the British
Isles, From hundreds of lovelles, he selected 18-year-old Kay Kendall to adorn, the pleture. For the comedy lead he picked Sid Field, of whom Bob Hope Bold: "This man is the best comedian i have seen."
The highlight of the show is the Sensational dance, "The *ampstead Way." The dancers caper in swingy cockney style. put
their thumbs in their lapels and point them back and forth. Trousers are hitched up, and so are altiris. The dance includes શ waltz turti. Charleston step. a skipping move- ment, a cockney curtsey and, finally, a universal salute-a kiss!
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SHOWING TO-DAY.
EDGE
OF
DARKNESS?
Mighty and Important from WARNERS!
WALTER HUSTON-NANCY COLEMAN
JUDITH ANDERSON · RUTH GORDON »urestua ny LEWIS MILESTONE
Screna Piny vz Pebert Folgen - Dated in the Novel by William Wazda
LEE THEATRE
TOWN BOOKING OFFICE -
W. HARING & CO., ALEXANDRA ULDG, GE, FL- BETWEEN 11.00 AM. AND 6.00 PM. DAILY
OPENING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
WESLEY RUGGLES.
LONDON TOWN
TECHNICOLOR
SID FIELD
with
GRETA GYNT TESSIE O'SHEA PETULA CLARK
... introducing
KAY KENDALL.
and the LONDON TOWN DOZEN AND ONE" BEAUTIES
Lyrics and Music by JOHNNY BURKE AND JIMMY VAN HEUSEN
Associate Producer WILLIAM COLLIER JAK
Distribution by Eaglellen
TROOPS PET ORIENTAL
AS KING'S
MISTRESS
French actro Pati, Behrs, im- ported by: Twentieth Century- Fox Studios a year ago, was instructed to lose 15 pounds be- fore starting her role as a mis- treas of King Charles II in the film "Forever Amber."
"But then," says Miss Behrs, "they dressed me in billowing 17th century -dresses, and you can't tell whether I
weighed 110 pounds or 170.”.
SHOWING TO-DAY: -2,30—5.207.20—9,20 P.M.
M-G-M'S MUSICAL COMEDY 'HIT!
Red SKELTON,
i in
SHIP
AHOY"
with.. Bert - LAHR.
Virginis O'BRIEN
Eleanor POWELL
SPECIAL” MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW AT 12.30 NOON "THEIR'S IS THE GLORY"
NEW ENGLIS:
The actress was born in the Rús- sinn province of· Georgia. Her family. fed during the revolution. rottling first in Istanbul, Turkey, and later in Paris, where she became
French citizen. She danced, inʻ French cafes, and or the Paris stage, and during the war was voted "the most beautiful actress in France" by Benjamin Britten, remposer of it American troops there...... ---Associated | operas "Peter Grimes" And
Rape of Lucretia”, is writing a une:
OPERA
operatic comedy and has forried his own organisation to produce it next years E
The new opera, "Albert Herring" is laid in a Suffolk village and will be produced at: Clyndbourne - In June by the English Opera Group~~ United Press.