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KING'S PRINCESS EMPIRE

At 2.30, 5.15, At 2.30, 5.30, A 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 mm. || 7,30 69.30 pm 7.30 & 9.30 p.m. COMMENCING TO-DAY

"From a park bench

to a penthouse! Everything happens to me so sudden... Wit's always overnight!"

it's the "Born Yesterday" giri

Judy Holliday

"It Should Happen To You!"

PETER LAWFORD JACK LEMMON

Bay formas Pray to GARTER VANIJA 1980 GRAZIO

CREPT CUKOR - A LOLUMBIA PICTEME

a guy penice gonna tha....

ON WIDE Screen at KING'S & PRINCESS

KING'S

MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW AT 11,30 A.M. 20th Century-Fox Presents

"TITANIC"

Starring Clifton Wobb, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Wagner At Reduced Price: $1.00 & $1.50

EMPIRE

RICHARD WIDMARK

TO-MORROW

SPECIAL MATINEE AT 12.30 P.M.

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In

"THE FROGMEN”

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CUNDITIONER

CAPITOLO

Tol. 73515

LIBERTY

Jo WICTURES

Tel. 50333

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Thrill After Thrill

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DILIP KUMAR

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THE BEST INDIAN PICTURE EVER PRODUCED

SUNDAY MORNING SHOW AT 12.30 P.M. M-G-M Technicolor Productions

CAPITOL

"EXCUSE MY DUST"

with

Red Skelton. Sally Forrest

LIBERTY

“PLYMOUTH ADVENTURE”

with Spencer Tracy, Gone Tlorney

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FINAL SHOWING TO - DAY

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WILLIAM HOLDEN

DON TAYLOR

VOTTO PRENINGER

THE CHINA_MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER

FILMS CURRENT AND COMING

of

By JANE ROBERTS

1

да makes

It all sa bela/vable.

Peter Lawford is the amlable wolt and Jack Lemmon the nipe boy who gets her In the end

Rlphard Widmark. and Katy Jurmelés

This is one of the best Cinema- Scope pictures I've soers-lt hot the best. The situationg nye unexpected, the pace exciting and there's a fine amount of contrast belween ・・・ the main

charpeter **

i

SURPRISE!

:1

Well, surprise, surprise! Ro bert Wagner can net--not pass tably, but well. I'm sure any

body who saw him in Prince Valiant" will share my astonish

him in ment when they soo him "Broken Labor

It's not that he's rose among thorns either. thia

At the LEE and GREAT WORLD the gangster film, "I, The Jury" is succeeded by another romantic extra-

rather p' dated word) and the And Judy Holliday's clever vaganza called "Siren of situations are new and refreshness lios in lier ability to make Bagdad" and then young-ing. love-(in the person

Peter Lawford Debble Reynolds)aubdues excellent apolled Bon * experience (as typified by wealthy businessman and the nawcomer who has most to do Dick Powell) in "Susan apart from Judy Halliday-is Slept Here."

a. young man with a pleasant The KING'S, PRINCESS personality called Juck Lemmon, and EMPIRE are once again. Let me hasten to add that combining on a big picture how to not une marg how to ant at the expense of this week-end-Judy Holli- the cinema cash customers. He's on the day's "It Should Happen To niready established You" and the following Broadway stage and on Amori week-end all three will have can television and takes to the to * circus picture"The new modlum like

water, Greatest Show On Earth,"

As Gindys Glover, the girl In the middle of next week who is nobody but wants to Holliday the KING'S and PRINCESS be somebody, Judy mny bring back Denise couldn't have been bettered. Darcel and Patric Knowles just the name, nothing cle in "The Flame Of Calcutta." put up on a hoarding over the our Leicester The ROXY and BROAD equivalent ef WAY are filling their big squar, she makes her exort round and round count- CinemaScope screen with less times so that she can ad- "Broken Lance"-plenty of intro it. And, strangely enough, action here, which will with Judy doing it, It doesn't almost certainly add up to seem so silly after all. a long run.

"King's Row" is showing at present at the QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA, with after that, "The Iron Glove" and, next week-end "Push- over."

