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JOHN

GARFIELD

PATRICIA

EXTRA PERFORMANCE TO-MORROW

KING'S: AT 11.30 A.M.

MAJESTIC: AT 12 NOON

An eyeful...an earful......an armful of the BIG TOWN!

HOWARD HUGHES presents

TWO TICKETS TO BROADWAY

10

SONG HITS

THAT HIT

YOU

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starring"

TONY JANET | GLORIA | EDDIR ANN MARTIN LEIGH DEHAVEN BRACKEN MILLER

BARBARA LAYRENZE • BOB CROSBY THE CHARLIVELS

acron play by $ID SILVERS & HAL KANTER (dirostad, by JAMES V. KERN

ROXY¿BRD

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DE MILLE and HYLTON split

LIFE

the vote on

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the public mood

,

ROX & BROADWAY TWO TOP SHOW

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2,30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

THE FUFIOUS FIGHTING STORY OF QUANTHILL'S GUERRILLAS!

KANSAS RAIDERS

Storing Audie

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Brian Marguerite Scott MURPHY DONLEVY CHAPMAN - BRADY

TONY CURTIS - RICHARD AYLEN~ RICHARD LONG » JANES REST

A UNNERSAL-INTERNATIONAL PICTURE TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW

ROXY: AN1,30 a.m. A Selected Programmo of TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS Presented by Warner Brothers At Reduced Prices

BROADWAY: At 12.30 p.m. A Selected Programme of TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS Prosented by 20th Century-Fox & RKO Radio At Reduced Prices

Tel: 52328

Castle Peak Road, Kowloon, (Opposite Kowloon Bus Co.) Bus Route No. 6, 6A & 12.

☆ SHOWING TO-DAY ✩

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

The dish-it-out-devil-dogs

idn't know how to quit!

The roaring story of the U.S. Marines 1

HALLS

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MONTEZUMA

RICHARD WIDMARK

PALTER IN PALANCE REGINALD GARDINER

by LEWIS ADRESTORE « Produced bi ROSEX? BASSLENIE Motton se MICHALS” BLANKFORT

NEXT CHANGE: "PYGMY. ISLAND"

ORIENTAL

KIR CONDITIONED

Take Any Eastern Tram Car or Happy Valiny Bus SHOWING TO-DAY: 2.30-5.30 7.30 & 9.30 P.M. A Love Story of the Primitivo Indian boauty and the White Trappor is one of the Screen's most Exciting Romance! CLARK GABLE ACROSS THE WIDE MISSOURI

BIG TE UNICOL

SPECIAL MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW AT 12,30. RETURN ENGAGEMENT BY PUBLIC REQUEST! Abbot & Costello in "FOREIGN LEGIÓN""

MEN have faced

the same problem

24 during the sume hours-one in London, the other in Holly-

wood. Both have had to forecast the mood

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by

of the West End public HAROLD CONWAY this week with fortunes depending upon their judg- ments.

Jack Hylton made his deci~ sion to postpone the Hip- drome opening of his £20,000 musical Bet Your Life.

will

Arthur Akey and Co. not be put to the test of rats ing £20,000 worth of laughter until the moment is more op- portune,

With a company of 70 stand

by and

a large ng empty, the postponement

theatre wilt

For The Greatest Show On Earth the show goes aạ but Charlton Heston (with Betty Hutton abore) cancela bli flight to London,

Mixed Reception

For Olivier's

Presentation

ONCE again

17

Laurence

Olivier presentation in the West End has a mixed reception. The critics were unhappy about "The Happy Time.".

1

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Sir

not surprised. Laurence Olivier does not matel his ability as an artor with B zimilar flair for picking ploys. And now, because he is in New York, the actor-managers trying to run his company by -distenes phone and enbile. Even when he is in London

there

ore many distractions. Vivien Leigh must be guided; Thin

his interest in making

walehed; his friends encouraged and placed in parts. And all the time he must sparkle is a host and a personality 0:1 on International level.

double-

1 dub Olivier the headed showman. On the one hand he Imports "The Fading Manalon" which had little es- pecial merit, on the other he New pictures will have to be sinks his money into "The Own merits. Consul," which has. He makes judged on their Too many in the past have re-films to earn money to back his lled on the adventitious boost plays. He has courage but,

suggest, too little concentration.

