QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
AIR-CONDITIONED
QUEEN'S:
AIR-FRESHENED
5 SHOWS TOMORROW
Extra Performance At 11.30a.m.
SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30 P.M.
SO YOUNG!
SO BEAUTIFUL!
SO INNOCENT!
KILL HER!"
Those were
this ardein.....and -
glit he
ROBERT TAYLOR
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
with her ins
Conspirator
ALHAMBRA
FILMES CH
LOCATIONT
TO-MORROW AT 12 NOON ONLY Randolph Scott Mauroon O'Hara "TO THE SHORES OF TRIPOLI"
In Technicolor AT REDUCED PRICES
KING'S LIBERTY
SHOWING
5 SHOWS
AT 11.30 A.M., 2.30, 5.15. 7,20 & 9.30 P.M.
TO-DAY
- 5 SHOWS ——
AT 12.30, 2:30, 5.30. 7.30 & 9,30 P.M.
AWFUL TRUTH
A Chinese Comedy
in Mandarin
Dialogue
Starring: Li Li Who
PRESENTED BY GREAT WALL PICTURES
SHOWING MAJESTIC
TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5.20. 7.20 & 9.30 P.M.
SUNDAY EXTRA SHOW AT 12.00 NOON
BILLY THE KIO
$10,000 REWARD
2/YEARS OLD!
2/NOTCHES ON HIS GUNS!
KID FROM TEXAS
Starring
AUDIE MURPHY GALE STORM
*** ALBERT DEKKER - SHEPPERO STRUDWICK,
Scherplay by ROBERT HARDY ANDREWS KARL KAMB-Dlected by HURT MELSMAPEN
Assochée Producer Caorge C. Bertholer + Produced by PAUL, SHORT
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1950,
STIVIS VHL NI: IVIS
ANY MORE FOR THE GUILLOTINE?
Niven's Pimpernel film waits for the verdict from Goldwyn by HAROLD CONWAY WHAT NEWS of that very "Elusive Pimpernel" -which Powell and Pressburger began making for the Korda company over a year ago?
1 hear that the revised version is now ready; and that Sam Goldwyn will be asked to
IN
PREVIEW: David Niven, Margaret Leighton In "The Elusivo Pimpernet."
WEEK-END
SCREEN
FARE
Sands of Iwo Jima, (LEE) is a vivid semi-documentary of the fighting in the Pacifle in the late war and fells the story of type of men who wrest-
the
Con
"Mater Roberts" will show an American merchant ship crow In mid-Pacific, discontented
humdrum with their
share in the war-and, . despite their ricy good-humour, at logger. heads with the martinet Cap- tain
Which management is pre- senting "Mister Roberts" in Lon- don? H. M. Tennent.
Who are Juintly presenilor "Seagulls
Over Sorrento?" George and Alfred Black-and H. M. Tennent,
Run, rabbit, run
"HARVEY" ends its long West
Bec it private- End run on July 8, after 017 ly before he performances. leaves Lon-tributed
don.
Leslie Henson will have con.
167 of those per
Goldwyn? Pluckily
Why formances, after stepping
Into Sid Field's shoes (Few stars would have enred to Because ho risk their reputation by follow- was the cause in ka
Field.)
Individual an artist F
of the Pim- "Harvey" seis out on a provin- pernel's hold- eta!” lour on July 17, lasting
up.
end of the Goldwyn until the
year al least. And the most celebrated has an option of all rabbits will be accom~ on the Ameri- panied by Mr Henson in his
Whlic
can rights, travels but threaten has been
the piny's
focused on
limelight Harvey
bas
ed one of his and his companion, Athene "includo
quietly through my Seyler
the many changes of star-con- out" acia tinued to give one of the most when he saw polished comedy performances the first com- on the London stage, And
she has ZIOL missed formance.
pleted vor- sion.
After trans-
Tell all!
per-
WELCOME BACK to Yvonne
atlantic ten- Arnaud, who has returned after | slon Between a second spell of absence to Koran Goldwyn
ever-running and trat
"Traveller's Joy."
comedy,
And welcome also for the
David Niven honesty of che West End and Margaret management in removing the name from outside the Leighton star's
Centre,
and from all adver- taken tising, while she was away. were back to the I should ke to neu all
keeping studios and managements
faith
put to work again for second with the publie in this way." thought scenes.
When Goldwyn was asked about "The Elusive Pimpernel'
(London Express Service)
PECK-A-BOO ROXY BROADWAY
AIR-CONDITIONED
(ART COMMITIONLO)
Theatre
SHOWING TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
ITS A GREAT BIBE
WONDERFUL SHOWS
DAN
and when they're in Love you're in Heaven!
ARIE
DAILEY BAXTER
You're
Anne REVERE'
My
Everything!
Color by
TECHNICOLOR
Sceron Pay by kampe Trost and Will H. Hays. år. • Based on a Story
$20
WALTER LANG
Pedar k
LAWAR TROTT!
