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LEE THEATRE

AIR CONDITIONED OZONIZED AND WARM

SHOWING TODAY

4 SHOWS AT 2.30, 5.15, 7,20 & 9.20 p.m.

They Love 'Em "And Leave 'Em BROKE!

LAKE

Joan

CAULFIELD Barry FITZGERALD

These tight-fingered light-hearted. Testler... who'll steel "your basis and your packetbreki

WILLIAM DEMARES? George Reeves Beulah Bondi

Sainted Sisters

Produced by

Directed By RICHARD MAIBAUM › WILLIAM D. RUSSELL

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COMMENCING SUNDAY

ALLRAMISE KORDA & DAVID O HŁANICA

JOSEPH COTTEN

VALLI

ORSON WELLES TREVOR HOWARD

on Carol Reeds listast production

"The Third Man"

Product and ducono 91 CAPOL REBO

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BOLLMAJESTIC

THEATREN

SHOWING TODAY

Because LEVE

Rimed with ALL-STAR HOLLYWOOD CASTI with the co-operation of the University of California West Coast Health & Welfare Organisation

A Picture that Answers all the QUESTIONS about the

True Facts of Life

SEGREGATED AUDIENCES (ADULTS ONLY)

ROXY:

FINAL SHOWING TODAY AT 5.00 PM. LADIES ONLY 2.30, 7.35 & 9.30 P.M. MEN ONLY

Also Added!

Arthur Bank presents "THE WEAKER SEX”

4 SHOWS DAILY AT 2.30 P.M. LADIES ONLY 5.20, 7.20 & 0.30 P.M. MEN ONLY

CINEMA WORLD

It's Bob Hope at CHRISTMAS the King's Theatre

Famed feet A MERRY

dance at Queen's

Rating:..❤

Together again, but none the worse for the long lay-off, are Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, who will dance their way back into the hearts of film fans at the Queen's Theatre In "The Barkleys of Broad- way."

TO ALL {FILM FANS

Realistic thriller

at the Lee

Ratli.g:..

win Destined to previous pictures

fame as his have done

A film which should attract all those who don't mind a generous dose of hearty laughs is "Sorrowful Jones,” starring Bob Hope and Lucillo Bafl, which is the Christmas attraction at the King's Theatro,

Bob, as usual, clowns his way in a fit of generosity, he accepts through the picture, although it marker from D prospective must be said that his latest customer and also the latter's characterisation that of Sorrow little daughter-In lieu of money. ful Jones-sees him play it mora | When the customer falls to turn or less straight, I that it quite up and is instead found floating possible with him.

Jones Is New York book- maker who is so mean and stingy that Silos Marner would look like Good-hearted Gus to him.

Good Musical post-war to the Roxy

Both veterans show that there is still that old spark left thas made them the most-talked-about dancing teath when today's teen- agers were wetting their diapers.

The Alm's plot is a bit froth. Josh and Dinah Barkley, lending tusient comedy man-and-wife team, split up because the female Carol Reed's "The Third Mon," partner yearns to

the Lee Theatre, is be Taken coming to seriously as a legitimate actress, a thriller et against the brood. She is headed for a Bop when Ing background of her husband springs to the

Vienn But like the other Gra cue accretly, conching her OVER

ham Greene stories on which the phone in a disgulied volce.

Iteed has bured his films, it And all through

the

piece mare than thin. **The Third there's dancing- -there's

de Man" is a graphic commentary on lightful Highland Fling doe! and A city under Four Power rule Astaire's miraculpus shoe daner unsure of Its future and fearful For the fadies there's Miss

of its present, Rogers' wardrobe, definitely the beat we've seen on the servon inj many a month.

TO-

"The Backleys of Broadway," Inetdentally, Is in Techntrolor.

BROADWAY

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FIGHTING FOOLS!

GALLANT LEGION, I

WILLIAM ELLIOTT

ADRIAM BOOTH

JOSEPH SCHILDKRAUT BRUCE CABOT HANDY DEVINE. JACK HOLE

GRANT WITHERS

LE MARA JAMES BROWN Low The Sprend Adams John, Butler

ADELE

REPUBLIC PICTURE

SHOWING TOMORROW

JUNE HAVER In

-

"OH ! YOU BEAUTIFUL DOLL"

A Fox Technicolor Musical!

Rating:

a river with a low bullets 15 him, ole Sorrowful is stuck with a useless marker and the child.