The Indian picture “Aan”, which 1 mentioned last the CAPITOL week, is ut and LIBERTY. Its successor will be that hardy annual, "Gone With The Wind" or, trade 18 the American papers affectionately refur to it, "GWTW."

The HOOVER seems to have got 2401 unexpected winner in "The Moon Is Blue." Unexpected, because is an excel- although this lent picture and has been well received elsewhere, the

is very dialogue

swift, subtle and unrepetitive and therefore difficult

translate into Cantonese.

to

The majority of the

Colony's filmgoers, however,

a duck

After sho's had her name→

"It Should Happen To You” of the us the gullibility general public in accepting ex- actly what they're told.

They see her name in gigan- the letters on postern all over New York, think she must be Somebody and rush to get her autograph.

After her dame has become a household word, the smart operator (in this case a tele- turns up vision commentator) to "organise" her, career for her and Gladys finds herself ever increasing demand as

for model, as a goodwill girl

American Services, Wie personality girl-etc,

#

As a

soma

In picture he's up against pretty alift compeilion in persons of Spencer Tracy,

the

URSULA TIESS the most beautiful giri in the worldy

Audrey Can Supply

Her Own True Plot

Says DAVID LEWIN

Audrey Hepburn,

The central gurd of couro, is. Spencer (Tracy. He na the ruled his four sons and anyone raw strong, dominant man who else who crosses him with rod of

Iron, Three of his four sins, I should say, for towards the youngest, the son of als SCCOCKE marriage to a Rod Indian woman, ha tempore his discipline with a certain amount of rough affection.

Robert Wagner is his young- fing ost son, Katy Juradon looking woman is the second wife and the wild "elder boys are

Kuth Richard Widmark, O'Brien and Earl Holliman.

The picture starts off with Hobert Wagner being let out of prison Out from the dinnces he comes, into the blinding light of the cattle country, surly, touchy, ready to pick a fight with the Brst person to thwart him.

Having only vague register- ed the names of the cast, I was searching my memory for the name of this hazily familiar figure, at the same time com- mending him in my mind for a good piece of acting. Super- imposed on the figure in front of I then saw the leather jerkin and fringe of one .01 King Arthur's knights-Prince Valiant!

.

What a long way this young man

since has come

that picturo.

There's a touching love affair between Wagner and Jean Peters (as the daughter of the

who State Governor

•häs virtually been put into his job by Tracy) that is pleasantly free from the usual syrup re- served for romances not forming integral part of screen

on

stories,

The script writer didn't full Into the trap of making any of the brothers rivals for the girl's hand either, their single-minded hatred of their father is passion enough for them.

For Katy Juradky I have but praise. She plays ช wile with dignity combined with tondarness that Is most aftactive; the beads,

and

saucer clathes of

badian woman not detracting.

an the calls for her to take a curtain

CURTAIN CALLS

The next day the critics scold hdr Ferrer for his "churlishness In Insisting on sharing the girl's curtain calls

It's hardly necessary to men- Hon

the lovely backgrounds. We've come to expect gorgeous scenery in CinemaScope pictures they're its crumber one selling feature and, an essential part of any outdoor alm

"Broken leaving Before

tho Lancel I must mention

the magnificent fight between copper miners and the cattle men's a beauty!

Beam to have been quite un-golden girl of films, is still call aime. But always by her from that dignity in the least, c perturbed, by this and the waiting to make her first side on stage is Mel Ferrer. situations alone scem to British starring picture. have convulsed them, even She owes the British com when they couldn't possibly

pany which put her under have followed both the ac- contract when she was just tion and the subtitles.

out of a West End chorus a This success has thrown film a year for three years. "Sabre Jet" off course and it The idea was to make the first won't be shown until later this autumn That plan is now "When In Rome", costponed. For two reasons: (1) with Van Johnson and Paul Miss Hepburn is in Switzerland, Douglas will follow "The

operating from mental and

exhaustion; (2) There Moon Is Blue," with "Scarlet is not a suliable story ready for

Hepburn

film Spear" next.

on.

no

to

Mise You pood have qualms England. about laughing in the middle of So, in the spring when she is "The Stren Of Bagdad" despite fit again, back the golden girl its sultry title. Except for one goes to Hollywood.

