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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1954.

MANDRAKE THE MAGICÌAN

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Lucky Me!

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THE ULTRA-NEW LOOK IN MUSICALS

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FOREVER FEMALE

GINGER ROGERS - WILLIAM HOLDEN

landt

PAUL DOUGLAS

with JAMES CLEABUN solering

PAT CROWLEY

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FILMS-CURRENT

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By JANE ROBERTS

The big event of the week has been William Holden's vixit, to Hongkong while

1 vem To remember I was player by Wanda Hendrix. That two of his pictures have

rude about Donald excellent character actor, Walter een on "ESCAPE FROM quite

Housdem In

BLUE Brennan, is also in the cast, as FORT BRAVO" at the LAGOON or if I wasn't 1

Barlon MacLane, CAPITOL und LIBERTY meant to be but in "DOCTOR

It seems that the climax of the IN THE HOUSE" he's obvious- dim in the rescue by the Coast and "FOREVER FEMALE”

at

THE

vielims and a rather repulsive looking little man called Percy Helton another.

Clarenco Greene and Richard Rouse are the team responsible for the screenplay, production and direction-as they were in "THE THIEF".

treat- So the ment should be unusual.

The emphasis is on the seamy

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The EMPIRE. KING'S i frated picture much more Gourd of a mall tramp «le:umer skie of life, so you'd better not

24

WHA

A

I did

change levelled "POCTOR IN THE HOUSE"

Jake it

enught in between gignniir ice-

of

OVERPOWERING

tuke the children.

PRESPECTA STEREOPHONIC SOUND

Three of the big flm companies - MGM, Paramount and Warner Brothers-arranged a demonstration of Prespecta Stereophonic Sound yesterday, The technical description of it that it's syslem

л1

for 101 directional

Stereo- Sound through the medium of a single standard width

optien track. enabrics

theatre to FINITE

- channel Stereophonic Sound without using prints on

which reproduce

to his laste. and PRINCESS. 1 under-

Keneth More i liked even

I haven't seen a preview that the next

than A better statul

In only very of the picture, but as the porti- celebrity to arrive will be "GENEVIEVE due

fact that he cular thrill of seeing a ship In the partially to the

ihe

uh- Danny Kaye, towards

completely Help of n more sympathetic role

nature. end of the month.

and Donald Sinden, the third controllable forces

fathire, though such es greal towering leebergs, Unfortunately "KNIGHTS professionn OF THE ROUND TABLE", slightly relating at times, is on is one that hasn't been over- complement to the played in recent pictures here, should be a welcome change, which was to have followed admirable "ESCAPE FROM FORT

Wishe we're on the mibject of In- lechers. I've had no more BRAVO" into the CAPITOL

to when we can enn 1 elmont unanita formation as and LIBERTY. has had to

per the it has drawn-is that the expect "HELL BELOW ZERO" ine pustpones for the same

hebiets in the ves of the the Bim of Hammond Innes sys "THE COM- Furudent.

WHITE tatning "THE Hilke two best-seller reason

L the melted MAND"

SOUTH", ut "SEA OF LOST phonic "I don't thank they were SHIPS should put you in the QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA

of all The Dean (excellently

mond for it, so to speak, the LIBERTY's screen is

Apri Bitudy played by Geoffrey still 1182. ready for its Keens and connecting link in

varlans The the

situations. CinemaScope debut. "Hattie" taking its pince vitriolle Sister another and the whole thing is such road tun CAPITOL ILLIE The

that My way

were

True il it "HALF A witdie matter. LIBERTY

Although Dirk Bogarde han a HERO".

that The EMPIRE will prob- bieter name hi pletures ably be showing "FOLLY Kenneth More I think the act- ing hitis belong without TO BE WISE, after "FOR- doubt to the latter. Bluff and and at bearty though his part was, he EVER FEMALE”

I don't know whether or not ing up. tu Indicate quite he act, but that's not al- From the point of view of the The KING'S and PRINCESS was able

subtly that there was

EL paying feeling ways a qualideation for stardomil cinema it'll be MACK SLADE".

the him and Intelligence beneath it all.

mention

the proposilon,

Integrator The LEE is showing the

I've never seen Jumes Robert- wicked

herself Unit, which is the only main womin British comedy, "DOCTOR son Justice give a ht per- Beverley Michaels because installation needed in addition IN THE HOUSE" rently with the GREAT to WORLD and will possibly bring back Moira Shearer in THE RED SHOES" after that.

