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TO-MORROW MORNING

SHOW

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1952.

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

AT 11.30

A.M. ONLY

HE IS MAGIC!

WE CANNOT TOUCH HIM!

Winner of the Academy

"Gerald

And Also

KING'S"

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The City of Holy Year

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•

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*The hottest

combination

that ever hit

the screen!”

--LDUELLA Q. PARSONS

HOWARD HUGHES presenta

PROPPED BY THE DEALS ROBERT MITCHUM - JANE RUSSELL HIS KIND OF WOMAN!

DIRECTED BY JOHN FARDEN

* VANCURI ARIEL - NR 661

Notice Photos of Jane Russell are being given Free to Dress Circle Patrons Only

EXTRA SHOW TO-MORROW

AT 12 NOON AT THE MAJESTIC "HIS KIND OF WOMAN”

ROX Y & BROADWAY

Commencing To-day At 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m.

The Longest

Stretch of Danger in America!

THIEVES HIGHWAY

RICRARU VALENTINA

HANKAYA

CONTE CORTESA COBB LAWRENCE

LES DASSIN

ROBERT BASSIER

TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW

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A Special Programme of TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS Presented by M.C.M. & Warner Bros. At Reduced Prices

RITZE

NIGHT CLUB

OPEN TILL 2 A.M. TO-NIGHT

PRESENTING

RENE &

NIEVES

THE SENSATIONAL DANCERS

FROM MANILA

Please book your table early!

Tel. 34979 & 3$100.

Dance at

NINE DRAGONS

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16th 8 to 11 p.m. Sequeira and his Band Refreshments & Handsome Prizes

hats on Sale at the Nine Dragons Club,

SOY WE NEED NOT TOUCH HIM. THERE ARE OTHER WAYS.

SPEARMAN!

AS THE SPEARMAN HURIS THE SPEAR,

MANDRAKE GESTURES...

·

By. Lee Faik and Phil Davis

SHOWING

AND THE SPEAR FLIES--BUT SO DOES THE SPEARMAN! THE TRIBE STARES IN AMAZEMENTĮ

4-19

★ ★ ★ A SEAT IN THE STALLS ★ ★ ★

Dilys Powell Looks

Back Over

THE CINEMA IN 1951

MAX

et

as

ir

i1}

THE ANIMALS

CAME IN

TO-DAY

QUEENS ALHAMBRA

CLARKGABLES

THE WIDE MISSOURI

5 SHOWS

ONE BY ONE TO-MORROW

By Melrose Gower Hollywood.

Sid Fogel, who has spent the past quarter of a cen- tury rounding up fauna, fowl and fish to act in RKO Radio films, heaved a sigh that started from 'way down between his two

"S'elp me." he muttered, "I'll And a wooden-legged duck, and a one-ayed cat that won't eat birds, before this movie needs

Box"; Alastair Early in the year which son of "Miss Julie; for here is Laurence Olivier in a tiny part) has led 1 recommended a film which repeatedly surprises in "The Magic

a ferocious by its in aginative understanding Sim in "Laughter in Paradise" and "Lady Godiva Rides Again"; to my readers

of Strindberg and its ability to documentary film from bring out ideas submerged in the Kathleen Harrison in "Scrooge

Two other foreign films, Kay Welsh in "Encore"; and, to Praze. "La Vie Commerce text.

have given return to the American cinema, Demain." I still recommend both from France,

Judy Holiday in "Born Yester- Jacques pleasure:

Gilbert Roland in "The Nicole Vedres's piere, but I exceptional

Becker's enchanting comedy of a day,'

Bulighter and the Lady," Lee stomach ulcers. Edouard could wish that its optimis domestic tiff,

the shoplifter and tie fille had been borne out Caroline."

