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A Me!18- Goldwyn Mayan Picture

MAT PERRIN

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IN CELEBRATION

BATTLE of BRITAIN WEEK

A. GALA PREMIERE

IL G. WELLS'

The Passionate Friends

starring

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Aun TODD Claude RAINS Trevor HOWARD

OVERTURE PLAYED BY

THE 3rd BRIGADE ROYAL MARINE

COMMANDO BAND

BY COURTESY OF

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SEE THE NEWEST & GREATEST TARZAN AMIDST ALL THRILLS & PRETTY GIRLS!

A BILLION-DOLLAR SECRET GUARDED BY A CIRCLE OF DEATH!

EDGAR RICE

BURROUGHS

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"JOHNNY BELINDA

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1940.

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CINEMA WORLD

Eternal Triangle Is

Theme Of British Picture At The Lee

Rating:

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"The Passionate Friends” is the story of a woman's conflict between love and security—a conflict that has wrecked homas and broken hearts since time began.

Storring Ann Todd, Claude Rains and Trevor Howard, "The Passionate Friends" is the kind of film fare that makes cinema-goers remark, "Britain can make it." It has been obly directed by David Lean and should be enjoyed by all lovers of triangles, whether geometric or otherwise.

Steven Stratton (Trevor Howard), a young cientist, in in love with Mary (Ann Todd), a beautiful and ambitious woman, Ir asks her to marry him; she loves him, but insists on marrying Howard Justin (Claud Rains), n

It's A Far Cry From Weissmuller

Rating

Burrouglas Tarzan's Mugle

wealthy banker, who can give her the security aho needa.

Five years go by. Steven and Mary meet again at the Chelsen Arts Ball. They feel their old love flaring up and dance together until each remembers the realities of the present Mary returns to her husband, Steven to Pat (Isa. bel Dean), his fiancee.

Howard returns, The lovers

have been constantly in each other's company.

Hefiin, Bond and Hayward

A Fruitless Fight

Historical Film

At King's Theatre

RATING ***

In- One night, From the pages of James Street's best-selling novel,

stead of going to the theatre, they dine together. 4152

Finding the for

Kotten theatre tickets, Howard, jealous and uncertain, gues to the theatre, and sees their two empty sents in the stalls. Coming home,

puts the theatre programme on the table.

When Steven and Mary return. The she pretends that they have been to the theatre. Suddenly she sees the

the

rd.

programme

and knows that

their deception has been discover- After a restrained but emo- tional scene. Steven leaves thel house alone.

"Tap Roots," comes a well-done screen pro- duction story of a county in Southern Mis- sissippi during the days leading to the Ameri- can Civil War, told with full dramatic impact. The picture opens today at the King's Theatre. production filmed effectively in Technicolor, leaves very little to be desired. It is a fast moving story of violence and tenderness, heart-aches and paced excitment, moking "Top Roots" an enjoyable show.

SHOWING

TODAY

KING'S

Directed by

GEORGE MARSHALL

AT 2.30, 5.15

7.20 & 9.30 P.M.

WALTER WANGER presents

VAN HEFLIN SUSAN HAYWARD

Tap Roots

COLOR ST

Technicolor!

with

BORIS KARLOFF JULIE LONDON WARD BOND RICHARD LONG and Introducing WHITFIELD CONNOR

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50 STARFUL /

has

Fountain, the latest Hollywood

chopter in the rulventures Etgar Rier jungle here, possesses the same fantastic theme of the more recent Tarzan stories. Add

! to this is Lex Barker. the new king of the Jungle (with a marked American twang), who

It tells the story of the Inde- juntil the dashing Keith Alexander gives the Jungle ford a new look Steven visits the Justins' house pendent Hoab Dabney of Leba-appeara] Whitfeld Connor. with a

pair of moccasins.

next day. He cannot believe that non valley, a thriving Southern newcomer to the business, makes Tarzan's Magic Fountain" is a Mary intends to stay with her community hewn from the wild-on adequate debut. secret dwelling deep in the heart husband. He has a violent argi erness by the empire building The role of Tishomingo of the Jungle where

happyment with Justin, who finally hands of his father and the faith-Boria Karloff in a direct con- people exists in perpetual youth, agrees to let him see Mary alone. ful Tishomingo, an Indian.

irast of his usual-horrifying pro- sustaine by an elixir Hot Steven waits, gloomily, watching

When

the Civil War star

starts to trayals. available to the outalde world. the rain running down the win brew, Hoab Dabney moves to Kartoff plays with great suc- Tarzan is the only man allowed dows. Mary enes

in slowly. organise the people of Lebanon ecas in this key role the Indian, into this happy place, the utopia They talk, but she makes it clear Valley against the authorities, whose whip in his hand is more

that she cannot give up the When

Mississippi. sccedes from deadly than a bullet from a gun, But the greed of man again security of her married life. the Union, Lebanon County be Tishomingo's sacrificing loyalty brings complications to Turzan. Nine years

pass. They only comes a Free and independent to the Dabneys Immediately In An exleavour to do

good, serve to show that a chance

meet-

dream community,

of old wins him to the audience. Tarzan is accused by the Jealous ing is sufficient to kindle the Dabney which son Hoab vowed Other key personalities in the possessors of the magic fountain, spark, and from here on "The to

to fulfill.

