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I WAKE UP SCREAMING
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Thrill to matchless music....
as she dances between her two loves!
ARTHUR BANK PRESENTS
ANTON
WALBROOK
MOIRA
SHEARER
MARIUS
GORING
The Red Shoes
COLOR BY
TECHNICOLOR
WINNER OF 3 ACADEMY AWARDSI
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1949.
SEAT IN THE STALES:
Broadway's New Hit Looks
Set For A Long Run
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From FREDERICK COOK
ROADWAY may falter sometimes with its his- torical dramas. It may rush in a little unwarily with some of its Shakespeare. But when it comes to the best of Broadway musicals, the only thing to do is to take off one's hat, borrow an expressive old Americanism, and say "Wow."
No other word will do for the new South Pacifle, nlrendy booked solidly until well into the natures, It is emphatically one of this season's grent in- stantaneous smash hits.
For music South Pacific has ating scene by Richard Rod- gers, picked with song hits,
For lyrics Oscar Hammerstein is at his alick and carthy best. For story there an incidenta from James Mitchener's prize- winning tale of what happened in the Polynesian paradises when the Marines and the Sea- bees, and especially the nurses, came flocking in.
For costume there are scanty, scantier and scantlest garments adoring, if not exactly cover- ing, some of. the prettiest young women on Broadway.
and Mary Martin For cast there is a torrent of talent headed by Ezio Finza borrowed from the Metropolitan and Brondway's Martin.
Mary own
The plot, if that matters, in chiefly about Nurse Mary's love
custom
How it all comes out in the
en you can guess.
MRS. FAIRBANKS
Square dance leader
This is a show that is likely to run for years.
Stops the Show NOTHER popular show ou A Broadway is Cole Porter's which jas Kiss Me Kate, brought fame to one Lisa Kirk.
Lisa sings a couple of those typleal Porter songs that fathers
MARY MARTIN
half hope their schoolgiri daugh- things which still rankle (though ters don't quite understand, in fnir-minded
people now admlt
LISA KIRK
She stops the stow.
Latest craze in Hollywood in
West Wild
old-time duncing.
square Leaders of the film
colony's most exclusive twice-a-
Nat Wolfc.
month club ore Douglas Fair- for planter Pinza, and her shock a way that's stopping the show they were probably a truthful when she discovers that, in night after night. The show is picture of the United States of banks, Ronald Colman and their keeping with the
of to be staged in London soon. his day).
wives, Gracle Allen and George those parts, he has a couple of
Dull Dickens
Now the score has been even- Burns, the Robert Montgomerys half caste children in the back- Tthe height of his fame Dic- ed with one of the most con- ground.
Akens visited America, pick- temptuous stage portraits of Die- and Edna Best and ner husband ed up a anall fortune by lectur- kens ever written-Mervyn Nel-
Mrs Colman-Benita Hume-- Ing, then went home and said son's The Ivy Green.
It is hardly a play-caricature cannot drag her husband to an would be a better description. ordinary dance, but he is the 11 portrays Dickens a most enthusiastic member of the egotistical hypocrite prating square dance set. He attends in about principles but making a full Western rig-binek shirt. black suede trousers embroider- complete fool of himself.
Though they could be forgiven ed with white lacings, and shiny for chuckling with self-satisfac- cowboy boots. tion, Now Yorkers are not en-
Music is provhled by a plano thusiastic about the play.
and a single fiddler and, of All in all, it is dull evening, course, the "caller," whose tire- despite a fine performance as logs sing-song, stamping and Diekens by Daniel O'Herlihy hand-clapping routine is an in- from the Abbey Theatre, mak- dispensable part of the business, -(London Exprons Service).
It's Time We Had A Bit Of Fun
By Stephen. Watts
AS welcome as the cherry blossom and the tuck
new note is discernible in the sounds that float this way from the film studios of both Britain and America.
It is the note of comedy. It could not be more timely. I am cheered when I hear that one of the best straight actor in Britain, Alec Guinness, is making a modern esmedly. I am doubly cheered when I hear that the smartest studio chief Hollywood, Dore Schary, has set forth a whole comedy pro-
gramme.
in
Schary, the man who produced "Mr Blandings"-which with "Easter Parade" and "June Brice" is proving in London at this moment just what an appetite there is for intelligent fun on the screen-has comedies lined up for stars who have been serious of late.
over-
Te has teamed Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, Van Johnson and Deborah Kerr, Clark Gable and Lorella Young, Robert Taylor and Lana Turner.
ang his Broadway debut.
