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KING'S PRINCESS EMPIRE

At 2.30. 5.15, At 2.30, 5.30, At 2.30, 5,30, 7.209.30 p.m.||7.30 & 9.30 p.m.||7,30 & 9.30 p.m.

TO-DAY

ON PANORAMIC WIDE SCREEN

Bob's Hilarious As The Meticce

Of Venice!

CASANOVA'S BIG NIGHT

Color by TECHNICOLOR,

Saving

BOB HOPE JOAN FONTAINE

BASH. RATHBONE AUDREY DALTON HUGH MARLOWE

by some Cursed As Murman 2 ALLAN Women Puc pen formed by Mal Harmer and Emund Vect

Buty Audrey Walang · A Parsimet PetAND

ALSO:

LATEST PARAMOUNT NEWS

KING'S

MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW AT 11.30 A.M.

CARY COOPER in

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, ́ 1954. **

FILMS-CURRENT AND COMING

"Romeo and Juligt" was

not supposed to fade off the KING'S and PRINCESS "CuaДnova's

screens unt!!

Big Night" and we were jollied along, after the initial surprise of hearing about "Made in Heaven" by "held- overs" and "final performan- The ces" at the KING'S. PRINCESS found the going a little harder and fil that all the words I'd saved up for you about "Made in Heaven" are now so much waste paper, 218 it's come and gone.

"Casanova's Big Night" will be followed by "Ride Clear of Diablo" at the KING'S and PRINCESS while the EMPIRE will bring back "Beat The Devil".

"Rhapsody" continues at the CAPITOL and LIBERTY until the end of next week when the next change will be to "Valley of the Kings" with Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker and the newcomer

By JANE ROBERTS

Van Johnson, Robert Francis and Fred MacMurray In "The Caine Mutiny".

“DISTANT DRUMS” from the Argentine, Carlos mas pantomine,

**

7

A Warner Bros. Picture in Technicolor AT REDUCED PRICES:

$1.00 $1.50

PRINCESS

HOLIDAY MORNING SHOWS

TO-MORROW AT 11.00 A.M.

A New Achievement in Motion Pisture Entertalament!

Walt Disney's

PETER PAN

TECHNICOLOR

ADMISSION: $1.50, $1.00

TO-MORROW AT 12.20 P.M.

NOW AT

REDUCED

PRICES

JOSÉ FERRER Academy Award Winner

Cyrano

CoSTANIMAT

de Bergero

MALA POWERS

ADMISSION:

Produce by ETSALLY KRANTI by MIHAEL JOROOM

$1.50, $1.00

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e Unipod Aret

MONDAY AT 12.20 P.M.

See it Now!

AT REDUCED PRICES

GARY COOPER ERGEANT YORK

4 War

Bet Factor

193 Baka Šumen » Tur facho » à Nourt Nuts, fol.

ADMISSION: $1.50, $1.00

EMPIRE

SPECIAL MATINEES

SUNDAY, 7th NOV.

MARLON BRANDO JEAN PETERS In

"VIVA ZAPATA”

MONDAY, 8th NOV.

TYRONE POWER

in

"BLACK SWAN”

In Tochnicolor

AT REDUCED PRICES: $1,00 & 70 Cts.

RITZ

HIS FUNNIEST;

DANNY KAYE

MAI ZETTERLING

TO-DAY

At 2.30, 5.20, 7.30

& 9.30 P

PICTURE YETI

[{\\p.m.,

Tianmpson.

The result is a sort of Christ- with all the stock Jokes played to the hilt. There's Hope, the self-avowed

Hope,

pictures, then came a complete indeut until he played the character part of Joan Crawford's handyman in "Johnny Culine".