cast include Ward Bond us the

Hoab of having betrayed the secret. It Passionate Friends" gradually Joining the Dabneys, is Keith stubborn

Dabney who turns out well in the end how-reaches Imax that sees all the Alexander, a renegade newspaper plunges a whole community into, ever, with Tarzan and Jane emotional forces of man engaged publisher who throws in his lot a fatile slaughter; Julle London (Brenda Joyce) returnfig

Da Aven. (Momma's sister) who in in a virtant tug o'war. bliss

steals the heart of Clay Melver to their tree-top home, Let it be said here that the end-vivarious daughter Momna. peaceful and

quiet but for the ing will appeal to the rationally-

to sister Morna's secret delight | mischief of Cheta.

minded, while our younger set In fact, Chela's pranks are the will heave a sigh and go back to high lights in the film. As always, their geometry. Chela steals the show.

of women.

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The amazing drama of a boy who became different from anybody else in the world—and what it did to folks around him?

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THE BOY WITH GREEN HAIR

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PAT O'BRIEN • RÖREKT RYAN

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DEAN STOCKWELL 1:“The boy“

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SUNDAY MORNING SHOW

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CARMEN MIRANDA MICHAEL O'SHEA VIVIAN BLAINE 'in' "SOMETHING FOR DE THE BOYS“.

A FOX TECHNICOLOR “MUSICAL COMEDY!

MAJESTIC

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with Dabney

after meeting his

The whole

Aght of Lebanon County against the organised con- less but furious one and presents federates turns out to be a fruit-

a rumbling climax to a nicely told melodrama.

As Keith Alexander, the no- terlous, suave newsman whose editorials are backed by his fast working and accurate pistols, Van Heflin plays the role with pleas- ing sincerity, Susan Hayward, as the beautiful Morna, gives on appealing performance.

As Clay Melver, a man more

At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m. loyal as a soldier than a lover, (the first sweetheart of Morna

SHE DID!

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VHERI

SHE DIDN'T!

and

you

Should!

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A Little Singing

A Little Dancing.

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— NEXT CHANGE

airy FITZGERALD, Dorothy HART Howard DUFF

“NAKED CITY"

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Music? There's Plenty Of It In Town Today

Rating: ...

Taking the lives and music of one of America's greatest song-; writing teams-Richard Rodgers and Lorenz (Larry) Hart as the basis of a film plot, M-G-M has turned out an

enjoyable Tech-

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MGM Sito Words

AND Music

The BIGGEST Muskal !!

JUNE AUTRON

PERRY COMO JUDY GARLAND LENA DORNE GENE KELLY

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ANN SUTHERN

MACHAL TROMSON ALE FORK BERPERA

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nicolor entertainment in "Words TAKE ANY EASTERN TRAM CAR OR HAPPY VALLEY BUS and Music,"

Queen's

now

showing at the

and Alhambra Theatres. Showing Today: 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m. With Tom Draise cast FATJ

Rodgers and with the sxuberant.

Mickey Rooney playing

the co

centric but brillant lyricist Her YUNG WHA FILM CO.

the story centres on the fulfiled

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romance of the former with childhood sweetheart, contrasted with the unrequited love of Larry Hart for

an aspiring showgirl.

presents

Janet Leigh enacts Dorothy, the THE SINS

who became the future Mrs.

Rodgers, with Betty Garrett cast as the impulsive and warmheart- ed night club anger, Peggy McNell who turned down mar-

age in favour of a Starting with their

riage

together

anton |

while students

Columbla, the story traces

at

OF OUR

FATHERS"

(In Mandarin Dialogue) the

spectacular rise of Rodgers and

Hart as songwriters from their early success

with the "Garrick Golelles"

to Auch memorable

Broadway musical comedies as

etit Yankee." "Babes in

"The Girl Friend," and

"Spring Is Here."

| Allyson the highlights are June

with

version of "Thou Swell" the dancing Blackburn Twins, Perry Como's singing of such ballada as, "E

"Blue Room" and "With a Song in My Heart, and

the teaming of Judy Garland and Mickey

Wish I Were Rooney in

Garland is

re-

in Love Again." also in great form with the sounding "Johnny One Note."

Then there are Lena Horne sing- ing the haunting. "Where or When," Ann Sothera in u spark- ling routine done to the tune of "Where's That Rainbow Cyd Charissa and Des Turnell in the

On Your Toes" ballet, Betty Garrett's inimitable "There's a Small Hotel" and Mel Thorma singing Blue Room." Add to this a dozen more of Rodgers and Hart song hits, and the "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue dance-drama 'done by Gene Kelly and Vers-Ellen and you have some idea of the wealth or musical material offered in thir star-and-song-abuddled musical.

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