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KING'S PRINCESS EMPIRE

At 2.30, 5.15, At 2.30, 5.30.

At 2.30, 5.30,

7.20 & 9.30 p.m.||7.30 & 9.30 p.m.||7,30 & 9.30 p.m.

OPENING TO-DAY,

From the

Musical His "Hazel Flaga"

A

Dean Moreto

LIVING IN

by

TECHNICOLOR

Janet Leigh Edward Andd

Fred Clark Sheres Noth

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TO-MORROW & SUNDAY-5 SHOWS DAILY

EXTRA SHOW AT 11.30 A.M,

** LIVING IT UP »

SPECIAL HOLIDAY MATINEES

PRINCESS

TO-MORROW 11.10 p.m.

An Indian Picture Suratya & Shazaml

Kapoor in

SULAMA PARWANA"

(The Flans & the Molti

with English & Chinese Subilties

at Regular Prices

SUNDAY 11,00 m.

DISNEY'S TECHNICOLOR

CARTOONS

at Rednerd Priern

SUNDAY 12 10 p.m.

Tycone Power in "CRASH DIVE" Technicalur

at Rednerd Prices

MONDAY 12.20 p.m.

Gary Cooper in "SPRINGFIELD

KIFLES"

Warnercolor

at Reduced Prices

EMPIRE

TO-MORROW 11.00 a.m.

FOX TECHNICOLOR

CARTOONS

TO-MORROW 12.30 p.m. Tyrone Power in

CRASH DIVE" Technicolor

SUNDAY 11.00 a.m.

FOX TECHNICOLOR

CARTOONS

(New Programme)

SUNDAY 12,30 pm.

Marilyn Monroe, Jane

Nansell in "GENTLEMEN PREFER

BLONDES" Technicolor

MONDAY 11.00 ..

DISNEY'S TECHNICOLOR

CARTOONS

MONDAY 12.30 p.m.

Richard Widmark in "NIGHT AND THE CITY"

Aft at Reduced Prices: $1.00 & 70 cts.

LEE GREAT WORLD

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

The

TO-DAY

GREGORY

PECK Purple Plain

TECHNICOLOR imroduties WIN MIN THAN

Screenplay by EHIO AMULET · Directed by C0RENT PANRICH.

Produced by JONH BAYAN

INTERNATIONAL SOCCER WOLVES v. HUNGARIAN at LEE THEATRE only

EXTRA PERFORMANCE TO-MORROW.

LEE at 12.00 noon. GREAT WORLD at 12.30 p.f

"THE PURPLE PLAIN”.

ROX Y & BROADWAY!

GRAND OPENING TO-DAY Owing to length of picture pleash noto change of times:

A 2.30, 5.10, 7:30 & 9.40 p.m.

200h Coathay-fon arvioita

MARLON BRANDO JEAN SIMMONS MERLE OBERON MICHAEL RENNIE

-ÉLTÁSTIN SELLAIS

Desiree

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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1954.

FILMS- CURRENT AND COMING

The

KING'S,

EMPIRE

and PRINCESS have chosen one of the best Martin and Lewis pictures for a long time

Christmas as their show. Completely American In treatment, humour and sentiment, it's nevertheless fun for everyone,

Of equally universal up- peal is the costume melo- drama (I'm not very fond of the word "swashbuckler'') at the HOOVER — "Star of India". This theatre will possibly be playing "Crimes of Paris" between "Star of India" and the New Year show "Apache".

"The Black Knight" is at the

and QUEEN'S ALHAMBRA, "The Student Prince" at the CAPITOL and LIBERTY and "The Purple Plain" at the LEE and GREAT WORLD.

"Desiree" is showing at the ROXY and BROAD- WAY.

Marun and Lewis usually manage to combine their crazy

an unusual doings with

story and "Living It Up" is no excep- tion. The screenplay is adapted from the successful Broadway production, "Hazel Flaga", which in turn was taken from earlier show in which Frederic Murch appeared.

The two comedians are a pair of small town boys who like all the elly slickers for a ride unintentionally at Arst, but as events move too fust for ther, they're forced to carry on the deception.

