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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1951.

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

"KING'S MAJESTIC

Or Conditioned

IN THE FAR-OFF COLLEGE OF MAGIC»

* SHOWING

AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.20

& 9.30 P.M.

TO-DAY

★

AT 2.30. 9.20. 7.20

G 9.30 P.M

EXTRA FERFORMANCE TO-MORROW

KING'S AT 11.30 A.M. MAJESTIC AT 12 NOON

FORCE OF ARMS

*

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LOVE STORY EVER TOLD'

IT STARS BUT

WILLIAM HOLDEN NANCY OLSON FRANK LOVEJOY

LEE Liberly

4 SHOW AT 2 30. 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

FINAL

SHOWING

TO DAY

HE SAID--IF YOUR BEHAVIOR

IS GOOD YOU'LL BE A

THERON SAID I COULD

THAT'S BIG OF HIM!

TRUSTY EVENTUALLY AND NOT STAY IN THE CELL

HE DID?

SEE YOU EVERY DAY.

SWAMI.

THAT SWAMI CASE WAS THE TOUGHEST ONE I EVER SAW! WE'D HAVE BEEN HELPLESS WITHOUT YOU,

MANDRAKE-

★☆★ A SEAT IN THE STALLS ★★★

The girl-> who got a second chance

by HAROLD CONWAY

M.

along

fidia te

Dorothy Tutin. 21. went hopefully Pinewond Studios to be given a Miss Tutin had never been ma very nearl: the and it wa

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MYSTERY LASSOS TRAP ENEMY AGENTS"

·IN 'JOHNNY'S^JUNGLE WAR.

FOR AMERICA'S STOCKPILE!

COLUMBIA CTURES

PIPREMS

JOHNNY

WEISSMULLER

.. JUNGLE JIM

PYGMY ISLAND

MORNING SHOW

at LEE THEATRE

at 11.30 a.m. WALT DISNEY'S

COLOUR CARTOON

PROGRAMME

TO-MORROW

HERBENI E YATES pormones.

TO-MORROW

at LIBERTY

at 12.30 p.m. M-C-M presents COLOUR CARTOON

AT THE

PROGRAMME

LEE

Oh! Susanna

HELD-OVER

TO-DAY

Klaring

in Trucolor!

ROD CAMERON ADRIAN BOOTH FORREST TUCKER CHILL WILLS

WILLIAM CHING JIM DAVIS WALLY CASSELL JAMEN LYDON

A REPUBLIC PRODUCTION

AT 2.30. 5.30.

أي

Thal 1132 NORSUTST ust have been sareak

at her a CAN

So M... 114, was

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ACTRESS TUTIN - Salary up and down

The pulgatory a

Night Train To Windsor

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

I'M SO GLAD HIS WIFE WENT WITH HIM.

Opportunity

POWER IN THE WRONG HANDS

IS ALWAYS DANGEROUS.

MAYBE THERON

CAN REFORM

HIM. LET'S

HOPE SO

3-17

NEXT WEEK NEW ADVENTURE

3 CHEERS AGAIN FOR

AT 2.30, 5.15,

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AG CUNDIEUNTU

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WARNER BROS.

GREGORY

PECK

VIRGINIA

MAYO

“CAPTAIN HORATIO HORNBLOWER

Technicolor

TO-MORROW MORNING SHOWS

QUEEN'S

At 11.30 a.m. Only

MAUGHAM Variety Program"

Says Fred Majdalany Marriages between litera- Lure and the cinema are liable to begin, rather than end, in divorce. More often than not the fastidious au- Thor energes bloody and forever bowed from his first brush with the studio wonderland.

A

notable survivor 15

Somerset Maugham.

The filming by Antony Darnborough, of groupe Mr Maugham's short stories has turned out to b one of the few bright things the British film in- dustry has done during th past non-vintage year OT two.

Mr Maugham and the cinema seem to get along fine, and with the The unveding of Encore series reaches happy maturity, This coltertion-the third- is, in my view, the best of the lot

"The Ant and the Gruss-

Of The Year hopper" (Director: Fat Jackson

A105

is i

persuaded to as 4/2 (25

and then given shivering. Search Ted 1 ka Thank

1

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stage o Tre par 1

Stannard, with

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tar

ca 1 which

Ma Ashib, whe is one of most exparenced diverture, tel

2 was me H Test No.

can retenber finest de studio ne aner performing

yous ner ADS Oliva Venus Diervoet terone and Geravtine MEAR

(2:0

21.

the charmer There'

ان

I

is wittily frivolous parable of two brothers--

whom - one of

On the sponges outrageously To 21-year-old Dorothy Tuin other in which Mr Maugham

beyond all doubt," that | portunity proves, the year For she will be the worked always prosper ani <nly unknown in the ali- the wages of virtue are a conti

Anthony ton of dreariness and discontent. Aith has plected for his It is played with Irresistible and accomplishment b. Nigel Patrick and Roland Culver, and it is by any standards very funny.

