1950-11-25 — Page 4

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1950.

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

WHERE'S MY HORSE? I AIN'T USTA WALKIN

YOU AIN'T GONNA BE DOIN MUCH WALKIN' AT ALL, BOWLEGS. JUST ROUND'N'ROUND IN A CELL!

I HAD TO LAUGH!-- YOU GOT BOW LEGS SO MIXED UP, HIS GANGDON'T KNOW WHERE TO GO--MADE IT EASY TO NAB EM-THANKS TO YOU!

I'M SORRY YOU'RE ALL LEAVING. WHY DON'T YOU STAY AND RELAX A WHILE?

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

SORRY, AUNT JANET MANDRAKE HAS TO

GET BACK-THANKS FOR HAVING US

NARDA, THE NEXT TIME YOUR AUNT INVITES US TO HER RANCHI FOR A REST TELL HER I'VE GONE TO CHINA.

Fit

JORN FORD

MERIAN C. COOPER

WAGONMASTER

racing

BEN JOHNSON -JOANNE DRU

HARRY CAREY, Jr.- WARD BOND"

WED CHARLES KEMPER

KIAN MOWERAT • JANE DANWEL

Directed by

JOHN FORD

"Python by Frank Hugal and Patrick Ford Produced by Argony Pictures Corporation

Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures

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SEAT IN THE STALLS

Brando Leigh's Streetcar

the burning Mr. new face on Vivien

SHOW TALK meets

the

by Harold Conway

-who once dug dliches for a drainage construction Arm-was

Fint picture from Hollywood the original Stanley Kowalski

Dow

man.

of Vivien Leigh, with her 26-year-old Leading Marlon Brando, finds them bay. ing a chat between shots on A Streetcar Named Desire.

Miss Leigh, as a rule. doesn't have to fight for the limelight : But A she attracts it naturally, fight may be on, ber hands when Streetcar reaches the screens For Hollywood is currently

booming

Ar limitless skies.

Brando

to its

This young man from Omaha

In Streetcar on Broadway. After the audļtion Tennessee Williams bad to lend him the bus fare to gel bome

Now the Clm people are build- ing him up as the "burning tople of Hollywood conversation." I'm not quite sure what that means: but Milas Leigh, it would scem, is not for burning.·.

We shall soo: Mr. Brando's first picture which began all the pother The Men has its Londen première next week,

REST OF CONWAY'S SHOW NEWS:

זי

Chaplin is still drawing them in

at a time when show busi- ness has suddenly slumped? Chaplin's 20 year old "City Lights"; it has taken £5,000 in a fortnight.

scenes March.

were

ambitious im- Mudlark": the clowning

last duction team,

to

came have

the lust word-and that.

own

What picture is drawing plagued by an

Powell and the Pimpernel.

most con- their completed the West End crowds presario and governess. Studio from Britain's own No. 1 pro- the public, so far, are lilting

For me, PressburgcTwith "The Elusive

sistent champion, the day will Meanwhile, a rival flm with Fimpernel.”

After all these reproaches to be when Messrs. P. and P. co

to writing their a rival buy actor-"Preludo

12-year- Hollywood about their trent back Fam. introducing old Jeremy Spenser had won ment of English history, here original screen stories-ke "A being Matter of Life and Death" and fire Britain's cinea are

of

The Red Shoes." They have heaped од our

an impish imagination which Yet a few weeks ago this screens. Master Spenser's part: courteously

whose life is heads. film could not get a booking a boy conductor

by an ambitious

Powell and Press- seems allergic to other people's burger say after the biggest brain-children. at any of the major cinemas plagued

foster-mother.

their of alumming Korda's com- criticni

(World Copyright London Express in the suburbs and pro-

will service.j That the publle Exhibitors were vinces,

Flims, made career?