Martin, doctor you woukin'! allow near an out of condition goldfish, has dinghosed Lewis us Auffering

vilecis from the

al rado activity and given in only a short time to live.

Ajung comes it newspaper reporter with the iden of grant- ing (with great publicity of course) the lust wish of the "dying" man. Janet Leigh pr sundes her newspaper to finance a trip to New York for Lewis, in the book with every thrill

thrown in for good measure.

By the time Marun has dis- covered cover where his diagnosis went wrong, it's Impossible to back out of the Aituation nodi with an "in for a

penny, in for pound" gesture he decides to help his friend take advantage of the big city's interest,

pair's The crazy

doings in New York constitute the matin part of the picture.

You'll no doubt have heard of Sheree North who had such a lot of publicity at the time that Monroe wasn't doing Marilyn all that her studio required of her. In this fimm she dances a

Lewis number with

that can only be called exuberant.

By JANE ROBERTS

Ann Blyth, Edmund Gwenn and Edmund Purdom in a

scene from "The Student Prince".

Napoleon and Desiree (Marlon Brando and Jean Simmons respectively) are watched with apprehension by his brother and her sister in "Desiree”.

from all of which

he escapes

It's one of these Ruritania musicals with the Crown Prince fuced state being of a smeli

sequences in

which Edmundh Purdom is required to sing.

Two stars almost make off with the acting honours in The Purple Plain": Maurice Denham

the fussy little wingless wonder who eventually cracks up, and Brenda do Banzie, the formidable. Scottish missionary with the humanity of a saint. Some of the beat scenes the

picture are

the seld ex» between Gregory Peck

changes

as tho very gallant Squadron

Leader, and Maurice Denham.

H. E. Bates, the author, bay- ing been in the RAF during the war, has an excellent insight into the relationship that would exist between these two.

Peck, easygoing by nature, hás been mado even more care- leas of his personal safety by the death of his wife in an air raid. He is also a filer, making an even wider gulf between the non-flying Flight Lieutenant and himself.

Cseritini

which When the aircraft of Peck is the pilot, Denham the passenger and Lyndon Bruck the navigator (very good, this boy) crashes in the jungle, their difference in mental make-up comes to the surface,

By this time Peck has met a naft-spoken Burmese girl who has given him a new interest in life and It's thoughts of her that spur him on to making the superhuman effort of getting the three of them back to base.

"The Purple Before leaving Plain" I must mention Bernard Les

At the beginning of the picture 1 thought he was mis- cast as the RAF doctor and that he is much more at home as an NÇO, Before wits over changed my mind and give him full marks for a very sincero performance.

NOT FIERY ENOUGH

The chief difficulty that must have faced the inkers of "Desiree" was how

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to make

both Marion Brando andi Michael

sympathetic characters without sacrificing

the interest to be derived from their conflicting Ideologies,

The despotle Napoleon could never have anything in com- mon with Bernadotte, the mun of

peace, except a love for the vanic woman and in order paint the former in more glow- ing colours than he would seem to deserve it's been necessary to make Bernodolte rather a

cold

man.

Now don't point out to me that either of them were sup- posed to be this or that in real life; I'm thinking entirely terms of whal makes an interest- ing

picture and for this there must be sufficient contrast be

characters to tween the main enable them to sland out de-

with the decision of renouncing to the gentleness with

one from tho other. which Brando plays the very Napoleon puts definite

him 100 close to the serious Bernadetto

the girl he thinks he loves or turning his back on the country he's been educated and trained

spectacularly, naturally.

Had she really lied in those thel days I can't help, feeling

would have Patricia Modina

to pneumonia, Succumbed dressed as she is in the plature to rule. Draughty old castles are not the places for plunging neckline. However, she looks a dream und that's all that matters in Alm of this kind.

The attractive voice of Elton so Hayes is heard in a ballad he wrote himself and other music Is played by the Royal Philhar- monic Orchestra.

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the

PUBLIC SPIRITED

"Crimes of Paris" has a lurkd- looking press took and appears to be on the lines of the Montes!

stirred up that hos Case much mud in present day Italy.

