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KINGS 5

SHOWS

TO-MORROW

EXTRA MORNING SHOW AT 11.30 A.M.

"WHITE CHRISTMAS”

Completo Effects of PERSPECTA Storeophonic Sound

KING'S PRINCESS EMPIRE

At 2.30, 5.00,

7.15 & 9.30 p.m. At 2.30, 5.15, 7.30 & 9.45 p.m.

PLEASE NOTE SPECIAL TIMES)

4 SHOWS DAILY

"COURT YOUR DIESSWIGS INSTEAD OF SHEEP" • "ROVE, YOU DIDNT DO RIONF

The Season's Best

IRVING BERLINS White Christmas → VISTAVISION

·BING CROSBY • DANNY KAYE

ROSEMARY CLOONEY • VERA ELLEN

Color by TECHNICOLOR

- DEAN JAGGER

Franch

·IRVING BERLIN DOLAN

·MICHAEL CURTIZ ·

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PRINCESS

TO-MORROW

At 11.00 a.m.

Double-fenturo DISNEY-RKO Programmo

"

&UE SKIES" - "WHITE QUISIMAS" ("CHOREOGRAPHY

"SNOW WHITE and the 7 DWARFS" and "NATURE'S HALF ACRE"

In Technicolor -

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LIBERTY

THE BOSSE

TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M. (EXTRA PERFORMANCE ON SUNDAY AT 12.30 P.M.)

Most

Unusual

Musical Show ever to crowd the huge

CINEMASCOPE

screen -

Eye-popping in COLOR!

SEVEN BRIDES

- FOR SEVEN BROTHERS“.

JANE POWELL

STARRING

AN 18-G-44 PICTURE

HOWARD KEEL

LOVE - MAKING SONGSI

WITH PERSPECTA STEREOPHONIC SOUND!

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NOW SHOWING

ROXY: At 2.30, 5.10.

7.25 & 9.40 p.m.

* 8TH DAY! BROADWAY: At 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 & 9.40 p.m.

SEE MARILYN MONROE AT HER BEST!

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| Starring: Ethel MERMAN'

Marilyn MONROE

Johnnie RAY

|te the vender vi High-fide®) STERIOPHONG SOUND

Donald O'CONNOR

Dan DAILEY MINI GAYNOR

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TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

PROGRAMME

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TOM & JERRY 'CULOR CARTOONS

Maja Raduded 'Admission

Raxy: $1.50, $1.00 & 70 Cia, Broadway: $1.20 3 78 Ch.

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1955.

FILMS-CURRENT AND

The three big musicals running at the moment - "White Christmas", "There's No Business Like Show Business"

“Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" have proved us successful as they deserve, which mean that with "Sitting Bull" con- Hoover and tinuing at the "Drum Beat" at the Queen's and Alhambra there are few changes since last Saturday among the first run cinemas.

Of the others, the New York and Great World are showing a Chinese picture, and the Lee a Chinese opera,

Queen's leaving the Alhambra with the only English language change.

and

Later on next week it will be possible to sec "Johnny Dark" when "White Christ- mas" leaves the King's

"Hiawatha" 24714

finishes nt

Princess

when it

Empire.

Like Show

By JANE ROBERTS

The New Films At A Glance

Capitol and Liberty:

Showing-"Heven Brides For Seven A musical. Keel and Jaur

1

Brothers". Howard l'owell

Coming-Tennessee Champ". Prixe

Empire:

Showing--"While

King's and Princess:

the

iloover:

"There's N' Business Business" will

give way to "Theodora, Slave and "Sitting Empress"

Bull" "This Is My Love". The Chinese picture at the New York and Great Worki will have a five-day run and will be followed by "Mulaga”. For A Show" **Three surereds "The Violent Men".

#K*** 1 TO

which

"Urum Beat".

Its lume. felbow pawns and many mene

All the laracters.

a parsent in "Hiawatha" the yung Cajalaway 13

brave baselt. Dayotab bide Lovely

Chibinon Rendle Minnehaha,

Lhe 14 ing boastful treacherous Pro Puk Kerwis.

I haven't seen a preview, but apparrally the two leading men Pave been

Tor chosen prowess

jandledy stresses the swimming

u!z#{thec{ by

Edwards and Hats the

of terimis cups Lamen

Keith

New York and Great World:

fighting and its exploiters. Nhelley Winters, Keenan Wyen, Deway Martin.

Christmas". musical,

the IRO

first Vista Vision. picture In Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye,

Ellen. Vera

Rosemary Clooney Comlisz-Hawatha". North Ameri- can tribal warfare in pre- Columbus days. Vincent Edwards, Yvette Dugar. Showing "White Christmas".

above.

Coming-“Johnny Dark".

