1952-03-01 — Page 3

KING'S MAJESTIC

★ SHOWING TO-DAY *

AT 2.30, 5.15. 7.20

AT 2.30, 5:20, 7.20

& 9,30 P.M.

Lew Marsh is the

name

You've never

heard of him — but it's the name

you'll hear all over town when we show

& 9.30 P.M.

James CCAGNEY

in this year's most powerful and powerfully different Warner Bros. Pictura — as tho man Law Marsh, who

cord

backs

க

mer

had a thirst for trouble! co-starring PHYLLIS THAXTER

Come Fill the Cup"

BUYMOND BASSEY-JAMES GLEASON GIG YOUNG GORDOR DOUGLAS HENRY BLANKE -

Pen Cult and Ben Roberty by vordert

ADDED:

SPECIAL WARNER-PATHE NEWSREEL

"STATE FUNERAL OF THE LATE KING GEORGE VI"

and "WINTER OLYMPICS"

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1952.

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

Uh-

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

ACTUALLY,MANDRAKE MERELY

HYPNOTIZES FATS AND CUMBS THE CLIFF WITH NARDA!

YOULL NEVER KNOW, I FATS!

SHOWING

TO-DAY

WALKIE-TALKIE

MY--NOSE!

WHAT-- HAPPENED

YOU ARE A HOSY FELLOW,

FATS, BUT IN THIS CASE

IT COMES IN HANDY?

THROUGH MANDRAKE'S HYPNOTIC MAGIC, THIS IS WHAT FATS THINKE IS HAPPENING!

Foxed In More Ways Than One

It was Nunally Johnson very time, Gerthany's star was

WELL CHOSEN

who wrote the film script failing, and Rommel with it, from the book "Rommel"

The Fcx of the film has been by Desmond Young; the well chosen by the Twentieth book that has completely Century Fox of Hollywood, but amazed its author by selling then James Mason's high voltage over 200,000 copies when dramatic powers, his physical resurlence to Germany's most he had expected that with popular War Commander never luck it might sell 5,000 to allowed an alternative to cnter those who had served in Director Hathaway's mind when

selecting his enst. North Africa.

Mason shows perfectly what a tegrity, car:les round with him. weight Rommel; as a man of in- For what is a soldier to do when he has sworn to be loyal to his country, and having reached position of high command, dis- covers that it is being run by a man pogressed; a man who can- not reason but shouts in a high state of frenzy the une

stupid' thing over and over again?

מנ

satisfy a intent taste for He only wrote it to

historical research, and the great desire to always know what went on "on the other side of the hill," so that by the time Johnson came with a request that Young hin- self appear in the film and do the narration, the Those were the actions of the mqdest author says his man they called The Bohemian Corporal, they who realised capacity for astonishment what was happening and planned had been exhausted long be- a bid to save their country from

which fore.

the lunatic's grip leading them to doleat by the

It

Was

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TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW

MAJESTIC: AT 12 NOON

KING'S AT 11.30 A.M.

Universal Films Presents.

"All Color Cartoons:

Programme"

Entirely New............

AT REDUCED PRICES

66 Come

Fill The

·Cup 2

LEE Liberty

DAILY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M. ★ SHOWING TO-DAY ✯

How You'll ROAR When She Opens the Closet Doorly

Darlingt

Maring

How Could

You!

FONTAINE LUND FREEMAN HANSON

MITCHELL LEISEN PRODUCTION

Produced by HARRY TUGEND

Directed by MITCHELL LEJSON

A PARAMOUNT PICTURE

Breenplay by Doda Laith and keset Samuela

from the play, ALICE-SIT-BY-THE-FIL, "

Fuses M. Bacla

JOAN

MONA

JOUN

PETER

ADDED AT THE LEE

SPECIAL NEWSREEL

FUNERAL OF HIS MAJESTY KING GEORGE VI

MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW

at the LEE

COLOUR CARTOON

PROGRAMME

at the LIBERTY

STOOGES COMEDIES & COLOUR CARTOONS

at 11.30 a.m.

at 12.30 p.m.

ORIENTAL

ONDITIONEDES

}

·Toko Any Eastern Tram. Car or Happy Valley Bus

SHOWING TO-DAY: 2.30-5.30-7.30 & 9.30 P.M. It's A Brand Now High in Hilarity! Fun & Laughs!

Bud Lou ABBOTT and COSTELLO

MEET THE INVISIBLE MAN ON

SPECIAL MORNING SHOW TOMORROW AT 12.30 ) Another New Programme of TECHNICOLOR Cartoons

showing the result of Young's and the choice that Rommel had research as it might have been to make is the climax of the lived-what really happened to dram the enemy general who caused drama and superbly acted by pil

concerned.

to

this message to be sent from the

It is a pity then, that one is Command-in-Chief of the Br left with no lasting impression 125 Middle East Forces to all its subordinats: "There exis's a real of the film, in fact with rather a danger that our friend Rommel sense of confusion. For anyone unfamiliar with the African becoming

kind of

our Campaign, much of it difficul magician or bogeyman to our

it 15 straight. troops, who are talking far too

There is at the beginning a much about him...1 with you

scene in which the Temmies to dispel by all possible means silently storm a German strong- the idea that Rommel represents hold and then dash off hastily. gomething more than an ordinary leaving a wounded soldier in an Germen General." But at this orchata in the grounds with n German standing over hin say- ing something about you British.

