1951-09-15 — Page 3

KING'S MAJESTIC

air

Conditioned

★ FIVE SHOWS TO-DAY ★

AT 11.30 A.M., 2.30, .. 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m.

AT 12.00 NOON, 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.30 P.M.

TO-MORROW EXTRA SHOW KING'S: AT 11.30 A.M. MAJESTIC: AT 12.00 NOON

“WHERE DANGER LIVES"

MITCHUM IN ACTION!

· JEYING CUMMINGS › ved ø1N4148 prun

ROBERT MITCHUM FAITH DOMERGUE CLAUDE RAINS

Where

Danger Lives

MEN MAUREEN O'SULEIYAN • CKABLES KEMPER

ALSO ADDED ATTRACTION !

At The KING'S

Walt DISNEY'S Color Cartoon

"CLOWN of the JUNGLE"

and latest Universal International Newsreel

At The MAJESTIC

Walt DISNEY'S Colour Cartoon'

"LITTLE HIAWATHA"

and latest Warnor- Pathe Newsreel

ROXY & BROADWAU

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30-9.30 P.M.

BROADWAY: Extra Performance To-day

At 12.30 p.m.

"BIRD OF PARADISE"

YOU'LL LOSE YOUR HEART IN A

SOUTH PACIFIC PARADISE!

As you discover an exotic world of idyllic romance, alive with rhythm of native chants,...singing all the emotions of the volcanic South Seas!

Bird of Paradise

LODIS

Jechnicolor

Cribe hy

OIBRA IRFF

JOURDAN PAGET CHANDLER

TO-MORROW EXTRA PERFORMANCE

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1951.··

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

IT'S AN IMPOSSIBLE JOB MANDRAKE. NOT ENOUGH TO GO ON--

TRANG

AS MANORAKE SEARCHES IN THE ROGUES

HOW CAN YOU FIND A MAN WITH THIS PICTURE--EVEN WITH THE EARSEY YOU DON'T KNOW HIS NAME

-YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW IF HE'S COMMITTED A CRIME!

By Lee Falk

WHAT HEIS BAD AND HAS GREAT DO YOU POWERS. I MUST FIND HIM KNOW--AND STOPIUM--BEFORE ABOUT HE USES THEM HIMP FOR EVIL!

and Phil Davis

LIKE WHAT. SWAMIT

SHOWING TO-DAY

CARA, I'M TIRED OF THIS PETTY STUFF! I'M GOING TO DO BIG THINGS!

NEXT WEEKS WHAT.

"THE LADY WITH A LAMP" Hope Again

MARICE-SU

Anna Neagle as Florence Nightingale with. Jullan D'Albio as Mir Bracebridge arriving back at the Scutari Hospital from the battlefront, a scene from "The Lady

with a Lamp." ·

launched

оп

In Runyon

Setting

Bob Hope's special quali ties as a comedian seem to be enhanced when pitched against a background of Damon Runyon's. His ex- tremely clever nonsense fts like a glove into the hand of the latter's extremely unlikely situations.

In "The Lemon Drop Kid" all the Runyon characters again. make their appearance — the New

York but soft-hearted

rufflan, the poor but neble old the wise but discreet

doll, chorus girl, the policeman who

falls to get tough, and the icmen drop kid himself, so called because his taste, in con- Trellon is limited to that.

Bob

Hope has probably mad: witte pletures the dirlogue here,

www

for instance.

fails to sparkle with clever re- partee, and only one sentence in ten ends epigrammatically. The film's comedy depends entirely on action, not on words, and there is plenty of the ort, to which laughter is Inevitable.

OLD DOLL'S HOME Picture a gambling den being lurned into an old doll's home, quaint old Indies being' accom- modated on roulette wheels, ten hardened Brooklyn charac ters disguised as Santa Claus to collect charity, and

Bob Hope himself dressed as a long- Jong aunt from the midwest. and you have the essentials of the plot.

It is not superb fare 23 comedics go, but it is fast- moving, racy and. original in the best Runyon style, and Bob Hope himself is partially con- vincing as the candy-eating the mobster.--ADC.

"The Lady with a Lamp" --tho film life story of Florence Nightingale and starring Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding-will be accorded a Premierė unique. aid of the nursing profession

behalf of in the whole of motion- the whole of the proceeds of Educational Fund.

