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Not Many Laughs In "Laughing Lady"

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1949.

CINEMA WORLD

ON A

MUCH FUN ON

TROPIC ISLAND

In case you feel slightly giddy with that New Year's spirit, the holiday attraction at the Queen's Theatro is just the sort of thing for you to see.

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Tyrone's New World

Twentieth Century - Fox's "Captain from Castile" tells the story of the rise of the Spanish Empire and the fall of the Aztec nation.

Jore upching in the frantices of Spain toward the New World.

MGM has turned out better To give the tohalcolour cameras

Filmed in technicolour, the pic- musicals than "On An Island free range, the story has been set

a band of ragged With You." But there is still in Ironolulu, where a movice com-ture follows

colour, pany is on location. Star of the volunteers who undergo Holly- than enough

Esther wood's usual run of Incredible movie-within-a-movie comedy.and romance in this Williams, who is more or Ican disasters and untold dangers bc- jone bassatisfy, anyone who isn't(metly less) in love with her. being too critical and who wants leading man, Ricardo Montalban, to start the New Year out on a Jimmy Durante is perfectly cast light note.

Jas the Assistant Director.

What starts out as a religious. The romantic Interest comen In crusade for the glory of Catholte

Navy Spain soon A

turns into a bloody Ever since he first sprang to when Peter Lawford,

Spurred fame by making Deanna Durbin Lieutenant who has been hired an conquest of the Aztecs.

falls in love by lust for gold and treasure, the n Atar overnight with his "100 technical advisor,

conquistadors forsake Men And A Girl", Producer Joe with Mine, Willams. When he falls Spanish Pasternak han been nilergle to to make any progres, with her, their creed for greed, their cross matters into his own for a sword, and force the great doing anything in a amal way, he takes

Aztec nation into surrendering its And "On An Island With You" hands.

from bin usual

vast treasures In no deviation pattern.

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Abnormal Life In Hollywood

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Blackpool, England City authorities have pro- pared a campaign to pro tect feon-agers from Ifolly- wood Influence on their sex life.

F. E. Harrison, educa- tton officer for this resort city in North West Eng- land, announced a series of lectures on sex has been arranged for youngsters to combat the Hollywood version of normal domestic -life."

Harrison admitted, how- ever, that sources outside of the American Alm colony also have caused concern among the city fathers. Too much of teen- agers sex education, he sald, camo from street corners, dance halls and "in other undesirable ways." -United Press.

Handsome Tyrone Power plays title role. As Pedro De Vargas proud son of on aristocra- tic Spanish family, he falls prey to the Inquisition. Forced to flee his native land, he vows ven- the Inquisition

resolves as cho geance and

to restore thwarts Cortez alms for King and But Pedro and his

Cortez.

which nearly'

During the filming of a scene where Williams, sareng and all, climbs into a Navy plano as a There's enough good variety stowaway, Lawford seizes control here to satisfy any fan who likes of the ship and flies his not too

unwilling prisoner

small musicals,

femimane island, far out to sen. For those who like pulchritude, with anly A bare Although Lawford promises to minimum left to the imagination, bring her back on soon

country. glory to the family name. "Cop- with him, which our old mermaid from Bathing dances Just ance Beauties, Esther Williams, is she does, something goes wrong tain from Castile" is also the story bosom friend, Juan Carcia, prove with his plane, and the two are of Pedro, and of the challenge he to be De Silva's stumbling block, with Anal retribution coming inck again, this time in a sarongtranded indefinitely on the inland, faces in the conquest of Mexico The teen-agers

from

an entirely unsuspected the banner of Hernan choice between South American While the entire U. S. Navy base under

source. dancer Ricardo Montalban or the is out scouring the Pacific for singing romantic lead, Peter Law them, Lawford and Williams have

Cesar Romero, as fernan Cortez, sincere and convincing perform- Portly Lee J. Cobb turns in a ford. For those who like a bli of plenty of time to realise that this

15 the swashbuckling confident| In one sense, the Liberty Theatre made a rather for

Soldier of exolle terpsichore, there's Cyd time it is the Real Thing.

ance as Juan García. almori who has on

staunch Charisse, beautiful as ever. If it's

friend of fortime and When they are finally found and conqueror tunato choice for their inaugural film. Their

South-of-the-Horder music you brought back safely to Honolulu, mystical belief in his destiny as Pedro De

has a Vargas, Juan next picture is bound to be better.