Ophuls's Grant

of William Wyler's "Detective rendering by the year's cinema which sour-sweet

"La Ronde," whien Story" (which goes in the accomm- Schnitzler's followed. Not that 1951 has after eight months is still all the plished class), Jose Ferrer i

Nor shall been without its successes; rage at the Curzon--rightly, for "Cyrano de Bergerac." I prop ese to remind you I don't remember seeing its like I forget (sneaking back to the now of some of them; but for combining elegant indelicacy Continental cinema so unpopular with a kind of bitter pathos. And, with some of my readers), Sylvie none, think, brought the though either is in the class of in "Sous le Ciel de Paris" shock of startled delight the three I have just mentioned, Gino Cervi as the pitying guard

in "Unwanted Women." with which a year earlier two more Continental pieces

Opera has been handled we greeted "On the Town" deserve to be recalled from Italy, luxuriantly in the Powell-Press- Luciono Eminer's "Sunday in or Coetrau's "Orphee."

its exquisite dancing and is Ou and thoughts perhaps | August" from Switzerland, Leo- burger "Tales of Hoffmann," with

pold Lindtberg's "Four in

drooping middle and end, and ought except Sjoberg's vv-

Jeep."

charmingly in the Italian Alm of Rossini's "Cinderella."

TAR

ST

PRana 38155

17 Hankow Road, Kowloon

TO-DAY ONLY

AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30

& 9,30 P.M.

BOGART

You bet

BERGMAN

We're

HENREID

They

а

America has sent us great number of acomplished films and

ja stall number of remarkable

urad

Welles has shown us his notion

'em."

Forri was referring to Gabriel Pascal's production of the late Bernard Shaw's satiric comedy. "Androcles and the Lion," now before the cameras with greater variety of four-footed

n

→

winged actors than any Hollywood picture has boasted in the last 21 years.

BRUTES AND BIRDS

of "Macbeth" (just before giving his brute and bird thespians on Sid Fogel started rounding up a magnificent Feb. the stage 119

1951. Including the

duck and wooden-legged

the

1.

unes. Among the accomplished performance in "Othello"). put such melodramas as "Ace in Stereophony, at the Telekinema, non-bird-eating, one-eyed cat the Hole," "Storm Warning," and has been added to stereoscopy,

(which he'll get "s'elp me"). "Fourteen Hours": among the And I must not forget the good he has 56 animals, eight birds remarkable, two war films, John two-dimensional short flims

ms and one reptile working Huston's "The Red Badge of which have given me pleasure pic Courage" and Lewis Milestone's in 1951. Paul Haeserts's Visit to

picture-driving Director Ches ter Erskine daft, and doing A Walk in the Sun" "The Red Picasso." Disney's "Beaver their cussed best to steal scenes

| Badge of Courage" deals superbly Valley," Bert Haanstra's "Miroir

in a style reminiscent of D. W. de Hollande," and a delightful Griffith with the background of cartoon, "Gerald McBoing-

me

Jesa

Jane Russell

the

from film stars Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Robert Newton, Maurice Evans and Alan Young (as Androcles).

The Fogel fold includes 7 lions, 4 dogs, 18 burros, 7 ducks, 6 sheep, 16 horses, 1 goat, 2 cats, raven, 2 oxen and tortoise-all trained. Ain't that

some'p'n? And A Battle

battle; on reflection it seems to Boing."

with the successful figures in the foreground, whereas from the Milestone Alm I remember a tender stylisation of the soldier in a foreign field. Hitchcock returned to something like his old brilliance in "Strangers on Train"; "An

Z

(directed American in Paris"

Minnelli), though by Vincente less good then "On the Town,' had a first-rate ballet sequence. One Alm which can't be left out-George Stevens's version of Dreiser's "Al Ain dimculty Tragedy"-

"--puts me in a Obviously its direction playing set it in a class above the upper sixth of accomplish- ment. But I still don't feel that WARNER BROS HIT! this beautifully made piece lives up to its reputation as a serious work; I place it with those best- sellers in the printed word ICT which, well as they are written,

can't quite be called literature.