Now he's back again the reluctant

with (1 At the LEE and GREAT toward;

lover with dreams above his supporting role in "Casanova's WORLD you can see "Tazo. iccomplishments; Hope being Big Night". Perhaps he's getting Son of Cochise" and then a chosed! by sinister characters a second chance to become a big

name on the screen, British picture, "The Beach- etc, etc.

name like his 1010 comber".

temptation to pun is too great fui me to resist, so let me get It

reasons

WHITEWASHING

"Overland Pacific" is on at out of my system by saying that length about the Apache tribe The Inst time I wrote at any the HOOVER with an I kept hoping that a big loughi

*** of Red Indiarus got a polite Italian picture following it, was just round the corner, Let

a reader who wanted to The English title is "Son of me also admit that i did enjoy reprimand from

put me right on a the picture, but more for Lagardere" and it, in turn, fraternal

Cumbe of points connected with than front the history of this warrior will give way to "Act of genuine amusement.

nation This time I'm up- Love."

The whole thing based on proaching the subject with some The generally

trepidation. with the Cusanova success of QUEEN'S and the real

Indies. For valuus reasons Bob ALHAMBRA have a stayer in The Caine Mutiny" and plan to put on "Duel in the Jungle" when it finishes next week.

The

Hope poses as the great lover and Hels mixed up in the in- trigues of the powerful rulers of the Italian citles.

Arnold Muss plays the Doge of Venice in real Demon King

while style.

Basli Rathbone AL The ROXY and makes a

most convincingly re- BROADWAY is "The Raid", sarceful gentleman's gentleman.

J

Fontaine must have

In othe of those im gossip accepted her part for the fun she columns thus elinu to the out of playing it. fringes of the movie trade k Atter a long absence from the burrs to a horse's tall I read screen, the face of John Car-

be up redine will probably that Bob Hope is

giving rooking

the quile often again now. Blons 12 which

scell Those

in smaller

Hope personality is the centre gaum, mournful features used to of attraction. He and his advi- figure prominently arra dave realisest that funny

£177 be,

though these romps there's a very definite limit to their appeal.

an

It is rumoured that the new

will

the IT Hope

sect character of

American comedian now dead-Eddie Fay. I wonder if he'll be able to do it effectively.

Or

<>

n

you chuckle and you're

Tough of him to pretend to laugh even when he's not being particularly funny.

❤

A STAR IS

A STAR

By Dilys Powell

the film of

The white man plays a second-

role ary

in "Taza, Son of Chehle" for everything is geen though the eyes of the Apaches, it's one of the many reetut al- tempts to whitewash the Rel diane after all their years of being the traditional enemy

of the palofaces.

Ar a demonstration of urlag elity its rating is vill, but the reenery is superb and has been pielegraphed extract the maximum

umouni of drama from its barren mountains and vast distances.

The

$

time is 1872 when the Indian wars were virtually over.

magnified, glorified and served up as a plece of bravery destry- Ing the highest commendation.

The incident in question the burning by the Confederate: of the northern town of St Albans, Vermont, in retaliation for the sacking by the Union Troups of Atlanta in Georgia.

It wasn't on neeldent of war or the fact that St Albans ny In the path of advancing

ur

retreating soldiers; it was just a .brutal, premeditated destruction of the homes of innocent women and children who couldn't have had less connection with the Burolog of Atlanta,

Yet "The Raid" presents these barbarions on heroes. It says that "For Jeff Davis... For Leo... For the glory of their baloved Southland they rode agalsi",

I haven't seen the film, so I don't know how they've justified the act, but from the story, every move made by the band of Con- federates is on indictment.

Led by a Major and a Lieu- bemut (Von Hedin and Lec Marvin respectively) they break out of Unton prison in New York State and make their way to Canada.

From there

they unostenta - Llously filter into St Albans and proceed to wheedle their way Into the favour of the unsuspect- ing townspeople.

Among the triends Van Heflin makes, the closest are a young widow, her young son, and a one-armed Union captain. It wouldn't be possible tu And three less worthy opponents.

Don't imagine that there's a etvinge of heart in the last rel either--the raki is systematically planned and executed as an act of revenge and how the producer has amtrived to pull Yun Heflin through the picture and out the other side still n sympathetic character is something I shall be most interested to see,

INSPIRED FOOLING

If you didn't have a chance to see "Beal the Devil" when it was first played here in September you'll have a second opportunity next week when the EMPIRE is bringing it back.

