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KUNG'S MAJESTIC

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1951.

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

TAKE THE BOY AWAY FOR PUNISHMENT. BRING MISSY LENORE HERE! WE MUST ACT FAST!

YOU BROKE OUR LAWS. YOU DARED APPROACH THE

NEWLY-COME SUN- GOD. THAT IS

TABOO.

CHHET, I MUST SEE THIS NEW "SUNGOD". IT IS IMPORTANT.

STILL YOU INSIST? NO! WE DARE NOT PUNISH YOU, IT WOULD GO HARO ON US WHEN YOUR PEOPLE COME--AS

THEY WILL--

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

BUT IF YOU ARE LOST --LOST FOREVER-

· WHO CAN BLAMEUS

WILERE ARE YOU

TAKING ME?

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2

TO-DAY ★

AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.20

& 930 P.M.

EXTRA PERFORMANCE TO-MORROW

KING'S A 11.30 A.M. MAJESTIC: At 12.00 Noon

"Thiɛvɛs and Killers arɛ my Cliɛnts!

GEORGE

BAIL BONDS...are my business!

I've got to be harder, smarter

than niy customers. It's čy-

momile to make a bad guess

ELLA

(like I did about a

dame named Lucy!

PAT

RAFT-RAINES O'BRIEN "A DANGEROUS PROFESSION

BILL-WILLIAMS

Executive Producer Sed Bogel

Produced by Robert Spark

Directed by lad Taloff » Written by Marie Racks and Wonen Dutt

COMING SHORTLY

SPECIAL NEW YEAR ATTRACTION

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KING'S MAJESTIC

THE WARNER BROS. MAUSIGAL THAT TASCHERES IM ALLT

PAIRTING THE

CLOUDS WITH

SUNSHINE

STARRING DENNIS

VIRGINIA

TECHNICOLOR

Fi!

MORGAN MAYO NELSON,

DUCILLE NORMAN 37 SAKALL DAVID BUTLER

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WATCH FOR THE OPENING DATE

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CARY COOPER as you like him best in

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GARY COOPER! RUTH ROMAN!!

5

SHOWS

TO-MORROW

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STAR

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TO-DAY ONLY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 PM.

Daring..

Different... Shocking!

NEVER A PICTURE

LIKE IT!

"The Lost WeekendTM

starring

RAY MILLAND JANE WYMAN

Phillips Terry

Barla Bowling

Howard di S

Frank Fagles

Frodered by Charles Brochait Dicti

4 F

TO-MORROW

"THE FLAME AND THE ARROW

✰✰✰ A SEAT IN THE STALLS ★★★

Lizabeth

TRUE AND TERRIFICALLY TOLD

BASED ON FILES OF THE 2.3. DEPT. OF FUSTICE!

HOWARD DUFF

ILLEGAL ENTRY MARTA TOREN

GEORGE BRENT

TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW At 11.30 a.m. BROADWAY; At 12.30 p.m.

A Special

ROXY: A Selected Programme of

HAS NOEL

NOEL COWARD PLANS Learns To Be TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

TO STAR HIMSELF IN A

BIG ROMANTIC MUSICAL?

Since the death of

111

Ivor Braden an

e twenty ver nal lean 20 pages of script in werk fo·T: Bigge Th

| Novello no one has stepped

forward

ANNUAN

mantle - writer, compostr tag-scale star at Fir romantic mastrál

il

L

But don't be surpassed a Noel Coward returns to the felf at which at one time he was Ivor's only rival.

Eneosagged. I suspect, to lus tremendous success in entertainer at the Cafe de Paris, woud by the ucclaim for his new play "Relative, Valors both of which! have silenced those wh

Faisa of being uttāsj

the "date"

who "Bitter Sweet"

W Pute

MILTI

14 1

Saish fb panning a new musical an the same runtas-

the style.

Baat Ha

difference

There may be

I predict Now | Coward, the-momposer will write

leading part for Noel the pelor

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Cowaru.

I make two further predu -

Sledo Awther leading role wit

in written for A famous mair mentar singing star (could Georges Guelary?), and ad the law will be presented by Tom Arnold.

It was M Arnold, you may wall who was 50 closely as- sociated with Ivor Novelló

We

RED STAR RISES AGAIN

Larry arion An Hollywood

for life Parks sis

lowing in Batam of his last Is Better Tijan Alm. Love Exer," in which he cuestars will Elizabeth Taylor

It has been us the shelf

! the M-G-M schon for

hine now

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Parks Cum told a US Crag endona

Jas beve: nulice that

at the Commons He adde

me that he had made & Mi

take and won il unanimous commondation from the

gressmen for a frankness,

M-G-M evidently

:

Town

The London Films Cup. pre inted toe London Academy Music and Dramatic Art by Sir Alexander Kurda, has been won by ex student Marie Ger maine.