– Ne | Aam dikk
by George Janet
TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW
ROXY AT 11.30 A.M. SPECIAL! SPECIALIT For your entertainment, wa have specially ordered from the studios of 20th Century-
Actor Gregory Peck with his wife and children peek at the cameraman upon their return to New York from England. Peck just completed a new plc-Fox ture over there for an American company.
at a Press Conference, he pull-THE DANCING GIRL AND THE FILM CONTRACT
០៥ a wry face and retorted: "Let's not talk about it. shall
we?
The amended-and by now costly-production is due for London showing next month, whoever the Goldwyn verdict about America. I have not yet Powell ane a worthless scen
Even
ed the islanda from the Pressburger picture, and I'll Japanese. It is mainly cerned with the invasion of against Tarawa and Iwo Jima.
back their Judgment.
the Great Sam Lim-
self,
MARGARET
Why be idle?
LEIGHTON must nearly have forgotten her Blakeney role in the Lady Pimpernel film-she so much since,
has done
At the beginning of July she leaves the cast of "The Cocktail Party." Irene Worth (American born) returns from the Broad- way company to take up her original role.
It should rank as one of the
films dealing belter
with the Second World War and battles with the problems of training sergeants and the various types of men they have to mould into hape for a type of Oghting in which the casuultes
are high. John Wayne gives an able per- formance as the Sergeant who licks his squad into shape.
You're My Everything (ROXY BROADWAY) stara Dan Dalley and Anne Baxter in il Why is Miss Leighton lenv- Technicolour musical that shies Ing? To return to her fini Sir Alexander away for once
with from the 12. contract 1890s or the early 1900s and Korda. Has Korda any press
No chooses as its locale the Holly-ing new film role for her? WOOD
of 1924 to 1938.
"It was arranged at the stor 1930.
- a silent
the play that she shoul Anne
Baxter plays screen "H-girl" walle
appear for a limited season," ille Dailey re- mains n hoofer. The film intro-
ay the ni company. duces another moppel, Shari never know-we might sudden-
who sings wo ory And a role for her."
If Temple's earliest hit
an actress of Murgare! ned
forgottes Leighton's calibre slep: out Juminaries of the silent screen, a big stage success to sit idle among them Buster Kenton and for weeks. it seems to me a
A brief se
of planning carried to excess.
BONES,
some
Jnsk Mulhall-make
appearance.
You
Bridie's new look
Moira Shearer gets
away
Moira Shearer, the ballet's young red-head, is still without top-star status at Covent Garden. But she is very much a star in the film studios.
This month she starts work on her second film. "Tales of Hoffman," Shepperton. Five weeks
MOIRA SHEARER
at
to
with
it
We can do with some exelic-
ment in our studios
dullish patch.
after u
Mr Greene tries again
Basil Dean took a British company
Atlantic across the earlier this year to play a stage version of Graham Greend's West African story, "The Heart cf the Matter."
After a a 10-night try-cut in Boston,
managers Oscar Ham- merstein and Richard Rodgers took it olr. The company returned sadly home.
But that was not the end of the matter for Mr Dean. When Itammerstein und Rodgers arrived in London for the pro- duction
show. of their own "Carousel," a brand-new script of Graham Greene's story was
awaiting them.
Now
the original scenery, lying in New York bond, is to be brought ever to England and the play staged here during the If the new version goes well. Messrs. II. and R. accompanied by Mr Dean, wil then take the company back to Broadway.
Now this is what I call o thorough try-out.
Jerome Korn's Ghost
Hammerstein
and
Rodgers
The Conspirator (QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA) brings together the two generally-rated most
GLYNIS JOHNS, anothe romantic Taylors in the world.
Grst-rate Kort contract star Robert and Elizabeth. The con returns from stage to creci bination hardly clicks. Robert soun. Taylor Is an officer in
Lonsdale's The Way Things Brigade of
Go," in which he is appearing. Guards who is a Communist who
comes off towards the end hurries away
July from the War Office every even
after the
surprisingly lar to keep the "Bureau" short run of five months.
the day after her arrival musle Jerome Kern left behind formed of what la going on. His
Mrs Johns's next dim jo there, she departs-whether
when he died Ave years ago. be in an
Kern adaptation of wife, young Miss Taylor, finds may
Hammerstein's "A Sleeping her senes are completed or partner in such successes out about this
James Bridle's and gets inore
Clergyman" which Anatole de not. and more perplexed as to wha
"Show Boat" and "Music in the she should do. Being American,
che la of course, not a Com-
munist.