This piece of inspired fooling enormous fun and well worth second visit even if you saw It before.

It's directed in a Continental way by American John Huston ja shaky peace between Cochise, and the cast (Humphrey Bogart, Gina Lollobrigida, Jennifer Chief of the Apaches, and the

Robert United States having been con- Jones,

Morley, Poter time Lorre and Edward Underdown cluded A last spurt of fighting breaks out, however, after the head the list) work as a perfect

team. death of Cochise, with are- bellious faction

of the in one

treacherous tribes backing the Geronimo against Taza and the. 667 white men.

helors

taking

the

“Tirepitz” Attack Makes A Film

John Mills

Few

18 stars

in uniform

cari have through so

parts of many war films.

one Now

19

In Lately.

whatever

As it's impossible to deal with Kuise he's appeared, It's been rather

TN King Vidor's autobio- the film from the acting angle, like watching your favourite

I must mention what appeared brother dressed up as on Indian, - A

graphy "A Tree Is A to me to be a production fault. pirate

Casanova's Tree"

the similarity between again. (Longmans, 188.) It was deble. You know he can make there is a story about Lilian the fentures of many of the battled their way

fond

Gish in 1926 which has a dia.

Pinewood's moral for today. Miss Gish |

Several times was playing the death-scene significance of a piece of action

1 missed the "Above Us The Wave." story in

"Laby not immediately recognising battleship "Tirpitz" by Britain's of the attacks on the German But there's a limit to your patience and toleration. Sud- Boheme,”

the player. This could have been human torpedocs" and midget denly you realise that the She had been preparing her- remedied by more variations in genuine chuckles he provokes self for days, und when she dress and make-up and is submarines.

she was serious mistake in art action plc- are getting fewer and the line appeared on the set of tolerance is having (o behol.ow-checked, with parched ture. stretched loo tightly for com-lips curling outwards; she had, Rock Hudson makes a likeable John Gregson,

she said, "succeeded in removTaza with just the right amount win and James Robertson ing all saliva from her mouth of authority in his voice, though Justice, I think Bob Hope and his by not drinking any liquids for it docin't seen compatible with friends WEN beginning

Picture is based on a best- keeping the present glorification of the to three days, and by realise this when they planned cotton pads between her teeth red men to make a son of the seller of the same title by C.E. "Casanova's Big Night", To and gums even in her sleep."

Print Cochise

a more sergeant. Wara and help him out they've drawn on The death-socne was played when he tune out for the re- who served together during the

tulented such highly

feature out; Vidor decided to keep the servation

auxiliaries! Barbara war players as Vincent Basil Rathbone, while

Price and camera turning until the actress Rush is his faithful Indian maid.

as his was forced by the necessity of leading lady they've thrown in breathing to make a movement, a person you'd hardly expect

fort

Fontaine.

No movement came,

Panic-

REDSKINS AGAIN

The early communications problems of the USA form the basis of "Overland Pacific".

to see in a Hope comedy-Joan stricken, he stopped the camera: still no movement. At last Miss Gish was called by name. She opened her eyes and took her The two handsomo he-mon, flent

hero and heavy respectively, the deep breath since scene had started; for the past have been friends during the days sho had trained herself, American Civil War but find that sámehow or other,

Lime brings along without visible breath-

MAJESTIC

QAIR CONDITIONED ZIEKE

SHOWING TO-DAY --- ́ ́AT 2.30, '5,20, 7.30 &

9.30. P.M.

ON WIDE SCREEN

THE MARINES* GRIATELY HOURI

marka JOHN WAYNE

A REPUBLIC PICTURE

TO MORROW - MORNING SHOW AT 12.30 P.M.

WITH A SONG

HEART

to

Mills heads an all-male cast which includes Donald Sinden, Michael Med-

the in

Motilla..

James Benson

13th Submarinė

It will includo official flim, hitherto unseen by the public, of actual undersea operations.

different

A strange and

а

love?

