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KINGSBUTT-COSTELLO

TO-MORROW

MORNING SHOW

MEET

INVISIBLE

at 11.30 a.m. wi NANCY QUILD ADELE JERGENS

At Reduced Pricos

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1953.

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

EXPECT TO ROB Ph AWAY, YOU ARE!;

HOW DO YOU

I'M NOT GETTIN

MAN U

ME AND GET AWAY ON A SHIP E

GIVE ME THAT

MAR

FOR A SPLIT SECOND, MANDRAKE! SEEMS TO VANISH~~

CH--TIKRE YOU ARE? NOBODY'LL HEAR THE SHOT IN THIS STORM--

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

THEN HE SEEMS TO REAPPEAR THE THUG SHOOTS-ATMANDRAKES

FIGURE-IMAGE-- WHILE MANDRAKE WATCHES, INVISILE

5 SHOWS TO-MORROW

Extra Performanco

“PETER PAN”

Queen's

AT 11.30 A.M.

AT 2.30, 5.15, 7,20 & 9.30

P.M.

Princoss

AT 11.15 "A.M.

AT 2.30, 5,80.

P.M.

QUEEN'S PRINCESS 7.30 9.40

★ SHOWING TO-DAY ★

A New Achievement in Motion Picture Entertainment!

Walt Disney's

PETER PAN

TECHNICOLOR

DET BEYON

the Vacs of Peter Pan

·Beintved by BKộ Kướn Pacheras, ing

Copyrigh

KING'S MAJESTIC EMPIRE

SHOWING TO-DAY

AT 2.30, 5.15,

AT 2.30, 5.15,

7.20 & 9.30

AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 9.30

P.M.

P.M.

7.20 & 9.30 P.M.

HOLD YOUR BREATH

ÉTANLEY KRANER PRODUCTIONS"

COOPER

RELEASED THRU UNITED ARTISTS

FOR IN THE NEXT MOMENT IT WILL BE...

"HIGH

NOON

EXTRA MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW

KING'S

EMPIRE MAJESTIC

li

At 11.30 A.M.

At 12 Noon

Dean

Bud ABBOTT

· Lou COSTELLO

"Meet The

Invisible Man"

SHOWING

TO-DAY

#

MARTIN

Jerry LEWIS in "At War With The

Army"

A Paramount Picture

AT REDUCED PRICES

LIBERTY

A Wonderful

French Film

with

English Sub-titles

At 12.30 P.M.

M-G-M's

Technicolor Cartoons Programme

Q

AT 2.30, 5.30,

7.30 & 9.30

P.M.

Babin

THE TRUE STORY OF A WITCH WOMAN

TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW AT 12.30 P.M.

Warner Bros. presonts

TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

At Reduced Prices

RIENTAL

INEET NED

SHOWING TO-DAY: -2,30—5.30—7.30 & 9.30 P.M. THE BOLDEST TALE OF PIRACY THE SCREEN HAS EVER TOLD! Whan_the_Pirato Kings of the Spanish Main Clashed for blood-stained treasura....a red-haired beauty....and possession of the pirate stronghold!

JONN

ARLENE

CARIBBEAN PAYNE · DAHL

GOLD

HARDWICKE

by Technicolor A Paramount Picture

SPECIAL MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW AT 12,30

At Reduced Admission Pricas --- Ann Blyth & David Farrar in "GOLDEN HORSE!!

HIGH MARKS FOR HIGH NOON

in

By SUE DAWSON

returns to replace the 'n star on his shirt, much to his Quaker wife's disgust. In fact to every- tne's; there is no support forth- coming.

Perhaps not a Cooper to beat all Coopers

there have been several of those since the 1920s when Gary came into the limelight -

It is this factor which makes the tremendous climax, so that but certainly top Cooper the only real action during the

Western A

to beat whole hour and a half of the all Westerns. There have, film break loose in the lost

twenty minutes. allegedly, been several of plenty of scope for being a hero! Cooper hus these too, bnt

few have Not the events, but the insight really qualified for the into human beings involved in description. "High Noon", the events is the utilisual and important thing about this I think, does,

paychological drama, this unique Western.

