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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1962.-

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

AS IF I COULD EVER FORGET THE BOX.17'S PART OF ME NOW. WHERE ARE WE? :

IF THIS

IS-A STRAP

YOU MUST TRUST ME -- TAKE ONE STEP UP AND STRAIGHT AHEAD --BE.

BRAVE, MANDRAKE / THIS

· IS THE LABY STOP/

INSIDE, HE WHIPS OFF THE BLINDFOLD-THE PLACE IS PITCH-DARK-

WHERE'S THE BOX?

KINGS MAJESTIC

SHOWING TO-DAY @

AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30 P.M.

EXTRA PERFORMANCE TO-MORROW

KING'S: At 11.30 am. MAJESTIC: A# 12.00 Noon

Music!'s

!Spectacle! Romance! Colour!

PLUS THE LAGIC OF

NOVELLO

TO MAKE THIS THE WONDER MUSICAL

OF THE YEAR!

DENNIS PRICE

·GISELE PREVILLE

IVOR NOVELLO'S

HEE DANCINGA

COLOUR BY TECHNICOLOR

YEARS

with PATRICIA DAINTON - ANTHONY NICHOLLI

Lányt med and jak petang

Produced by WARWICK WALG Truund by HAROLD FRENCH maria AthSTIONS AUDICIA TID BAS UN MATHE LEA

WE GET OUT HEAE, DRIKO THE BOX.

THE

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ADDED!

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ELIZABETH TAYLOR'S HUSBAND

MICHAEL WILDING

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Herbert Wilcox presents

MICHAEL

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ODILE

VERSOIS

INTO THE BLUE'

also Starting

JACK HULBERT and CONSTANCE CUMMINGS with EDWARD RIGBY

Directed by Blabert Wilcon

Produced by Michael Wilding

Introducing "LE BACANTRAI” The Fascinating Now Dance

ROXY BROADWAY

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M. It's All About Mon, Maids, Morals and Moral

GRANT

CRAIN

People

Will

Talk

with FINLAY CURRIE HUME CRONYN WALTER SLEZAK SIDNEY BLACKMER

Produced by BARRYL F, ZAHUCK - Written and Birected by JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ

TO-MORROW MORNING.

ROXY: AN12.00 noon Walt Disney Full Technicolor Cartoon Programme Presented by

“RKO Radio

Reduced Pricer.

SHOW

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

DID YOU BRING

THE BOX?

SHOWING

TO-DAY

THE BOX!

THE BOX!

AT 2.30, 5.15.

QUEENS MBRA 7.20 & 9.30

P.M.

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LEE THEATRE ASTAIRE AND KELLY

"WC

Ives

Caro! Bateman

presents "THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS” -

April 20th & 27th at 11.30 am. Tofal proceeds to H. K. S. P. C. and

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Variety Program

From RKO Disney Cartoons--Comedies REDUCED PRICES

CAPITOL LIBERTY

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The STATE FUNERAL"of

THE LATE KING GEORGE VI

Spectacles in Technicolour

JEAN KENT

JAMES DONALD ..

THE GAY LADY

kasut at the coral by

CANT BRAHMS 10 && EH9ON

COLOUR BY TECHNICOLOR Hugh! SINCLAIR • Lana MORRIS Andrew CRAWFORD BIN OWEN

replay by C. QUNISPÄRIPIADE Pred by MUGH STEWART red by BKAN OLEHOND HURRY

A TWEES FILM ***** BROLLLION DISTRIBUTION

ENE KELLY said to

me

in Munich: "I'll

tell you the difference be- tween Fred Astaire and my- self. He is a

performer,

and dancing means every- thing to him. If I stopped 'tlancing I could carry on by working out dances and directing others."

We were watching a group of teen-agers jiving for a scene In "The Devil Makes Three.". is the nearest to darieing that Kelly comes in the film.

It

SYD CHARISSE A ND GENE KELLY

Then back to Astaire. discuss us pretty often: you he sld: This Kelly makes me the see, we're good friends. Frett's feel good."

style is easy, intimate, light. The feeling is mutual.

A

My dancing is strong, wide- open, bravura,

BROADWAY: At 12:30 p.m. A Special Programme of

TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

Prosented by: 20th-Century-Fox, & Wamor-Bros

THE MUCH-TRAVELLED Douglas Fairbanks Jan, is

con-

How docs Fairbanks de- scribe himself? He is an hono- rary K.B.E., with his own coat of name and a crest showing an American eagle with a spur

"I envy Astaire his ability to in London again on a variety walk across a room with that of business some of it coltish grace, and give pleasure cerned with films. just by that, Or watch him in top-hat, white tie, and tails, They are the specialities of his tra: they symbolise the style of the man.

He handles them with such assurance,

"But if I tried I'd rip and roar. Top-hat and tails to not belong to my school at all."

of knighthood in its beak.

