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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1940.

OPENING

TODAY

QUEEN'S

AIR-CONDITIONED

AT 230, 5.15

7.20 & 9.30 PM.

“COMMAND DECISION' IS A TERRIFIC

WOMAN'S - PICTURE-Jinx Falkenburg

M-G-M PRESENTS THE FIRST BIG PICTURE OF 1949!

CLARK GABLE WALTER PIDGEON VAN JOHNSON BRIAN DONLEVY

CHARLES BICKFORD JOHN HODIAK EDWARD ARNOLD

BACK ON JUS, KANNUTĖ JO

COMMAND

DECISIONS

A SAN WERE PRODUCTION

A meta-Gandys-Meyer nders

CENTRAL

THEATRE

270, QUEEN'S RD. CENTRAL PHONE "25720.

5 SHOWS DAILY

AT 12.30, 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

FIRST EPISODE *

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BRICK BRADFORD

Causeway Bay. Tel: 25625

AMAZING SOLDIER OF FORTUNE

-KANE RICHMOND

zan Belek Bradford:

RICK YALLING Somer's

LINDA JOHNSON (as June?

PIERRE WATKIN

Nathan Ed. Kowloon. Tel. 6111

ROXY BROADWAY

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COMMENCING TODAY

AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 and 9.30. p.m.

✩ FROM BURLESQUE TO BROADWAY > their love-their triumphs-their heartaches!

BETTY

GRABLE

DAN

DAILEY

Together ageint Mother and Dad of

"Mother Were Tights"I

When My Baby

Smiles At Me

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TECHNICOLOR

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CLETURT-FOX

JACK DAKIE JUNE HAVOC RICHARD ARLEN JAMES GLEASON

páracted by WALTER LANG • Produced by GEORGE JESSEL·

ROXY: ADDED ATTRACTION !

· FOX MOVIETONE" NEWS:

ATOMIC EXPLOSION IN RUSSIA.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF UN

1949 SWEATER GIRL'S PARADE &

SPORTS VARIETY,

CINEMA WORLD

JOHNSON, PIDGEON, GABLE, DONLEVY and BICKFORD

The Germans Were Sorry.

All-Male Cast In War Picture At Queen's

Rating

"Command Decision," which stars Clark Gable, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson and Brian Donlevy in an all-mole cast, opens today at the Queen's Theatre and is a picture about the war that will keep cinema- goers sitting up in their seats even though "1939 and all that" has long been buried in history books.

The story is that of an intrepid ' A lighter touch is offered in Air Force general who has to the film by Van Johnson as the face the momentous decision of imperturbable. Sergeant Evans sacrificing the future of daylight who is given to snitching his boss bombing for the larger end of cigars, while others in the cast saving the lives of thousands of who make "Command Decision" Byers.

a worth while picture include Brian Dalevy as the general who succeeds Gable, John Hodiak as the heroic Colonel Ted Martin, Charles Bickford as the

war cor-

It is given great validity and power in its imaginative camera treatment and its panoramic view of a bombing mission, the crews respondent who gets a scoop that who mân its Flying Fortresses IS and the top-echelon commanders as the

a scoop, and Edward Arnold pornpous Congressman who carry the burden of success who has his own armchair ideas or failure on their shoulders. on how to conduct a war.

Musical, Starring Betty Grable, At Roxy And Broadway

Rating * * *

What can safely be termed one of the finest musical films of the year is 20th Century Fox's production of "When My Baby Smiles At Me" starring Betty Grable, which opens at the Roxy and Broadway today. This picture has much which former Betty Grabie features didn't have: a nice blending of warm drama and music flavoured with a touch of of comedy and all presented in technicolor. What makes Baby" fine enter (gaiety, with the effectiveness of tainment is more the moving storya Pagliacci.

imes

SHOWING

TODAY

AT 238, 5.15

KING'S

7.20 & 9.30 pin.

TURSULENT WITH ADVENTURE.

FLAMING WITH ROMANCE.

The Story of The World's "Most Notorious Bride..

who swore to love ... honor....... and murder the man she married!

de of Vengeance

& Paramount Picture staring PALLETTE

JOHN... MACDONALD

GODDARD • LUND · CAREY * MITCHELL LEISEN PRODUCTE

✨ ma ALBERT DEKKER - JOHN SUTTON - RAYMOND BURR 10:Content by RICHARD MAIBAUMA - Donched by MITCHELI LEISER

ALSO LATEST PARAMOUNT NEWS:

NEXT CHANGE

"HEARTS AFLAME”

A Chinese Picture, with Mandarin Dialogue

auld lang syne's sake. On the THE MOST EP-TO-DATE THEATRE ON THE MAINLAND

opening night however, Dailey fails to show up and is discovered in his old drunken state by Dakle,

of the film than Grable's curves He becomes a drunken wreck which

past marked and falls to fearful depths. His her pictures as box office tops, old friend and manager Dan Dailey's performance all Gleason picks him up again for through also contributes its part to the film's success,

*When My Smiles At Me"

Baby is a

a story about show people. The theme. true to say, is not a new What makes it interesting, however, is the sincerity of pre- sentation given to the top four roles portrayed by

Dan Daily Betty Grable, Jack Oakie and June

Havoc Den and Betty are Mr. and Mra, a -partnership in burlesque that earns them fame. Dan how-

whose love

ever, is the carefree happy-29- lucky leading man for the bottle makes him throw responsiblities to the wind

