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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST

1951.

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

-TO-DAY ONLY

KING'S 7.20 & 9.30

AT 2.30, 5.15,

P.M.

THAT'S NARDA'S „VOICES:

HURRY, LOTHAR/ -

| AN ARM~~Ch~~MANDRAKE/

LISTEN-

||MANDRAKE--|

NAADA? WHAT ARE YOU DOING | HERE?

Between their

HATE

stood the woman.

I WISH I KNEW

OH, MANDRAKE GET ME OUT OF

· THIS HORRIBLE

FIELD

SHOWING

TO-DAY

W•G•M's BIG

QUEENT

ALHAMBRE

AT 230, 5.15,

7.20 & 9.30 P.M.

SIMER HÅLLIAMS HOMARAKEEL PAGAN

LOVE

BENEDICT DOGLAUS

"The CROOKI

MELLEN DREW

WAY

JOHN PAYNE SONNY TUFTS

PLLAKE - Price in BENEDICT BOGEAUS »

ROBERT FLOREY

Scrapery by RICHARD FL. LANDAU - Based on state plays Modelos Day" by Robert Marcos ›Pelouse (hry UXITED ARTISTA

TO-MORROW ★

Extra Performance, To-morrow at 11.30 a.m.

RED HOT romance that rocks of New Orleans!

ROBERT MITCHUM AVA GARDNER

MELVYN DOUGLAS

RAY FORBIDDEN PAST

with

LUCILE WATSON - JANIS CARTER

BOOKINGS 'NOW OPEN!

ROXY

Town Booking Office: Hong Kong

Furture Shop, & Queca's Road C.' }

BROADWAY

FINAL SHOWING AT 2.30, 5.30; 7.30 & 9.30 P.M:

Rooney Runs

Riot on the Roller

Raceways!

ROONEY

O BRIEN

with

BEVERLY TYLER

A TEOR PRODUCTION Released by 20th Century-Fax

ROXY ADDED LATEST MOVIETONE NEWS:

(1)

(2)

"Gov. Deway Visits Chiang Kai-shok.” "Harriman in Iran."

COMMENCING TO-MORROW 5 SHOWS

Extra Performance At 12.00 Noon Dragon-Horse Loon-Mat Films presonts -Miss-Loo-Li-hwa-in-

“SHOULD THEY MARRY?”

A Chinese Pictura in Mandarin Dialogue

TO-DAY

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LOU

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Commencing To-morrow!'

FOREIGN

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ATRICIA MEDINA zariy anji

TWO WEEKS WITH LOVE"

SPECIAL MORNING SHOW ON SUNDAY AT 12.80

Charlie Chaplin. In "THE GREAT, DICTATO

THE FRINGE SURVIVES

Little Anita Loos steps from the Ile de France beat-train at Paddington... Back in 1925, when her fabulous "Gentle- mon Prefer Blondes' was published, Anita was wearing the tightly packed fringe of

SOUTH

SHI

SEAS MUSICAL!

NEXT WEEK THE HAYSTACK

25 GOLDEN YEARS ROONEY ON

the smaller picture. Her blonde heroine would have called it "devine." Now the Loos fringe has appeared again-looking very little different and just as dashing beneath a snappy velvet cap with pork-ple leanings.

David Lewin's SPOTLIGHT

A FACE TO TALK ABOUT

NEW and startling face comes to

A face with

the screen.

tender pathetic look that women will love. Mel Ferrer is the name, 34-year-old American actor, who used to be a Broadway dancer.

The film that will make his face re- membered is "The Brave Bulls," the story of bullfighting in Mexico..

Ferrer-married with two children- is no relative of this year's film Oscar winner Jose Ferrer (pronounced Furaire). But with his brilliant performance as the matador Ferrer puts himself into the same Academy Award class.

Mel Ferrer has made a picture or two

ready. He was the Negro doctor who passed

far white in "Lost Boundaries," Once he play- ed in a comedy with Joan Fontaine. Neither Alim caused audiences to think very" about the man with the fluent face.

much

Now comes the chance for that lean look and those worried eyes to make him a star, It has happened before: Gregory Peck with his sincerity

James Cagney with that chunky toughness......John Wayne with the hero's smile in the eyes,

I see only one hold-up, Bullfighting films are seldom top favourite, Mel Ferrer will reach success only if women watch his face-and forget the fight...

*

Why, It's...