So I took the train to Windsudan of "he Importance zest

Big Farts."

Flufts? Certainly Not and sent an evening watchin John Counsell's go-ahead re

Thu is white pertury can pany. bath these young ortresses were Sotled for the West M

Iraried

is heca That

Dorothy Tutin the gurl win l-

halter in shall (231 during the last Old Vic sealem has won a lng bnat in one of lar major film productions

1431

version of Th

Being

place anum

SHOW TALK

sts where they e back plas

ng this week

colour Tinjautɔnce of mest she takes

lar Eda thr Wichael

Redgrave. Park.

Ju Michael Desen Стеспичик!.

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It was Bane Edith Her grave whu enthuse 24 th about the young actress at the Old Vic that Anthony Asquith Fim invited her to Pinewoud. directors are not accustomed i their stars enthusing about any - one--except themselves

I watched The work.

newcomer

R

Sie Was

acting

with a sense of comedy, and an assurance which

J. Austen novel, Monsheid

Progress repost? Miss Stan- nard and Mise MeEwan, though Both Windsor graduates, had ooi arted together before; but in a large cast o! 18, all with parts of equal size the two stood out

mile.

Merry-Go-Round

Miss McEwan must per- severe with her voice-do might have get that breathless lament out of I should be taken years to produce. Not for it. Lament apart her the terrors of "Buffing" which holung her as my own discovery. if this had been charm at first Wilde's epigrammatic lines

sight. That would be rather duce before the camera.

where we came in.

Money No Object

The trip to Pinewood has raised Miss Tutin's salary

seven-fold. But I am glad to not interested in report she is

the audience

And Heather Stannard? In was a perplexed American producer who knew thing of the company-or Miss Austen's plot.

What Dorothy like? John ence said that Cemiy Gic brand

i-puid be played by someone! who is first cousin 10 Alice in director Wonderland."

Asqarti Dorothy fits

Nactly."

NOT SO BEASTLY

Let's not be beastly to the Germand" wrote Noel Coward

during t war.

SHIPBOARD ROMANCE

In "Winter Cruise" (Director: Anthony Pelissier) Kay Walsh; brilliantly expands into a char- acter the kind of middle-age 1 female bore whom Joyce Gren- fell. caricatures.

The selling is a small cruise ship, and the lady in question is

eyes who have a cheery word for everyone, and chatter cease- lessly.

one of those busy little bright-

Now, 11 years after the

The ship's officers, maddened battle ended, we're being very by her, decide that she can only

Indeed.

af be silenced by

romance. The Die French steward is ordered to do

the necessary.

beustly

A1. least

German newspaper, Deutsche Woche, thinks so

Associated seems that antich have made a movie entitled "So Little Time," which the central character,

major, played German

Marius Goring, appears as perfectly normal person.

But Miss Stannard made him it

Submerging her own person- ality with the thoroughness of a

Alex female

Guinness, Miss Walsh (nicely assisted by Noel in Purcell and Ronald Squire) is

a outstandingly good.

by

that?

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Vaughn Monroe in

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ROX & BROADWAY

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M. The lusty saga of a fightin' ship and her fightin' crew-who ran high, wide and handsome to glory!

GARY

COOPER GREER

JANE

YOU'RE IN THE NAVY NOW

TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW

ROXY: At 11.30 a.m. SBROADWAY: At 12.30 p.m.

A Selected Programme of TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

Presented by 20th Century-Fox At Reduced Prices

20th Century-Fox Presents

A Special Programme of TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS At Reduced Prices

ORIENTAL

AIR CONDITIONED

Take Any Eastern Tram Car or Happy Valley Bus SHOWING TO-DAY: 2.30-5.307.30 & 9.30 P.M.

The Whole Blazing Story of the Mob That Slashed a Crime-Scar Across the Map of America!

TERROR-ROAD

OF THE BLAZING

TRI-STATE MOBI

WARNER BROS,

HIGHWAY 301

In the serious story "Gigolo STEVE COCHRAN VIRGINIA GREY GABY ANDRE ANDREW STONE

The

a

sit up. "That girl's got person- By Fortraying a German officer atrl who, for the

patrons of Riviera hotel, dives

hearsals with John Gielgud's go there? "That, very deflutely uniform. Cathay 7.30 & 9.30

P.M.