Holding CASABLANCA

HALB. CLAUDE RAINS VEIDT WALLIS GREENSTREET LORRE CUTTIZ

----

TO-MORROW

"Treasure Island”

COMING SOON!

LONG AWAITED-LONG

+

HE REMEMBERED

BURT

and

Of Wits

Ster of the Ilon pack is Jackie, owned and trained by Mel Koontz. He has the savage абрест of a head hunting aborigine and the gentle heart Red Cross nurse. His of a

A deadly battle of wita salary is $750 a week-just $490

Woman,

QUACKLESS DUCKS

special

is developed in "His Kind of a week more than Koontz re-

romantic melo-ceives! drama which Howard Hughes

presents with The ducks are

of Muscovies, quite Robert Mitchum and Jane brand Russell in the starring roles. quackless. Left alone, one

will wander all over Mitchum portrays a gambler Muscovy

A who blindly accepts an offer of

creation.

group, however, fifty thousand dollars to Koi Wherefore, Fogel had the ducks always follow a leader. remote resort on the Mexican together two weeks in advance

coast for reasons that will be explained to him later.

will

of

was

The British cinema has given

the picture's start until one duck decided he was the boss. us during the year Paul Rotha's There he meets Miss Russell, After that everything touching "No Resting Place" Pat a singer on a vacation, and a

hotsy-totsy on the sound stage. Jackson's finely directed "White group of mysterious men who off stepped Mussolin Muscovy Corridors," and Alexander seem to know all about his and all the docile, dominated Mackendrick's ingenious "The mission.

ducks trailed sedately behind Man in the White Suit: three

Then he discovers they intend him. films I should be glad to see to kill him, and his subsequent The sheep were 'problem again; I have not seen and cannot efforts to get clear lead to the children, too. They were supposed give an opinion on "The stirring climax of the RKO Lavender HIL Mob"

(from Radio picture, now showing at way leading from Brindisium to America too came a plece which the King's and Majestic

constantly Rome, but Theatres.

I still hope to see some day, John Ford's "Wagonmaster"). It

to trot along the broad high-

they

the borders of the highway were made of real sod and, to

Vincent Price, Tim Holt and strayed aside. Why? Because is a pleasure to recall also some Charles McGraw have important

of the acting of the year: Michael roles in the John Farrow pro- a sheep, tasted delicious. Fogel

Redgrave in Anthony Asquith's duction which

introduces new finally solved that

TANCASTER|ensively directed "The Brown- song numbers as

TEN TALL MEN

WATCH FOR THE OPENING DATE AND THEATRE

Version"; Robert Donat (and Miss Russell.

RUSSELL MEETS BEN

of Jan Roval Command

rendered by spraying the sod

LYON

one by with

chemical-one taste of the fiery Fogel fodder, and the roaming ruminants promptly hightailed It hastily to the highway.

JIMMY THE RAVEN

Jimmy, the raven in the film, is one of Hollywood's most tamous scene stealers, Owned and trained by Curly Twiford, "Jimmy" is so doggone smart he can even operate a typewriter with his beak.

"And they'd probably unve made him do it, too," glumly averred Vic Mature; the

nesar's had been known in

day."

Studios don't get uns animal, bird

and

reptile cast like this peanuts, Sid Fogel drove some mighty shrewd bargains,. but RKO still had to shell out $9,000 in salaries to the beasts, birds, the tortoise, and, their several trainers,

Animals con

shouts

heck on

stazo," yes.

Bu

And

here

Every

wants to work in the

by two

he stretch wat the own suddenly, almost to

st's the matter, you dumika

CHNICOLOR

Pare

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Starring PAYNE OKEEFE WHELAN

MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW:

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AT 11.30 A.M. Marx Brothers A NIGHT IN CASABLANCA

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TO-DAY

LIBERTY

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PROGRAMME

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AT 2,30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9:30

·P.M.

• HAS THE SEZIEN MBOUGIE VUE BECO LAVER SPRENGEN.DOK TERRI

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