The Gala Premiero of the picture's history.

the twenty simultaneous Pre- mieres will be devoted to the film in Hongkong will be at the College of Nursing Lee Theatre on Saturday, Sep- Their Royal Highnesses The Royal Princess Elizabeth. and The Educational Fund. An Appeal tember 22, in the presence of Duke of Edinburgh will attend for £500,000

recently His Excellency the Governor, the London Premiere at the Warner Theatre, Leicester Square on Saturday, Septem- ber 22.

But the London Performance will be only one of a simultane- Dus number

Premieres throughout the British Com- monwealth

Nations. Syn- chronising with the London screening the pleture will be shown in Australia, New Zea- land, Canada, South Africa, India, Pakistan, Malays,

WEA

STOKE-ON-TRENT

GETS "SHOT" Stoke-on-Trent, In England's (Potteries dietrich is a popular

spot with Pinewood units at moment. First

location

Nothing Is Done By Halves of the Arnold Bennett

99

In "The Bird Of Paradise'

Says. SUE DAWSON

Nothing Cey-

lan, Hongkong and Singapore. Paradise" is done by Simultaneous Premieres of the

ROXY: AT 12.00 NOON BROADWAY: AT 12.30 P.M. picture will also occur in each least of all the

"BIRD OF PARADISE"

No Complimentary Tickets Available.

ORIENTAL

AIR

CONDITIONED

Tako Any Eastern Tram Car or Happy Valley Bus PLEASE NOTE THE SHOWING TIME FOR TO-DAY 4 Shows: 2.30—5.10—7.20 & 9.30 p.m. ACTUALLY FILMED IN A TROPIC ISLAND PARADISE! Its a hula-happy musical rippling with love, laughter and new song hit! IN TECHNICOLOR!

MIG-M'S BIG SOUTH SEAS MUSICAL J ESTHER WILLIAMS ↑ HOWARD KEEL

PAGAN LOVE SONG

Corby TECHNICOLOR

ADDED ATTRACTION- *THE M-G-M· STORY"

Scones of 25 coming scroon hits! 60 Stars In Action! SPECIAL MORNING SHOW TO-DAY AT 12.30- AT REDUCED ADMISSION PRICES Another New Programme of Technicolor Cartoons TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW AT 12.30-

3 STOOGES COMEDIES and COLOR CARTOONS also "NET MARVELS" (Ping Pong Champion Exhibition)

Curdir.

ever

No motion-picture has before been given such a world- wide opening performance.

་

his coming

in "Bird of America just for a visit, you halves have a feeling of foreboding when the Kahuna declares to his (Jeff Chandler), techni- friend Tenga of the other ancient capitals of colour. But where in another who is heir to the Chief, that the the United Kingdom Edin-film it might be classed omens are bad for burgh,

Belfast, The lurid' or 'glorious, here it to the island. Isle of Man and in The Channel is just right; for the rich, But Andre (Louis Jourdan) Islands,

exotic story demands every has found the sort of people he

hos been tone of its background,

seeking generous, happy, easy-going and uncom- More than thirty years plicated, and is determined ago the same title was given make the little group of volcanic to a successful London play. islands win, after all, seems an Certainly Hollywood have Inevitable though extraordinary been no less successful, and story, for the curtain comes down to be applauded in a film with a wiser Andre leaving his

Paradise astern of the clipper. - like this where their

Casy One cannot imagine any other thing, is the complete lack actor in the part of this idealistle young Frenchman. It simply of Hollywoodisms.

would not be the same story. Dolmer Daves and Ilarmon

In tribute to the matchless and world-wide known achieve ments of Florence Nightingale in

LUNA PARK trance would be an

CINEMA AIR CONDITIONED THE_NIDEST LITTLE THEATRE IN TOWN FINAL SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

IT'S THAT RARE, ROGUISH ROLLICKING

5 Avenue Story!|

| CON DJFUTE + ANN BARİLİS CHARLIE RUGGLES

| VICTOR MOORE-GALE STORM ·

"IT HAPPENED ON

5TH AVENUE"

TO-MORROW

"Break Through".

