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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1950.

ROXY BROADWAY

AIR-CONDITIONED

COMMENCING TODAY,

Theatre

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

Men as bold as the sea

they fought... riding full sail into mutiny and high-masted

*** RICHARD

adventure

DOWN to

the SEA

in SHIPS

LIONEL

DEAN

WIDMARK - BARRYMORE... STOCKWELL

20.

CECIL MELLAWAY CENE LOCKHART

HENRY HATHAWAY

LOUIS O. LIGHTON

ORIENTAL

LAIR:CONDITIONED SA

TAKE ANY EASTERN THÂM CAR OR HAPPY VALLEY BUS Showing Today At 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M. SEE....the During Train Holdup!....The Fate of n Double-Crosser !..... The Fury of A Man Betrayed!

JAMES

CAGNEY

IS RED HOT IN WHITE HEAT

Cheerful Performances

TO-NIGHT

at the

RITZA

SWIMMING POOL

BALL ROOM

花池鹿

In Presenting

THE FAMOUS

PAN YU JEN

TROUPE

TO ALL THEIR PATRONS

at 10.30 p.m.

with Comfortable

CINEMA WORLD

DOWN TO THE BEA IN SHIPS From Bad Boy To Good Guy

Widmark stars in

exciting sea story

Rating:★★ ★

It makes a welcome change to run across a sea story that is not just another cose of floggings, mutiny, and blood on the upper deck.

Jean Simmons

wins UK film award

"Down To The Sea in Ships, present traction at the Raxy! and Broadway Theatres, brings such a clange, and movie-goers} will find that as film

Sophistication key-note of new WB picture

Rating:

***

Bringing to the screen an absorbing and tempestu- ous story of the past decade, Warner Bros. is now showing at the Queen's and Alhambra their film version of "The Fountainhead," adapted from the Ayn Rand novel. Starring Gary Cooper as Roark, the architect, and Patricio Neal as Dominique, the picture is enjoyable drama and worth while seeing.

"The Fountainhead" In thứ In "John Loves Mary," and is alory of a young architect who here given a bröllaut dramatic fights out against complacency opportunity to display her tal and tradition on behalf of his own ents in the tumultous romance of work in

which he belleves so Knurk and Dominique. strongly. This theme is set agains")

Also in the cast are Itaymond

n lush background of beautiful} Massey as the nowspaper pub- buildings and Interiors, and the isher, Robert Douglas and Ken film promises.comething as pie- Smilth. torintly thrilling as any pleture

of the year.

Mr. Cooper's genius consists bi his maintaining that skyscrapers should be ruthlessly functional Instead of being tricked out with rococo frills and Olde English furbelows,

Mr.

For ht Independence Cooper guins (a) no ellerits; (b) the hatred of all New York; (c) the love of Patricia Neal, which is as bizarre and functional as Mr Cooper's skyscrapers; and (d) a script packed with plenty of talk about the relation between the individual and the collective. Gary Cooper has been east in

'Fallen Idol'

coming to the King's

Rating:

a strong role. Opposite him, "The Fallen Idol," an English

playing the brilliant and beauti- film coming to the King's ful newspaperwoman is Pat Neal, Theatre, is. polished, witty and the Broadway star who scared to engrossing, and has the further screen stardum after her debut virtue of including in its cast

Chinese film

gresses, it gets better and better. now showing

The ship is a whaler in the days;

a race

Henrey.

actor-young Bobby

Bobby steals the show in moro ways than one, which, in this case, 19

is praise indeed as the other members of the cast are all excellent.

A great deal of the credit for of sall. The parties chiefly in- "Wintry Journey," Chinese the lad's superlative performance volved are

the aged, and testy production now at the King's, ust Ke to Carol Reed, who pro-

duced skipper (Lionel Barrymore: hLiberty and Lee Theatres, de-

and directed the picture and who ty

responsible for o The London "Daily Mail" college ruined pest mate (termonstrates that technically, beguiling performance to watch.

art Widmark): the skipper's China's motion picture indus- has announced that Jean Sim-

In the screen play, which Mr. young grandson (Dean Steckwell), been mons, has

voted by

mode try has

tremendous feet devised

short from his memeer of the crew.

