ROXY
THEATRE
(Causeway Ray'
Tel: 28626 TOWN BOOKING OFFICE: HONGKONG FURNITURE SHOP
- QUEEN'S ROAD, C. SERVICE HOURS.12.30-5.30 P H. EXCEPT SUNDAYS'
5 SHOWS TO-DAY AT 11.30 ̈A.M.” 2:30 5:30, 1.30 & 9.20 P.M.
REBEL BRIDE
Loretta YOUNG
1947 Abodemy Award Winner
of a man she never. kissed! Plodged to share his home...bet [{ not privileged to claim his fave! Unill one day. ...ons fateful day... along came a Tall, Dork Strangerl
William HOLDEN Robert MITCHUM
Rachel Stranger
Prodsend by RICHARD H. BIRGER • Directed by NORMAN FOSTER » Screenplay by Waldo Solt
ADDED! Latest Fox Movietone News
ATLANTIC PACT. SIGNED IN WASHINGTON CHURCHILL DECLARES ATOM BOMB SAVED
EUROPE FROM REDS. "FIDO" DEMONSTRATION disperses fóg
SUNDAY MORNING
SHOW
At 11.30 A.M.
SPECIAL COLORED CARTOONS & COMEDIÈS At Reduced Prices
MONDAY MORNING SHOW Ar 11.30 A.M.
"FORT APACHE”
At Reduced. Prices
ORIENTAL
TAKE ANY EASTERN TRAM CAR OR HAPPY VALLEY BUS SHOWING TO-DAY: 2,305.20—7.30 & 9.30 P.M. They give LOVE, now meaning, now oxejtoment, now - Thrills.... in M-G-M's stirring story of a dangerous romantic journey!
CLARK
GABLE
And
LANA
TURNER
The team that generates steam!
M-G-M's
ANNE BAXTER JOHN
Homecoming
A MERVYN LẹROY PRODUCTION
Directed by MERVYN [@BOY • Produced by SIDNEY FRANKLIN,
En asmotration with GOTTFRIED REINHARDT | A Meno-Goldwyn-Mayer Tchers
Special Morning Show for Holidays. Daily 12.30 (AT REDUCED ADMISSION PRICES) FIRST TIME SHOWING IN THE COLONY!
JIMMY WAKELY DENNIS MOORE
in a New Action-Packed Western Pictura
"SONG OF THE RANGE"
COME EARLY TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT!
SHOWING
TO-DAY
AFLAME
MAJESTIC
with INTRIGUE!
ACLOW
with MUSICI
AFIRE
kh ROMANCEL
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1949.
A SEAT IN THE STALLS:
Havelock Allan Sets
The New Style
N
By L. S. WALLACE
picture has been made of this Krim alory of a husband who murders! his wife's' lover.;
Now Dymtryk is preparing
creen treatment of his apcond" subject for Bronsten, al
to direct
EWS that Anthony Havelock Allan, is about story called Christ in Concrete, to begin production on his second indepen-which he has for a long time dent film, The Cord, is especially interesting Another independent producer because Havelock Allan-founder and member of is Del Guldice, who founded the Cineguild Group which made for J: Arthur pany, which is how by far, the Rank such successful pictures as Great Expecta- largest picture-making group in tions-is representative of the individualistic spirit that is rising in British Studios.
Just now neveral
film could best be served in in. makers of proved competence dependent, production are anxioua to, sfart indepen- He is a firm believer in dent production, and are res- working with a small compact
trained only by cnution in unit: That way, he believes
Two Cities' production com
W
pletures thetrol over the screen tile point
the Rank Organisation,
Guldice
that he was found not happy, working as a mem- ber of a large unit and left the Rank Group; now he is ing terested in 篩 Company called Pictures which has already started location work finupciat quarters.
creative urge is developed on a story called Chance of a Even in big production groups among technical crew that must Lifetime,
which Ls to bo the tendency is to decentralise, inevitably produce a
sincerity directed by Bernard Miles, one and to allow Individuni pro that will shine through on
of the most promising young ducera.. more
in British production they make.
deal with This picture will with Bl
· forelņa successful reception first 'tum. Now, afier "chasing the adventures of n
to.Havelock Allan's finance, he is, about to begin trade delegation on a visit to first independent
first shots production work on The Cord, the story of Britain and the may have lent encouragement a young married couple whose have been made in a Piccadilly
suito life together looks like being hotel
disguised to re-
pitality, centre"
Tho accorded
men
to this tendence which was wrecked until 'fate rives the a prezenta Government "hos-
The Small
It set
under
methods on those so
this
Her Feet Are Her Fortune
MOIRA
A film offer walis
economically produced, was a second chance. first-rate pleture, It was made The story has been written liy an enthusiastic group of and directed for the screen technicians
of Indication Havelock by Michael Pertwee, one of a ORE Allan's close supervision. brilliant family of writers and Move: towards production units ате an example for well enter
entertainers.
