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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1949.

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A Human Tragedy

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A Weakness

For The Human Male

Venus has always hnd weakness, however fleeting, for the human male. On her little

Vacations from Olympus she invariably breaks a heart or two, just to keep in practice,

In "One Touch

Venus," coming tomorrow at the Queen's theatre, she chooses for the scene of her escapade a large depart-

Tragic Royal Love Affair Theme Of Queen's Theatre Film

SARABAND FOR DEAD LOVERS

Towards the end of the 17th Century one of the leading problems in European political 'circles was the question of Hanover's ambitious claim to the succession of the English throne. The move which did more than anything else to secure recognition of the Hanoverian claim was "The marriage, for purely politicut reusis, of the Elector's son, Prince George-Louis (later George I of England), to the Princess Sophie-Dorothea, a granddaughter of James I.

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Parade Of Mix-Ups For The Lee

Take a crowded hotel suite originally reserved for 4 honeymoon couple, add an as- sortment of characters ranging from a female Sergeant York to a Wet Wash King, throw in a wollish broadcaster, a female judge, soybean-to-fuel process and three lovely ex-chorus girls whore marital status is being investigated by the FBI, mix well and you have "the Doughing wheir opens it

the Lee Theatre next week- end.

Into war-crowded Washington, newly married by a phoney Jus- tier of the Peace, come Arthur Halstead (Jack Carson) and his bride, Vivien not-too-bright (Jane Wyman).

When

"married" the newly couple take over their suite In the hotel, they are forced to il with Julian Cadmon share

and his wifò (John Ridgely) Edna (Ann Sheridan).

Comes Dissension Arthur, who is the new aide to Ad- Slade (Charles Buggles), ministrator of Inter-Bureau Co- and Julian, who in ordination.

trying to sell a soybean-to-fuel sension appears in the person of process, get along fine, but dis-

History

has provided some premiva performance as Countess romantic, but many more tragle Platen, the ageing beauty, mistress stories of politica] marriages, and of the Elector, ambitious, ruthless more touching than the and Jealous, the power behind the

Hanover, nlight, and history of Sophie- throne of

She falls in love with Konigs- Dorothea.

Married at the age of 16 to the mark, who accepts her paralon, coarse and brutal George-Louis, help and influential assistance, who was openly unfaithful to tongue in cheek. It is her rage and her from the beginning, the young Jealous fury which finally destroys princess lived a life of humiliation him when he is caught, perhaps and loneliness in the dissolute for the Arst time in his life, by

tender and genuine love for the court of Hanover.

Ealing Studio's Technicolor pro-Young Sophie. duction

Saraband For Dead What the Aim lacks in story and animation is made up for by the Lovers",

Queen's colourful pageantry of the court, coming to the nrent store, and for the medium Theatre, next week tells the story the beautiful old-world buildings Non (Alexis Smith), the future

Sophlo's brief. of Sop

tragic love

affair and somewhat and quaint streets with the dashing and

of Prague, bride of a flyer, Lieutenant Dil- meet modern concepts of beauty, unscrupulous Swedish soldier of and most of all, by one particular

where many scenes were filmed, lon (Craig Stevens), scene, the Hanover Fair sequence Vivian learns, vin a news broad- For this indiscretion

enough life and cast, with his fe unfortunate males have mark paid

that she is not legally mar→ The

ander colour to satisfy the most demand-ried. At this point if you are which rather a hectic time of it Both

circumstances

wore,

for ing

tonte.

still able to follow the story Hobert Walker and Dick Haymes generations, a secret of the Royal The Fair scene in a spectacle of

Mr.

Cadman (the spend most of their, time dashing d'amily of hither and yon, perspiring freely Dorothea was forced to renounce our licence, fantasy and clamour one, that is) enters the scene and

kaleidoscope of col- Mi, Sylvia and pulling faces depicting har marriage rights and was with

informs Edna (the second Mrs. 1 slightly nightmareish various degrees of anguish.

Cadman that is) that due to a banished dor the rest of her life to pality added Everyone puts in a lot of time the Castle of Ahlden, while efforts blind struggle by Sophie's technicality in the divorce pa- pulling faces, except Venus, who to supress the Acandal

through the mob

pers she (the first one, that is) is the cause of it all. Olga Sanate her name from history con- phore being subtly calculated to feiler, that is). In search of her lover, the atmos-is, still Julian's Juan registers bewilderment, an- tinued for the next half-century, chime with the tumult of her This is as

statue suitably

streamlined 10

which duly comes to life in the delectable form of Ava Gardner.

noyance, exasperation

neer or alternately ur hysterics, either simultaneously, and the poor girl has a pretty thin time until the nim winds up in a spate of happy endings:

fortune, Count Philip Komhich provides

Hanover. Sophie-

and

has

obiller-

contrast, a

Joan

who plays heart. Dwood, Sophie

all the delicate beauty and gentle charm Drezden.figurine. but scarcely animation, Stewart Granger, Konigsmark, in stil! Granger

of a more

Even the cynical secretary, (afrst and gives a faithful portrayal neat vignette by Eve Arden) finds that a touch of Venus sets self.

of a 17th Century version of him-

a big way!

Chinese Film Opens Today

The dissension Increases when

first

wite (the poor

far as we'll

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you

in our

take "

Doughgirls." that from

Suffice it to this point onwards

GBY

things begin

to strighten

out. with the aid

three of another characters (including Eva Arden

Although intended primari-ns a Russian guerilla fighter) and ly for Chinese audiences, Alan Mobray.

A good choice for laughs. "Virtue in the Dust," latest production of Yung Hwa

of the life of a country opens today at the Liberty and the large cities of Pelping and girl in

provided with explanatory titles her employer, of the loss of her Central Theatres. has been Shanghal, of her seduction by in English for the benefit of daughter and of a general train film- of events which made her days a non-Mandarin-speaking

transcends lving hell. How sho Photographed in modern set-all these tragedies is the main tings, the film tells of the tragedy theme of the film.

-the Wedding bells ringing.

French Francoisę Roony, Venus has a go at everything, from a simple girl-in-love to the stress of great distinction, is super siren vamping the wealthy confined as by a straitjacket in Studios in Kowloon, which

role of Electress of Hanover. store owner (Tom Conway), and her rol does she go for modern dresses in and self-denial that she can send mother RO frozen by ambition If the producers had been able her favourite son to his death in to make up their aninds between the Morea aiding England against slapstick comedy and farce fan- the Turks in order to further the tasy, they would have avoided an claims of her House and the son unfortunate tendency to dissolve the despises. into bathos ht the wrong moments,

Flora Robson provides the only plere of real acting with her im-

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