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islands his home. How these

The

scenes story The Card", in which Alco

starring Guinness

with Glynis Johns, Valerie Hobson brea and Petula Clark, have

and next shot there

month sequenota of the Dirk Bogarde picture, "Hunted", will be film- ed in the same arca.

STAR

Pranals* 115

17, Hankow Rd. Kowloon FINAL SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m.

The sort of thing, in fact, Jones, the producers, must have that punctuated "King Solo congratulated themselves when mon's Mines.". Like all good they found Andre. He playa

feeling, caricatures where the part with conviction and

and what is rarest of all- prominent features are em: intelligence. Only

niy recently

has phasised, Hawail's vibrance Looks Jourdan broken, the auron is painted in capitals, but face of the English-speaking in the celebrated distinctly unlike that form world

"Paradine Case," and later of art is the absence of the

“Madame Bovary.” grotesque,

He was little known in Eng- For It is not grotesque when land or America during his the waterfall turns to blood, eventful life in French Olms nor when the Kahuna or prophei which was ended for a time by (Maurice Schwartz) walks the war in Europe, and then until avenue of white-hot, coals and the end of the war by his joining orders Kalua (Debra Paget) to the French Underground Move- follow alm, por

even in the near-ment, Bunl scene of crumbling Paradise,

Andre and

Kaluanalvaly It Is just the lore of the South Weave in enchanting

epiter's Ben Talands sixty odd years ago-web of paradise about them in. simple, passionate and colourful these beautiful islands, and when as the surroundings and in spito the web breaks under the pres of all the amazing rituals of mure of storms, Paradise slips pagan beliefs or perhaps be through. Bul you know that cause of them--nothing seems this to the only ending, and for incredible, a SEROVÉ TOREBODING

be put off by the trailer Carried along with an idyllje: It your sto lathere is more to

the Frenchman auch a drama than. It che pos Adarenturer - whi ednius" "Kroen · sibly intimate.",

DADE radiote over lost.

ALONE...

on the Isle of Copril

Joseph Tontaine Cotten

September

fair

Bana ar WILLIAMS DREDGE + Jebat Ang Tan

MORROW

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QUEENS ALHAMBRA 7.209.30

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GREAT JEWEL

IT'S THE STORY OF THE

NOW SERVING

18-YEARS IN. SING SING!

ROBBER DAVID BRIAN

LA WANNE 3806, VICTOR

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ADDED! LATEST NEWS OF THE DAY!

★ 5 SHOWS TO-MORROW: ★ Extra Performance “THE GREAT JEWEL ROBBER”

QUEEN'S

AT 11.30 A.M.'

ALHAMBRA

·AT 12 NOON

LEE Liberty

5 SHOWS TO-DAY ·

AT 12.00 NOON 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

Another Paramount Comedy Hit! Bigger and Better Than “SORROWFUL JONES” IT'S HOPE'S HOTTEST HILARITY HIT! Another Damon Runyon

riot, even funnier thar

"Sorrowful Jones."

Damon

Runyon's

BOB

SONGS I

Heave "They Obiectly Want

-Dose' Cast Dune

LEMON DROP KID HOPE MAXWELL NOLAN DARWELL

·lid

-ANDREA KING • FRID CLARK HARRY HELLAYER

Podu ROBERT ), WELCZE + Jeene De BOOMKY ZAMIZELD

MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW

at LEE THEATRE at 12.00 NoÓN Bob Hope "THE LEMON DROP KID"

THE

at LIBERTY

at 12.30 PM. WARNER BROS.

-“Colour · Cartoon Programme"

NEAGLE. WILDING

LADY WITH ALAMP

(The Life Of Florence Nightingale)

.

GALA PREMIERE

Under the distinguished patronage and honoured by the presence of His Excellency, Sir Alexander Grantham, GCMG

in aid of

THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF NURSING EDUCATIONAL FUND

on the stage:

The Military Band' and Pipers" of the First Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.

ON

SEPTEMBER 22ND. AT 9.00 P.M.

AT

(LEE

Only Limited Number of Seats Available

Patrons Arë Advised To Book Early From 12 noon to 4 pim, at the Hongkong Hotel Lobby From 6 to 10 p.m. at the Lou Theatro.

DRESS CIRCLE SEATS AND STALLS: $25.00.

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