1952-05-31 — Page 3

KING'S MAVESTIC

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EXTRA PERFORMANCE TO-MORROW KING'S: At 11.30 a.m. ] MAJESTIC: Af 12 Noon Happy Picture! Happy People!

CARY GRANT BETSY DRAKE

avdë

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ROOM FOR ONE MORE

JACK ROSE MELVILLE SHAVELSON HENRY BLANKE NORMAN TAUROG

Also Special Short Subjects in Technicolor

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ROBERT LOULS STEVENSON'S

TERROR

Strange DOOR

Charles LAUGHTON Boris KARLOFF Sally FORREST Richard STAPLEY

5 SHOWS TO-MORROW

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Another Sonsational SUSAN HAYWARD Picturos !.!! The Spectacular Rise of a Woman in a Man's World1 She Made Good With a Plunging Neckline, and the Morals of a Tigress.........

SUSAN HAYWARD

DAN DAILEY

GEORGE SANDERS,

SHOWING

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Directed by Michael GORDON

MANICISE FILMM

186

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ROXY: A 12.00 Noon BROADWAY: A12.30 P.M. Stop by Stop...Clue by Clue.. They Tracked Him Down-

Savage Truth!

Stranger Than Fiction! "HE WALKED

BY NIGHT”-

starring

Richard BASEHART

Scof 'Canon City' BRADY Directed by Alfred WERKER

Cathay

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1952.

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

ON SECOND THOUGHT, JOIN THE OTHERS.

HORSEFACE. YOU'RE

NEW. YOU'D BETTER

LEARN WHAT GOES ON

HERE. AND KEEP YOUR MASK ON.

0.3

THIS IS WEIRD. I'M SUPPOSED TO BE WEARING A MASK--OF MY

OWN FACE!uts

.GENE

GLYNIS JOHNS is coming home... KELLY talks about Hollywood... ROBERT

THE

NEWTON curses in Welsh..... THE poised and piquant Glynis Johns called me from New York. "I'm flying home," she said, 'That is news I welcome.

She is coming at the invitation and the expense of Walt Disney to star with Richard Todd in Disney's new 11- Eve film, "When Knighthood was in Flower." And of all the parts the could have played, she chooses the most difficult- the scured Mary Tudor, who became Quern before Elizabeth 1.

Glynis Johns will re-enter London on a somewhat higher level than she left six months A successful marriage and an unsuccessful play (but not for her personally) given her

Broadway and a New York glow.

.

have boost

Her play there failed after four nights, but the critics ad- vised her to tear up her return ticket and stay

U.S. In the Hollywood moved in with

offers.

But to launch her new in- ternational star career she de- elded to come back home where she is known, and with her she brings the added push of the Disney world organisa- tion,

In London, US D visiting star, she will fx her own terms, move into a Park Lane 1:otel (her fat here is used by actor-director Sam Wanamaker), and will have her favourite studio dressing-room reserved In advents.

DAVID

LEWIN'S

PUT ON YOUR SUIT, BUD. WE ALL GOTTA DRESS ALIKE. YOU KNOW THAT? SAY--YOUR MASK SURE LOOKS REAL

Spotlight

So stars give orders mow

The producers said Yes,

PIER ANGELY, the wide- eyed, dramatic Italian actress, said she wanted a musical. The producers said Yes, DEBBIE REYNOLDS, bright, sharp, American song- and-dance girl, said the would like a comedy-crime story.

tho

Bo

The producers and Yes. It has not always been easy as that for stars to change their styles. Ginger Bogers fought for years to be allowed to net. Ciliton Webb hod leave Hollywood at one time because, he was only thought of as a dancer-not a come-

Hollywood producera said dion.

"Please" to Misa Johns, I nominate this as the opening of an ern cf picture politeness in which stars will state their de- mands and film men will reply "Oh, certainly.“

Yes, Yes, Yes ★TO SUPPORT my

pre- dietion is the news that Glynis Johns leaves behind in America three girls who perfeeling this art sunding producers.

of

Arc

to

But the tailor-made trio, still in their early twenties, show the older stars how make films follow them,

to

In London Gene Kelly, who has worked with all three, sald: "Hollywood is prepared now to ke chance, and.no just play for safety."

