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ONE OF THE BEST TEN PICTURES IN 1951! Academy Awarded First Prixe For Best Recording! A Grand Musical With Exciting Song Hits!

Marid Lanza! New Idol! Hottent

singer and

a decade!

"To Creat

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TO-DAY

Cathay

AT

2.30, 5.15.

7.30 & 9.40 P.M.

"A, FRENCH 'CONE WITH THE WIND'!

A FRENCH Picture

Caroline Cherie

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Starring

MARTIN CAROL.

VIC, WITY

QID YOU

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

THAT WASN'T THE GUY, SAL. HE TOOK OFF HIS MASK HE HAD A BEARD UNDER IT** protes

VIC-HE TOOK OFF! NO MASK! AND NONE OF OUR GANG RAS A

BEARD!

HUATHAY RIGHT. IT WAS **-A-TRICK! AFTER HIM!

THERE'S A PHONE"

HOPE IT'S CONNECTED.

1962.

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

-1719E OPERATOR ** GIVE ME THE

CHIEF OF POLICE DURAY, HURRY --THIS IS AN EMERGENCY MANDRAKE CALLING?

AT 2.30, 5.30

AT 2.30, 5.15,

7.20 & 9.30 QUEENS ALHAMBRA 7.30 9.30

P.M.

SHOWING TO-DAY

The Mightiest Adventure of Them AB!

AFRICAN

QUEEN

LET HIM

What Made Rita Not The Usual

Trite Celluloid

Change Partners Romance

-And Dance

By Leonard Mosley

REALLY felt very sorry for both of them. But then, who wouldn't? What is sudder, sillier, and more pathetic to the onlooker than the still sight of two grown miện mooning, lovesick, over the same girl-and stiil hopelessly unaware of the real reason why she has walked out of both of their lives?

I am talking about Orion Weller and Aly Khan. And, of course, Rita Hayworth. She has been to married

them both. She has borne each of them

a child.

Now she has

left them

and

is

bockc

at

work in Holly-

WOU

wood -6,000

ה

mites and whole world of

ideas

from

apart them.

And they just

can't

figure aut why, why. WHY sha

went.

1 am

not exaggerating when I say they are still both deeply in love with her.

Watch Aly Khan in a Riviera D dancing with night club, beautiful film star like Yvonne de Carlo or Irene Papa but staring

partner's shoulder at the door, as if he to were trying to will Rita come, laughing and waving, in-

Over

to the room.

his

Watch him as I have done when he glances across at the of Rita on the big picture plano in his home.

And Orson Welles? the name of Rita to him

Unusual as it is in films with an Africa background

the people and not the Ecenery are the vital part of "African Queen.". And, what is more, only two of them carry practically the whole film, each giving what I'm not alone in think- ing is the performance of their careers.

Humphrey Bogart has at long fost bron diverted trem Hle shuffles between slick guy and thug roles, and awarded what WAS long overdue and must havh meant much to him—more even than that, it was a path to his recently requirect Oscar-

Orson Welles with

· Rila (1943-47)

。

Rita with

Welles will wil Aly Khan. convince you that, in fe opinion, they appeared to be very happy. So will Aly Khan

So how did they break up? After watching them closely, talle, after listening to them

I can find the reason for maybe which they are searching.

For Hayworth is no longer listening to the flood of talk which Or- son Welles poured out to het during her marriage to this "genius."

Alp Khan (they married in 1949, parted in 1951)..

After the firzi

rolo which called for sympathy, timing

acting of a high order.

BOGART DELIVERS

real

As Mr Charlie Alinut, gl

| soaked, stubble-chinned captain

and crew of the 30-foot, shabby

| river, stearner "African Queen”, he delivers the goods in all scoses.

"Rasic", or just "Miss" as sho Ja to Mister Allnut for three quarters of the picture, is a rev pressed enthusiast, a missionary lady, a spinster-intelligent, in hibited and prim

Katherine Hepburn plays the part tenderly, realistically and a little over-zealously at

dest.

raptures of life and love with Orson Wel-The contrast between the begin les and Aly Khan bad wornnlar and the middle of the film off, I am convinced that she is really too great to be entirely was appalled at their attitude credible, but it is a weak point towards hard, regular toll. in the direction which calls for this zealousness and no fault of the actress, who is superb,

FUN, BUT

think I know why Rita ORSON WELLES used to get

I know why, at this moment, she is back "hooling" in a musical film in Hollywood In stead of aquaplaning with Aly.

She left them because she is

a working girl. She left both de- her husbands because she elded that neither of them was "serious" over work.

Mention

and

0"

the fand expression of a man In love spreads liko whipped cream over those chubby fea-

tures.

THE REASON

HAPPINESS..

Orson

H yes I know that

Welles acts in dims and directs them. I know that Aly Khan spends a lot of time rid- They still want to knowing and breeding race winners. WHAT made. Rita leave them. But neither of them bas ever, In the way that Rita looks at it, done a "regular" job in his life. She comes from a long

line of people who think a lot of work. Her family were dancers, who professional drummed into her the notion that you cannot be happy uh- less you are in regular employ-

that

VELLES will tell you

they never quarrelled. So

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9, M THE RAINS CAME,

fb, T All Quiet on the Western

Front

th. W A Life of Her Own

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14, Bisow: Pronk ···

[14:8. Piring: Žesthornesko

ment.

