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VIVIEN

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P.M.

THEY'RE TOGETHER AGAIN!

You asked to see them

M-G-M's EVER-TIMELY EVER-RAPTUROUS ROMANCE

ROBERT

1926

"KING'S MAJESTIC

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TC-MORROW KING'S

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ANNI PASART

DALKING

• PICTURES

95E

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MORNING SHOW

MAJESTIC

AT 12.00 NOON

25th Anniversary of Sound

Motion Picture

Warner Bros. First National Pictures

RANDOLPH

SCOTT

Inc. Presents

When

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1951.

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

|| Caps, 1991. King Festin Sidqu

British Films

poof! LEVITATION? WHY, THAT'S

A KINDERGARTEN TRICK FOR MANDRAKE. HE WOULDN'T THINK OF DOING IT.

MANDRAKE I MANDRAKE! YOU THINK I'M RUNNING AWAY

FROM HIM? I WISH HE WERE

HERE. I'D SHOW

YOU?

ALE STANDING

DAVID BRIAN PHYLLIS THAXTER

the guns that

tore up Texas fought

it

out

at

FORT

WORTH

COLOR BY TECHNICOLOR

ADDED: TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

"A HICK, A MAJESTIC: "SWALLOW

KING'S:

SLICK AND A CHICK"

Balcon Is The DAVID LEWIN'S Spotlight

Busiest Man In

Says JACK DAVIES

impor-

Who is the must Lant figure in British film production?

Undoubtedly it is Sur Michael Balcon. whose latest film "Where No Vul- Fures P.." has been selected for the Royal Film Performance,

A! 55. Bakon can look around h

studios at Ealing with salistaction Hel Fuus nice Talent working

for him Thien

British produce

other

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Wale Su

van be

wy

am hg Se mere

Sear

HIS KEY JOBS

suc-

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

YOU'LL HAVE YOUR WISH, SWARU !

THIS IS THE PLACE, AT LASTI

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LEIGH TAYLOR "WATERLOO BRIDGETM

SHOWS TO-MORROW

Extra Performance "Waterloo Bridge"

AT 11.30 A.M.

THE LEADER"

KING'S MAJESTIC

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The Management of the King's and Majestic Theatres are pleased to announce that arrangements have bocn completed with Warner Bros. First National Pictures, Inc. and RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. to release their

pictures at the King's and Majestic Theatres.

R KO

RADIO PICTURES

Patrons may look forward to seeing. among many others, the following pictures at the King's and Majestic

Theatres

WB's

FORT WORTH

Technicolor)--Randolph Scott; David Brian, Phyllis Thaxter

RKO's

WB's

ALICE IN WONDERLAND

cartoon

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE

---Vivian Leigh, Marlon Brando. RKO'S I WANT YOU (Samuel Goldwyn's)

WB's

RKO's

WB's

E:

Hu

11.

Anu

y av 13. F. Fu

11. h

Ez..ng

Tis Na-

E paration

A director of tteon Theatres

The Runk

0.geration las

Auch he appieves a is sur 5):

Ch. man 1 Preval Fims who mac "The Mag.. Box")!

Chairman of Group 11 pro- ductions, formed 10 encourage young ohnicians:

Coscity was chufer won Banist Bum Makers. whose producers Lelude Ronald Neame Havelock- Allen and Bety Box.

The weight of these

respon-

sible positions rests lightly on his shoulders Nor has the power that gees wh them gone to his head.

hendiquer ers remain Ealing studios in a small, simply- furnished, pincpanelled

HIS

al

office

which, ou for a framed presenta

memento of "San Demetrio"

Hon

Pawe, for refreshisent in the Bone sonshine, gilsses resting on their jet-craft's tailplane.

The Jet Age Provides

Ann

Todd's Latest

REAKFAST in London, political kick-backs as well.

Berks in Rome, un poli

faveur e Blm-and the Hi Cairo. The camera title "Sound Barrier was left to the Americans

5

ROXY & BROADWAY,

Commencing To-day A: 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m. That "Farmer's Daughter" teams. making hay again!

CONFESSIONS OF A LADY

SLEEPWALKER

20

LORETTA

JOSEPH

YOUNG COTTEN

HALF ANGEL

COOP BY

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"HALF ANGEL"

BROADWAY: To-morrow Morning Show At 12.30 p.m.

A SPECIAL PROGRAMME OF TECHNICOLOR

CARTOONS From 2 Leading Studios: 20th Century-Fox & M.G.M. At Reduced- Prices

SHOWING

TO-DAY

ALHAMBRA

AIR-CONDITIONED

AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30 P.M.

The

Patrick

flight experiments should quarrel only with the made with pilotless planes.

beat us to it and fly with and might be a deaf-aid docu-pilots --

at more Dan 1,000 miles an hour. the [mentary. at

be

1!

करहे

DEAR STOCKU

}

A

ugly, proientous Fiaduente award-catches Ann Todd ed by the British Film Academy to the producer of the best film Nigel

"The

of the year (Balcon holds it for aperitif stage

Blue

their new film Lamp"), gives no in-from dication that many of Britain's Sound Barrier."

The Whitehall motion was scent Lean has surrounded himself "The with ál team which could al-changed and the RAF breaks The sound barrier regularly mcat vertily Success

Korda

now But the Ann Todd backs the picture.

Terence

certainly had an echo. Rattigan was keyed to write

There have been other air-

Technicolor) --Walt Disney feature length fence: Alms have been born in it.