No date fixed for its

the race to

Sir Alexander

London pany,

frightened of a "revival"- "The Wonder Kid."

has yet bren and a non-talkie at that.

coals

What do

public showing. There is a feel- DAVID LEWIN REPORTS

to refused They

regarding,

I gather, that the public Chaplin as "box-office" until have had their all of boy pro the public pointed the

way.

Now bids are coming from all digles for the time being.

al-

Shaw and after

over the country and the Rank Organisation are negotiating a release on their entire circuit. John Clements and his wife, should Wardour Strott

Kuy Hammond, Why is

of timid about cinema- make a worth-while job ways so

and Man

Superman goers' reaction to the unbanal? their

they tell Give the public a chance, and they will always respond

production-planned, to

an enterprising Idea 50 long as it is a good one.

112 1זת

me, before Shaw's death,

we are But I hope for a spate of Shaw revivals; there

Children prefer

the Wicked Lady to the Wooly West

T

And now Paulette thing Exhibitors, except for a few may seem tempting; the effect with British

box-office terms

independents,

are 141

in

unfortunate.

the Festival.

a

15

arc

BOYS demond: cowboys, detectives, are indications of some OP of the ballot for

publicity

mys- favourite film stars gangsters and The like it.

comedies, followed by children

teries and ghost pictures. Love might be Margaret Lockwood. She stays firmly on the outside, sturdy

GIRLS put love stories only has pushed Roy Rogers,

They prefer safety-minded: they prefer to Best idea would be for

flims then cowboy be staged in hero of the "Which-way- in fourth place. lead their patrons along a one- Shaw festival to

road in

year as way, single-track

and mystery and ghost stories. London next

part of did-they-go-sheriff?" West- musicals,

children As critics, blinkers.

erns, into second place. Chaplin is now planning

arranged some The Old Vic follow-up revival with

revive "Captain time ago to

Mason, Alan Ladd and Pat nim writer. So we sha

Roxt

A "Modern Times."

12-year-old boy Brassbound's Conversion"

Roc.

school be seeing the young and then

If you thought that Disney's primary unknown Puulette

Goddard, April,

this will now be A Since Chaplin

Donald Duck or Mickey Mouse "Spring in to

We kind of memorial tribute, I am word have a place in your outstanding box office success: picture.

lots of love' and about the Vic's choice. child's pin-up Eat you would be "It had Paulelic, In retrospect, scein Ferry

--(London Express. Service)

marriage

whose followed th's

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The next three are James harsher than any professional This was a man who lived by his guns

from a dismisses Park Lane," an

was

are many better Shaw wrong. They don't get a men- not exciting at all." as delightful as Virginia Cher- There

an occasion. tion-and Disney films, which rill does in "City Lights"? I am plays for such

Here, perhaps, is a plan which parents Hike children to curious to see,

it is never too late to mend?

to

The Wonder Kid

waits

Topic of wonder In

tilm

circles: what has happened

"The Wonder Kld"? That

The roasted Pimpernel

come law.

2,000 'samples'

T

THESE results

came from a survey made among 2,000 children," aged äve

Things work out consample

trariwise in film-land. Last

was, the picture which 10-year weak brought two new pic to 15 from all pants of Britain utures with an historical Eng and all types of school. The old Boddy Henrey made)

with quiz was made for the Govern- setting-one done

ment and is the most revealing Austria, dollowing his succes lish

other and tact, the I estimate taste

of its kind. In The Fallen Idol,

meaningless charade. its cost at £200,000.

A An Master Henrey's part was planist prodigy, whose life

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the boys and the girls which puls "The Wicked Lady"! Margaret Lockwood on top. And aino out of ten of Miss Lockwood's last pictures have "A" conlilcates they are not suitable for children.

The favourite actor for the boys is still Roy Rogers, and his white horse Triggor. The

girls, choice for a male star is James Mason, with Michael Wilding in second-placo.

Do children like childsters?

They have a simple answer

No.

the

Whion-At comes to pick

choice for a favourili

won easily by, the three-year ald "Best Year of Our Lives" the story of

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