The invr'erate Western goer who ୫୯୯୩ this is In for a THUGS BEYOND REPROACH surprise, It breaks

many of

the conventions of the In such a fin, the acting is customary Cowboy film, and frebly important. Gary Cooper is with them, the tedious sameness unquestionably good, and the which stamps every adventure thugs beyond reproach. The from the slick wildness of townspeople are excellent support Western studios, Trus,

there for them. That leaves the young are horses, cops and robbers deputy ranger, whose lack of and gunfights one gunfight. daring And maturity come As Baked Alaska would not be through well in Lloyd Bridge's Baked Alaska without the fee performance, and the two svommen. cream, so you could not tag the One of these is Mexican Katy the most exciting name 'Western' to a fim with Jurado - out any of these ingredients, character in the film-brave, What is so revolutionary about sophisticated, worldly-wise. The "High Noon" is the way the other is the girl Cooper marries, story is unfolded, and the con- Grace Kelly, who is well, just centration on the human side of 30-80.

it. There is none of the usual Being a Stanley Kramer pro- duction, the distinction of "High explanation or

introduction;

Come-back Girl Is Coming Back Once More

By KEN SMITH

Britain's come-back. girl No. 1 is coming back-for the third time very nicely, thank you. And not before time.

Few actresses aged 26 have twice known wealth and fame and twice been flung back to the bottom of the ladder.

She is Peggy Cummins, 501. in. tall, soven stone honey blonde with blue eyes, She first became * stor at 13, when Warners gave her a contract on the strength of her success in the revue "Let's Preiend."

Because of her Bgc she was

allowed to work only during the school holidays, Her first dim was Dr O'Dowd. The day after the film was shown war

Was declared and her Warner con- tract was cancelled,

At 18 Peggy made come-back No. 1.

She was "discovered" while working as a salesgiri in a London store. A year later came her biggest success, as the 12-year-old in Juntor Miss.

hurdly anything Is suld at at Noon", his first Western, is per-week. In Hollywood they did

in the first ten minutes

You

hape not really so surprising. It of the was he who made "Cyrano de

Burgerac",

watch through a glass,

darkly, what you feel to be the of a critical· episode,,

beginning atmosphere is being

Α

THIS IS WHY

built up, while slowly the my- stery is dispersed. Words and their full moves have

Why did Vivien

Leigh after

starring and accept the

role in now being made. And the whole thing is Elephant Walle. egulated by the clock. It is med In Ceylon?

significance

they have

only some time

spoken

been

minutes to eleven when you first see the hands of clock; the train is due in Hadleyville at midday high

noon.

There is nothing particularly unusual about the story--it is the tale of an ex-ranger, who, having just been married, is off for his honeymoon-when-ho finds that a murderer he sent to: be hanged some years before, and whose sentence was com muted to 'life, is coming back to town on the noon train, for which three of his henchmen ure waiting up at the station.

The townspeople greatly fear the deadly Frank Müller (Ian

"As soon as I saw that the planter's wife was described us a 'normal, healthy girl I jumped at the role," she says.

"Oh, the bliss of not having to go mad, commit suicide or contemplate murder!"

- Lawronco At Last –

of life THE

Lawrence of Arabia is to be filmed ot last. Independent producer David E. Rose is acquiring the biographical rights from Law renee's estate and production will begin later this year.

MacDonald), but are disinclined Earlier, Rose will bring Gary to resist him. Ex-ranger Will Cooper here to im Äfrican Kane (Gary Cooper) is advised Rifles with location shooting to get out quickly; he starts, but in Kenya.

LEE GREAT WORLD

THONG KONG.

KOWLOON

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

LIVE AGAIN... LAUGH AGAIN... LOVE AGAIN... those Wonderful ROARING TWENTIES!