I predict one danger in the. new art of picture poilteneas. per Switching parts may break routine but it is repetition that makes reputations.

Pler Angel, Leslie Caron, and Debble Reynolds are the international trio who, despite differences in background ant temperament, are

steadfast friends,

in

They share one quality common: the will to play in dividual parts and not to bo pressed into any film mould.

LESLIE CARON, the French ballet dancer, decided the would like to attempt a drama- the part in a picture with some night-club dancing side,

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Just received

Top Note

JOHNNY

GREEN, the

top note in film musicals (he won Oscars for "Ebster Parade" and "An American ira Park"), was in Londen to supse- vise two musicals,

His own hit songs include "Body and Soul" (written for

Gertrude Lawrence). "Out of -and-Cover the

NOW ""

They are back as successes Oscars today--but he won no

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

ANOTHER WEIRD SENSATION FOR MANDRAKE. A ROOMFUL OF MEN, ALL OF WHOM LOOK EXACTLY LIKE HIM!

YES, DOESN'T #7

LETSLAE CARON-da "Glory Alley,” as the girl who reforms à boxer

Tarzan Is

Far From

Finished

By BEN COOK

COYLE

Tarzan has been swinging COYLE

for them, I found Itronic through studio jungles in

that his awards come for alms

in which 43-year-old Green Hollywood for 35 years and dealt with the music of other he's fur from finished. The composers.

"Waterfront" was written I asked nearly 20 years ago.

film producer, Sol Lesser,

has signed a new agreement

what happens to a composer with the Edgar Rice Bur- when he stops writing hits.roughs estate assuring the Johnny Green sald: "He ar- ape man of 20 years more ranges other people's music, screen activity,

writes film-music scores, ducts and hopes."

Sun-Money

con-

ENJOYING the weather?

It is fine for the picture- makers with stars liko John Mills, Dirk Bogarde, and Pat

The agreement gives Lesser exclusive film rights to the Tarzan stories.

+

"Tarzan movies will never die, much less fade away," said

Roo shooting out of doors. TheyLesser, whose "Tarzan's Savage

BATTERIES

are made in VANCOUVER

and are imported by

ALEX ROSS & CO. (CHINA) LTD. of HONG KONG.

save £1,000 a day while the Fury" is the 28th in the lobg-in small, but regular

sun shines.

Not so fine for the men who

lived RKO Radlo series.

show the alms in the cinemas. The producer emphasised his While the sun is out they can lose up to £500 a week at the box-office.

Explosivo

ROBERT NEWTON голг

shipments.

more They are charged at

faith in Tarzan's continued popularity by puting 17. of the scrics in the works. The feat will be "Tarzan Meels, the

the Factory and are

Vampire and, like its predicthus received in per-

into a new picture part-cessory, it already is giving Les- as that tough. rough pirate ser Ots. Blackbeard.

To smooth the passag pirate oaths through the sor, the script puts the pletives Into Welsh. They sound more terrifying that way.

of

cen- CX-

HAS TO BE MODERN

"Keeping Tarzan up to date has always been one of my major

Bald. concerns," he

Saya Newton: "Think of mo having to spit out a line like. "Time was when all he had to Liedradaidd, brodyclias, lech-fight was animals, and bare- gwyr, twyllu."

handed at that, World War II

It sounds frightening. But It brought mechanised warfare to merely micans:

Thieves. the jungles, Consequently Tar

rogues, vagabonds, ceivera,"

2.

and

-(London Express Service)

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zan has come face to face with guns and other weapons. He accepts Jeeps as a matter of

course.

"I can get him through next year without too much trouble, but Heaven only knows what he'll encounter by 1900

Legser is considering intro- ducing helicopters, rudar, gelger

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2091952

counters and other products of Copies of the " prescribed"

the atomic age to let Tarzan Forms: (a) 1(b) and (c)

advanco"with" the times,

1

"He might even tangle with the occupants of aging sau cor," Lesser sold. "They would bo portrayed" as heavies: CONTER.

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