1

cell Parker

{1 10 Supply Amaica for Chistmas.

T lo Al

kinah Sheridan

ken the African

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heres of Where N Valtures Fl

Wheer 1 And long 1983- Rainbow End: powo fortieth yea

18-year-oll firai Kay Osborac makes her Lunion appearance ever

White" at Snow

the Si James's

Emyl Williams sending first ught good wishes

Brity Ann Davies and sign

Emlyn--the ing them E-Stop-Gap

Sonic

West stope

-JACK DAVIES.

BULLSEYE FOR DISNEY

Walt Disney's master touch with a bow and arrow

is enthusiastically approved by Richard Todd and Joan Rice while on forest location for "Robin Hood" at Todd plays the title Burnham Beeches. in England.

role and Miss Rice charms as Maid Marian. Disney is personally supervising this Technicolour production which Perce Pearce is producing at the Denham Studios.

A Cockney

By ROY NASH Hollywood visitor taking note of the way Londoners talk is Lizabeth Scott.

She needs a Cockney ac

at reat for "Stolen Face" Riverside, but we shall hear it in only part of the pic- ture.

دازه آکوار

rates Scott has two Only one H London gal t Vitted ut theft requires the acreat For the other, an Ameri- can convert pianist, Miss Scolt's votre wii be ifs usual transatlantic self

Eye-catching items I !h £2,500 wardrobe whah she brought from America for the picture include a pale pink lace and not negligee, glittering even-

KOWNE and black

Jerse Pyjamas with a gobi overskirt

Miss Scott is not one of thos ny-away Hollywood stars whe can't wait to pack then bags as

as they Bn.sh Alming. She is planning siglitser- Just shots of Og after the "Stolen Face" are completed m Dermabes. I meludes a trip t Wales where she hopes to spend i C'huistimas.

TRACY'S RED NOSE They may be panting Spence, Tracys nose red at Elstree nex! spring.

plans work 1 present chut he will be coming over Lu

bo a schoolmaster who |dug

comes & clown in "The Romancy

enry Monafee

M

I will be genial, white-hai e:

Tracy's second piano

He made Edward, My par Elstice three vents age and la Is one Hollywo

star who 14 always happy to pay us a retur. VISI

I like everything about Eng-

He told m land, even the tes," ance, they'll be keeping the stres kettle boiling for tim

At the moment he's making a Atlantic crossing in the revers direction as the Captain al th Mayli wer in Bollywonel's "The Plymouth Brethren,"

they

FAMILY SQUABBLE Fabng

studas, where like

tackle out-of-the-rui subjects, have an unusual then

This Day is Ours' when skurts production next month.

F

concert a girl who is born deaf and the effect which he

decided HAROLD CONWAY'S Show Talk has on parents wh

that his former Communistic background would be bad for

the box-office Now they want public will to see how the react.

do not believe the Brit

hammer or sh public care a kle about the politics of the entelajners In show business you are either good or bad.

1 Larry Parks is good

J

"Love Is Better Than Ever" be praise wil receive the same

that he would have done if he had admitted that he was ou a member of the Liberal Party will from nie. At least, he

anyway.

UP THE WALL

Redgrave Will Play

A Star In Eclipse

it stage.

I C

الف

stud a man

that Mr Watt's Pinewood that he is putting present day, is turn went on too long. But up the top comedy effort of affinity belwern what a a good comedian he ist his career in a film of "The woman who He can be alternately witty und grotesque; he can produce Importance of Being Ear.tive to each other.

mad look in his eye as easily nest."

o: he can

tie his legs knot or throw away Itne,

funny

disagree about her upbringing and education.

Written by Nigel Baich: from roved by Hilda Lewis, it will be darle

by Alexander Mackendrick, whom flmgoers kitow bet f the light-hearted "Whisky Gaforr

"This Day Is Ours" is the first 何 programme of nine films

just announced for Ealing.