It claims to be based case "which shocked the entire eity of Paris" and the company filming it states that their inten- tion was to demonstrate how close co-operation between police and the public can bring about justice, even when con- mest skilful of fronted by the criminals How public spirited! The latest American_actor to join King Arthur's Court IN Alan Ladd. Complete with the period, page-boy hair-do of the black and white costume, and his well known grim look, he can- ters around mediaeval England avenging wrongs and getting locked up in castle

dungeons-

You'll see various other well known character actors in "The Black Knight", among them Andre Moreli who played the part of the servant so well in Elephant Walk"; piercing eyed Jehn Lauric and the televiston star Peter Cushing.

L

at last TC- Betta St. John,

native leased from her

giri roles, is the princess his father has chosen as his bride and who hadl drcided sto will marry him only if he becomes more human.

Ann Blyth plays the part of and although I always seem to be complaining of all black Kathie, the little barmaid in the and all white characterisations town..of Heidelberg where on the screen, in this case 1 Edmund Purdom, the Student would hava preferred a mhore

order Prince, has gone to try to learn fery Napoleon in

to more case of manner.

allow Berindotte a few more degrees of warmth.

In spite of everything, if I only one film over could see

choose the holidays,, I would this one. It has enough British accents to make me feel ot HOGE home, Brankió ind Rennie aro always good to look at, how- ever much I may disagree with their conception of a part, and as Jean Simmons

as Dealree. In addition, there's perfectly cast the indestructible benuty and poles of Merle Oberon as the Empress Josephine. Happy filmgoing.

Jahn

Louist Calibern and Ericson, both of whom were in

featured fre "Rhapsody" Purdom's father and rival cre- spectively!

RURITANIA

mystery man behind the кcones is Mario Lanti whoso

all the Sigmund Romberg's operetta, voice is heard in "The Student Prince" has been times performed innumerable

but, as she did in "Rose Mario", Ann Blyth secins to give it a new lift.

The Pickwick Papers

January 12, 1955

9.15 p.m.

the Lee

Theatre.

Clare Keswick

Chairman

Première

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TO-DAY

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QUEEN'S

5 SHOWS TO-MORROW

**THE BLACK KNIGHT”'

EXTRA PERFORMANCE AT 11.30 A.M.

QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

4.30, 5.15, 7.30 & 9.30 pm,

220, 5.30. 7.30 A

SHOWING TO-DAY

HIS BIGGEST ADVENTURE!

Technicolor

COLUMBA VICTURES pessets à LÁNCÍCH PRODUCTION

ALAN LADD

The Black Knight

PATRICIA MEDINA

******** QUEEN'S

SPECIAL MORNING SHOWS AT 11.30 A.M.

DEC. 26th SUNDAY

Columbia's

ALL-NEW VARIETY PROGRAM

(3 STOOGES —— COLOR CARTOONS)

DEC. 27th MONDAY

Walt Disney's Technicolor "PETER PAN”

AT REDUCED PRICES!

CAPITOL

THE HOME OF

LibertyY

3 SHOWS TO-DAY. AT 2.30, 5.30 & 7.30 P.M.

ON PANORAMIC SCREEN

A NEW UPROARIOUS ROLE IN THE CAREER OF THE WORLD'S FUNNIEST MAN!

W-1

RED

SKELTON

MGM

THE GREAT

DIAMOND * ROBBERY

GALA PREMIERE TO-NIGHT AT 9.30 P.M.

THE ROYAL RISQUE, RIOTOUS ROMANCING OF

THE STUDENT

COLOR Galety!

V Hear SIGMUND ROMBERG'S

serious songs

TİLİ

PRINCE

·M-G•M2 rolliók musical of the who would rather romance than rufel

ANN BLYTH EDMUND PURDOM JOHN ERICSON-LOUAS CALHERN AFRONO CIEN

AND THE SOPISING VOICE OF MARIO LA Z

with PERSPECTA STEREOPHONIC SOUND

Special Moming Show on Holidays At 10.30 am, dally

LABERTÝ

CAPITOL

25th

26th & 27th

25th & 27th ́anfy M-G-M prosents

TOM & JERRY Technicolor Cartoons

(The programme will be changed aver