like, Xavier Cugat, still the master Lawford faces a court-martial for the builder of an empire. Holding price on his head, and murder in in that field, is on

the cross in one hond pnd the his heart for De Silva. In Cuba, the scene na stealing government property. But "Laughing Lady" is

British to the guillotine because she has us: there's most fun in store

he sweeps he paves the way for his friend's Williams pleads cloquently with sword in the other,

through Mexico everlasting rise to power within Cortze' army, Commanding Officer, man- National Film's attempt to pro-lost the Pearls of Sorrow, the

who likes his ages to win his release, and script volunteers held together march across Mexico be proves fame with an army of non-de- and throughout the triumphant dure

en-for the person a light-hearted, operatie royal gems which had been

Maric trusted to her by But in an over-

An-comedy corny and unsophisticated.two of them live happily ever solely by personal admiration for invaluable, despite his weakness extravaganza,

could be Bone after. obvious try to throw in a little fanette. Her son, Andre, makes That, of course,

a deal with Robespierre, Andre other than Jimmy

"Schnozzoin" There is nothing evan mildly their leader. He finds gold, em- for drink. bit of everything--from during has six months to find the jewels, Durante, who get a chance here different about "On An Island pire, vengenance and glory for

Cast in the feminine lead op=" highway robbery to political which are somewhere in England, Iterally to render three songs in With You" to distinguish it from Don Carlos of Spain, and stamps

his imprint indelibly on the New posite Tyrone

Jean Power is intrigue--the film bugs down I he brings them back in that his

[other technicolour musicala, inimitable style, own

World.

Peters, who makes her screen under the weight of disuasociat-time, his mother's life will be And, of course, if you're the the singing is good, the dancing is

debut successfully in this picture. ed miscellania.

spared.

type that likes anything, jual as good, the comedy is good, and no All the horror of the Spanish Miss Peters, who leaped to Hol- Andre goes to England, where long 35 it's In the grand one in the picture takes the plot Inquisition is well personified by lywood fame by winning a popu-

rich too seriously. As a result. It's a John Sutton, who portrayn Diego arity contest while still a sta he becomes a highwayman in the style, there is plenty of

gorgeouż aqua-pleasant way to spend hopes that he will discover the technicolor and

A few do Silva, the Supreme Justice of dent, plays the role of Catana pearls. Through the sort of coin-maids and water ballets to satisfy hours particularly as part of

the Inquisition. Arrogant and Peroz, a beautiful peasant girl, the holiday celebration.

brutal, Diego uses his evil power In an inhuman effort to wreak "Captain from Castile," at the vengenance on the De Vargas King's Theatre this' weeks is based family, particularly on Pedro. on the best-selling novel by "And When Pedro escapes to the Samuel Shellübürgen, It was New World, De Silva follows. produced by Lamar Trotti and bringing with him the terror of and directed by Henry King,

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The picture begins with the French Revolution. The Duchess

of Lorraine has been condemned

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ekdenes that makes fletion appear your tastes, much stranger than truth, he holds

up, then falls in love with. Denise Tremayne, a headstrong aristocrat who is the bette of the English Court. In the course of two reels, Denise finds herself the proud wearer of the Pearls of Sorrow. which have been presented to he by the Prince nut of motives which are none-too-pure.

From this point on, the plot become so complicated that not even sitting through the plcture will help much to clear it up,

"Laughing Lady" can not even classify as ar also-ran. The

the

music. and the story fight each other every foot of the way, with- out either of them ever taking upper hand. It is one thing to Isten to Eddy and MacDonnkl. under a beautiful moonlit AKY, sing a stirring duct about love. It ft quite another to hear this same rort of thing from a French Count while he stands before the guillo- tine and is being pelted with fresh fruits by the blood-thirsty rabble.

There are other faults, too. The acting of all concerned is decidedly amateurish. All, that is, except the late Fellx Aylmer, } who at least has the decency to scem entirely upset about the whole thing. The stars, particu |larly-Anne Ziegler and Webster Booth-consistently remind one of two members of a school dramatic class who have just been told that there is a Talent Scout In the audience.

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Director Paul L. Stein also could have done better. There is ways the slight suspicion that the producers handed him two pack- ages--the story and a number of tongs and then told him:

"All right, you make them como out together."

But the most annoying short- coming of all is the singing. It ean not be said whether it in the inult of the vocalists or of the sound recorder. But ono word in ien was about all we could under- stand of any of the musical num- bers

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