Mountain" variety. has strong views about them. "They are seldom Says he: renuine. Mostly they are writ ten in Now York by guys wha have never even seen a hill.”.

THE BRITISH rag trade and the glamour of the fashion business is to have its first going-over in a British film, "It Started in Paradise"

al-

Product

GEORGE STEVENS' A PLACE IN THE SUN

A Paramount Picture

Right away I detect a forent approach from the one, usually adopted by Hollywood. COMING SOON TO

The stars of the new British

yen

So what do you put against film are Jane Bylion, Marilia the Fairbanks name: film star, Hunt, and Muriel Pavlow. "Not diplomat, man of affairs, world obvious glamour girls" traveller, or what?

director Complon

("Seventh In his Alms, Frod Astaire

Vell") Bennett. "The models Says the mid-Atlantic night: can supply that. We want real dances, and when he stops the story

picks up again, Kelly "I'm so many things now that character in the acting parts." alms to make a complete blend when I have to fill in forms To write the story Margh

dance, Anding I leave blunk the line against illa of story and

Laski, novelist and more I just don't know recently TV personally,

has partners with some ballet train- occupation.

whal to put."

been called in. Miss Laaki, as harp and glittering as some of

ind

Kelly talking: "I don't want

LEE & LIBERTY

the sume old stories told in BURL IVES is 6 ft. 2 ins.. the gowns in the film, has a Castle Peak Road, Kowloon.

dance over and over again.

weighs nearly 20 stone, certain authority. In the matter. That is my war with Sadler's and the best ballad singer in She spent a year in the fashion Wells.

business herself. "I found I Too much of the old the business. He has come to

Englund for a six-week tour, could design for myself-not stuff there: Swan Lake, Cin-

with him from

for others. I left," she says. derella,'

Sylphides bringing Or 'Ics

Amerien some of the early, anti Marghanita Laski likes to They are as familiar now as mostly forgotten, British folk Afth position in practice class.. songs.

have something tangible, to "I want to tell new stories

show from her work. Her book,

and that's what I'm after th He collected them on his "Little Boy Lost," brought her lims,"

wanderings through 40 of the an old mill in Somerset. From American States where they the money for the film she will The last word belongs to are still sung.

buy something less ambitious: Fred Astaire: When he *w Among his songs,there will a spinat, Gene Kelly's Oscar winning be none of the routine hillbilly Dim "An American in Paris," numbers of the "Comin' Round

-DAVID LEWİN

(London Express Service)

ORIENTAL NEW BALLET

SE AIR CONDITIONED

Take Any Enstorn Tram Car or Happy Valley Bus

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

Through the Looking-Glass"

was actually written by Lewis Carroli in the form, of a game chess. Nirie of the movés

of

are to be danced on a ballet by Carol Bateman's pupils in the on Sunday April Lee Theatre

A Magnificent War Drama Film with plenty of Action! 20th and 27th at 11.30 u.m.

WARNER BROS. PRESENT)

TANKS ARE COMING

BA

STEVE COCHRAN PHILIP CAREY MARTAIDON

NAPECIAL MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW AT 12:30

At Reduced Prices.

— AT REDUCED ADMISSION PRICES

BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND BAWN'!'

Costumes are to be after the Illustrations by Sir John Tendiati

in

of

In the original printing

Through the Looking Glass,"

This

B Carol "Bateman's ppcond ballet to be presented Ja Hongkong, and she will have nearly hundred and fifty children dancing in it.

4

The first was "Hansel and Gretel" at the Tal Ping Thratro in 1050.

Proceeds will go to the Hong- kong Society for the Protection of Children and to the Hong- kong Junior Chamber of Com marce Children's Libraries Fund. Booking will open at the Travel Service on April 10th:

Opposite Kowloon Bus Co. Bus Route No. 6, 6A & 12 SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

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A Chinoso Picturo, in Mandarin Dialogue

MATTER AND LEAR ANDREW STONE

Sinco You: Wont Away

7. M. Pandora and the Flying Dutchmon

8. T, The Great Jawol Robber

9, W. The Fan

10, T. Tha Big-Carnival.

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12, S.

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On the Riviera

The Toast of Now Orleans

Cathay

AF 12,30 12.30-5:30, :7.30-G 9.30

THE DOCUMENTARY FILM IN GLORIOUS COLOR A THROUGH THE SKILFUL TECHNIQUES OF THE ACTORS IN THIS FILM, THE WISDOM, BRAVERY, HARDINESS & FIRMNESS OF THE CHINESE PEOPLE CAN BE SEEN!

"CHINESE CIRCUS”

In-Glorious Cofor -- Soviet Central Studio Production

In Mandarin and Russian Versions: 20 M ALSO COLOR CARTOON “SANTA CLAUSE,