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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1949,

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IN HIS FIRST SCREEN

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Jane WYMAN wins The Academy Award, 1948. For her performance in this picture.

"Johnny

Belinda

JANE WYMAN LEW AYRES

CHARLES BICKFORDERULINOS - BERRY MILD

WARMIN BROS', men dramasis ACHIVEMENT

CINEMA WORLD

Immortal Story Of Antarctic Due Soon

The immortal story of one of the groat opics of human endeavour, "Scoft of the Antarctic,” which comes to the Leo Theatre next wook, is a moving and accurate account of the gal- lant explorer's last expedition and a worthy tribute to the self-sacrificg of him and his companions. John Mills, as Captain Scott, gives a memorable performance, while the rest of the cast is out- standing, having been chosen not only for their acting ability but also for the resem- blance to the people they portray.

There is Derek Bond, who portrays Captain Oates. Harold Warrender, who plays Dr. Wilson, James Robertson Jus- tice, who is PO Evans, and Reginald Beek with, who is east as Bowers.

Th Antarctic expedition is exceptionally well-documented, and this reviewer has found that most of the incidents and dialogue In the film have txe derived from from Scott's diaries first-hand information from sur- vivors of the original exploration

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"Scott of the Antarctic" can be put down as unc dramatic pictures made in recent years, and few pictures can rivid the beauty, tragedy and depth ofļ Seeling thint comes to the screen in Technicolor against an authen- the Anturetic background. It is n

noving and accurate account of me of the great eples of human

Cynthia Is

The Type

Qanny Kaye, as a mild-mynnered musle professor, falls in love "with glamourous torch-singer Virginia Mayo In Samuel Goldwyn's musical comedy, "A Bong la Born," which co-stare the pair and features some of the nation's leading jazz music.

The picture comes to the King's Theatre.

You'll Like Danny Kaye Gives

The joys and tears of typical American family

ย

and!

Birth To A Song

the Brst romance of their teen-Jazz fans and those who think of Danny Kaye as the

age daughter are treated with gentle humour and tenderness in "Cynthia." which opens at the Queen's Theatre today.

Elizabeth Taylor, star ut the fiky, uchieves a modest personal

best antidote for a head-ache, tooth-ache, stomach-ache and what-have-you, should make "A Song Is Born," coming next week to the King's Theatre, a “must” on their movie list.

Fans of Kaye will find their rhythm starts and the fun begins tumph in this homespun tale aside rather subsled and less in--in down beat style.

Weaving through the Blm is a a pretty high school girl who is spiring than the man who "git-

gat-giddle" his way through a romantie streak provided by Vir- denied the pleasures and associn-

score of laugh hits and made ginin Mayo, Though Miss Mayoj tlors of her age because of himself by virtue of his clean manages to emit a catchy tune. This pictorial record of the liver-anxiety and solicitude on the and healthy humour, one of the her acting ability is still limited mortal Inst journey of Captain

best comedians in show business. to the display of a pair of shape- Scott and his gallant companions part of her parents.

He is, however, still the one andy legs. yum-yum shoulders and only Danny Kaye,

Iwo tantalising dimples. But who cares about the girl when there's music!

endeavour.

Is 14 worthy tribute To their The cost of raising a farmily

courage and self-sacrifice. Their backgrounds and inter-relation- ships supply the fine threads of human emotion with which the main theme is interwoven.

German Picture In Final Stages

In dubbing stages at present is "Marriage In the Shndow," a Ger man production.

This film was made in the re-

cently established DEFA Studios of the Soviet Zone uf Berlin by the well known German film director Kurt Mnetzig.

There are some very brutal shots of Nazis smashing the win dows of Jewish shops during the anti-Semitic barbaritica of the middle thirties,

has catised Larry Bishop (George

What makes "A Song Is Born" father, tu Murphy), Cynthia's

R hithly emoyable picture is its abandon an early dream of be-musical theme. The film deals coming a doctor and to hold on with the growth of American to a subservient job in a hard-popular music, a type of music that has the irresistible bent and ware store,

rythm, that ena be cay ank) rhythm, that can have the power of a locomotive in sheer exuber- ance and again be so slow mournful as the Blues.

Cynthia's mother (Mary Astory kewise has had to cast uside ambitions of a musical career and to substitute for it the weary routine of a housewife.

A domineering uncle, Dr. Fred, who keeps plaguing Cynthia with pills and Injections, is another manber of this dissatisfied family against whom Cynthia has make a determined stand in order to lead the richer life she de-

serves.

to

and

And the Alm certainly bristles

famous

whose musicians with

to every are by-words names jive fan. To mention the mos

Benny Gooriman. outstanding:

Tommy Dorsey, Louis Armstrong. Lionel Hampton, Charlie Barngt. Mel Fowell and the Golden Gate Quartet,

And a stand she makes. Over- These soloists

combine their

riding all objections and obstacles, talents to bring to the screen she not only embarks on a ruman- the story of jazz. Their effort te encounter with Ricky Latham, adds up to some tuneful rhythm her high school hero, but inspires which has Danny Kaye playing her defeatist father to stand up second fiddle many times. Most The story tells of the love of a

removes the

memorable scene is the one in non-Jewish actor

young against his boss, for a

weight of the meddling and off-which all chip in to make plc- Jewess. It is a tragedy built on the

clous. Uncle Fred fron the ture's title song one of the best reality of many thousands of such tragedies which now are so easily house, and starts the whole fami- pieces of modern American music

ly on a fresh path toward hap-music to hit the screen. forgotten or dismissed from mind.

piness.

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The story opens in New York. Elizabeth Taylor makes a de- Seven professors have worked lightful Cynthia, shifting from for years on a History of Music. deep gloom to high spirits in Professor Frisbee (Danny him- typical teen-ago vaccilation, self) in charge of the American George Murphy and Mary Astor, section. is confident that ragtime her parents, are well cast as the is up to the minute. disturbed and disenchanted par- But when two window washers ents, although George would look introduce him to swing and jive much better os the leader of a and boogie woogle, Frisbee deter band than n hardware store mines to explore the world

Jazz himself. He tours the elty's

mariager.

the

of

All told, "Cynthia" is an enjoy-night clubs and eventually in- Messrs. able and light folksy little piece viles to his house the

Armstrong, Dorsey,

Hampon, of entertainment,

Powell et the Golden Barnet, Next week-end,

little OPENING Queen's Gate Quartet, plus a lush Theatre will screen "Trader torch singer who answer to the born," a pleture of vintage 1930 name of Virginia Mayo, that all holds all the thrills to satisfy movie-goers.

As soon as these exponents of

the 1940 oppetite of modern Jazz enter the sacred

abode of the seven professors, the

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