HAROLD CONWAY of glittering charity premieres. The rule seems to have been

the POOTET

bloger the charity way entertainment

appea fim,

casy

ia

Becand-rate "on"to" cinema- goers: but not one which helps the reputation of the industry In the long run,

Cecil B. DeMille,

of folating after be costly. Not so expensive, telephone Hylton thinks, as joking" to an several transatlantic calls, has also decided the unresponsive audience. apposite way. His circus "epic" 'De Mille's picture will have flamboyant showman's The Greatest Show On Earth. that

End Inunching cos: £1,000,000-openes 4s quietest West

hes Plaza, one day later than par yet. The official premiere the

so has

EXIT FOR 100 · Though the sum at stake been cancelled:

LONDON will miss those smaller, Hylton's has been the costly ballyhoo campaign. harder decision. He believe

FEVRES - in - miniature And Chariton lleston-Holly bright

has been recruit, who co- which Nat Karson and I agree with him that woods TV the theatres 2011 perform

und singing at the Empire for more a stars with Betty Hun valuable service at the present, Dorothy: Lamour-has been told than two years. But the des time in raising the spirits of to cancel his fiying trip to Lon cinton to discontinue them. D

don for the opening.

sworn one big question, apart the

people.

CUTTING THE GLITTER from their uneconomic cost. THERE ARE unlikely to be premierea any big social film

months. during the next few in one way, this can be a good thing.

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But he also knows that the success or failure of a big musi- cal comedy can often depent on the mood of a first-night au-

their dience-and

ward-ol mouth reports.

LEE Theatre

ITIONED, OZONIZED AND WARM

SHOWING

TO-DAY

4 SHOWS AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

Added SPECIAL ATTRACTION FUNERAL OF HIS MAJESTY KING GEORGE VÍ

THE STORY OF THE GREAT SANTA FE

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At 11:30 AM.

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MOONLIGHT

SONATA

TO-MORROW.

AT 2.30, 5.30, 17.30 & 9.30

P.M..

"DUEL IN THE SUN"

Combined · Gló - and - stage, shows will not entice big au- diences unless the film is good. The Empire has been employing 100 a permanent company of

musi- stage artists, including

A clans. They have proved popular addition to worth- sub. while picture--but not stitute.

When the new screen attrac- tion has been a weak one, the box-office has suffered -and the labeurs of the stage hun- dred have not been able come to the rescue.

BLUE GIRL

BEER

BREAKING POINT

SHOWS

TO-MORROW

✅Extra Performance' "THE BREAKING POINT!

At 11.50 a.m.

Capitol Liberty-Ray

· AIR CONDITIONED "

SHOWING TO-DAY

AT 2.30, 5.30. 7.30 & 0.30 PM

An Edward Small Production

so many women

eo little time at

VALENTINO

idol of millions

three brief

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Starring: Bleanor PARKER * Anthany. DEXTER

Also: Latest Universal International Newareof.

SUNDAY MORNING SHOW

to

So ends London's biggest ex- periment in what used to called cine-variety. In the cine- mas, audiences have realm- ed, the film's the thing.

be

FIILSZIER LAGER

POPULAR IN KONGKONG SINCE 1007

CAPITOL

VALENTINO

at 12,00 noon-

MARCHING BACKWARDST

REFLECTIONS on

seeing Carol Reed's eight-year-old war film The Way Ahead, re- issued in the West End:

ABE British studios. march-

ing ahead, or backwards? None of the numerous pictures with war background have seen since Hollywood's contributions Included - have surpassed the early Reed. Very few have approached it.

British screen stars so

The

EM with their

own

Ahead Way cast-list contains the names of 11 actors who are now in the top billing eless Trevor Toward, with a small part, docm't even get his name men- tioned

to

I invite Ave at least of the William eleven-David Niven, Hartnell, James Donnid. Jimmy Hanley and Peter Ustinov **

go and seo this Alm again.. Then let them decide whe- ther their screen performances have improved in the tight years which have passed. As thuy conscientious artists all may get Jolt:

IN THE NEWS LUCKY new dramatisi Joseph Pole, whose day-to-day work loin a Wardour Street Aim offico. His: Arst play Tho Hungry God at the "Q" Thea tre-shows an employee of a

totalitarian embassy in la

Ing.

trying to escape from the

The author, reading his

Czech newspapers, fours that o Embassy clerk. had unwittingly made his play topical-and much

credible than he.

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Watch for the opening on the stage at Lee Theatre

of

THE GREAT LYLE

and his

'CAVALCADE OF

MYSTERIES"

had

Sensational!

mere.

hoped

One-man

any never bod doubts about the t topically part, :the Lord Chamberlain. Because of his direction, the tast-headed/by Norman Woo land have lind to relearn, meny

words. All Slay sounding

Lands wapikan Sfor instance; tako rinic It must now by order a bo areshing but vodkowa N

Bo be 12 aight, Mr Polo. But Iwill not call my imagins

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