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"KING'S MAJESTIC

Air Conditioned

A SHOWING

AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.20

& 9.30 P.M.

TO-DAY

★

AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.20

& 9.30 P.M.

EXTRA MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW -

KING'S: AT 11.30 A.M. MAJESTIC: AT 12.00 NOON

THE GENUINE

A WONDER-WORLD

OF

ENTERTAINMENT!

Come see this

realm radiant

with color, song

and laughter!

Thrill to the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, the

Cheshire Cat

a host of other

fantastic funny-folk!

Such Wonderful Songs!

*

LEWIE CARROLL

Beland Bro

COPYRIGHT WALT DISNEY PRORADIĆ LIČNES

pre NO KLOTH PICTURES

Walt Disney's

ALICE

IN WONDERLAND

The all-cartoon Musical Wonderfilm

TECHNICOLOR

COLOR GY

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THE GREAT ADVENTURE OF ALL THE AGES!

The

GOLDEN HORDE

Starring ANN BLYTH

DAVID

FARRAR

COLOR BY

TECHNICOLOR

OF GENGHIS KHAN

GEORGE MACREADY RICHARD EGAN - PEGGIE CASTLE

creenplay by EL SAFSON ADAMS Berated by CEORCE SHERMAN Produced By HOWARD CHRISTI and ROBE AND

UNIVERSAL INERNATIONAL PICTUR

NO COMPLIMENTARY TICKETS AVAILABLE

TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW

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"THE GOLDEN HORDE

A Universal-International

THE

12th DAY

Picture

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CARTOONS Presented by 20th Century-Fox

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OUR PICTURE WILL ANSWER THIS QUESTION PACKED WITH FANTASIES & ENCHANTING MUSIC. 1

ALICE

IN WONDERLAND AR

ANSCO COLOR

"LOD BUNIN'S PUPPETS and Carol Marsh.

Directed by DALLAS BOWER (Co-Director ‘HENRY V') A SOUVAINE SELECTIVE PICTURES RELEASE X'MAS ATTRACTION! SPECTACLE! ACTION! ROMANCE! INTRIGUE!

CAPITAINE ZEMPÊTE

FRENCH SUPER-PRODUCTION

THE CHINA MAIL,

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1951.

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

SHOWING

YOU DON'T

BECAUSE I'D BE IN THE WAY WHEN YOU FOUND THE MYSTERIOUS

10.

HELLO. THIS IS MANDRAKE. CAN I GET A THIRD SEAT ON THE PLANE!

GOOD. THANKS.

EVERYTHING ALL RIGHT NOW ?

ALMOST.WHO 15 LENORE?

TO-DAY

QUEEN

BUT,NARDA, DARLING, THIS

TAIP IS DANGEROUS--WHT DO YOU INSIST ON GOING?

WANT ME BLONDE

TO GO LENDRE--

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Walt Disney's Alice and her model, Kathryn Beaumont, and the Cheshire Disney always draws his animals from fal and his model. Sterling Holloway. human models, the simple reason being that it's impossible to summon a grin from

The most co-operative cat in the world.

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The

The Tubes of Haff mau peally the Barcarolle sequence.

of course highspots the tim. of a quality which will not soon They are placed in the fore- is a film designed to carry

front ol be surpassed

¿ continuous suc- Bam have

Some will cal

ORIGINAL AND DARING

cession of gorgeous sets, which The contro it loud and overpowering, Bul the film will be remem- bring out the finest in ballet in Cabinet and the

will escribe its here! in the years to come main- much the same way accentua- 1lon of ingredients bring out the I for its originality and daring pl wath whet

extravagant, was unchecours

Tany wonderful scenes best in food. Sir Thomas Bee- others will deplige its admin of

and cham's rendition of the Offen- astonishing ingenuity Bleat as

the rich things haveliness. duner

and bach score gives the final gil which, like an

to a bower of lilies, and com- overloaded spretacular effects, for the be-

audience to Atrung treeks which the camera pels the

rivet its feast. produce dyspepsia phays on the eye. delighting the eves on the screen.

in the out but none will connoisseur and the commones Miss Shearer dances the pro- cast to logue as Stella in the role of a đẳng that it provides att ex- alike, like off wine

pitchers of marble and rement.