by self-contained planned, speedy picture making. Havelock Allan is a creative Robert Donat's. The Cure for which even major groups, The artist, and as such takes a very Love, which is being made by Rank Organisation and Korda's close personal interest in pro- a unit of technicians personally London Films, feel they can fluction. Nat Bronsten, another chosen by Donat,
and Aquila of Eric copy with advantage.
independent
who producer
is Productions' version Other independent producers, making steady headway, is Linklater's Poets Pub, the story adventures sct notably Nat Bronsten, who has much more of a businessman, of
fantastic already turned out a very fine but he has a keen eye for a against the backdrop of an Eng- film In Silent Dust, have to good film subject and a sense fish inn
enjoy far some extent modelled their of organisation
tion which enablca Both these units success him to get produced economical- more freedom of action fully exploited by Havelock ly and rapidly.
has been given in the Allan.
or three years to His association with Edward two
in the big Dymtryk, who used to be enc
Groups of Hollywood's most imagina organisations. Their freedom is! ARRIED 10 film Materie Hobson, his leading careful and detailed organisa- star tive directors, proves his flair based upon the feeling that the lady in The Small Volce, mako his
ady tion required to produce first best from Havelock Allan realigned from Dymitryk has completed Obres- class film Cineguild brenuse he felt that sion for him, and advance re-
groups, small co-ordinated
a spirit of the future of British films, ports. indicate that A fine Teamwork and
the most likely -unlly are qualities
of the produco
picture Integrity. as Havelock Allan had demonstrated in practical way. It is good to see that the biggest groups are prepared to follow his example,
SWASHBUCKLER
Already
Lary Parks-Reen above with co-star Marguerite Chap- man-breaks into what might be called the "Fairbanks Field" In the Columbia fim The Gallant Blade, now at the Queen's, Billed as the boldest lover in Paris, and the greatest swords- in France, Parks has a good deal to live up to. The
Cinecolour helps him in his task.
man
10
comes
Uhan
past sub-
The feel that danced Moira so famo
The British ballat film, The Red Shoes, soon recant- ly in Hongkong, has been packing in the fame in the United States. Now comes news from New York that red-haired Moira Shbarer,
film's delightful star, will be offered an American role the lead in a pictur called Tolvanera-when she goca over there in Autumn with the
Garden ballet.
Notes From British Studios
the Covent
Barbara Has A Donkey Ride
FIVE-year-old Barbara Farrar, daughter of film star David Farrar, visited her father re- cently during production of Diamond City, Gains- borough's diamond rush adventure set in the South Africa of 1870, at Denham Studios.
Barbara rode round a vast tion of The Third Man, will go
of the diamond back to Hollywood with a com reproduction fetis on a donkey.
prehensive idea of what life in She watched her father take postwar England is like for
part
in tough action scenes the man in the street. with co-star Niall McGinnis, Cotten has had no time to go and romantic episodes with his round the country anding ont leading ladies, Honor Blackman for himself, but he has prob- ably gathered more miscel- and Diana Dors.
The last time Borbarn visited Janeous information about Eng- Denham was to see her father hish people
take part
any
in hazardous water than shots for Mr Perrin And Me American star. Traill.
and
other
Englishi tire visiting
con
He likes people and, as people The cast of Diamond City,
him, he which is produced by Frank invariably ko
directed by David talk to them reriously and ind Bundy and Macdonald, also includes An- out what they think of life to-
day.
nad Bill Owen.
drew Crawford, Mervyn Johns, In between shots on the set Phyllis Monkman, John Blythe of The Third Man, Cotten studied his morning! newspaper and put anyone next to him through 0 searching Cross οπι any point Examination which interested him.
JOSEPN Cotten, who has just finished his role of Holly Marlins in Carol Reed's produc
At 2.30, 5.20, NEW YORK IS MAD ABOUT
Unhersal-International Presenta
Marston Production
7.20 &.9.20 P.M.
YVONNE DECARLO TONY MARTIN
*« »3?£RX*.4. 100 rublure as ears?
20 «l^azos la Mollar” hat dangunan by watch?'
PETER LORRE
'ma *$lianam*200 cheveu ka saap ↑
and witching
MARTA TOREN
› NEW Vrši) fre the screen?
Hear
TONY
MARTIN
SING 4
NEW SONGS
CASBAT
dan quarter of MICIERS!
15% HUGO HAAS
THOMAS DOMÈZ”
'MAD' MARTITA
By FREDERICK COOK
On the day clothes rationing? was abandoned he discovered that coal was rationed in Eng- land. Immediately a harassed housewife on the film' unit war questionel on coal allocations, Appia Curl is absurd, and Alles prices of coal and wood. In Wonderland and Gulliver are i absurd.
