1950-11-18 — Page 4

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KING'S

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MOTHER and DAUGHTER ....... RIVALS IN LOVE!

Thoir jealous hate brought flaming evil to a family proud and mighty!

RKO

PARE

ROSALIND RUSSELL

MICHAEL REDGRAVE

RAYMOND MASSEY-KATINA PAXINOU

LEO GENN-KIRK DOUGLAS

EUGENI O'NEILL'S

*MOURNING BECOMES

ELECTRA"

Fredred and hosted by

DUDLEY MICHOLS

آنکه ده مانه وکالت وانت مو برای ما است این موهای با

Robert BEATTY

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TVORENO ASEAN KLAM AZNIVOAT

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, "NOVEMBER 18, 1950.

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

BOWLEG BEN'S GANG RIDE TO THE TRAIN BRIDGE..........

--FOLLOWED BY MANDRAKE.

THEY'RE MOVING FAST. THEY HAVEN'T MUCH TIME UNTIL THE TRAIN REACHES THE BRIDGE--

By Leo Falk and Phil Davis --

PILE SOME OF THEM LOGS ON THE TRACKS, BOYS. MAKE IT SHAPPY!

THEY BE SETTING UPA BLOCK ON THE TRACKS THEY'LL DERAIL THAT TRAIN INTO THE CANYON--J

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A REAL LIFE DRAMAS! GINGER BRITTON in

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IN PAWN

conces AND wwooooos

Mervyn JOHNS Nova PILBEAM in

"COUNTERBLAST"

with MARGARETTA SCOTT

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Walt Disney Full Technicolor

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The Private Lady of a Public Enemy!

ANANER BALF. “TLANNCH RIEN SYERS QREET!

JOAN

DATIB

CRAWFORD BRIAN "The Damned Don't Cry!

☆ 5 SHOWS TO-MORROW ✯ Extra Performance 'DAMNED DON'T CRY'

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Gal who Took the West

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Yvonne

Co-starring

Charles

DCARLO-COBURN

Scott

John

BRADY RUSSEL

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The plot dates back to the

PRIVATE LADY OF

A PUBLIC ENEMY

home and be- Unhappy sirt (Joan Crawford) leaves her

where comes a model in a dress house

an nocountant (Kent Smith) becomes Interested. Bo the official release on what "The Damned Don't Cry!", now showing at the Queen's und Alham... bra Theatres, declares in its summary of what the plotúre is #11 about.

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It would seem quite con- Const (of the United States, of ceivable that the chief clerk, the course).

a

pattern cutter and the office boy In Cochran ehe Ands love at would show similar interest in jest. The story reminds one of

Lady of Miss Crawford's many another

Bros. Warner charms, but so be it.

gangster hriller, but Warner's 'For some far-fetched reason, rangsters are cut to the best mannequin Joan is introduced pattern that Hollywood can by the Arm's accountant (Kent produce and the thrills are all Smith), who evidently keeps bad there. What's another version company, to a big crime synu of the same story if not just as cate boss, David Brian and is much excitement to the filmgoer sent by him to check on the who gets more relaxation from activities of Steve Cochran, a the rattle of six-shooters than gang Heutenant on the West from Hamlet's soliloquies.

Mannequin and gang boss (Joan Crawford and David Brian).

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Reading from the left in modern dress, Orestes (Michael Rodgrave), Elektra (Rosalind Rus @ell), Clytemnestra (Katina Paxinou) and her paramour (Leo Genn).

this, my great fest performa ante, I was not

juntirely alone!"

Clifton Jeanne Wyram

WEBB CRAIN LOY

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Greeks CHEAPER DOZEŃ

week-end for the highbrow WALTER LANG LAMAR TROTTI TECHNICOLOR

Star attraction of the Batty Lymm Edgar Buchanan 2 0401

flmgoer is thẻ version turn-

ed out by Hollywood of | Eugene O'Neill's "Mourn ing Becomes Electra", cur- rently at the King's Theatre.

The plot of this now famous .play goes back to the Grocks. It

Burton Phy by Gunner Trekal » Based on Die Nevil ky Frisk 1. Ortbroth, Jr, and Érnaasina Ölfbrein Onu

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was adapted by O'Neill from "A SELECTED PROGRAMME. “A SELECTED PROGRAMN

"Oresteia", a set of three plays by Aeschylus, father of the Greek drama. The story of the murder of King Agamemnon by his wife, Clytemnestra; bitd the

visited upon

pon the lat- vengeance ter and her paramour by her

Elektra *Wo children,

and Orestes, is transferred to a New England setting in the days when women's finery was volu minous.

Hollywood cannot resist get- ting an original, though not an- elent, Greek Into the cart of characters and so we have Katina Paxing of "For Whom the The Bell Tolls" fame,

England Clytemnestre.

mend Massey la tho now{ Agamemnon. Rosalind Russell is the new Elektra and Michael Redgrave the new Orestes. It would have been difficult to as- semble a Aner cast but, the for critics say, a play created

bo im- the stage can seldom proved by scenario writers.

Theirs was a family of 12

Myrna Loy, the screen's per- feet wife and Clifton Webb, the screen's perfect baby-sitter, are the mother and father of -* family of 12 in "Cheaper By The Dozen", the best light enter- tainment of the week-end, now showing at the Roxy and Broad- way Theatres.

The story is adapted from the the best-selling memoirs of same title by Frank B. Gilbreth, Glibreth Ernestine Jr. and Carey, Dad is an eccentric, time and motion expert before the days of supersonic planes and men from other worlds watch- ing us and mother is a famous psychologist to whom a dozen children are just so much more fascination.

Filmgoers may be misled by the display posters for the film into thinking that Edgar Buchanan, Mildred Natwick and Sara Allgood are three of the children. They may be among Miss Loy's problems but they aro decidedly not members of ner brood., Jeanne Crain, how- ever, is one..

A highlight of the im Myrna Loy's appearance in a bathing suit of the pre-Mack with Sennett typo, completo awan shoes, course black stock- ings black billowy bloomers skiri that fully and a cape down to the knees.

Edgar Buchanan has a nice role. Ho' the family doctor who comes in to remove the children's tonsils en masse.

Muni-Myrna Loy

Dad-Clifton Webb'

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