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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1954.

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

11.30 A.M.

I'M GETTING OUT OF HERE--

LOOKIT HIM RUN!

GET UP AND FIGHT, YOU PHONY RO0Doof

WHAT A SHOT!

WE KNEW YOU WHEN DOYOU WEREN'T AFRAID ||| MEET HIM IN THE OF THAT GUY! RING, CHAMPS!

IT WORKED! IT WORKED!

YES. THANKS TO MANDRAKE!

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FILMS-CURRENT AND

New relmsen to follow the currently running pictures will

first, ! The QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA After "THE COMMAND".

work, these two houses are now rendy to endark on CinemaScope. The first one is a Warner Brothers production.

two months'

While we're on the sub- ject of the QUEEN'S

ካብ ALHAMBRA, a bouquet 'o them for their arrangement of their present programme There will be many people enger 34) See "WELCOME THE QUEEN". whose in- terest isn't aroused b Westerns. So instend having tu sit through "RIDING SHOTGUN”

fore

the

be-

Royal picture,

By JANE ROBERTS

A

they'll be able to see it and Guy Madison and Joan Weldon in "THE COMMAND". then leave if they want to.

are f

Con

MONDAY: WHERE'S BEAMÍ

COMING

pathelle

couple the

Russians

want in exchange for the boy are J Esmond and her blind husband.

The Gregory Peck in "NIGHT PEOPLE is quite a long way removed from the rather shy fritaw of "THE MILLION POUND NOTE" and the happy go lucky reporter of "ROMAN HOLIDAY".

"NIGHT PEOPLE" he's rough and tough with Russians, Rio Gam and Ana Bjork impartially.

suys

A BIT HARD

The publicity prophetically that what THE GREAT CÂNUSO" was to Marie Lanza, "MELBA" wil be 10 Patrice Munsel. I

Miss hope

Mursel doesn't mind the comparison.

Being im opera star in her own right, naturally enough her

brid that curver

of the great personality she portrays come in

for a tot of comparison that she probably welcomes - but

The youn lover's have a the Sloux threat to the Melba was a for greater star Another mark in Their delicacy hard to define ami the Canadian northwest. Flimed in than Lanza can ever hope to be

contesting normos of vulgarity the

the and to compare her with him, in response

Canadian Rockies, favour is that

and Inselylousness polut up the sevnery--frorn the Press Book. I feel, a bit hard. to requests from schools

essential purity of their use looks breathtaking. bringing back elation. Every

With her In they're

the im ( single one of "OLIVER TWIST" for two the suppeowlang players is well The kidnapping of an Ameri- Robert Morley, the Australian

Cast --many, of them

John GI in Berlin arts the actor

the McCallum, days' next week.

the Comelle Francaise and the episode which makes the story Sadlers Wells dancer

Violetta colouring, interiors and dresses of "NIGHT PEOPLE". The Elvin and Sybil Thorndyke, who boy himself doesn' matter plays Queen Victoria. The run- much as far as his character ning time of the original was goes, Init his father, played by almost two hours and with the amount of musle there is in it Broderick Crawford, does.

there are extracts from no the U.9. less then Cleven operas 1 who tries to shouldn't think it could Наче

release-by bocu successfully made in less exchange. The time.

The PRINCESS unfortunately www. forced 20 disappoint podras looking forward to seeing there "IT STARTED IN PARADISE," the reason being

only

papry Di the

thurt

are exquisite.

There

are English sub-titles but, thank goodness, no dubbing. Shaties of feeling are conveyed pleture arrived in the colony, so much better by infections of They got back to schedule with voler than by actual words and

strident one reeling off trans Inted lines would have spulled many of the situations. The sub- udes are for the most part quite reasonable Translations and quite

THE CADDY though ant regether with the KING'S will be showing "CAMILLE" and a deluge "CHARGE OF THE LANCERS."

"SASKATCHEWAN"

into the IKE And the GREAT WORLD and then you

British

DOUTOR IN THE

оп

The latter is due to start June 11, ro Pl tell you ab

Werkes columa

i l

next

after I've seen the preview

A much anticipated Gregory Peck

picture,

"NIGHT PEO-

PLE," will be fur wwxi Lig

ま ROXY

ehntie.. at

ROADWAY It's due to start June 4 but as the preview is due to take place early ex week, I can only give you the gist of the story at the moment. TOP SECRET" will be back for a day in the middle of the week Just before the change-

OVIT.

The Yunkees ' Confedrils another chance 10 bare their teeth at each other in "ESCAPE FROM FORT BRAVO at the CAPITOL and

being LIBERTY the bone Eleanor Parker. Due to the suc- cess of "ALL THE BROTHERS WERE VALIANT"", "ESCAPE" didn't Glart As early thought, so I still haven't seen 11.

Us

The HOOVER's due to show

William Holden "ESCAPE FROM FORT BRAVO".

suẞylent for anyone not speak- ing French to understand the development of the story.

Micheline Presle's interpreta -

the musical "MELBA" on the tion of the beautiful, fractious,

Gregory Peck Army officer arrange the boy's way of

on

Little Rich Girl Makes Good

By MOORE RAYMOND

You there at the back of the class... Who was the tímld Puritan wife of Gary Cooper in "High Noon”?

I thought so. You recall the picture, the tune, and the man who beat the bandits. But you don't remember the girl.

