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KINGS PRINCESS EMPIRE

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EXTRA SHOW ON SUNDAY AT 12.00 NOON

the WINNER of

the BEST 10 PICTURES of 1953

"it was not merely an able transfor of a stago play to the screen; but an unusually skilful portrayal of an historic event.

JAMES MASON

was selected the year's best setor for his appearances In "JULIUS CAESAR'A

ON THE NEW Panoramic scrEEN

BRANDO MASON

BIELSUN CALMIN

O'BRIEN GRISON

¿KERR.

JULIUS CAEJAK

Greater

FMANHOE!

THE CHINA, MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1954,

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

INSIDE THE LOCKED CLOSET MANDRAKE STILL

A LIVING-DEAD MAN, COMES TO **

14.5

FOUND LOTHARA NOT MANOHARE.

By Lee Folk and Phil Davis

HEARD THE MOST RETURRI -MANDRAKE, COME TO ME!

THE TAX MAN SAYS NO

LYNIS

Gasked

JOHNS has

Sir Laurence Olivier to release her from the star role in one of the New Year's most important West End stage productions

Ronald Millar's new drama, "The Cross Ronds."

There is no question of Miss Johns not liking the part-it was to bring her back to the theatre

TO Miss JOHNS SHOW TAKK

by Harold Conway

after me to spend after tax. That is an absence of nearly four why I get into a mess.

But this 30-year-old "But I really don't think I years.

who

extravagant. actress.

carnis

Inevitably

average of £30,000 a year in the studios, cannot afford to stop making films.

"I accepter! without Orst

arcountant.

"Now

15

offer

5212 FAYS

the stage

consulting

told

this

my the.

Is

one luxury I cannot indulge it will be Impossible to knock off filming until next autumn, if then."

VIL

eturn

the

nm

to

notice.

when you reach a certain posi- tion, and a big income, in the entertainment world you And yourself adopting a standard of living which it is difficult switch off at a moment's

thinga. I don't do silly But I

"My husband and I recently bought a nice house near Sun- ningdale; but all we have kept in London is a one-room Aut Just to have somewhere to and change it we are going out In the evening after work, We

но

So, while Oilvier is finding bis new star, Glynis Johns will be making two more pictures in the New

£10,000 Year, ot aplex. And in the autumn she will ask her accountant, not too hopefully, if she can take a rest

--in the theatre.

NEFF AS TRILBY

RITISH Alm producer George Minter begins work this month on his new version clássic Du of "Trilby-the Maurier story of the hypnotist who transforms rest

a young girl into a world-famous singer.

Likellest star for the part of Hildegarde Neft. Minter thinks herself German actress Tilby het Miss Nett's suitry looks and fery personality will compensate for her inability to sing.

is

is Austrian-born.

soprano

GLYNIS JOHNS

With £30,000 a year from the film studios, ska finds a stage return is out.

Glynis Johns's problemitus- trates a malady aleting London stage: too many rst-

both work long and hard hours, roto stars, who should be ens I must have a housekeeper-

but that's riching our theatre, And them-

not extravagant in the circumstances, is it?" selves caught up in wonder- tand

Johns's of lim fortunes from which

husband Glynis David licy dare not escape.

Foster, 32-year-old Who will "dub" the singing There

London representative must always be another

ot on part? Mr Minter hopes to get to help pay the surtax

operatle and concert American soap company.

other Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. Miss S. the

Last one; Then one "We don't help each more picture-to catch up with Ananetally at all," she remark- the tax on that last one.

ccl. "Since our earnings And, meanwhile, the day-to-day taxed together, it makes matters expenses on

wonderland scalo-go v1.

"The stage role I have had to Rive

up was that of a woman who bas spent A year in prison," says Miss Johns. "But I am imprisoned now--In the centre of a whirling wheel large earnings and large expen- diture. The wheel never slops.

unental importation, is to be might pardonably be m

Con

played by Robert Newton. Mr Newton ***

is uncompromisingly British.

Д

of

"I never know how much of every pound I earn is left for

worse."

This looks like being the most Germanie Trilby production yet

except that Svengali, who

Films-Current

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And Coming

By MARGARET

HAPPY OLD DER BAY" you will know

FILM YEAR

For one

BRUCE

.