It took some time to recognise Harold Lloyd in London. Since 1918 his film signpost has been those familiar heavy hornrimmed spectacles--with no lenses,

Yet here he was looking like

a stockbroker

with

slightly

Best

nced

greying hair, and wearing glasses off-screen for the time "because my eyes them,"

Ho used the heavy

rimmed variety as prop

MEL FERREGwa look that womans will love.

The Loos Lament

A WOMAN

in

น

train

ROLLERS

Mickey Rooney takes the name of Johnny Casar-s World Champion Roller, Skater-and becomes a con- celted little guy who worms his way to the top of the roller racoways through a thoroughly uncomfortable two hours for everyone watching the performance.

One is left trusting that an injustice has been done the World Champion-that in real life, had he been quite so ob- Fjectionable og Rooney make

him out to be, he wouldn't have got where ho did.

LIFE SKETCH*

In this life sketch' Johnny begins life as a Chicago orphan in a Catholic Home, where he is fast developing a dangerous inferiority complex through being too short to compete with any success against larger boy in sports, and this complex reachesn atage when Father O'Hara (Pat O'Brien) decides

to take him to a

Young Casarmortifem away and pinches a pair of roller skates to sell so as to buy himself food. However, before

comes to

to that.

nat, he finds a job

it

as dishwasher in a cheap lunch- room skidding precariously about on the skates in time off. Then he hears of a free rink down the road' where there are professional Instructors to help Beginners.

From the moment one "pro.". Mack Miller

Mack

(Glenn Corbett) ditches the despairing begin- ner, and another, Mary Reeves (Beverly Tyler) takes him on and says he shows promise, Johnny Cusar leads a new

Egged on by Mary he becomes dead keen, and soon makes a name for himself by a very American means-cheer leading In reverso-in fact booing and howling in a fashion wholly Juvenile whenever. Mack Miller appears on the pacing rink.

LIKE DRANDY AT 10 Eventually, having been challenged by Mack who wipes the track with him on several auccessive evenings, he finally wing a race and never looks back. But fame-goes-to-his head like brandly to a ten-year ald's, and watching the 'champ making on ass of himself is real discomfort.

The whole thing is inevitably series of vicissitudes and ends up conventionally. If you like röller track racing and ke Mickey Rooney t even when he's admirably the most obnoxiously conceited Hittle so and so you could. ever hapo nover to meat, then you might like this 20th Century high speed, truly American nim SS.

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LEE Liberty

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

★ SHOWING TO DAY

ALAN

PHYLLIS

LADD. LADD CALVERT

Appointment with

DANGER

Alan Ladd, as a U. S. Mail blasts a million-dollar

PAUL SAFWART • JAN STERLING - Jack Webb. Procs by ROBERT FELLOWS-Ducted by LEWIS ALLEN Madre de RCPUKS METUSANE VIJNEN 107 ◄ A Pranceră Fietser

crime-fighter,

mail robbery!

MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW

at LEE THEATRE

20th Century Fox

prosente

LAUREL & HARDY `“BIG NOISE”

At 11.30 am. At Reduced Prices-

TO-MORROW!

5 SHOWS

AT THE

KING'S and

FOR BOBI

GENTS CORNER ?

GRAND OPENING TO-DAY ! ! !

thought of a phrase, wrote FURTHER ADDING ! a book around it, and her three-word title summed

found

horn- up un era, and spanned

in generation.

a way that Chaplin had baggy pants and a bowler.

"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" was a best seller, ...a_play, a fim, and now. 0 Broadway

"But I was a more ordinary musical. The author tlay 4 fellow than Charlie" sald ft. 11 ins. black-haired Anita Lloyd. "And in some way the Loos arrived in London with glasses meant I could get the a lament. girl in the end."

WITH

GRAND SUMMER SALE

that title expressed 12 over," she said. "The"] LATEST Harold Lloyd Is 57 now, but not very willing to admit it There is no more gold left for blondes are working now." ("I prefer to say, like Sophie them to dig. And instead Tucker, that I'm Just rounding diamonds being a girl's the comer of 40 and taking a friend, It's the men who need long time about it.")

them today.”. His visit? Just

Anita Loos is over here with holiday & with his wife and married Paulette Goddard, to film

series of shorts for American television. Titlo: "The Perlis of Pauletto" and naturally is a satire on those old silent day, film serials:

daughter Gloria.

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There are no immediate fit plans. Anyway he can afford to rest, Those old pictures of his, with their simple formula I asked Miss Loos why the *of the little fellow niways didn't follow the truth of her deep in trouble but beating title and go blonde herself (in the bully in the end, made him the thirties Ruth Chatterton. a fortune. NA

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