Here's another question..... sive and elegant school, with Who was the cool celery-stalk riding, swimming, plano, sing- of a wife who burst into flames Ing. ballet, sketching in pastels. under Clark Gable's crushing kiss

one sultry evening "Mogambo" ?

In

Ah, so you do remember? Kelly, wasn't it? That's right, Grace Kelly. She was the "High Noon" wife too.

This blue-eyed blonde of 24 has suddenly become Holly- wood's most-sought-after young actress.

And I mean

mooner-but actress.

crooner,

OT

The tough time started at the

American Academy nf Dramatic Art. That was when she dedicated herself to acting with the right, fervid determina- ton that has since caused one film producer to describe her Da "the girl with the stainless steri guts,”

Some collegiate roles on TV got her the thankless Job of playing the darling daughter of actress not Raymond Massey In his Broad- way production of Strindborg's depressing play. "The Father." It ran only three months. But Grace Kelly's performance had the talent scouts jumping. So inevitably the next stop was Wa'll be seeing her co-star in; Hollywood. "Dial M for Murder,"

3rd or 4th of June, but although temperamental Marguerite Gau-hoofer, strutter, the Press is being invited to a fler with many lovers softening preview of this Patrice Munsel to the glowing, contended woman

To quote A Transalantic filin, again I'm afraid it's to be in love is a masterpiece of sub-scribe; "1934 will be known as next week-not in time for this tiety and her dying scene at the This Year Of Grace."

end, that could have been quite mawkish, a handled with the

week's column.

in most CinemaScope films, some delicacy and sureness of

the makers have concentrated touch as the rest of the film. In

on themes with some sort of my estimation this is a picture spectacle element -musteals, not to be missed. historical Tummances and westerns

and It's into this latter category that "THE COMMAND" falls.

I gave you a brief outline of

P

OF THE LOVELIEST

FROLIC

08

with

As I've so far seen her only

Girl," with Bing Crosby; "Rear you a first-hand description of Ray Milland; "The Country in anallish parts, I can't give Window," with James Stewart; her present techniquo for star- "The Bridges at Toko-Ri," with dom. William Holden; "Green Fire," with Stewart Granger.

ALL-OR-NOTHING

As I said before, when "THE Sho's now at the enviablo

But I gather from various, re- it some two weeks back, but to CHARGE OF THE LANCERS" stage of stardom, when she can ports that she exhibits an engag save you shuffing through that was announced as due as the pick and choose her leading ing ability to be both Indylike stack of old

papers the boy's next change, it's a light heartet men with the fastidious hauteur and sexy at the same time. Her secreted nway, it stars Guy frolic with Jean Pierre Auniont of a debutante choosing a spring coolness Madison and Joan Weldon as and Paulelle Goddard. Paulette hot.

barely conceals the Bidden Bro. fellow travellers in n wagon as a gypty girl who saves the

Her demure smile in an invitation to rapture. train journeying through host fife of the French

From what I hear she's al- officer, Indian country.

flashes her eyes and jingles her ways been choosy. She can af Hor acting technique is the bracelets

though kho ford to be because she's got rich all-or-nothing kind. I should He's in charge of the 7th US. thoroughly enjoying herself.

parents and she doesn't have to explain that in general there Cavalry who are guark the

hanker after a colossal salary, are two kinds of movie acting. train and she is a civillan.

With the same sense of tún, Jean Pierre Aumont and his say she's full being paid less you turn on a mood as soon as Which is just as wall. Reports If you're the on-and-off lypa fellow officer. Richard Stapley: than $1,000 a week under her tho exude youthful charm and high contract with MG.M, who are and

director says "Roll 'oml" spirits in spite of the apparent lending her to other studies for says "Cut!"

you turn it off when he A French re-thako at serioushess of their position, ið much as 300,000 a picture. "CAMILLE" in Gevacolour will try to dislodge, the old varslon Alan Ladd and, Shelley Win]

If you're THANKLESS JOB

the all-or-nothing from our minda-though a ters are teamed in "SASKAT-

type you lose yourself no com- friend of mine who has seen the CHEWAN".

**Moro

whites How's this for

in the character that a family pletely Garbe pleture 35 times myn against redskins, the netion of father 蒋 Vibalthy) building

you loop the mood going mbet rousing could possibly compare the film is far to the north of contracter of

of the time you're on the ant Patinteipata. with it in her mind.

THE COMMAND Country Brother Jack'in Olympic cars. That's what Grace Kelly dan and the Indian tribes this ting man and twice a winner at and the directors love her for Not having seen the earlier ato the Blouxs and the Crees. Henley. Untle George a sue- it one I'm at a disadvantage, but

dessful playwright who wrote, I do know that this "CAMILLA" Filmed in Canada, It-tails of a among other winners, Craig's just which one of her starring I'm not strO at the moment With Micheline Presle in the girl--a fugitive from the Unit- Witc." IN TECHNICOLOR

tilip, rolą, kaópe of the Jovellest,ed States across, the, kordar a

kilma-well, néo-first, but I thibike AT REDUCED PRICEST

and most movlag films I've seen, man who thinks, he understands Young. Greco reached adoles... it will be 901 35 for Murder,” for a long time

the Red Indian mentality, and esnice tits smooth way, Expens, directed by Hlichtock.

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