She appears dragonfly prience of a lifetime.

Miss Motra Shearer's and Miss soon after in the tale of Olym The tire beruse atan Ludmilla Teherina's dancing are pio, a doll which Leonide Mas-

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pass off as his daughter to Hoff-

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on to very strange, but not to her as a child, incredible a

malar gemas grane rambling In en hauted woods. The singing is impressive, the dancing excellent the orchestral music, es-

than work, rather Dodgson's

trile Disneyisans which

This is where the Hower- Bon version sucecede su well You are introduced to the real historical world-Charles Bodg the

en, or to use nis psuedonym. cheiled the Warus Commander Eewis Carroll's world--where N. (red.) They were unport- you see Queen Victoria (Pamela ant and good, hut brown)

Visiting Christchurch

CHRISTMAS

IS COMING

mann

Bar

MISS Teherinn, alust a famous

dancer aş Miss Shearer, appears as Giulietta, a Detail Venetian courtesun who enslaves Hoffmann.

Miss Ann Ayers dances the impestant part, as Anton. Aho ties of consumption in Bonely Greek isluna.

SETTING TO SETTING

the

To record all this the camera

fit from

dhon.reds

setting 10 Netling.

fireling glimpses

of yards of satin

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muuntless

objects

which spring to life as effortless-

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emergence of sun after vain, gilded columns, maT-

ble

Bours.

dazzling interiors, and Venice in twilight.

A preview audience last week wis spellbound by the film. 1:

was

is a

am not of

the school of thought which con-

College and the Dean's three saers that Bunin's puppets

le daughters, with Victorian stole the show. There are those precation, are Lept in their who do.

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the youn Don

and then

abc

Three items in the Disney Hum rooms, unin Dodgson. lets them out unc were really good. One was the grupes the formality himself rather frightening coily cater- creature, by rowing them down the river, pillar, a

very alive telling his story.

another the stripy Cheshire cat By miracle of photography, with his inscrutable and self-

Marsh Carol

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appearing grin, through Wonderland herself, faccinating scene with gullible acting flawlessly. The puppets frilly little oysters, whose last are exceptional-for puppets

was touchingly moments DISNEY'S ANIMALS

spared. It is

about the a pity How perfect it would have rest. The big difference that

is been though, if this Wonderland Disney's is complete fantasy

with peop ed

Disney's while Bower's is a contrast; the animals, which would have to reactions of

a real Victorian have been far more specifically child to fantasy.

were

one

drawn, to imilate the charact- --SUE DAWSON.

eristics of The Victorians in

ORIENTAL

AIR CONDITIONED

Take Any Eastern Tram Car or Happy Valley But

SHOWING TO-DAY: 2.305.30—7.30 & 9.30 P.M. A famous novel story with plenty of laughs & thrills!

The tiar al "King Solomon's MEMS" STEWART GARDEN,

SOLDIERS THREE

TWIN GRANGER PIDGEON • NIVEN • NEWTON

SPECIAL MORNING SHOW' TO-MORROW AT 12.30 °

Abbot & Couraffo, In

LICA SCREAMS”

and Janis Carter prepares for it.

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-Frank Capin's -

felt at the end

The

that a

litany of superlatives would not be ariss.

riss. hence this review. 11 great artistic effort, truly remarkable. and its

appeal should be international.

There

are flaws, of course. and the dancers for singers often do not synchronize their roles, and no opera in the world has the happy fortune of con- taining nothing but haunting metocies from beginning to end; here and there are always to be found

parts likely to drag. They do drag in Hoffmann, too, but the burden is something one delights to carry.

-A.D.C.

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