1953-05-09 — Page 3

SHOWING

TODAY!

AT 2.30, 5.15,

KINGS MAJESTIC

7.20 & 9.30 P.M.

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1953.

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

SPINNING TWO PEOPLE

UNDERGROUND,

~INSIDE THE

By Lee Fall and Phil Davis

AT 2.30, $.15,

A STRANGELY COSTUMED MAN -- LAND VYOMAN STER

· P.M..

WHO ARE THEY?

HEAVILY GUARDED.] FROM THE CAGE!!

LOCKED URANIUM

VAULT, MANDRAKE

•WATCHES IN AMAZEMENT!

WHERE ARE"

THEY FROM?

EXTRA PERFORMANCE TO-MORROW

KING'S AT 11.30 A.M.

| MAJESTIC AT 12 NOON

SPECTACLE! ROMANCE! COMEDY! only the screen could show Shaw's greatest!

Proud pagan Rome...with ml)

its splendor, laughter, un- curbed excitement!

GABRIEL PASCAL presents BERNARD SHAWS

"ANDROCLES AND THE LION”

Ting

*JEAN SIMMONS VICTOR MATURE ROBERT NEWTON - MAURICE EVANS

end

ALAN YOUNG as'Androclus

THE CAGE BINS STOPPED

INSIDE IT CAME OUT OF THIN AN

OUT OF NOWHERE!

Also Latest Paramount News at KING'S "ALLIED POW1 FREED FROM RED CAMPS" atc., etc.

CAPITOL LIBERTY

THE HOME OF Metro Go Moyer PICTURES.

TO-DAY

AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 PM.

COÓW EXTRA performanCE ON SUNDAY

CAPITOL at 12.00 noon 11 LIBERTY at 12.30 p.m.

NEW!

THE

CORONATION HS AN IMPOSTORI

KETRAYAL OF A ROYAL LADET

RETÁKLE ON

ZEBA CASTLET

PRISONER OF ZENDA

FIRST

TIME

IN

TECHNICOLOR

YG

STATIKA

STEWART GRANGER DEBORAH KERR

LOUIS CALHERN JANE CREER

LEWA STOKE ROBERT DOUGLAS

JAMES MASON

AS KUPIRY OF HINTZAU

"Scrash Payt

JOHN L. DALDERSION. NOEL LANGLE

D RICHARD THORPE

PANDRO S. BERMAN

ENG atury

Hollywood's Scissor Men Are Hard At Work

have been' busier

By JENNIFER JONES

called

not sure. For the time being I'm ranch, then go East to look at

to you). "My next picture? I'm

going to take a holiday at the

Hollywood. Speaking for. film-gdere Wilding as barons--with Greer Kerz and Spring, besides headlining everywhere, the National Garson, Deborah

Elizabeth Taylor as "domes" Easter Council on Freedom from (old English version) in a little. daffodils and bunnies, has this week been Censorship is doing its beat technicolour production affecting the censors.

to blunt the snippeting of "Magna Carte. Yes, it's in 3-DI The above gentlemen, the censor men. Chief out-

I met FRED ASTAINE armçı with the most cry of the NCFC is against shopping at the Beverly Hills vicious style in scissors, an attempt to censor not Five-and-Ten (Marks & Spencers

than only major pictures (which they've ever been before, may need it) but also What is more, by the way library and school documen- things are going it looks as taries which most certainly my dancing schools." Fred. hus though they won't give up don't and couldn't offend 00 of them. Some look, some

business! when the Spring fever has passed. By mid-summer you'll have difficulty in finding 50 much "damn!" in any production from this celluloid city.

Not that the censors are getting it all their own way.

anyone:

The battle isn't surprising. A chief censor gets over £2,000 a year-end even censors have to as Justify their existence. Hence the Spring. fever with the SCISSOTA!

Barons and Dames Get ready to see Robert Taylor, Stewart Granger and Michael

SUPERB BUT UNLIKELY

Says Sue

Dawson

TF one finds it credible that: A. a man can be really in love

CTAR

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TO-DAY ONLY: AT 2.30. 5.30. 7.30.

& 9.30 P.M.