*

can so

read If you have

the scen 1 consider "THE ROBE" is also the punctuating crack of

In every way but bullets, and what more advertisementy for "THUN. excellent

"JULIUS CAESAR" will, I many of us want. think. outlast it 28 u movie that it is the saga of the classic.

The KING'S. EMPIRE and man who ought for the

PRINCESS have on a Dean thing Cinemascope Martin and Jerry Lewis comedy. aome this may make every- this alone

THE

will. thing abundantly clear; to ROBE"-also this treatment of naturally, and deservedly, By Fred Majdalany others, like myself, a little one aspect of the Bible Story Carry an audience of its own

with it. clarification may be neces. will give way to others. me the interesting sary, so I'll tell you all I thing about 1959

know. It's the golden har- neither the optical misery vest that's reaped from un of 3-D nor being wrapped oil-gusher. up in the bath-towel of CinemaScope. It was the number of pictures that were not merely good but the outstanding.

biggest bununza of are itself will improve rapidly, na "SCARED STEFF" This team

was

But Shakespeare is perennial, and couldn't be better acted, in most instances, than it is in this presentation,

It's an

Most comedy teams play the ghost theme at some time and here it is very well done, Martin and Lewis are such splendid folls for one another and have quite rightly been placed high on the pinnacle of clowning. You'll get a refreshing taugh from this film before settling down to passion and psychiatry with the two films that follow (at any rate at the KING'S.)

LATEST BEAUTY

I am horrified to observe that Now, if it's action you're after, the prices are also being raised this is it. Because this particu- for this Alm, If anything can tar oil is under the sea, and in shorten

the run. and conne sen are shrimps, 20 the the width of its public this will. ishermen and the oilmen are at

increasing tyranny cross-purposes at once, to which there

is nothing in JULIUS Without difficulty or tortureds added the complication of a CAESAR to indicate that it burrowing in files, I can recall "dame".

cost more to make than "IVAN- the names of some 20 Alms

First "MONSOON," This is which anyone might have been James Stewart is the leader HOE," to which it is so ludle

rously compared!

Its power Ursula

noteworthy for letting us see proud to make in any year.

of the ollmen, and I personally

Thiess (pronounced The fact that malleo is in tan distressed to find him cast lies chiefly in the magic of the

no royalties cas) who is the latest can- reasonable abeyance and the in this rough-hewn part. Also writer to whom

didate for the title of The Most old year is apt to be surveyed in the cast is Gilbert Roland as need be paid!

Beautiful When "JULIUS CAESAR" has

Girl in the World. A belligerent fishermans and 'Dan through the bottoms of turned glasses has nothing to Duryea. The romantic interest Anished i am told that "CODE he certainly is lovely in an with beautifully TWO," is provided by Joanne Dru.

starring do with my view that this is a

newcomers unusual way, good record. The best for some

cyes. To increase the aura of The oil gushes at exactly the Ralph Mecker and Elaine Ste chiselled face and burning dark

war, will be shown. It's a story mystery and усага.

allure she peers

up-

right moment — so do the

out

It could be that the magic shrimps and so does the girl. of the Los Angeles police trame pressure known as competition So with a merry handshake, and control, and packed with thrills, untidy fringe; and really that's

is having its effect. what flms masses of bonanza, are in fact getting fewer and draws to its close. better. It is even possible that,

the Alm

WITTY AND SPICY D

In the foreseeable future, generation whose Idea of supreme art is Gilbert Harding playing guessing games on going reports may rodiscover the cinema ag à tolerable form of entertainment.

MY TWENTY

THESE, then, are my top 20, and it will be noted that the

their

at the world through * very about all she does do. DESERVES A RUN

The plot Is based on the "STREET CORNER is a film the brilliant modern playwright play "Romeo et Jeanetter by that deserves à long

Fu Jean Anouilh, which was pro

human

with

stars.

Olivier under the title "Fading Mansions."