NOTES FROM BRITISH STUDIOS:
Even The Critics Like Quartet
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act, aid "Fumed
grim salire of л South domestic upheaval J11
THE Gainsborough film hall double Quartet, which is made Çak", up of four separate Somer- London.
Maugham stories, broke
A1 Columbia, there are new comedies with Rosalind Russell,set Robert Cummings, Ray Milland and Lucille Ball
Life is real and earnest, not to say grimm. Life after-business- hours should be the reverse. Another word for entertainment is recreation. We could all do with a bit of re-creating.
$ Escape story
HE greatest escape story of the war, The Wooden Horse," at THE
present being serialised in the Hongkong Telegraph, has been bought for the screen by producer Ian Dalrymple, who made "All Over the Town." He is off to Germany with author Erie Williams to go over the ground. They will write the script together and production will start In August.
Breakdown of glamour
all house records on its first day in New York.
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• OPENING TO-MORROW
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AN ESTANH KHISA
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"Good Morning, Madan.....
could I interest you in my latest line of laughs?"
COLUMBIA PICTURES presents
RED SKELTON
as
"THAT MAD
MR. JONES
se-starring
JANET BLAIR
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Produced and Directed by S. SYLVAR SIMON
ORIENTAL
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SHOWING TO-DAY: 2.30~5.20—7.30 & 9.30 P.M. Thrill-swept opic of the heroic empire builders who tamed the railroad pirates of the old Wast!
It's LADD at last...
In his first great outdoor
Technicolor spectacle!
Paramount, maker of such unforgettable Western epics as "Union Pacific" now brings you Its greales!
action star in i
, his fiest Western Smashi
ALAN
Poramount presenta ROBERT
LADD-PRESTON
BRENDA
DONALD
MARSHALL-CRISP
WHISPERING
SMITH
Calor by TECHNICOLOR -
WILLIAM DEMAREST FAY HOLDEN-MURVYN VYE' FRANK FAYLEH
GIRL born in Shanghai, Not only is it popular with the Pat Raphael, is to play the provincial singe public-tho-crities like it too. Jend____in_a Hollywood has let British film version of White Cargo." Re- lead in the cently given a ten-year contract producers take the
pre- by the J. Arthur Rank Or- matter of original film
Pat was once sentation....These four stories ganisation.
windmill girl. Her father was are glimpses of life as Maugham has experienced it, as a keen a grain and metal merchant in most of her observer and brilliant reporter. Shanghai, and I takes approximately a hour tell each story and it is action,
* how much
can bo
when EFT beblad
the unit dramatic and comic, crowded into that short time on
which is to flm his best- screen", writes Kato
selling novel, Golden Salaman- the
der, flow to Tunisia, was 38 Cameron in the "Daily News".
"English Alms are at their
author Victor years-old when the best
they
most
who comes from ning, mouth. He is busy writing a English. Quartet is particularly illustrailve of this", writes new book in his Kent cottage.. Eileen Creelmaa in The New York Sun".
SPECIAL SUNDAY MORNING SHOW AT 12.30 (AT REDUCED ADMISSION PRICES)
half childhood was spent in the East. "BLOOD & SAND" Fox Technicolor Film
YOUNGEST British glamour-ciri star, 17-year-old Dana Dors, astonishing
has had a nervous breakdown after the can-can dancing and brawls of "Diamond City" with David Farrar.
That Garbo come-back picture on the life of Georges Sand is getting closer, with James Manon numed as co-star. The great Garbo's lust flm was "Two-faced Woman." eight years ago. for lying in wait Several Hollywood producers are Sadler's Wells visit to New York this summer. They want to uso her follow up their powers of persuasion on Molra Shearer to "Red Shoe" success with an American picture.
The dearest song TRUE story... A West. End musical star visiting a night club was persunded to sing a song which she originaled a few When she got her pay cheque for the week in her years ago, current show she found 25 percent deducted on account of her "outside engagement." She is fighting it, but so far she hasn't got the money.
Sid loses his stooge "Cardboard Cavalier" Sid Field and Jerry Desmonde will be seen together for the last time. The comedian and his stooge have agreed to part. That Invisible rabbit Harvey has come between them.
Field's current play hit has no place for Desmonde. So the best stooge In the business is a solo actor now. It in plain from "Cardboard Cavalide" that he has a future in films on his own. He has since made another film; without Field,
Another Flop
poon Std Field-so for
015
ac-
films are concerned! "Lon- don Town" was a frankly knowledged Rop. Now his second
attempt,
"Cardboard Cavaller is quite distressingly unfunny, It has perhaps halt n moments when, the real
less.