HAS ANYBODY SEEN MYCAL

TECHNICOLOR Piper LAURIE. Rock HUDSON. Charles COBURN Gigi PERREAU

A

Ingen KYMM BARI » MELIASI KETITOLES p = 109US SRL - MOJ VA BLEEKSLIP JOZEN EXERAL – ANSA 1 TER RECINCHI -

MORNING SHOW

LEE at 12 Noon

A Chinese Picturo "The Awful Truth”

TO-MORROW

GREAT WORLD

at 12.30 p.m. Laurel & Hardy's

"Atoll K

WATCH FOR THE OPENING DATE!

FLYNN UFAFA AGAINST

ALL FLAGS Technicolor

Hollywood grabbed her, and in 1945 sho went to America with a seven-year contract at £250-

their best to smooth the life out of her and turn her Into yet another specimen of the Hally- wood doll. They didn't succeed.

They picked her to play Amber.

Two months (and £75,000) later they sicked her. She still looked too young and fresh,

Still Not Satisfied

Four Bms for Twentieth Century in America and Britain followed, but in 1048 her con- tract wis terminated-three years early, Her four years had been full of bad luck and -

health.

She returned to Britain for come-back--No.--2-the-lead -- in Benn Levy's play Cupid and Psyche. It died on the road: before reaching London.

Peggy dreaded the return to Alms. Since the end of last year she has made Who Gots There, Meet Mr. Lucifer, and Street Corner. Now she's busy Pinewood in Always a Bride.

at

But Peggy is still not sallsfled, "I would like to make a fourth come-back," she sald. looking for a new play."

"I'm

Next Change at the KING'S EMPIRE-

MAJESTIC

Anna Magnani

(The most Impressive

actress since

GARBO - LIFE)

in

HER FIRST ALL ENGLISH DRAMA

"VOLCANO”

MAJESTIC

STAR

Phone 58315.

TO-DAY ONLY

AT 2.30, 5.00, 7.20 & 9.40 P.M.

CAROLINE CHERIE

WITH ENGLISH SOBITTLES

愿盡滄桑一美人

Mar. 1, 8. She's Working Her Way

Through College

2. M.

Untamed Frontier

1. 8.

An American in Paris Meal Time

EMPIRE

King's Road Tol. 70103.

GALA

CHARITY PERFORMANCE

Entire proceeds to HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN

Under the distinguished patronage of

H.E. the Governor, Sir Alexander Grantham,

G.C.M.C.

and

Lady Grantham

STORE WINTER

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Dukis GRAY

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MON ACTRES

TUESDAY, 3rd MAR. 1953, at 9.30 p.m.

TO-MORROW

AIR-CONDIMONEG Morning SHOW

AT 12.00 NOON

Dean MARTIN and Jorry LEWIS

In

“AT WAR WITH THE ARMY”

A Paramount Picture

AT REDUCED 'PRICES! DRESS CIRCLE: $1,50 -

STALLS: $1.00

Even the

BONGS Are Out of This

World]

ADDED:

CAPITOL

Technicolor True-Life Adventuro "OLYMPIC ELK"

TO-MORROW

MORNING SHOW

RKO Radio Prosonts

LEX BARKER in

66 TARZAN'S PERIL ”

at 12.30 p.m.

ADMISSIONS: $1.00, $1.20, $1.70

CAPITOL ALHAMBRA

TO-DAY

AT 2,30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

The EYEFUL

of EXCITEMENT

MGM

Presants

THE

Sellout

starring

Walter PIDGEON John HODIAK Qudrey Paula TOTTER RAYMOND

•

ROXY & BROADWAY

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

ON EARTH!

John Philip Sousa's GREATEST MUSICAL SHOW MARCHING ALONG

Original Title:

"STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER"

TECHNICOLOR

starring Ciliton

WEBB

22 PAGET RODENT RUTH WAGNER HUSSEY

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ROXY & BROADWAY: To-morrow 5 Shows of

"MARCHING ALONG": Extra Performance At 12 Noon