Nothing but the most glow. (QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA) so dured in London by Sir

have como from let us hope that it is still on Laurence tho English Press

about when this

column goes into GENEVIEVE, which I men- print

Miss Thiess is a child of nam timod last week and which is

If not, it is bound to return ture. Wild, unruly and aban- now due to follow "THUNDER

doned, daughter of a decadent BAY" to the LEE and GREAT to one of the smaller cinemas fethor who lives in an Indian WORLD.

and should be noted down for village which is overshadowed visit. It's very nearly a do by the gigantic statue of the This hilarious three Bermuda Powers are recolour involves four gay young Policewoman. But it is so well

comedy in

London of the cumentary

God Gomicswara, an enormous presented in roughly equal pro-stars, Kay Kendall, John Greg- directed, so full of interest and granite Grure carved on top of portions: coincidence, not dip-son, Dinah Sheridan and Ken- lomacy on my part,

a mountain. Her mother, sister threg neth Mare, who lough

appeal, omedy, un seney, strong on way through an original, wilty touching, cleverly interwoven and the nista's fiance visit the

family comedy, had Genevieve,

before, returning to case histories forming the plot. Europe. Needless to say the boy The and Final Test, The Captain's Para- Ney script.

"Dice a year a long line of There is a biletul lack of (GEORGE NADER) takes ond disc, and Troubic in Sjore—

pampered and pop glamourising of the

look at The Most B.G. In the which

I Include simply for allied,

and the screens is burned up. Norman

pery old cars roll from London Seldom has Ann Crawford look- Wisdom's perform beleton. It's quite an evented so much like the rest of us,

a strong story, ance. In more

and I serious vein te vra of their proud and seldom has she given such tell you, the ending, which is a

think it would bq there were The Heart of the

a pity to owner-drivers but Matter, The Cruel Sed, and to their wives.

night good performance.

spectacular

and unusual one! The Conquest of Everest, in-stat

Eleanor Somerville is out- because it would kill the ind aily

there was Moulin Rouge

The sternal triangle with a standing by personality alone. I terest and the suspense for you! contribution The Americans

twist car óráky John wish we bould included

In mort

so her more The scenery is

classes:

Sheridan and frequently, the modern Comedy Gregson, Dinah

and rather terrifythentic, lovely Roman Holiday,

wolting' and 'glamporisas nim. Ciceylere, the automobile with the Werters

J. Arthur Rank has done - It will be followed by Shane, the musical Call Me

beautiful good job of work with this pro- JUGGLER," which itars Kirk Madam, the dramatic

Come by allylded up abetted

Kendall, Thő girls "tako duction

and paid tribute to a Douglas and introduces another Back Little Sheba, ond bestrid-

por!" in the

ating force. Af the eng Host tickle.

time it

Italian actress ing ther

like a pontinho are but is more than "'worth" "YOUP"

It Is the wtory of Colossus Juilus Caèmurta ARISESORE, comafiua, mado

The produce direts, Henry song as a film. It le moving, a once-famous Jewish con utor worthy (plated with remarkable Inok *PASSPORT and exclling, and a

THE BLUE Of Teker-de-math by Kirk Dou From Frame como The TO PIMILCO” which is creden, successor

LAMP."

glas) who survives the concon** tration camp end, still Half mad After STREET CORNER, with fixation against-police- Randolph Bool returns to the men reaches the security of Murderers?

OVER Lrge),, *JULIUS CAESAR is rum-cordon In

where.... hé - aftimataly Nulty ark: Cria. Diabe, *F71), hung how of the CAPITOL EHU THE PLA AINER such a record it can be slated LIBERTY, in rivalry to "THE of those u dhakama shak, the cineum filled to die in RODEIONAL .... the

winner

Kay back

Little World of Don Camillo, tel enough Monaels Hulot's Holiday, The

Secret

|Countyji /Priest. » Are We AU

1962.

Les

Diary of...

Belipa..de.

A CLASSIC

or girl

BROADWAY. Both should be apart from the hoodiesta | there produde.

QUEEN'S ALHAMBRA

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THUNDER OVER THE PLAINS

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In Ald of the Shamshuipo Fire Victims Relief Fund TO-MORROW AT 11.30 A.M "THUNDER OVER THE PLAINS"

— AT USUAL PRICES — Warner Bros. and the Queen's will.dohate the entire proceeds of this performance to the Shamshuipo Fire Victims Relief Fund.

LEE Thatre

GREAT

WORLD

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

The Haarlig Glory

story of the jean

who battled

for the

JAMES STEWART

JOANNE DRU

CHBERT ROLAND

Bonanza of all!

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HUNDER BAY

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Genevieve

Genevieve

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