As for Magaret Lockwood as a blonde barmaid, one can only
draw an embarrassed vell over the whole enterprise.
Brighter Noto
*
are
NOTHER - omnibus
Can- My-
Golden Salamander has been selected as the book of the month by the People's Book Club of picture America, and two of Canning's novels, "Panther's brings us the return to the previous' screen of Noel Coward, who has Moon" and "The Chasm" have not appeared in a film since in been bought for allmingt Which We Serve. He will in-
Salamander Stars of Golden troduce three of his short plays are Trevor Howard and the 16 In Tonight At 8.30, to be pro- year-old French actress, Anouk. duced by Antony Darnborough
* in the same way as Quartet.
whose
SHOWING
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Cathay 7.30 & 9.30
P.M.
ONE OF THE SCREEN'S GREATEST ADVENTURES!
TOWARD IMALI KOLORY
[dëmsť Advanture
THE MAN IN THE
IRON MASK LOUIS HAYWARD JOAN BENNETT
WEBEEN "WILLING
Plays chosen for this omnibusTUDENTS of the Central picture are "Family Album", a School of Speech Training humorous portrait of a mid- and Dramatic Art. Victorian family gathering graduates include many Rank Next Change:- after
"Red stars, father's funeral;
among them Laurence Peppers", a parody of a music Olivier and Ann Todd, are lo give the first performance in England of Sophocles's "The Wife of Heracles."
New Anglo-US Film Production Deal
BRITAIN'S Home
Secretary,
Mr Chuler Ede, received full marks for his co-operation from the This Modern Age unit who filmed him for their latest
Jozen Field breaks through, and you
British-American clans will be drawn from both feature, Education For Living remember how funny
hoA JOINT
production and distribu- sides of the Atlantic. Firs: Chuter Ede's easy response to naturally is.
deal has been signed be subjects have been chosen with technical direction helped them But how ill-served he is here. tion
tween Associated British Pic- an eye to mass audience ap-shoot him in record time. The seript by Noel Langley is slapdash, inept, woefully lack-ture Corporation, Ltd., Asso- peal in both markets.
Ollier Interesting personalities cinted British Pathe Lid., and
Education For ing in wit or humour, and taste-Monogram Pictures Corporation
Associated British Pathe will appearing
the Prime Minister's Living are of Hollywood.
be responsible for the distribu-daughter, Miss Felicity Alllec.
Alms in the home who
works at a Bermondsey The contract, which has the lon of the
and Professor sanction of the Treasury, calls territory as well as throughout wh
the British Commonwealth, nursery school, for two pictures a year to be Monogram will control
distri-Fleming, of penicillin fame. made for four years, at a total button in the Western Heml- cost of £2,000,000, Including
through thely 30 the equivalent of
£1,000,000 sphere
of States DECAUSE branches in the United
their cicar worth of dollars made avall
ant Latin America.
enunciation, expresivo fea- able by Monogram, The ple-
betures and distinctive lip move- nod parts of the menis, Laurence Olivier pooled in other Elstrco
Morgare! Lockwood have been world.
The films will introduce voted most popular stare with There has been, 20-year British scenes and ctnrs to partially deaf people by the val. I is from Reginald Beck business association between American audiences, and will British Association of the Murd with's play, "Boys in 'Brown." Pathe and Monogram, but this bring foreign currency into the of Hearing.
The delinquents are Richard is the frat fimo the companios Treasury,
Runners-up in a poll con- Attenborougli, Dirk Bogarde, have entered production to- The Ilms made under the ducted by the Association were Jimmy Hanley, Andrew Craw-gether. American and Erlish new agreement will be released Anna Neagle, Phyllis Calvert, ford. Alle Bass, and Michuck stars will be used, whlio pro in Hongkong by International John Mills and Stewart. Grun- Medwin.
ducers, directors and techni- Films, Ltd.
TURNING
to more things, Sydney Box
cheerful -Ins
started what promises to be tures will be produced at Asso- Selling resources will
film out the ordinary lio lins cust six notably good young actors in a film about Borstal boys with Home Omeo appro-
clated British studios, and Welwyn,
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ger.
Behind This Mask Ha
Hungered for Kavango! Sword-Swaps Adventure) Unforgettable Thrill
tempesivera Romance:
"I REMEMBER MAMA"
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