ZENI

Tel, 52328

Castle Peak Road

Opposite Kowloon Bus Co. Bus Route: No. 6, 6A & 12

TO-DAY ONLY

AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30'

& 9.30 P.M.

#1-6-ITs Big South Seas Musical!

ESTHER WILLIAMS

HOWARD

PAGAN LOVE SONG

TECHNICOLOR

the flare, ale valable to the MEDYM RECORDS ALBUM

NEXT CHANGE CLAUDETTE COLBERT

In

"Three Came Home"

TO-DAY

ONLY

4.

QUITE DIVORCED This seems -to 01 quile divorced from the following events, in which Deerond Young and a few others get captured, Then the famed Afrika Kerps are kept so short of supplies that Field Marshal Erwin Rommel orders a retreat, although this countermande Der Fuerher's "Victory or Death" edlot.

Frau

Bus the next thing 13 Rommel in hospital with a serious nose disease. Here one fist meets Lucie Mazie Remmet (Jessica Tandy) and his son Manfred (William Regnolds). Here 100 comes an old friend

Dr Ka: Stralin (Cedric Hard- wicke),

who slanted Remmel thinking what might happen if he ever grow out of favour with Hitler (usted by Luther Adler) and whather, in fact, he could en honest man keep 'in vour with such « master.

It is, of course, difficult to im

| Ghly parts of soireene's life an

yut keep the result smeeth and undisjointed, but it is an open question whether there was n need for this pasticular film to

further dismembered

bo

1

cut of seven feet.

BUT WHY?

by a

This was done--and noticeably done before it reached here, the scenes being the British rc- treat at Tobruk. If the accur renes is historically accurate. why, in what is supposed to be an historically accurate film, should the possibility of a dif- ferent conclusion be allowed to exist through, the omission?

The course of the war remain- cd unaltered, and every Brmy retreats at one time or another, so the question of tact cannot :easonably be picaded.

But whatever the faults of this Aim, and however controversial certain points in. Desmond Young's book may be, Rommet Wäs unquestionably

great soldier, doing his best for his country as he saw it, and "Desert Fuxia, emangat o her things, a tribute to him as such.

Finally the sky is worth see- ing.

-SUE DAWSON

STA STAR

Plione $1935 URE

17. Hankow Road, Kowloon

AT 2:30, 5.30,,

7.30 & 9.30

METRO-COLDWYN-MAYER PRESENTS

Vivion LEIGH* Robert TAYLOR

P.M.

"WATERLOO BRIDGE"

TO-MORROW

"THE TOAST OF NEW ORLEANS”

JAMES MASON AS ROMMEL

@pitol "THEATRE

AIR CONDITIONED

FINAL SHOWING TO-DAY +

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

JUST DIRECT

YOUR

FEET

TO

THE

OF

COLUMBIA PICTURES presents

FRANKIE LAINE

BILLY DANIELS TERRY MOORE

JEROME

COURTLAND TONI ARDEN with Audrey Long Dick Wasson Lyna Bari

SUNNY SIDE STREET

Screen Play by LIELCET Produced by JE TAPE Britid by RICHARD QUBE.

Ginger ROGERS

CARSON

THE

SUPERCINE COLOR

TO-MORROW *

·loaded with LAUGHTER!

Groom wore Spurs

JOAN DAVIS

SUNDAY MORNING SHOW

Columbia Pictures Prosents

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& TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

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QUEENS ALHAMBRA 7.20 & 9.30

CATEDRIVIN@FIRST-TIME IN SLATEN!

Rader robberies by commande gangstersť Short-wave radio soiras $2,000,000 gold robberyl Walkie-talkie raiders terrorise metropolial

FALL

YEW

5 SHOWS

TO-MORROW

P.M.

RADAR ROBBERS!

M-G-M D

WALTER PIDGEON

(for the fest firme in Uhr farmout private ya?)

Calling Bulldog Drummond

MURLEIGHTON ROCA DEATTY

EXTRA PERFORMANCE "Calling Bulldog Drummond" AT. 11.30 A.M.

ROX & BROADWAY

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

Ring JAMES MASON

with

20

COMES FOR

THE

DESERT

FOX

CEDRIC HARDWICKE - JESSICA TANDY” LUTHER ADLER • Ertial) Sisana"» Leg G. Carrol). Wet for the Screen and Placeré by

Octab

NUNNALLY JOHNSON HENRY HATHAWAY

In the Boy by Brunder £ÍSUONG TAKING, BLG,

THE STARTLING STORY THE WORLD HAS ONLY GUESSED AT

BUT NEVER KNOwn until NOW! THE AMAZING STORY OF ROMMEL THE GREATEST STRATEGIST SINCE HANNIBALI

TO-MORROW 5 SHOWS -

EXTRA PERFORMANCE

́ROXY: At 12.00 Noon.

BROADWAY: At 12.30 p.m.

Complimentary Tickets Are Not Valid for this Picture"

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`2 SHOWS DAIĻY AT 6.30 & 9.15 P.M.

THE CREAT SORCAR

IN PERSON

"WORLD'S GREATEST MAGICIAN"

TWICE, WINNER OF HE NOBEL PRIZE OF MAGIC: "THE SPHINX AWARD” FROM: NEW YORK" FOR THE "BEST STAGE MAGIC,

BBC LONDON TELE- VISION INTRODUCED AS "WORLD'S GREAT- EST MAGICIAN"

SORCAR cuts a lady in half on

brings

open table

cuts a man's tongue ghosts right in the audienco he disappears in the presence of averybody,

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