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THE CHINA MAIL. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1950.

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

KING'S LIBERTY

SHOWING TO-DAY

SPECIAL TIMES: AT 2.30, 5.00, 7.20 & 9.40 P.M.

THE CENSUS TAHER CALLED TODAY. HE ASKED MORE QUESTIONS-

DAVID O. SELZNIGK'S

JENNIFER JONES

GREGORY PECK

DUEL

SUN

in Technicolor

JOSEPH COTTEN

With LIONEL BARRYMORE HERBERT MARSHALL

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WALTER HUSTON

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MASSEY

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BEHIND 200 MILES TO GO

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After Completo Renovation & Redecoration

the

STAR THEATRE

Will reopen for business

HE EVEN WANTED TO KNOW IF I--

DII-MANDRAKE~

QUIET. THIS IS NOT.,

A STICK-UP.

Hmmm--

YOUR

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SEAT IN THE STALLS

California snapshot

By Leo Falk, and Phil Davis

← GENN

steps up for the MASON part➡

WE'RE HERE TO COLLECT THE LADY. BON'T MOVE AND YOU WON'T GET KUAT, MISTER.

(CONTINUED)

IN THE STAGE SEVENTH VEIL

By Harold Conway

Since the Masons and original role in a stage ver- he Grangers. departed, au- aion of The Seventh Veil, seems to be one iences have been feeling there

of burning question with this tarved of the brand

ac- public: Who will act the omance, which those tors supplied. And now that James Mason character? Ann Todd, is to play her

JEAN SIMMONS

HOLDS ON TO HER HUSBAND-TO-BE

...and back in London the Customs hold on to her engagement ring

By DAVID LEWIN

Enthusiastic (and start- ling) suggestions have been showering into manager Henry Sherek's office and overflowing into mine. The play looks like being bur- dened in advance with the unofficial sub-title: Aro You A Mason?

This would be as unfair as it Is silly. So I will now forceast that Leo Genn acts the part of Mist Todd's. dominating guardian-turned-Svengali ana, sensibly, acts it on his own and not Masonic lines.

la

Mr Genn has risen to stor Rtatus during the past year on stage and screen. He had a dominating role in the last Mrs Miniver Alm and

how in Venice, after months of being that £3, an Early Roman for 000,000 epic Quo Vadis. He likes Jean Simmons tella me until I go out of England release her ring without pay-the Seventh. Vell idea. that she cannot afford to again. Then I can pick it ment. It would then be

aldered to be part of her per- purchase up. Pity. I wanted to show sonal belongings.

Price tag: £3,000 purchase tax and duty demanded by it to mummy-and all my

tax and duly on the ring would the Customs on the engage- chuma."

mean that Granger paid in the region of £1,500 for it in the U.S.

pay the

£8,000

the

ment ring she got from Before Granger bought Stewart Granger in Holly ring she wore a thread of

con-

Authors Sydney and Muric! Box, now in a caravan some- where between New Orleans and Texas, like the Leo Genn idea So the trans- equally well.

And trans-European Atlantic cables are busy.

It is nearly six years, since on the appeared Ann Todd At Christmas "So it is back to cotton round

And the wedding? The latest stage: she will be the Arst star diamond The ring is a

my finger," said Jean, I wear date is Christmas, in Hollywood I can recall to act a part in the

the Customs cotton as long as solitaire set in a gold claw.

The first call Jean received in theatre after croating it on the England when she landed was screen.

It was the most appealing Said Jean, who flew home want the money."

Jean bas ons hope. If she from Gabriel Pascal. He wants

and "Androcles

the part Miss Todd herself one of from the United States: ves abroad for another year, to make "The Customs can hold it or 18 months, the Customs may Lion" with her starting in our best actresses--has had. To

wood.

cotion.

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TWO COUPLE YOUNG RUSSIAN IN A VERY INTERESTING LOVE STORY.

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TO-MORROW FIRST SHOWING IN HONGKO

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Jean That's when Jimmy (Stewar Granger) la due in London to his film here. That means we shan't be together in Britair either....

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Jean Simmons is slimmer- minus 101b-and Atter. "I play. ed a lot of tennis and stayet home at nights," she said.

Before she

left Hollywood. shr and Granger tried to plan ou the Arst two or three years of their married life.

"I want to go on Alming after we're married and

crilics who complain: "Why not something new?" she retorts) that practically every now play script she has read makes her a murderess.

"I am very tired of murder- ing," says Ann Todd,

The Blizzard West End theatre managers their еге trying to recover breaths and their business

the whirlwind clump after which hit them recently,

Some of them. ure comparing box-office damage notes with au Jimmy the pride of those blitz-bores in thinics as I do," sald Jean. " the war. you work these things out first

Hollywood

cable:

This clump came suddenly

unexpectedly

after

they don't seem so terrible wher and quito

which I re les the little boom turn up, And they are les likely to upset a marriage." ported some weeks ago.

When One of London's biggest suc Stewart Granger was told of the ces, when and been taking duty Jean Simmons was asked £900 a performance, was down. 10 pay on

her ring he enld: "Fantastic. I am very sad for her that she had this difficulty. (London Express Service)

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in the name of Rattigan,

The worst theatre perico

11

the year is still ahead-the three

or four Weeks batore Christmas

went Managed badly

UZION

money in the kitty before then.

Quiet, Plosso

Stage airs should really be protceled from

their triends who behave tactlessly at first niglits.

tho

At anb unhappy premiere exaggerated applau.c from the Salle', for syncy, en- trance and exit must have been embarrading for the actors- who

best were Hoing their

against odds,

buz

The friends meant kindly; they only succeeded in provok Ing counter-demonstrations, long before the curtain fell, froin-the Ox gallery, Enthusiasm in the theatre in delightful, when it is genuine, but there are becsklona

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