Others are adaptations of best by Cruel Sea," sellers The

"A Town Nicholas Monserrat, Like Alive" by Nevil Shute and

The Shadow and the Peak," a study of white-coloured relations in Jamaica to be directer! e Robert Hamer.

in engine. Hart, who made a hit Vera-Ellen's perky girl friend

FOR MICHAEL RED. aste the part italiantly on the 14 tank Miss Ellis GRAVE 1951 counts as

it is at in ould stand as to M: Belgrass if she got the year of glory.

vely atisfacto als phamve pressive tally:

ASHCROFT UP-TO-DATE Best British screen per-

I quote for you a significant formance (in "The Brown-

the author. description

HERRINGS ON SNOWDON So far as I was concerned

N Terence Rattigan, about his new

There are also two typical the best things in last Mon- ing Version"); laurels

actor and

play "The Deep Blue Sea"--in day's Midnight Matinee, in als Shakespearean

One, "Head is to Ealing fantasies. Perry Ashcroft Stratford-on- which

In The Clouds" concerns ย of the National Playing Fields producer at Association, were the antics of Avon: present reports from

"The play, which is set in the crazy grow-more-food campaign Max Wall.

of an for turning the top of Snowden

into It is true

herring farm. and a

The other, the work of T. E. are mutually des-

B. ("Lavender Hill Mob") Clarke What is significant about that? is about a small railway which and la The words "present day Do you escapes nationalisation Wil 1952 be Redgrave's glory know how many contemporary. taken over by its passengers, ali

whom of

are anxious to fulf Peggy rules It may well be-fo: non costume year, too? he is to start off with the biggest Ashraft-one of our three lead-youthful ambitions to drive the

played actresses has I mention these facts because stage role any actor is likely to ing

the London during

pust I don't recal ever seeing Mr capture during the next twelve

year: Just two-and-a-half. Wall in a Alm, and I'd like to. months.

This is the "hero" of Clifford The half refers to "Edward, My He also seems to me the kind

Odets's Broadway drama, "The Son" by the time that story got of comedian who could carry e

Country Girl"-a one-time po- up to date, Miss Ashcroft TV series. I sopo he does."

She plays a young woman who stor now in his a pathetic, inebriated old lady

havoc in A Scottish TIME MARCHES ON DEPT pular theatre

to "character." causes From my tent in the circle it fosties, grown seedy and uncer she was back

Miss Ashcroft, like John university in this adaptation of appeared that Frankie is get-tain of himself, facing eclipse as

stage comedy, favourite.

Gielgud, takes most kindly to u James Bridie's ting thin on top,

In New York the play created sense of the past when on the What they're saying about her NOTED AT RANDOM д minor sensation. Despite the stage. But an occasional change performance is that it confirms TONY CURTIS and

audiences is good for the best of stars; so the bellef that British studios Janet author's disavowals,

discarding the have found a bright new come- Leigh cutting short their Paris tried to identify the leading I am glad she

dienne. honeymoon so they can see character.

and Vivien Laurence Olivier

Henry Sherok and the Ameri-

new part will be

THE VOICE at anything she has Leigh on Broadway. "We bem can actor Sam Wannamaker are dramatic

Once a BBC effects-girl, dark- Shakespeare, Mr think Olivier is the greatest at presenting The Country Girl" tackled

was chided by the haired Miss Hart was told "You'll in partnership-a pre-Wet Rattigan short

honeymoon our

raiher

that" when she attended dramatic find for hils Edinburgh. Before that they Is Sylvia?--for resorting to the

school. than miss our pents

alightly cracked performance," says Tony, who have to find a star

Tatilgan felt challenged: What- has to be back in Holywood in car a woman par who flippancy of his early period.

is one of her greatest mid-January to appear in My Redgrave as the falling actor's ever the writes may about "The voice True Love" for *UI..... Grola wife.

Deep Blue, Sca," they are un charms: Her role in "What Bay. What about Mary Ellis? Ned-likely to focuse him this time of They was played

stage by another Betress who Grat and Hector Ross are the stars of "I Am Stranger," grave did not have her for his being "alppant." which is in production at the wife in the fling of "The Brown (World Copyright Reserved-London Owen a great deal to her voice

Express Sproles.)

Yvonne Arustid, Viking Studios **** Bersinding Verston" though she had

mtrticy for once

Der

In

20 Diane

in "Happy Go Lovely," gels # much bigger part in "What Say They?" at Southall, was

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tor alive and we prefer to cut bore tour of six weeks opens in critics over his last play-who never go for with a voice like i

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PECK HAYWARD

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Spectacle! Action! Romance! Intrigue!

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When Venice was at war with the Turks!

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SPENCER

JOAN

ELIZABETH

TRACY BENNETT TAYLOR

IN

"Fathers Little Dividend”

Commencing To-Morrow: Bud Abbot & Lou Costello in "RIO RITA"

SPECIAL MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW AT 12.30 Marta Toren in "CASBAH"

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