1953-01-03 — Page 3

KING S

Gur-Conditioned"

| TO-MORROW MORNING

SHOW AT 11.30 A.M.

Paramount Films Presents

A COMPLETE PROGRAMME

of

ALL TECHNIColor cartooNS

• At Reduced Prices

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1953.

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

AM I BEING FOLLOWED THOSE

FOOTSTEPS SOUND LIKE IT.

I'LL SEE.

HE STOPPED IS HE SUSPICIOUS? BUTI CAN'T STOP HERE. I'LL HAVE TO, KEEP WALKING -

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

JOE WAS IN SUCH A HURRY, HE GOT THE QUMMY HEAD ON BACKINĦADS!

Tage 3

AT 2.30, 5.15,

AT 2.30, 5.80.

7.20 9.30 QUEEN'S ALHAMBRA 7.30 & 9.30

P.M.

TO-DAY

WORLD PREMIERE

P.M.

M-G-M persenta

IT'S REAL!

SHOWING

KINGS MAJESTIC

TO-DAY

RAY BOLGER

in Warner Bros

"Where's Charley

AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.209.30.

P.M.

SHE'S A HE --AND HES A HOWL!

TECHNICOLOR

ALLYN MILERIE SEAN PUN IN JOHN MONKS IR DAVID BUTLER

TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW at 12 Noon at MAJESTIC

Warner Bros. Presants

ALL TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

At Reduced Prices

PRINCESS EMPIRE

SHOWING TO-DAY

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

FRANKIE

LAINE

Walkin'-on-air fun

and songs

as a Hollywood star is born!

RAINBOW TECHNICOLOR

BILLY

DANIELS

ROUND MY

CHARLOTTE

AUSTIN

SHOULDER

Met de BLAJE EDYYLne

RICHARD DONE

Product CHE TAPS

JA COLOMBIA FICTIONE

ARTHUR

FRANZ

Rainbow "Round My Shoulder Ain't Mabehavin' Bye Bye Blackbird

She's Funny That Way

Wonderful, Won't? .... Wrap Your Troubles

in Breams

ROXY & BROADWAY

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

Pony Soldier

TECHNICOLOR

TYRONE POWER

SAMBEL G. ENGEL - JOSEPH MITTENMAN

TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW

ROXY: AF 11.30 ·A.M. "USTAD PEDRO"

The Best 1951 Indian Thrilling Costume Pictura with Sweet Musis and Cap- tivating "Rances para

| BROADWAY: At 12:30 P.M.

Extra Porformanco of "PONY SOLDIER” Color by TECHNICOLOR Bag-Book Early Guest

This Isn't Our Jean

Jean

through

the Hollywood

looking

glass:

ONCE

¡NCE upon a time there was a nice little girl who was just a bit different from all the other nice little girls. Her name was Jean Simmons. She was fresh, had a copyright charm, a bit like a teen-age Vivien Leigh (enough for Olivier to pick her for his Ophelia--but not enough to be dangerous).

Now look at the streamlined wonder Jenn says: "I've learn glamour-girl In the picture. ed my lesson the hard way. Yes, it's' Jean all right — but Now I've promised myself — no It's also a girl straight off the more long-term contracts," conveyer-belt. She's manicured, powdered and coiffed Jike a pedigree poodle and has now become one in a thousand Hollywood-type faces Instead of a girl in a million.

Given 'tho works'

And Jean scoms happler these last few weeks. She and their Granger have given up glamour. Bel-Air mansion, which she dislike, and moved into a two-bedroom hilltop house.

Now she's a Howard Hughes I hope she shakes off the product, hall-marked anti paint-and-powder coating, too. priced. He was the man who Otherwise she'll be Just ordered the glamour treatment. another dime-a-dozen glamour When she was languishing in queen. Hollywood waiting for "Andro- cles and the Lion” to take tho

floor, she put on poundage.

Ilughes ordered "the works."

Ho likes huge close-up and huger smiles. Bo Jean sulall- ted to a team of expensive dentists who evened out her molars, Then

beauty- parlour-maids moved fo

Tho Simmons figure was pounded into a standard model.

After massage and diet sho became a sleek eight stone, sli pounds,

Her hair onec looked as if she'd combad it through

with

her fingera.. Orders from the Hughes oflee gave her a smart poodle-cut. Jean salil good-bye to slacks and sandals she loved

and to her individuality.

Hated mansion

The price of conformity was pold in -health, stretched nerves aná„Tretni aiz „when“ anyone dared do eritielso. No

HE TOLD CAPONE “SHUT UP"

Harry Richman is America's 12 he bag been

errand bor, wings and tail in case it was

most "wanted" man. There's cashler. Hfeguard (“I rescued forted into the sea.

a price on his head that's stag- them at the rate of five a day"), Eering to imagine,

All the major film companies- have tumbled at last to the fact

that this six-foot singing star

It'

Amusement park "barker," and restaurant pianist.

At 12 he teamed

street violinist

In 1937, when he arrived in London for a Palladium engage- ment and variety tour, he was mobbed. He was the new play- He was the stage's 18 trunks containing 144 pairs of best-dressed man. He brought

Blik socks, 14 suits and four dozen monogrammed sblits.

Sido

MICHAEL RUDDY

STAR

Phone 58335

- SHOWING TO-DAY

At 2.30, 5.30, 7,30 & 9.30 p.m.

* THE LIFE AND LOVE STORY OF

BEETHOVEN

無聖貝多芬傳:

ADDED: TUHAIKOVSKY'S "NUTCRACKER SUITE”

E "SWAN LAKE BALLET".