All this Information is filed But it 19
rewarding away In Cotten's receptive theatrical experience not to be mind and there is no doubt missed.
that the star's friends in Holly- wood are in for some first hand news of English life when he returns home soon.
In a dilemma THE Americans have dia- and through whose deranged covered Martita Hunt. wonderings runs a bright thread
Madeleine Carroll, lovely as of up-to-the-moment sanity., Fifteen years after she first
Yes, it has a "message, but ever, and now playing the Con- climbed to West End star- one that's well worth hearing. Good-bye My Fancy, Is. In the OR the first film to be mado
gresswoman will two pasts, In dom she is now enjoying the experience of doing it all over again.
TIOW.
The show in a sell-out for
by his newly-formed com- weeks to come, running neck sort of dilemma that must be a and neck at the box office with Joy to an artist who had been a pany-Ronald Neame Produs
Neame has the best musicals..
stardo long as she has too tions-Ronald many offers.
chosen 10-year-old Anouk to New York's Theatre Guild play the leading role opposito want her for a revival nextTrevor Howard.
From collar to sower
ů
and 0n 1
US show business had never heard of her until she played Miss Havisham in What's it about? It's about a season, of Merchant of Venice, The Aun Ja The Golden the film. Great Expecta- madwoman who stumbles on a Her present play wants her
Salamander, adopted (rom for another season tions-and most of the under the Avenue
weird plot to bore for oil right stay on
Victor Canning's novel, either on Broadway or touring. Montaigne, film-going set confused her calls in all
French-born Hollywood is beckoning again
Anouk was her crazy friends,
Director Henri pickers, street with Hollywood's Marsha rag,
the choice of discovered by girls, and giving her walircases, singers who can re several roles.
Calef while she was walking Hunt,
down a Parls Atreet with her To crown But they have heard of her member only the first two lines
It all, Michael mother, "Do you want to be of ancient ballads.
Kanin (husband of the play's in films?" he asked. "Yea" Her performance in
In Jean
wildly Improbable author, Fay Kanin, and its co- answered Anouk," Giraudoux's last play, The Mud- second act-in her Victorian producer) has flown Ini from result sho played a small
(complete with woman of Chaillat, is the hit of cellar.
the California to try to persuade art in "La Maison Sous La the moment on Broadway.
original Paris decor)—which is her to stay on and later to do Mer." a delicious mixture of Bernard the same part in a film version. Shaw and Lewis Carroll,
have 111
Anouk has been to England ruins the plot by sending all learned that Robert Newton before. She attended n,con- The Madwoman is the most her world's evil, in the
shape has
standing fully vent in Sussex when sho, WAS adult play on Broadway. For of its assembled Boards of costumed under
shower 10 but has forgotten most of my money it is also by far the Director, down to perdition Ly night after night because, his the English she learned there, funniest.
way of a staircase leading only part in Edward, My Son, calls Bo, until the film goes into Miss Hunt plays a fantasti- into the sewers.
for him to walk in out of the production, she will stay with cally - frumpish- countess, stays, Giraudoux's play is absurd-f rain."
----| English families and learn the feather boas, strooming vells just the same way that the
~~(London Express Derofce), language,
Adult and funny
sho
Brandwayltes
been
QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
SHOWING TO-DAY at 2.30, 5:15) 7.20 & 9.30 P.M. QUEEN'S 5 SHOWS TO-MORROW Extra Performančo 'GALLANT BLADE.¿t 11:30 AM.
for the promise of a kiss,..
for the glory of an empire...
Larry
HE FIRED ALL FRANCE
WITH HIS DEEDS
OF 'DARINGI
SDAH GMC
Marguerite
PARKS CHAPMAN
The GALLANT
BLADE
In Magnifióeat
COLOR
ADDEDI' LATEST NEWS OF THE DAY!! :
CENTRAL
270, QUEEN'S RD, CENTRAL. PHONE 25720.
5` SHOWS DAILY
AT 12.30, 2.30, 9.30, 7.30 & 9.30.P.M.
FIRST EPISODE
RIN TINTIN
WOLFDOG WOLF DOG
FRANKIE DARBO. 10 THRILLING BOOTS MALLORY, GEORGE LEWIS : CHAPTERS FRED KOHLER_HALE-HAMILTON OF DARING AND.
AITHALLE
VANDER,
THE GARRISON PLAYERS'
PRESENTATION OF
TEN LITTLE NIGGERS
A MYSTERY THRILLER
BY
AGATHA CHRISTIE
IN
THE MISSIONS TO SEAMEN GLOUCESTER ROAD
AT
8.30 P.M.
ON
THURS. 21 APRIL, 'FRI: 22 APRIL & SAT. 23 APRIL
All Sonte Numbered & Reserved At $6, $3.50 $2.40
[SPECIAL RATES FOR SERVICEMEN,.
BOOKING IS NOW OPEN AT
MESSRS. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.
Chator Road,
יז