Kettards. One becomes

gamblar, not only with money, Hdg prepared to "It was necessary to was her but in land.

back his Investments with lips before she could arcak." And

forco let a little matter doesn't and in 1924 tree is a tres,

like

bribing Red Indians to kil Mr Vidors account of his his own people stand in his way. His friend works for the.com- peny milway

star was a star.

1

from:

work as a film director the First World War to the

Hollywood "ngurés,

iterate

ongagod Itt building

J

that he had hoped

present day in the storý of ni would run acrosa the loud had man captivated by the cinema bought.

mont books by fámbus)

William Bishop is the gambler, It is with Jack Mahoney the rail mah and Irunde styl Peggio. Castle and Adele Tergens of good stories the two girls who get in the WB. Hearst discovering that way of the lighting the wrong baronial hall from Bucope had been installed in The hia non-house, Eliner Glyn sort 67 Monte Cristo story of telephoning one Sunday to

vehgognoo, filmex In Itşify: The suggest that in a passage played son is fossano Brazz who troika under, bearskins played in "Three Coin In sho John Gilbert should oness...the heroine's cheek with 7 his tyo Trave

Goldwyn haranguing

this

hea

crat: "And tell you that

moenie "Imit "th love scopo "leyòr (put to filin Whole goddamnéd· Pict

And it dééngs't' ganarTA

of the mioritics, and thle worth

pogrids

Son of Lagardero" is n

and

Murder, and midden death fre couitnonplace is "Son of

o If you like ple

| Tales Will the kidnapping at p

young girl thrown in for good

thedisure, so it you · like your pleturon to strewn with corpses, this is your meat.

~ CRUELTY, GLORIFIK

A. JAHANG RAME L

OLYNIS JOHNS -ROBERT NEWTON

DONALD SINDEN

BEACHCOM

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2.30, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m. I

"

2.30, 8.20, 7.30 & 0.40 p.m.

2nd WEEK!

THE CAINE MUTINY

IS AS BIG

AS THE

OCEAN!

HUMPHREY, BOGART • JOSE FERRER.

VAN JOHNSON FRED MacMURRAY

A COLUMBIA PICTURE mcding ROBERT FRANCIS - MAY WYNH Corby TECHNICOLOR • A STANLET KRAMER PROD.

TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW

AT 11.30 A.M.

QUEEN'S

Warner Bros. - Columbia

Variety Program

(3 Stooges-Color Cartoons)

AT REDUCED PRICES!

ALHAMBRA

Universal's Technicolor

"MISSISSIPPI GAMBLER"

with Tyrone Power Reduced Prices: $1.50, $1.00 & 70 Cts.

LEE GREAT WORLD

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

SHOWING TO-DAY

HE LED THE APACHE NATION'S WILD REVOLT AGAINST GERONIMO'S PILLAGING HORUEST

TAZA, SON OF COCHISE

chit

Ay

TECHNICOLOR

ROCK HUDSON

BARBARA RUSH

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MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW

LEE THEATRE

At 12.00 Noon

Mighty Mouse

GREAT WORLD

At 12.30 P.M.

Walt Disney's

Colour Cartoons Colour Cartoons

At Reduced Prices!

ROXY & BROADWAY

SHOWING TO-DAY

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

A Panoramic Production

On Our Panoramic MAGIC MIRROR Screens!

LEONARD GOLOSTİDİ POREDNUTI

TWE

VAN HEFLIN RAID

CONSTERNG

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ANNE BANCROFT RICHARD BOONE LEE MARVIN

A JANORAMIC PRODUCION – Krimed by 100 CINJURY2014

PRIT OF TECHNICOLOR

TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW

AT 12,00 NOON

ROXY

Joan

Louis JOURDAN

PÉTERS

in "ANNE OF THE INDIES" In TECHNICOLOR

· A 20th Century-Fox Picture

BROADWAY

A SELECTED. PROGRAMME OF TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS Presented by 20th Century-Fox

- Reduced Admission →→→

ROXY: $1.50, $1.00 & 702. - BROADWAY: $1.20 & 70c.

HOOVER Last Performances

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OVERLAND PACIFIC

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