This is one for all the ballet enthusiasts and many young dancing pupils here.

nt

concur. formance, so it's only necessary

that sby

be's Also In "DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE".

"SEA OF LOST SHIPS" is the HOOVER'S current show and they'll be follow- ing up with the temptingly titled "WICKED WOMAN". The QUEEN'S and ALHAMİRA have "LUCKY ME" and "NIGHT PEOPLE"

still draws au- diences at the ROXY and BROADWAY.

HERO" svens "HALF A preach that thrift doesn't pay. Etel Skelton's penny-pinching, shown savings-minded boss is up as a hard-hearted uncharit

while driver, sinve whle

wife Skelton's spendthrift treated as

sympathelle character.

Getting into debt by buying a house too expensive for them. Is a praiseworthy project and, on

In

A

bo

those of you

Incidentally, admiring the clear, concise way in which Goumont British re- port and in the news will be Interested to know that the

LEE Theatre has nequired the

sole right of releasing Caumont British Newsreels.

A PITY

From the Press Book, Richard which sound tracks have been

in magnetically reco

recorded. Egun

fend the inale

Briedy this means that from "WICKED WOMAN" looks like

three speakers hidden another "find". His type of fuce the the

dual behind the screen the sound can individual? all POSSESREA

the features

Box either be spread to cover make

nose, whole screen, pinpointed to the Omec idol-well shaped

follow right or left, or slowly full lips, strongly shaped eye

the actor whose voice it's pick- brows and dark in colouring

I

before

owner

50

It's

the

from the story and photos she to what he's using already, only And and costs about HK$5,000. looks pretty overpowering will get all the publicity she from the viewer's angle, the needs from the posters.

comparatively low cost means The story centres entirely that

won't WNET

have around The woman und her beggared himself with on "famme fatale" qualities. expensive installation and have Richard Egun Is

ono of her to economise correspondingly.

Meeting Mr Holden .

and from stage double pull screen for this actor.

When I asked him about the challenging slogan coined by the film industry that

fat

And now to "LUCKY ME" in CinemaScope. What

plty As you may have gather that the makers of this picture, ed from Films-Current using a show business theme, and Coming. William Holden didn't take advantage of the

"Aims tremendous possibilities of this has been one of my favour-

It are better than ever" he said duction numbers, process for showing big pro-ites for a long time.

was with some misgivings that he thought that though it In most of the song and dance then that I went to meet hadn't been true for the past sequences Doris Day is entirely the great man in person -

few years, the very real threat atone and I found I wanted a

by television represented Hitle more than just her so many film stars are very least in America) was forcing thesaluntee box prettiness to keep different propositions off the flim companies to be more my attention on the vast screen.

courageous and experimental.

Instead One number is put over in a

of repeating You can gather my real life formula after one type of film a botel backyard, another in ritting room and yet another (n impressions when I say that as had made a alt,

they far as I'm concerned, William dream sequence again) to a

beginning to realise that tho background of nothing

bat Holden can appear in the most

interest would Lag public's out and out horror of a film twinkling lights.

If the songs had been hits (though that's hardly possible) again if they merely rested on

their even eir cars.

In his opinion too they were then perhaps Doris could have and the column won't

the interest focused on her, murmur! kept

following the right lines by without the help of a built-up On screen ho looks far making more pictures with an

more people, i younger than in his pictures international background and

appeal. While but the poor girl's material just and there's a compiero absence nat

nationalism was a very ino didn't have

screen.

the

were

way, it wouldn't sell American pictures a world markets and they were designed just as much for these as for home audiences.

the surface, all the old "play safo" axioms

to scem reversed.

With Red Skelton, playing his

of flamboyancy in his conversa- wife, is Jean Hagen and you'll A Scots number with Phil tion. The word applied to his thing in its limited

And Foy Jnr. see too, Polly Bergen, appearing Silvers, Eddio

co-star. Ginger Rogers,

In roodhouse Nancy Walker came over best "FOREVER FEMALE" la just as herself, sequence.

of all, but oven that was per- as true of him-he actually is formed in an empty ballroom charming in the nicest posalbio with a plano as the only real stase of the word.