5. M. WATERLOO RRIDGE 6, T. Double Crombones.

* T. Song of India.

up with a has a life that's worth filming oct. Later he went "straight,"

as a-vaudeville boy star. and they're pushing the bidding but returned to vaudeville as an for the screen rights up to fast accompanist to Mae West ("For Harry gets dizzy thinking about 15 months, then we had a

difference of opinion") and later Soon after he arrived he was 7, W. Les Akiserables. Who is this Harry Richman? the Dolly Sisters, Paul Whiteman ainging "Baby Face," "Sunny 9. F. Tha Barber Takes a Wife, If you're too young to know-ask and Rudolph Valentino.

the Street" and "Birih | 10, 8. your mother. He probably made her heart Butter in the 'twenties. ever told Al Capone "Shut up Queen Elizabeth.

He is the only man who has of the Blues" at a private party, B. Story of Robin Hood.

for the late King George VĨ and And if you're one of the older or get out" and lived. It hap people who somehow missed him, pened in Harry's own club when ask your daughter-he's probably Capone was making too much making her heart flutter right noise.

It was in this club that Harry

discovered and made We talked together at the famous a girl named Lucille le Cafe de Paris before his cabaret Sour. You know her better as

Joan Crawford act began. He is 57, sun-tanned, with a bumpy profile. He talks in a bored Southern drawl, sings In .n volce as lazy as clotted cream.

now.

From club cabaret to radio, to the stage, on the films. Then in 1930, a victim of the fiying "bug," he and Dick Merrill flew His life has been crammed the Atlantic both ways (It cost with exeltement. At 10 he could Harry £35,000)-in an aeroplane drive a car. By the time he was with 40,000 table tennis balls in

ROXY.

TO-MORROW SPECIAL MORNING SHOW AT 11.30 A.M.

Gian Singh & Co., Ltd. proudly prosent "USTAD PEDRO“.

The Best 1951 Indian Thrilling Costume Picture with Sweet Music and Captivating Dancos. Starring Begum PARA Sheikh MUKHTAR • SAPRU • SHAMMI BOOKINGS NOW OPEN !

In London in 1952 he has managed with only one trunk, two large sultcases and a crate of eggs,

He twirled a heavy gold chain bracelet around his wrist as he offered me a drink. It is his good luck charm. He works his charm hard-at the rate of £1,000 a week.

But now he no longer sinks

his savings in Dying. He has a ranch in Nevada. Just a small place of 40,000 acres and 500 head of catfle. ·

"I wake up in the morning, look out of my window and see

all those delicious 100 dollar bills running around on four legs.”

R.O.

ABOVE

AND

BEYOND

STAKLINGS

ROBERT TAYLOR ELEANOR PARKER

·5 SHOWS TO-MORROW

QUEEN'S: Extra Performance At 11.30 a.m.

CAPITOL LIBERTY

· SHOWING TO-DAY

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

A Yung Hwa Production

Li-Li Hwa in

"Love

Eternal"

A Chinese True Romance

in Mandorin Dialogue.

EXTRA MORNING SHOW ON SUNDAY

"LOVE ETERNAL”

CAPITOL at 12,00 noon LIBERTY at 12.30 p.m.

LEE GREAT WORLD

KOWLOON

COMING TO THE SHOWING TO-DAY

Empire-Liberty

ALEC QUINNESS

JOAN GREENWOOD

-- CÉCIL PAKKER

THE MAN IN

THE WHITE SUIT

ORIENTAL

AIR CONDITIONED:

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

YOU WILL BE LOOKING AT A BEAUTIFUL DOLL WHO'S PLENTY CUTE AND VERY ́ ́FLIRTY!' This is a story with allot of Fun and Laughs!

WARNER

BROS.

She's

Way Through

Working Her

KAYD* REAGAN *

SPECIAL MORNING SHOW, TO-MORROW AT 12.30 AT REDUCED ADMISSION PRICES Jamos: MASON & Cedric HARDWICKE in "THE DESERT FOX"

20th Century-Fox Film

4 shows daily at 2.30, 5.30, 7.30.& 9.30 p.m. -

A CHINESE PICTURE

經女

女兒

'AREN'T THE KIDS LOVELY?"

DIALOGUE IN MANDARIN

5 SHOWS TOMORROW

"AREN'T THE KIDS LOVELY?” LEE: 12.00 NOON. • GREAT WORLD: 12.30 P.M.

NOTICE

The public is hereby notified that we have arranged to show our- specially prepared film reels "KEEP UP WITH THE "TIMES" together with "Pony Soldier" in the Hory Theatro, Hongkong and with "Rainbow "Round My Shoulder" in the Frincess Theatre, Kowloon...

Movie Fans who have seen our Bound Tochricolour Flim "KEEP. UP WITH THE TIMES" are cordially invited to participate in the. Contest in the form of an Essay written either in English or in Chinese, an article concerning this MOVADO prepared film "KEEP" UP WITH THE TIMES" and such Easys received will be forwarded to the Fabriques MOVADO in Switzerland for

determination the best willera. Prices will be awarded to the first HR bost writers in the forra of d MOVADO Watch to each.

written

in Chinese will to translated by China Sales Corporation, fold agents for the Fabriques MOVADO for Hongkong, Macmi and China. It is hoped hunt Essays will be sent to China Bale, Corporation of 118 Alexandra House before 20th of January 1958.

FABRIQUES MOVADO, SWITZERLAND.

CHINA

Sole Agents:

SALES: CORPORATION, 118 Alexandra Houżo.