The

or two of the love scenes, t But as I spe it there could be was made with the producer's a true-life rtory of Audrey Hep-

burn ready for scripting. tongue Armly in his check.

Onco

There's the sopnes would be set in London, Ronin familiar situation of the de-New York, and Switzerland. The an posed rightful

ruler and big stars-Miss Hepburn and plotting to overthrow American actor Mel Ter. daughter

has despot who

scized Here is the background on On hard to supply a which the

film-writers could fow tricks of legerdemain so work.

tho

power.

Miss Hepburn springs to his defence. After all, it is his play top," she says. A couple of weeks more of complaints and Mr Ferrer leaves her to take the stage alone at the end of the play.

But, before the curtain goes up, and again afterwards, Mr Ferrer is by her side, They go to parties together; they eat at theatrical restaurante.

Broadway

murmurs

Edward Dmytryk directes.

HERSELF

We've heard quite a lot about "ro- the off screen doings of a certain mance" The principals say girl called Ursula Thiers. nothing. And then, earlier this

Among other things she'a year, Miss Hepburn has Bearned the title of the most breakdown. The doctors say beautiful girl in the world" "and she can continue in the play it has married Robert Taylor. I'm she shuns parties, rests as much not sure which came Brst. as she can.

You'll be able to judge the In the late spring, when the truth of the former for yourself play closes, Audrey Hepburn if you go to see "The Iran

Glove" in which comes to Europe.

she appeara a man who's quite often, The latest ceno is sot in with

and Italy. Miss on our screen thes days Switzerland

Hepburn is ip the mountains Robert Stack As he won't be

useful in matters of this kind Open in London. Mel Ferrer resting. No telephone calls are appearing at the HOOVER B

scheduled, in "Sabra Jet' ho 鑰 0 suave magician-Paul is making a picture over here. put through to her rotreat.

And tha Henreid.

then, last week, Mal

pops up at the QUEEN'S and

Audrey Hepburn is in town on a womer comes into the ploture ALHAMBRA, AVAND PRO

The amooth Frenchman finds brief visit. timo in between making people vanish to

"Tho' from Glove" is a tale of At one of those after-film again. Ho flies to Italy to make

there.

It is not top our own country in the time of Mr 9. Alm Woo the Sultan's Cocktail parties they meet. daughter, Patricia Medina, and Ferrer is 37 years old, with the arduous a journey from Italy to Prince James Stuart, the Pre-

Switzerland.

tender to the throne of

England fight BOVOral

ducks all in lean anxious face of a man that

From here on the script in the 18th century. glorious Technicolour,

women lika la mother. MIST

writer are on their own: They Robert Stack is his obedien should not find it too difficult to slave until a woman in round off the story either way, of the rullog faction: lures him where his devotion After all Aurday Hepburn's film to Franos, "Roman Holiday did not have to the cause in put to the test.

This film traditional happy-ever-after

unashamedly ending.

mortices --(London Express Beroics) buckler::

I don't think there's much in Hepburn, 24 years old, remem this to hurt the children if hers the name. they're pestering you to take them to the cinema..

THE WATER SPRITE · Switch to New York. A now

play is being rehearsed for DIZZY DELIVERY

Broadway."Ondino" is Its ullo Being very sensitive to voices, about a water sprite who falls ; they're the first things to grate in love with a knight,

Audrey Hepburn gets the star on me if they're plichod too: high, too low or have a harsh part as the sprite. And than she accent. Sad to say, Judy Hollands that Mel Ferrer is to play. day's breathless, dizzy delivery opposite her is one of these

because in every Fffere

the premlere

Mr

is showing off the sights

the

her wayIt Should Happed of his town to Miss: Hepburn. To You" is a good picture. It's He takes her home after got plenty of action and move={thow.

ment in spite of the emphasis Then the first night. The ors wisecracks (sorry if that's loudienco cheurs litio Audrey. It

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