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SKELTON AS A SOUTHERNER

The Bellhop Was Wrong

SKELTON'S SPYING FOR BOTH SIDES IN NEW COMEDY FARE

Red Skelton, who last gave you his version of the Fullor Brush Man in "that Mad Mr. Jones' now shows you what he can do with a Civil War spy! This new Skelton metamorphosis takes place on the Queen's and Alhambra theatres screens in M-G-M's comody, "A Southern Yankee.”

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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1949.

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Roosevelt's Cornel Wilde Plays Roxy Showing

Documentary To The King's

"The Ransevelt Story," com- ing to the King's Theatre next wock,

eloquent film tribute to the late President,

an

comprising 40 years of his public and private life, in peace and in wartime, in depression and in prosperity.

Opposite Own

Drama Of Wife Shark Island

In Columbia Picture

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, A parole officer is said to have a reputation

boing a cynical, "tough agg.” In othe words, he is supposed to be shockproff against all attacks on his emotions, pacially love.

As personal magnetlem, his

love of a laugh, his quick sense

of humour and his philosophy are That this just isn't so is the theme of "Shok-

all captured in this documentary.

There are numerous intimate scenes showing Roosevelt at lyde

Park with various members of

proof," a tale of partial escapism with comes to the Queen's Theatre next week.

his family. his mother, SAIR In "Shockproof," Cornel Wilde Delano Roosevelt his wife, attempts to show that a parole Eleanor Roosevelt, and his chil-officer is only too human and an easy pushover for a luscious bit

pulchritude- of blonde-trimmed the damsel in this Cano being Patricia Knight.

dren and grandchildren. And heart-warming Reene at Warm Springs, Georgia, where he went Lo overcome pollo which struck him when he WILB

only 39 years old.

then there is that brief, but

the handicap of

This

scene, showing FOR playing ball while swimming in the warm pool with children And if you don't think a Civilsimilarly afflicted, brings out the War patriot can be both a South-warmth of his personality and erner and a Yankee you haven't the gift he had for bringing hap-| Been Aubrey Filmore, as portray-piness to others. ed by Skelton in plot of simpatick merriment.

Anbrey starts bis spying

a

of

The film falls flat in te mis-

Alon, mainly because Cornel Wilde comes nowhere near look- ing the hard-boiled parole officer, but reminds one of a bashful, self-conscious ́school-teacher,

Released from prison on parole after being sentenced to life im- His favourite dog. Fala, a Scot-prisonment for murder, Patricia Knight (Mrs. Wilde in private life) is warned by Cornel Wilde to stay away from her former associates, or else she'll go back

the that came in for his full share of

House publicity, is also proven highly amuse

ing scenes. There is scene showing

those who

CORNEL DE

Cupid's S

Arc

With the production of “The Prisoner of Shark Island.” 20th Century picture now at tho Roxy Theatre, the screen again prover that the raw material of life outstrips the imaginings of playwrights for pure drama,

When Darryl F. Zonuck was preparing this picture in the 30's, he looked to no dramatist or story teller for his plot, but went directly to the plain facts of American history to And the story of one of the most ́ tragle figurca America has ever known.

Telling the true story of Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd, the man who was unjustly imprison ed as one of the Lincoln con- spirators, the picture is a docu- ment of man's_Inffumanity to Warner Baxter, the star, plays the title role of the gentle backwoods physician who Was sacrificed to a nation's frenzy in the furore that followed the as- sassination. I

man.

Many of the actual conspira-

tors are executed, but Baxter i saved for a more terrible fate--- life imprisonment on the hellish Shark Island.

Degraded, tortured, frantic with worry over his wife, Gloria Stuart, and

the Union's Secret Service in a Atrictly amateur status, ile bellhop in a St. Louis hotel and

Also a memorable to prison. his first coup is to mistake 25

FDR giving his

their child, he nt- innocent doctor and his satchel first. Areside chat, on March 5, Patricia, who is na stubborn as

tempts an escape through the for the infamous Confederate soy. 1933, in which he said There she

beautiful, promptly

shark-filled prison moat. He wins the Gray Spider, and his sult-are those

fall to read the disregards the warning and again

his freedom only to be recaptured case of explosives.

signs of the times und Americansees her suave gambler boyfriend

and brought back to a dungeon. This masterstroke of stragem history. does not endear him to the North's worker any

They would refuse the Jahn Baragrey, Picked up in a, Wilde about the Arriage plot,

effective power to raid on a bookle office,

Patricia shots

fired Ad Baragrey Then the story takes a drama- Secret Service authorities and it

bargain collectively, to earn

go back to prison. slumps to the The gun is tic turn. Yellow fever strikes, Is up to Aubrey to redeem him-

ala mupponed decent livelihood and to

10 Require selt. In a uniform one-half

prostrates the garrison and pri- held by Patriciofnight. But with Cupid successfully_nt half security. It is those short sight- which is Union, the other

son. With the army physician in Then begins fight from the a critical condition, the commun- Confederate, Aubrey Braves the ed ones, not labour, who threaten work, Wilde managen to give her enemy lines, wins the love of an the country with that class dis- another chance and arranges for law, and Wilde ft his wife tear der calls on Baxter to take up the epidemic. unsuspecting Southern girl, places sension which In other countries the wayward damsel to work in up the roads afmanage to re- the fight against

his tren home as companion to main false information in the hands of has led to dictatorship and the

untene for several How he masters the situation, easy conscienc they decide to and eventually wins his, freedom Miss Knight, who just can't get face their mine only to be as a reward for his courage and and forced to flee Luth Souther Also depicted is that scene in her gambler boyfriend out of her confronted wia typical Holly-self-sacrifice is revented in the bloodhounds and feminine Wilen. 1933, when he made his first in mind, falls for a hare-brained woodian endiYes Cupid didn't action-Blled climax of the pic-

in the kands o! Skelton,augural address, and said: "The scheme, ingentiuusly thought up are his bow vain. Aubrey Is n spy whom neither only thing we bave to

by Baragrey, which fear is sidu of a war would possibly want, fear itself." but whom all lovers of a hearty laugh will award a special Cro de Guerre. it in Skelton at his very funniest

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Brian 'Donlevy is nisa in good form as tho nemesis who trups Aubrey into revealing his true identity, and the romantic touches nre supplied by attractive Afleng Dahil,

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ROXY: "A Prisoner Or Shork leland" (Fox), Warner Baxter In the rola of a martyr,

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vent Wilde from sending her back to the penitentiary: Marry the parole officer.

At just what point Cupid unles- shes his second arrow, this time: olmed at the feminine part of the boy-and-girl combination, isn't exactly clear. But sufice it to say that, as the film wearily creeps along, Mr. and Mrs. Parole Ofterr are both genuinely in love with each other,

This, of course, doesn't quite suit Mr. Ex-Boyfriend, and after a threat to "spill the beans" to

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