.

For every hour that you play (in her philosophy) you should put in at least two, three, or four hours of work to just fy your time off from serious

pursuits.

KOLYNOS

SWEETENS THE BREATH

To liminate bad breath, u Kolynol: 3 times a day. Kotynos is the all-purpose. dentifrice that sweetens die breath, cleans the tells and. leaves yoke, mouth refreshed. Kolydos Gghts 100th decay kod

Zárti much longer, too.

so enthusiastic about a new film or a new play he was quito planning that he made

K

mar-

Jhe

kindly,

"Brother", Robert Morley-

delightful ho ja-dior it when, at the start of the 1914- sound like fun. And work just 14 war, the Germans attack and isn't fun, the way

sces it. Rita

fro the litte With

Welles whether she was working

she never know desfery with

settlement where brother and sister have ministered playing. He mixed the two.

to the So, she walked out on him spiritual needs of the natives one day, complaining that she for ten years, Just.

dn't go on being Couldn't ried to n "genies:" What meant was: "I Just

Just can't con- tinuo as the wife

of a who doesn't believe in work

And then Aly Khan walked African Queen", Mister Allnut

life. It looked good and promising at tho begin proposing to keep out of the ning. Her new husband was way of the Germans by spending dark, handsome, charming, and the winter in exciting. They had lots of fun of the Africăn jungle,

the backwaters together and he showed her all kinds of new places, introduced. But Miss Rose her to all kinds of new people. nothing of the sort, and so they

Inte

her

A CONSCIENCE

Then up turns the degenerate Allnut, and he and the missionary lady leave the deserted asttlement ics tho

HONEY-

to having

enter upon a series of rather Improbable Adventures, saved IFE was full of happy, zest from

the schoolboy RELIGI ful fun-making. They avour by some really master- gambled in Havana. They skl-ful photo

ful photography-80 led in Switzerland. They bath 50

che forgets ed on the Riviera.

19 photography at

and the subtle

colouring the time underwater scenes bring shock- when the working girl inside

edecalisation that one isn't a Hayworth, the hooter who thinks people should do some

getting wet! AN work in ife, began to speak

But then

.came

How long is all this going

not

on?" asked Working Girl Rita of herself, "Surely we're going to play all the time. When do we do some work to

Justify all this?"

FARE INDEED

much

It

of

But the strength of the whole picture

is the love story-the sortwo extrabrdinarily are in the endless procemicts of telle this marriage, too, broke both feeling awakened in the

celluloid romance. The new up. Again there were no very individuak Router

*And Charlie senious quarrels, Agam husband thought that everything rapids, manters with jus

the through adventures, shared the jungia

So this m

Likte

and serene.

and.

nd river, hordes like Teeches,

was scraphicles. Aly Khan Hectos abaft and propeller,

Orson

didn't

guess that the girl he

立

braving the Cormari river-pos had married was a girl with a to continue their joumay, conscience-a conscience that

demanded hord work to justify a lot of play.:

(London Express Service)

Against cough

hoarseness

CRESIVAL

AGIMUINITATER PRODUCT,

K MANUFACTURED INAUG. LIVEIKURINE,'DIRMANTZ

warehe lake obstacles goldre before the final Enpaste of Impenetrable rushes grows from Troden gvots through all, the ine between staged and reached beautiful flowering.ht

t

One

of two incongruities.such

as the boat and its occupants being bore" dry after a night of torrential rein, ind- even tho final histrionia mesadrama do notiquita agesbalance what till than he been a

avory fine flm indeed

..

It is the fiult of an Anglo-* American collaboration and har combined fust that strength one hus: corne to expect in a story. by 18. Fortster and -'n- fibí directed by Tom Autom

-SUE DAWSON

HUMPHRI

BOGART

BOKATHARINE

HEPBURN

SUNDAY MORNING SHOW QUEEN'S

5 SHOWS "African

Queen"

AT 11.30 A.M.

LEE

ALHAMBRA

At 11.30 A.M. ONLY VARIETY PROGRAM From RKO Prices: $1,50 $1.00

Theatre

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4 SHOWS AT 2.30, 5.30, 7,30 & 9.30 P.M.

APACHE

The Old West DRUMS

COLOR BY

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Stephen MCNALLY Coleen GRAY

MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW AT 11.30 AM.

COLOUR "CARTOON PROGRAMME-

AT. REDUCED PRICE

ROXY & BROADWAY

JEAKNE

★ SHOWING TO-DAY ★

AT. 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M. THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF THE "CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN” FAMILY

CRAIN

BAYRNA

Belles on

Low their Toes

TECHNICOLOR

DEBRA

PAGET

JEFFREY

HUNTER

EDWARD

ARNOLD 20

Directed by Henry LEVIN

IT'S A LAUGH FESTIVAL FOR THE WHOLE FAMILYTYI BOOK AT ONCE!

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in aid of the Funds, of

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