PRESSURE SICH DANNY AND LIN

WMA D SONG IN MY

with a woman, know his love is returned and yet lie HEART

to her from start to finish. B. an adult son who has been on the best of terms with his father will not bother to find out what has happened to the prodigal parent, even at the time of his own wedding, C. a woman who really loves will not make every effort to stay with her man whom she knows loves her, or to find him when he la lost and down-and-out; if one finds it easy to believe all this, then one might say that "Carrie" is the perfect tragedy.

But no, I think, whatever Chicago, to stay with her pessimists may, that the unre- sister and brother-in-law. She lonting

succession of faintly hates her fruitless work at the possible but very unlikely frogle factory, and when the of the developments strains too much sewing machine. nedles 'goes one's capacity to believe.. Per- through her thumb and the is haps Theodore Dreiser's original marked, train - acquaintance "Slete

which Charlie steps in. Later slig

ROXY & BROADWAY everything more convincing.

SHOWING TO-DAY: 2.30–5.30—7,30 & 9.30 P.M.

They

* The drama of a mai

The

Steel Trap

Amal? me, warringr

JOSEPH COTTEN TERESA WRIGHT

Halasand. by 20th Century-TOE **

LEGATE, SWIEDER Pendection

@TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW -

ROXY

At 12.00 Noon

A SELECTED PROGRAMME

ORİTECHNICOLOR

CARTOONS Presented by 20th Century-Fox

At Special Reduced Prices $150, $1.00 & 70 cts.

SHOWING

TO-DAY

BROADWAY

Special Children's Show Lotest 20th Century-Fox Technicolor, Cartoons

Reduced Admissions: $1.20 & 70:cts.

Cathay

SAT 2.30, 5.30,

7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

辦

THE TRUE STORY! THE REAL THING!

WITH ANIMATE FAIRY TALES

FAMILY FILM FOR YOUNG AND OLD ALIKE!

HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN

·ALEO:- Bu SYMPHONIE

EN BLANC

-A TREAT TO LOVERS OF ARTI

"FIRST RUN IN HONGKONG AND KOWLOÓN.

TECHNICOLOR

情淚心聲

the Ball

the screen play 18 taken, makes-meets-gentleman George, proud, 10, 8. LUXURY LINER"

Rentle and sincere, who is in 11, 3: That Forsyte Woman the liquor business and, though 12, T. Fiesta Parts of the film are

deeply

he never tells her, has a grown 13, tv. Song of Love touching and others, such as the

up family. Unfortunately, his 14 X. Take me Out to iron-burn on George's trousers, hard green-eyed-arenste-wife

Chime sheer genius. The ending, by the (Miriam Hopkins) balds all the 15, O. Henry's Foli Hausa way, 15 not unlike that U purse-strings, and he can get 16, B. The snows of Kilimanjaro Charlie Chaplin's "Limelight," nedthen divorce kor money. except that there is no actual dough ogniz Carric death, The whole thing is told neither of these things superbly acted, as one

would when she "marrica" him in *xpect

Sir Laurence New York. In fact, she seems Olivier and Jennifer Jones in

extremely gullible .all along. the lead. They are well up- Some would ported by Sana Beer in a That brings us to the time for brief but brilliant characterisa- à

change-over a complete

with

call

It trusting.

of

the lives of

tion of a boarding-house reigh- circumstances in bour, and Eddie Albert as the there two, which leads, finally, cockey Charlle who is both sweet

to the pathetic, almost be

Carrie's saviour and downfall, lievable ending.

In case I have not made this

It is a story of America at the turn of the century when clear, "Carrie" is a picture Carrie comes to the big city, more than well worth seeing.

PRINCESS TO-MORROW

EXTRA MORNING SHOW AT. 11.15 A.M.

TARZAN'S SAVAGE FURY

Starring

Lox BARKER O Dorothy HART AT $1.50, $1.00

NEXT CHANGE AT

EMPIRE

FINAL SHOWING TO-DAY

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

Due to there being only ono print of this picture in the Colony wo will bo playing it exclusively in our Theatre,

*Paramount

presents

ALAN RAYTY

LADD-FIELD