He told me that his present prop.

top notch trip is mostly business and will variety artists, Eddle foy Jnr. remain so until he gets to Rome established British favourites an and Nancy Walker filled the bill via Tokyo, Calcutta and places Alistair Sim, Roland Culver. well and Robert Cuminings en route. The business side

and Elizabeth looked remarkably

with Paramount's views. handsome connected

•

•

TO BE

"FOLLY

WISE" is based on a play by James Bridle and has 15 it such

Martita Allan.

Hunt

As two not Very

OLD CHESTNUT

I mentioned that old chestnut about juvenile delinquency and the bad influence on children attributed to alme and was glad

1s to discover that he shared my

for the length of time he's been new Vistavision process which We both thought that an

loads.

playing road about

most

others

found less

I described bacle in March.

Cagney** "thé

nwful lot of rubbish was talked WEST'S WILDEST

the In Rome he will meet his about this and that while boys Having mcan

in wife and in Paris his daughter might imitate the mannerisms of "JACK SLADE" Is based on lack of Imagination used

actual production of the and then his real holiday will such screen toughles as Bogart, the life of awe of the Wild the

let me say how I liked begin. He said that he wasn't Robinson and picture, West's

personalities. wikiest He lived in the middle of the the colour. It's Warner Brothers planning to start working on actual Alm Incidents left Utils

impression at all, WarnerColor and compares Alm again until September.

Actually this is a well earned worth a thousand words in the 19th century before the stay favourably with

The maxim that a picture is of the railways, when the stage

** rest.

since June last I've всеп. coach was the only means of

The actual screen Ininge is voor he's made "ESCAPE FROM 20 of films just wasn't true. the various travel between

than some of Its FORT BRAVO". "EXECUTIVE Comics and blood arid thunder towns and posts of that rugged more cicar

THE MOON Is books were far more harmful.

My "SABRINA FAIR" and country. This must be a highly competitors too-I

overall inipression of glamourised version of his blurred outlines.

one he's just

William Holden was of a maji short life history, although the Perhaps, having Kono fact he killed more than 20 men "LUCKY ME with very high Your Alms a year has been his but with a sense

plototCOUNTtly com

"GIRL”, veriously interested in his work. of humour hoped indeed Doris Day, is apparently true,

The picture appears to be an Robert Cummings and Phii average in the past, but it which stripped the concentration probably be lear than this in of any pomposity. Impatient of attempt, if not to whitewash Silvers being

tired of "thy tha future-two for Paramount exhibitionism and -- did I say some favourites on the lighter side of and one independent picture. hird, then to dig up

before-good looking? motives for his hatred of entertainment expected too

hla

Jano Roberts fellow men. The relationship much. between his wife and himself

COMING TO

KINGS PRINCES

SINGLE-MINDED

I haven't mentioned the cop-

Unlike la fronted with sympathy and per-haired beauty who had a

many alm actors, there's a suggestion that the supporting role. Slic really a single-minded about his career Walon Holden le completely. mao, ruthless killer as he was gorgeous girl and how clever of Ho not atted of the fago aldie was also capable of affection. ·them to. dress” Her 'älmöst": "ari-

Barton MacLane grimaces tirely in shades of terra cotta is college days in Pasadena and his way through the picture as and copper. Martha Hyer, very happy with, the some a drunicen outlaw and in quite her name and I'd like to him actor Inevitably co

what roving existence to which a small part is Jolin Litel. More of

of her."

i

"SEA OF LOST SHIPS

da to see "DOCTOR IN THEM HOUSE" and thoroughly enjoy. yourself.

Dirk Bogardo la the act in the North Atlantia, Toka oung student doctor and the Derbi and Richard Jugokal, are three old sweats RROW AT 12.30

who never in the American Coust

Quara FAB their examinations and service and although...... couldn't care Idea are Kenneth friends to start with (tho've Mileys Donald Houston and been brouing » SCHEIN

→ AT REDUCED ADMISSION PRICES 24 "A New Programme of Technicolor Cartoons

very picture rrounding bid now!

*kai, mentforseti va fove, much" working with the

"FORT BRAVO";

eaten, and

STEVENS

et stabs orsMIS DAY - RODZIE CUMMINGS

ALL HE BLORIES MONE

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SHOWS TO-MORROW

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EXTRA

PERFORMANCE 'Lucky Mo' AT 11.30 A.M.

ROXY & BROADWAY

2nd BIG WEEK

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CINEMASCOPE

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LINTE BIJNA UTE LUM

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In Technicolor Starring Robert NEWTON Linda DARNELL

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