*The cinema-goers throughout the

Basement Moom." story', strides. Alongside some spectacular British Isles as the most popu- operations with whales and ice,

Photography, lighting, the pre- young Henrey is the son of an

ambassador accredited emotions-ORCE

to Britain, lar Film Actress for the year bergs, a frst-class conflict Di Bestation of

Because his mother }slI and 1949: With this award goes personalities is played out be mein weakness are now master. the title "First Lady of the tween the bigated old captain and fully handled, while the incidental away from home, the boy has with become the charge of the Em- British Sreen",

the younger man, with his new music blends excellently

How the

bassy butler, an amiable tale- fangled theories of navigation and whaling. The complicating;

spinner, whom he loves, and the butler's wife, a nag in every factor is the boy, whose loyalties

schse

of the world, whom he are divided between the two.

hates.

Few artists of the screen have deserved this award more than lovely Jean Siminons. Her rise to the heights of stardom and inter- national

acclaim has been achieved by straightforward hard

Richard Widmark forsaking shivery villulny-is admirable, and Dean Stockwell. one of the beat

touching performance.

plot.

Where local movie makers still full-at least as far as the Wes- Lem critje 1s concerned-is in the almalness and pointlessness of the

Drama story.

is usually emphasised, and the hero heroine invariably take the long

over- or

Complicating the situation in the fact that the butler bus taken up with a lovely stenographer

work and undoubled talent. She boy actors about, gives a moss and tedious way out of their pre--who works in the establishment. ]

Shtry Journey," in

.

short,

has endeared herself to the hearts

The film describes the boy'd

ΟΙ of millions of movie-goers in Of Mr. Barrymore-by this time dicament, much to the bewilder Innocent confusions about the every country in the world and

of the audience. # lovable Institution beyond

matler with frare dexterity, and has made many friends by, her criticism-we can only record that

when, presently, the butler's wife who appearances in and visits to

poor farmer to he emils another torrent of those deals with a

plunges to her death down a stali Aim's Europe, India, Australia and poweriu! histrionics which make loses his daughter to the

well, after discovering her hus- the land-owner. America.

Then band and his lady friend frolick- us feel that he should change his villain, "Hamlet", "Scott of the Antarc- nume from Barrymore lo Barry-

follows tragedy

and after tragedy, ing about the premises, it builds tle," "Madness of the Heart, "The most.

although the end Bees the

up,

melo-dramatic at- daughter escape, provides

ale, at the same Blue Lagoon" and "Adam and

time. Except for a tiny intrusion a

mosphere Evelyne" were some

studying of the J. the beginning, there are no ladier satisfactory punishment for the

who is as mean a cuss Sympathetically Arthur Rank pictures voted into whatsoever to muss up this man's villain

reactions. Master the first 10.

picture.

ister Henrey is extreme

1

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&

PROGRESS IN THE FIGHT AGAINST

TUBERCULOSIS

IF TUBERCULOSIS IS DISCOVERED EARLY AND TREATED PROMPTLY AND PROPERLY, THERE IS AN EX- CELLENT CHANCE THAT IT CAN BE CONTROLLED.

A great effort is being made in Ilong Kòng... to save the lives of thousands where great handicap, are ignorance and paverly,

DURING THIS MONTH OF MAY A SPECIAL APPEAL IS BEING MADE, AND IN THE NAME OF THAT MASS OF SUFFERING HUMANITY

IDST YOU ARE EAR

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.ft.

no

as one can find on the screen; in fact, U.S. censors,

the

we are sure, fortunate in having the assistance would have cut his part to rib-jal Sir Rolph Richardson, as the hone

ARering butler, and Michela

On the whole, the movie-goer

will find "Wintry Journey"

as the lovesick. stenog.

The former is enormous-

exciting and enjoyable as the ly competent, and the latter won-

average film made in Hollywood, derfully decorative as well

花

The Alm's star is Miss Li Li- competent. The photography is hwa.

superb, and the dialogue enter- taining and reallio.

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THE STORY OF THE PLANE THAT BUSTED THE BLITZ!

"SPITFIRE"

SAMUEL GOLDWYN

PRESENTS

VEN

Starring LESLIE HOWARD DAVID PILOTS AND OTHER PERSONNEL OF THE R.A.F. FIGHTER COMMAND

COMMENCING on SATURDAY 13th MAY

LONDON DAR," PERRUCTION, PIANTANAY.

ALEXANDER KORDA & DAVID O. JELEM.CR

JOSEPH COTTEN · VALLI ORSON WELLES TREVOR HOWARD

on Carot Readi lattal production

"The Third Man'

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Produced and dvečne Ŵ CAROL NEED

COMMENCING SUNDAY

AT THE KING'S

Site: London Flims Present;

THE

Michèle Morgan

Ralph Richardson

Fallen Idol.

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