Et gets a contract with a big

ever, does zet include his pretty outit on Broadway which, how-

wife. Dan is & terrific success on Broadway but complication sets in. First of all, an old girlfriend teams up with him and sets Bet ty aflame

with jealousy. They make up without incident, however, when Betty visits him, and everything is smoothened out Some time later, a news item Feaches Betty showing Dan with his old flame in a police raid on a night club. She

for The film's dialogue is incisive divorce and the plot deepens. and sharp,

Dan now takes with received the picture's back- grounds

when have excellent realism vigour to the bottle

he and the late Sam Wood, Director, learns that Betty marrying has kept his action at a sustain again. He turns up at her apart- od pace without submerging the ment with old friends Jack Oaldie, His June Havoc and James Gleason, arresting personalities General Casey Dennis (Clark principals.

to congratulate Betty, and in this Gable) is convinced that if he

scene Dan is at his dramatic best can.wipe out the three factories: The best tribute to the over jag be plays a lover lost, forcing producing this

aircraft, be eanfall quality of this film is that the war. His

superior such parlour-wall familiars as

"Command Decision" deals with one of the vital and drama tie missions of the war-Opera- tion Stich, designed to destroy German production of a superior jet fighter.

shorten

officers General Kane (Walter Clark Gable, Walter Pidgeon, Van Pitigeon) contends that the plan Johnson, John Hodiak, Brian entails too great a loss of Fly- Donlevy, and Charles Bickford ing Fortresses. It is the clash of merge into the scene as if their these two men and the subsequent uniforms had been issued by a climax that gives "Comband quartermaster and not by a Decision" is meat.

studio wardrobe.

STAR

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17 Hankow Road, Kowloon. October 7 & 8

2.30; 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m.

WELCOME BACK MR. & MRS. THIN MAN! Your first NEW mirth- and-under mystery in

3 years is your best yet?

WILLIAM

POWELL

MYRNA

LOY

MEN'S

Song of the

THIN MAN

KEERAN WYNN

BEAT STANIESŁ PIKT KEE KAFKA FELELSE

A METRO

GOLDWYN-MAYER

October

- ALL NEW

AND MUSIC,

9 & 10 Gary Cooper in Cecil B. DeMille's "THE STORY OF DR. WASSELL”

In Technicolor with Laraine Day Signe Hasso?

Refreshing Theme At

is

Betty reappears on the scenc and goes on the stage with Dan and during their routine tells him that she's back to stay. This in- vigorates Dan and puts the old mazie on his feet. They dance together again As the curtain falls on a happy ending.

BENCH WARMER FOR FOOTBALLERS

What they be thinking of football professionals, have picked next! The Los Angeles Rams, Lucille Ball as "the girl we'd most like to warm our bench."

cot after working in her latest They named her honorary más- starring film, RKO Radio's "In-

terference."

RATINGS

The "China Mail" is using the following, classification to indicate to readers the quality ef. flims 'reviewed:

***

Excellent

Very Good

** Good

Fair

MM Theatre

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SHOWING TODAY AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m.

Lee Theatre YET ANOTHER SUCCESS FOR THE BRILLIANT

Rating: * *

A refreshing theme, coupled with a fine cast and good

script are some of the factors that help to make "The Red Pony," week-end attraction at

the Lee Theatre, a picture with an all-round appeal.

The Technicolor version of John Steinbeck's novel starz Myrna Loy and Robert Mitchum, -with--Louis - Calhera Shepperd Strudwick, and little Peter Miles playing fine supporting roles.

There is conflict in this story,

as in the usual cinema plat. This time, however, it is not a triangle of two men and a girl, or of two girls

and a man The Red

Pong" deplets. the antagonism which grows up between a mine. year-old boy, his father and hired, hand.

a

The father, having "married into a ranch family, is unable to adjust himself to ranch life after leaving the teaching profession. Hard as he tries, the wistful man cannot grow closer to his family and although he is deeply grate ful to his wife for her efforts bring bien into the family circle, he takes out his nervous resent- ment of the situation on his old father-in-law.

Then, when his only son turns to the hired man for training affection

and guidance in all things, the father's woe reaches it's climax. How he works his way out of deep air to content- ment, with the indirect ald of a all red pony, makes good cine- ma entertainment.

Myrna Loy, famed for

ned for her "ideal wife portrayals, plays the mother, while Shepperd Strud-

wick is seen as the father, Bo- bert Mitchum, who is steadily is the

climbing the road stardom, 15

hired man.

Lewis. Milestone, who directed and

produced the picture, suc- ceeded in infecting strong human

somes, mahling: Red Fony to play, success- fully on the imagination of the audience.

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Anna

NEAGLE

Michael

WILDING

HERBERT WILCOX

MAYTIME MAYFAIR

with WALLS TECHNICOLOR

"Produced by HERBERT WILCOXTM

NEXT CHANGE

You'll love everyone in it... and every moment of it!.. MYRNA

ROBERT

LOY MITCHUM

•

in JOHN STEINBECK'S

The Red Pony

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FINAL SHOWING TODAY :

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MICHAEL DENISON,

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RONALD, HOWARD

STEPHEN MURRAY

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"THE STORY OF BIRTH"

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