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TO-MORROW MORNING

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1952. 1

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

SHOW AT 11,30 A.M.

HOPE I HAVE INAČELULA ROOM-- SOME LUCK TONIGHT.

KING S

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EXTRA PERFORMANCE TO-MORROW AT THE MAJESTIC AT 12 NOON

GAY GARTERS GERTIE

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"She's Working Wer Way Through College

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Queen's 720 9.50

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

JUST BE CAREFUL.

CAN YOU SEE

OKAY !

WHAT GOES ON HERE!

I'LL PUT THE DUMMY

HEAD ON. AND YOU'LL BE READY

TO GO.

YEAN.

HEARTBREAK, paised

on a trigger of terror!

KEN SMITH Show Talking

She Looks Like Marlene

-And She Hates It

She has been given the full Hollywood treatment and makes wisecracks like "I'm only

те

or

Visiting Britain earlier this month for the London premiere of The Snows of axing when I'm working" MUSIC

Kilimanjaro earlier this only find things heetle when month was a 26-year-old I have to do simple things."

to She returns a star,

the German-born ash blonde

banging of the ble publicity plexion and a trim figure. with green eyes, a fair com- drum.

FUN!

The Burlesque Bombshell who became a Campus Queen will soon be ̧rah-rah-rockin' the Scroon/

ROX & BROADWAY

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

Worlds of

EXCITEMENT

to Caler By

TECHNICOLOR

COLUMBIA PICTURES

ANTHONY DEXTER:

BRIGAND

2 Jody LAWRANCE Gate ROBDINIS - Anthony QUINN semen play by JESSE 1. LANCY, J. Inspired by the (Alesandra Damas story + Directed by Pik KARLSÓN

.TO-MORROW Morning SHOW -

ROXY: AT 11.30 A.M.

"KISME T"

in Natural Cofor

A Bombay Talkies Picture

starring

Ashok KUMAR Oʻ

Mumtaz SHANTI

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SHOWING TO-DAY: 2.30—5.30—7,30 & 9.30 P.M. Slashing Out of the Pagos of Sabatini's Swashbuckling Novel of Romance and Adventure! M-G-M's Million Dollar Technicolor Production!

ONLY M-G-M... PRODUCER OF “QUO VADIS”.......COULD DO IT!

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SPECIAL MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW AT 12.30 ....AT REDUCED ADMISSION. PRICES.....

A Very Well-known French Film with English-Subtitles "CAROLINE CHERIE"

THE HONGKONG STAGE CLUB

presents

"THE HOLLY & THE IVY

By Wynyard Brownie

PRODUCED BY DONALD CASTLE

AT

THE CHINA FLEET CLUB THEATRE

ON

THURSDAY, DEC. 11th at 9.00 p.m. FRIDAY.

DEC, 12th at 7.30 p.m. SATURDAY, DEC. 13th at 9.00 p.m. PLEASE NOTE CHANCE OF DATES

But I still think she's gulng about Her nane was liklegarde to be awfully annoyed Neff and I think Miss Neff the news of The Blue Angel. was a very annoyed young TOO MUCH FOR CENSOR lady. Some of my colleagues HILDEGARDE has another

had intimated that Miss fi distinelioneshe has netel Neft is the new Marlene in some of the most expensive Dietrich.

unused scenes ever,

This "second Dietrich" label makes Miss Neff cross. "There is only one Marlene. We are great friends. But I wouldn't try to follow her."

she says.

I learned that her boss, Dar- ry F. Zanuck, recently bought the rights and all the old nega- tives of The Blue Angel. Ho plans to remake it with Hilde garde in the Dietrich role.

Darryl F. Zanuck, in making

The SHOR'S of Kilimanjaro. ran into censor trouble.

The classic Hemingway story too strong, it proved a took five years of stoty coll. ference before work started on this million-pound picture, and the picture took nearly nine months to complete.

IIldegarde, playing the part of a countess more desired than desiring, who paints, sculpts

I first met Hildegarde Neff and vings for fier Riviera exactly a year ago. She had friends, had some very torri! come to London unheralded and love scenes with Gregory Peck. unsung, for her Hollywood ples,

scis- And here the censor's shown tures had not yet been there.

sors came into play. As a re- ult several hundred fcet of film were serapped.

She

born WD5

Hildegarde Knef in Ulm, Souther Ger- inany. As a baby she had in- funtito paralysis and her mother brought her to Berlin to nurso

CINEMA-BUREEN TV

¡UIETLY but, inexorably the big British Olm companies

screen-size

her back to health. The year are adapting their cinemas for was 1920, and a man

called the reception of Erich Pommer, Germony's lead- TV. ing dlm producer, was discover- ing

α girl to star in The Blue Angel. Her name was Marlene Dietrich.

Hildegarde grow up admiring Marlene, but trying hard to be different from her.

HOLLYWOOD TREATMENT

HILDEGARDE

The Rank Organisation have already installed large-screen TV equipment in the Odeon, at Plymouth, and she plays the Leleoster Square, the Gaumont, part of a dead Wren whose body Manchester, and the Gaumont, is, brought aboard the corvette Doncaster. And work on equip Compass Rose.

ping more cinemas is going ahead.

Her Job: To lie so still that The American companies, too, she looks like a corpse. are moving in. Paramount are

T-was-David-Selznick-who-installing-American-equipment --

the

"I didn't find it difficult,"

later on, whipped her off to in their London showcase, the she says. "It was easier than

Plaza.

standing to attention Hollywood, spent a year teach-. ing her English and two more Great secrecy surrounds

all paradel" letting her do no work.

proceedings, but you can

'CRUSHI' ON CABLE Hildegarde said: "It was un- be sure that if the negotia- fortunate that went to Holly- tiations over the Coronation TV

Jano Wyman has just confessed wood under contract to an un- prove successful; cinemagoers that 10 years ago she had a productive, producer. So I went in various parts of the country "crush" on Clark Gable, back to Germany to make a will be able to watch the great Bim-anti, of

course. Hollywood event sitting in the comfort of

their local cinema.

wanted me.

her to play Power in

When she was given her first "bit" role in Cain and Mable with Gable, her heart pounded with joy. Diplomatic Courier, with Gary Ao Wren makes her film hope for," says Miss Wyman.

Bradford- "It was almost too much to

opposite Tyrone

Merrill in Night Without Sleep, and Gregory Peck, Susan Hay ward and Ava Gardner in "Snows."

CAPITOL

FILM DEBUT WAS EASY

FAIR-HAIRED

debut in The Cruel Sea. She

1s Telegraphlat Joan Beaumont, It was too much to hope for. from the WRNS establishment Jane worked in the picture for one day-the only day Gable wasn't on call.

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Lovely lasila Caron, 'the sweetheart

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never have ERROL FLYNN-RUTH |

found the honest man for whom he launched his famous search centuries ago, but if he had

visited Shepperton studion the other day he, would have found an honest young woman.

She is Diane Cilento, new- comer to films who, on the questionnaire every new player fills out at the studio, on the line "colour of hair" wrote. "tem- pararily blonde."

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