ค
frea Garbo never got away with anything like this.
tell me they-
big new thow
war
are planning a based on the
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Grunwald is hoping to make Sa says her contract. Moira Air." They also wrote together
play to be screened-under the it would be the irst Bridie
The film rates as one of the more screen-like title of "Flesh best problem pictures ever for and Blood." the simple reason that one In the last West End revive leaves it completely baffled and of "A Sleeping Clergyman," wishing that Elizabeth would by Margaret Leighton played two reserved
for "Lile Women"
.oica,
Glynis Johns als entitled a sequel efforts, say
"ct two roles in the flm ver- sion. If it is made but not the "Little Women Grow Up," and Robert to a bang-up sequel on came two. The story is bein one of his best remembered changed round quite a
bit. Alms, tentatively to be entitled
Milso Johns is due to fo "The
Yank Who Lost His New York in September English Accent."
play in the Broadway produc ilon of the Lonsdale play. that time-table is adhered to. the would have a rush Job th the fm studiu.
SCHOOLMASTERS CAN RELAX
SCHOOLMASTERS can relax. Not until the autumn will Jimmy Edwards and his "Take It From Here" be back on the air with those classroom catch-phrases which, it seems are throwing
4 school- many
teacher off balance.
Edwards and the two. writers
of the show, Frank Muir
thor
tu
If
Shearer would not sign the con- tnet without this stipulation.
It 250't thut Success 135 never produced in America. turned her head. She simply insista op a holiday before going to New York again with the Sadlers Wells company.
She has made one concession time to Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, the producers, her scenes are no1
"Three Sisters"--which failed an badly at Drury Lane tint it was
Int
the
Some of that "Three Sisters." music-among the nest Kurn be beard ever coniposed--will in the new show.
But this Hammerstein will someone else provide words, time, or require relakes, she be flerberi and Dorothy Fields. Most probable librettists will will go back to the studio again who wrote the story of "Annie for one week-after the returns trom Amer...
Busted in
Even Garbs in hur most queenly days never got away with anything quite like this. £200,000 is the limit
AN ENTIRELY NEW PROGRAMME OF MIGHTY MOUSE COLORED CARTOONS & COLORFUL ADVENTURES First showing in the Colony
At Roduced Prices —
NEXT CHANGE
AT THE
JOHN
NANCY
BROADWAY AT 12 NOON
A SELECTED PROGRAMME OF "TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS"
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SHOWING TO-DAY: 2.305.30-7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS FILM STAR IN HIS LATEST COMEDY HIT!
What is the fate
of this
lovely
girl?
CHARLES CHAPLIN "MONSIEUR VERDOUX"
Get Your Gun." Hammerstein and lodgers will produce und present the new Kern show, but juke no part in the writing, A nicu tribute to their old "THE SECRET LIFE OF WATER MITTY” R.K.O. Radio Film
make a nice lot of money out colleague. They should also
of it.
SPECIAL Morning shOW TO-MORROW AT 12.30
| It is not often a movie deserves a
-
Perish the thought Is my face red? It should personal endorsement. In this case ing bout Hollywood we do not hesitate to say that
But Mr Lonrdale, who went -head to New York to arrankr the production, is back, in Lon- don.
Michael Powell-the director disagreement between the
I hear there has been o
T- whose occasional displeasure and the American has been known to strike fear management—about how "The even into Hollywood ctars-is
entire be suppose. Way Things Go" should go an obligingly shaping the Broadway.
olucion of "Hoffman" to t
Here have I been complain- Miss S
Shearer's timetable. Breakers ahead? "Hoffman" has to be made "for being brought QUESTION being asked
little
money as possible" English roles in our studlus Dennis Norden, soon realised theatrical know-hows after the
ertainly that in schoolboy humour they triumphant first-night of "Sea-
not a peany more and hero is Hollywood taking had the successful basis for end-gulls Over Sorrento?".
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£ 200 000.
(That other Vivien Leigh over there to play ballet
"The Red Shoes," that belle of icture.
America's, Deep Will this British
nava, Fest £350,000.)
South, Blanch: Du Bois in the comedy-drama etcal some of Backing for It comes from Alm of "A
Named Streetcar Impot" to thunder prepared for Mister Mr Harold Wilson's Film Desire."
Roberts due in at the London Firanes Corporation. A watch- From Haileybury came this Coliseum from Broadway next
Fine. Have reports whispered ful accountant'
will be
that Misa example of the way, things were month?
contract Leigh's focussed on "Hoffman." going. A class was niked to
is due only to the insistence of
and
less gags.
But their "Black mark, Bent- ley."
and "Talco an mode teachers wilt
cose.
by
#
over
to
act
The British play shows a For · all*** its economy touch. the play's Broadway director, give an example of the vocative group of callors In Isolated sur.his picture.welding opera and Ella Kazan, who will also
roundings, bored with the in- hallet, with Sir Thomas Beech- direct the Aut "O Mavis." was the yell the activity and their racy good
ham as musical director will thought-, ́Ø. master heard.
humour disturbed by an over- he the most exciting British —DAVID LEWIN | bearing Petty Officer...
production of 1950.
----{London · Kxpress... Service).....
Perish the
.
HOME OF THE BRAVE
is a "GREAT" picture.
THE DIRECTORS,
ROXY & LIBERTY THEATRES