Behind a anall, glass-topped She is the daughter of a desk siis

He is Sir Michael, bespre-plane manufacturer. tacied, with

clipped military

a jet test pilot-killed try- noustache, impeccably dressed, and with a twinkie in his eyeing to break the barrier of The has endeared him to asound waves which forms who have worked under him.

when planes travel around 700 miles an hour.

-Farley Granger, Dorothy McGuire, Dana

Andrews.

PAINTING THE CLOUDS WITH SUNSHINE

(Technicolor) -- Virginia Mayo, Gene Nelson, Dennis Morgan, Virginia Gibson. BLACKBEARD AND THE PIRATE

(Technicolor)-Robert Newton, Robert Mit- chum, Faith Domergue, Victor Mature, Jack Beutel.

DISTANT DRUMS

(Technicolor) --Gary Cooper, Mari Aldon. RKO's SONS OF THE MUSKETEERS (Technicolor! ---Maureen Wilde.

WB's

ROOM FOR ONE MORE

Cary Grant, Betsy Drake.

RKO's SLAUGHTER TRAIL

O'Hara, Comell

(Technicolor)-Brian DonLevy. Cig Young, Virginia Grey.

WB's THE CRIMSON PIRATE

(Technicolor) Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravet, Eva Bartok.

RKO'S JET PILOT

1.

WB's

(Technicolor --John Wayne, Robert Ryan. Janet Leigh. MARA MARU

Errol Flynn, Ruth Roman

RKO's ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD (Walt Disney's) (Technicolor)--Richard Todd, John Rice,

Robert Newton.

WB's JACK AND THE BEANSTALK

(Color) Bud Abbott. Lou Costello, Buddy Baer.

RKO'S STORY OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON'

(Technicolor)(Samuel Goldwyn's)Danny Kaye, Moira Shearer, Farley Granger, WB's ON MOONLIGHT BAY

(Technicolor)-Doris Day, Gordan Macrae, Leon Ames.

RKO's DRUMS OF THE DEEP SOUTH

(Technicolor) James Craig, Barbara Payton, Gur Madison.

MOVIES ARE BETTER THAN

EVER

DON'T MISS THEM

SEA-DOG STUFF

I asked tum if bis dures as

colef Ealing's production

ety

as bors.

the script-about people rather plane pictures but few with so than planes. Richardson arc there.

Nigel Patrick and

Ralph Prissing a problem

Myrna Loy in that old Spencer And Tracy film "Test Pilot," wor- Lean's wife Ann Todd has themed on the ground when her part of the woman who

en was alone in the sky. But volts against her father when Ann Todd sees her husband he sends her mean to death in

a test-tube to die for David Lean is making an attempt to fly faster

than put in

an experiment. the picture. Faced with s und.

David Lean wanted to make nash with those he has as advise the disappointments of

his new film a British adven- "What's the good of it?" she to the Film Finance Corporation his two latest films

hare story. There are few left Cres "Is i1 really

worth and scrip adviser to the Rank ("Madeleine"

discovered Scott has already and "Pas- while?"

the Antarctic on the screen Organisation,

sionate Friends") Lean Something like that might Africa has been

explored in White- the cinema. the FFC unless I am asked to do breaks into a subject which have been said when so by the company concerned." is not only exciting but has that future he replied.

Ľ

Ever

"I do not advise on stripis forl

"Often I approve scripts which

personally do not care for. For *xample, I have an aversion to sicles with a foreign background. I don't want to make them my- Alf. But I wouldn': d:cam cf stopping hers from deing s^,"

What Bukan does like making is sea stories.

Right now he is preparing one of the best of all, "The Cruel Sea". by Nicholas Monsara which Erle Ambler is scripting.

clude

Other new Almas he plans in- an original story by T. E. B. Clarke enthed "Private Line": and. the

can sort out one or two problems with the censor, a screen version of Richard Mason's and the "The Shadow növel Peak."

As I left Sir Michael's office

| I noted a horse-shoe on the wall.

"Don't know," he said. "It was

1 asked him the story behind it.

hanging there when I took over from Basil Dean in 1998,"

1

When, last March, Jona Ferrer won hit Oscar as the best actoï of the year for "Cyrano de Bergeracone of The few Limes that the Academy of Motion Picture Sciences has picked the right man-he did not plant the little gold statuetto on the rawing-room mantelpiece.

ho sent it to the ty of Fuerto Rico.

"Because,"

•

hall, a few years back decreed

faster-than-sound.

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Enemies Allied Against War-Painted Savages!

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RONALD REAGAN RHONDA FLEMING

BRUCE BENNETT - BILL WILLIAMS NOAH BEERY PETER HANSON Directed by LEWIS AL FOSTER

| Vitaen the fee Bergen by Geoffrey Homes-Ceatge Warthing Yates and

Winston Miler. Proceed by Willam H. Fiss pad William C. Th

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AT11.30 A.M.

Bald Dir Ferrer 20th Century-Fox

to me last week, (!) wanted to show the young Puerto Ricans that if they work hard: mough nothing is impossible for them." He paired and added: "I am a Fuerto Rleen myself, you know."

Mighty Mouse. Colour Cartoon

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and 10

Only the sky remained in the air there can only one star. Says Ann Todd, "L has to be the jet-plane. I're a supporting player to that

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Commencing To-Morrow: "VENGEANCE VALLEY" SPECIAL MORNING SHOWS FOR HOLIDAYS AT 12.30 Sunday: "ATOM MAN v: SUPERMAN" Chapter 1 Monday:

Final Chapter.

Wah Yan Dramatic

Can Society

presents

THE UGLY BEAUTY

夢中人

A Chinese Opera in English

at

The New French

Convent Theatre

Causeway

on

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