AN OUTSTANDING SWEDISH PRODUCTION! VOLIENT EXPERIENCES OF CORRUPTED YOUTHI

INCORRIGIBLE

WITH

'ENGLISH SUB-TITLES

Starring

STIG OLIN MARINNE LOFGREN

ALSO:-The March of Time "SWEDEN LOOKS AHEAD"

REMINDER

TRIPLE SETS

(containing Day Engagement Pad, Diary and Addrèm Book) APPOINTMENT DIARIES

DESK & POCKET DIARIES & ADDRESS BOOKS

supper

water

a and Gigolette" (Director: Harold French) Mr Maugham lets off steam; angry steam about people Nuthing sinister about

who enjoy watching other peo- ple risk their necks, and con That's where you're wrong.

passionate stram on behalf of Die Deutsche Woche sees in those who do the risking. central character plot. wicked propaganda J

tired multiplication tables. In a few ality and power," he whispered as a decent

fellow, 1 infers, twice nightly from a height of when the weeks

picture * "She should

West the plan is to get as many Ger- Buft. into a small tank be in the finished, she begins stage re- End.

Do you think she woulel mans as possible

aflame with petrol back into

She is losing her nerve, but Much Ado About was where we came in....

her husband wants her to carry So Little Time' is one of on because it is the best job goes her salary th

those attempts which are made the

had. Mr Maugham they have in order show us and the

roes sharply and movingly into My respects to Britain's world that the German soldier the domestic background to such Almland twins, Juhn and isn't bad after all," says the a situation. Clymus Johns is most Roy Boulting. Back from New paper. "From this point of view moving as the girl, and my sus- York, they

to have one must see the Mm. Which picion grows that she looks bet- achieved a feat unthought of be- means we don't want to scotter, acts better, and scintillates

at all"

better than all the official "First Lading" of the British screen put together.

company for

Nothing. Back nearly

What? No Flynn?

ind of

to where she started although Asquith, no flatterer, thinks she is the years.

considers Dorothy, however, The Importance

of Being an Actress comes Arstand that Shakespeare with Gielgud is the right way to learn.

She would also like her daya free for the other things of life--which, to her, are the plano, singing in Bach oratorios fluto. Misa and playing the Tutin on the fute is, they tell me, well worth hearing.

Cautious About

Cordelia

fore.

seem

This is to induce a Hollywoodi company to put up money-a lot of money for a picture showing Britain's full fighting share in

the last war.

The Boultings' first production for MGM is to be made in Eng- land, at their insistence.

It

calls for co-operation between the British and American armed forces and. I forecast, will wipe out much

of the resent men Hollywood, hus

Aw, come off it, Fritz.

SPECIAL MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW AT 12.30 P.M.

Jack Carton in "THE GOOD HUMOR MAN”

STAR

17, Hankow Rd., Kowloon

TO-DAY ONLY!

AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 G 9.30 P.M.

M-G-M Pictures· Prosent

Oscar Wilde's Misterpiece

Premiere In Prison "The

The strangest ilm premiere police rito orders caused the ever held in Canada has been coppers' cars to pile up one on the screening of Ealing Studios top of another in mad con-

Audacious

bank robberies in that if one more ear had been

PICTURE of

A

aroused comedy about one of the most dusion. This went over so well DORIAN GRAY” The Old Vic picked a new here by some of those past wit history The Lavender Hill wrecked, they'd probably have!

Lear

for themselves---

ms.

The

*

Awo years

ehow to pick Von Johnson may come over Mob," starring Alec Guinness had to stop the Stephen Murray-with express speed, following Donald Wolft's for the leading role-but only if und Stanley Holloway-to in- the boys out of the aisles,

"During GOING Bequences resignation. But they are being the story works out with the mates of Kingston Penitentiary

*here, in Ontario.

however, the audience seemed more cautious about the new necent un an American

More than 400 prisoners extremely Hendy

critical, Iu producers have Cordellu,

declined to commit themselves serving sentencty of anything scene, for instance,

Crook Charmian Eyre, their most pre-

Dore

Ho to Schary, the MCM chief, Tren

casually opened The locked mising young starlet, in to have a go at Cordeils on the prelimin- has made a good move by giving thoroughly enjoyed the picture door of a Banks of England their heads, and greeted with loud applause Bullion truck with one gentle his twin recrtits my Scandinavian tour-only it

scents when the Pollen pary of a pry-bar. This brought she proves a really good, girl, I But then, he appot three weeks all gather, will she get the part in lening to their arguments were outwitted by the two part a loud and derisive laughs from novel role for any Hollywoodners in crime nm thelp con- the BRIEbly. It appeared that London.

scene didn't this particular Neflection: There must have to. And the Houltings are federates

Writes Bruce Wert, of the hold up under the clow been nearly enough resignations very good talkors. *

the experts in the org centered-Lontororonto Globe and Mail: vallance of

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