He soon finds out that playing Poppa, even for culo girl, Isn't very easy; and besides, costs money.

K

However, after many ups and downs with a gang of race track racketeers and a night club sin. ger (Misa Boll), everything ends weli. In the meantime, clnemu goers are treated to sorne fine

That fabulous era just after the Humour a la Hopa.

Joseph Cotton plays the partum of an American willer who comes

to Vienna to do propaganda work for his old friend, Hurry Lime. When onrrival, he is informed that Lie was killed in a street acekdent and alee that he was a

and fr

the 4

re-

turn of the century (history to most of us) when Jazz, was the rago and Rong-pluggers infexteri To-Pon Alley where hit tunes sold millions

of copies, s counted tunefully and with Technicolour trimmings in "Oh. You Beautiful Doll," which will to the Roxy Theatre. be coming to

The frame-work of the picture. is built around the life story of Fred Fisher. whose SHIR

hlts racketeer, he sets about to clear 1900's. A dozen of his tunes add were on every piano in the early

his friend's name.

Alm melody This lends him into a series of among them being "Pex O' My

"Ireland Heart,"

that Must Be adventures, during the enurse of

Heaven, which he comes involved with the o

"Come, Josephine, In girl who loved Lime, played by My Flying Machine," "Who Paid | the Italian actress. Vaili, and the e

Mre. Rip Rent For

Van The Winkic." There's A Braken impartial but ruthless chief of

Police Military

in Vienna.

Heart For Every Light On Broad- Trevor-Howard has here a part way "Chiengo" and "Dur of no romantic appeal, but one Loveable is the best way tu which will certainly enhances describe S. Z. (Cuddles) Sakoll's high reputation as B flest-class

portrayal of the Fisher role into actor.

which he infects much aly hum- As, together, they unearth de- our, and Charlotte Greenwood talls surrounding Lime's existenco

makea an equally ingratiating they meet with a succession

wife of

of the song writer. Gale suspicious characters and

Robbins, as the con-

otber giri, Jay fleting clues, which eventually Fuppin, Andrew Tamber, and Tend

dramatic to n

man-bunt Eduard Frans also contribute de- through the vast sewers under lightful performances. Vienna, providing a ftung climax In a tense film.

"The Third Man"

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donella

One of the exhilarating high- lights of the production is June's and Mark's whirlwind rendition moves at of "Come, Josephine, In My Fly- times rather slowly. However, ing Machine." They make the realism of the surrounding, most engaging couple and their plus some fascinating incidental love scener add just the right zither mule by Anton Kares amount of glamour to the story more than make up for this fault. | which is tinged with pathos,

Outdoor picture at the King's

Rating: *

with nothing

Beautiful outdoor scenes in red drawers,

on but a pair of

Technicolor and a horse that Borrowing a sult of clothes, ho

Bostel ranch

ond Kocs to the is every inch a champlon are

demands of Bostel (George two points that make "Red

Brent), king-pin of the town and Canyon," week-end fare at the breeder of thoroughbreds, the King's Theatre, a fairly enjoy-horso and clothes swiped by Bostel's daughter Lucy (Ann

able show.

Starring Ann Blyth, Howard | Blyth). Duff and George Brent, the Alm After an exchange of hot words is based on Zane Grey's "Wild-in which Bostel orders Lin to fire" and tells the story of a leave the community, the tracker wild horse tracker who not only plaks up a buddy in Jonah (Ed- gets his horse, but a girl too. gar Buchanan) and the two ride After he has been victimised to for the open range where Lin the extent of losing his mount captures the wild horse, Black and

clothing in a Velvet. most of hin pronk played on him by mis- MAJESTIC:

On the big day of the meat, chievous Ann Blyth, Lin Slone Lin is accused of using a fictitious (Howard Duff), a wild horse name, and is believed to be one tracker, arrives in the little West- of the notorious Cordts gong of ern town of Bostel's

thieves. Crossing murderera and horse

Lucy refuses to think Lin is one of the outlaws, and rides hla After the race, the real Cordis gang attempts to run off the race horses while Bostel and Linare fighting it out Lin turns hle guus on the Cordis, and with the help of Jonah and Black Velvet eliminates them. Bostel, who has long been gunning for the Corcits, Accepts Lin for the man he is and gives consent to Lucy's 'mar- rloge.

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"SO DARK THE NIGHT"

MAJESTIC

A Columbia Picture

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RED

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