Car

racing. Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie, Don Taylor, Showing-SiLing Bull". A western. Dale Robertson, J. Carroj Naish. Mary Murphy.

4'oming-Thie

A

In My Love". romantie drama. Linda Daruri, Blek Jason, Dan Duryea, Faith Domergue.

in

Showing-"Loves of the Youngsters".

A Chines- picture Mandarin dialogue, Coming Mainga". Smuggling anet In Tangier,

O'Hara,

Mac.

COMING

Linda Darnell, who plays her elder sister. Faith Domergue, while portraying A girl who

in't all dowey-eyed innocence, is at least direct--Linda Darnell in a hypocrite.

Into this happy little couldron the plot Поря

Rick Jason and

Before it begins to simmer, boils over you will be able to watch these characters torment Ali the with cach

other malicioumess of everyday life.

BYZANTINE ERA Theodora,, the slave girl who rose to be Empress of Byzan tium,

was thought interesting enough by Van Loon for him to included her in his col- lected "Lives.

have

It's nome ume nga since I rend of this "crowned courtesan" as he calls her, but my recol- lection is that he saw her as u remarkably intelligent woman mai quite just for those dog- Calog days.

She has a very turbulent time Lit "Theodora, Slave Empres" Jezebel's apparently sharing

passion for chariot racing and Intrigue,

igue, but finding thine, un- Nice Jezebel, to be a champion of the peoplo.

very

Theodor is played by n lovely Italian girl, Glue Marla Cannic. Her dyai is an equally attractive Greek actress, rene anch Justinian himself is Pape Marchual from France. George

rather like the director's reason for choosing this subject for his two million dollar, year- make eple. Considering Cecil director De Mule the greatest

murder Maureen donald Carry,

Queen's and Alhambra

Showing-"Drum Brak",

Alan Ladd,

Violent

A western.

western drama,

Men' A extra Ford,

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th

Roxy and Broadway:

Vincent nuttabes

Day won

accomplish- appearate

1 whams

Yvette Dugby's iments Inchuric

the New

al York sing play with Walter Humon

she was seven, aut a atrore res rent appearance on the sUOMI

in "The Great Coraso,"

Space ships

rivals of Red

nTe

of

the great Indians

Is the affections

these juveniles days, mure's the pity, but let's hope there

some faithful followers to whom the

still tucans some-

thing

are

RACE IS GOOD

If you can believes 10 hor Lauric Us Der designer then yuu'll be able to take "Johnny Dark" in your stride, I find it rather hard to edit her with anything much, the secins afraid of incapable of positive nellon af quy mort Her acting unconvincing her looks Insipid

ní

دورا

16

that her studio

Coming-The

with some

Glenn

edward G. Robinson, Barbara Stanwyck.

QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

2.30, 7.15, 7240 & 920 pow.

4 30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 197

SHOWING TO-DAY

WARNER BROS -

They called

him

Injun Lover

CINEMASCOPE:

NOTHING, BEATS THE EXCITEMENT OF

WAGNERCOLOR · STEREDMIONIC BOUND

ALAN LADD DRUM BEAT”

יידיז -

★ NEXT CHANGE ★

CINEMASCOPE

Dianna Mn

FOSTER · WYNN

A COLUMBIA PICTURE

her

of historical spreiscles alive be notes that the Byzantine era has The far been tackled by the great mant

EVERYBODY GRIM The girl who changed 11> the character played in The Caine Muthy"

-THE

VIOLENT

starring

MEN

-AND

WOMEN

SLEDFORD- STANWYCK

EXETARD

ROBINSON

TECHNICOLOR | M

is paired with Glemt Ford in TO-MORROW MORNING AT 11,30 A.M.

This time. ish'l 50 Instead of getting her man in the last reel she has to

10 over hand hin

Coming "Three For A Show".

fram musical adapted Alaugin alary. Betty firable.

A

H

"The Violent Men". however. May Wynn lucky.

Jack Lemmon, Marge and Cower Cham-

plon.

Showing "There's No Business Like

Nhow musical,

Dun

Business". A Kihel Merma Dalley. Marilyn Diturae. Donali O'Connor, Mitzi Gaynor.

Corning-Tbeodura,

Spanish and North Africah, and has more fights to the cellulose fest that have been quite some time.

1

There's the same conhet be

wife 111 wi tween hustat "This Is My Love" in "The Violent Men,** The cripple thus time is Dan Duryon al wife with the roving eye Philh

U

ן

Slave

Km- Alleged incidents prrks" in the life of Justinian's Empress. Glanna Maria Canale, George Marcha),

morgun

11 has taken this Howard thughes discovery quite

Time to reach starikom in spite of the promining she's been ven They've changed her fler lest in the process und

1017 there's a much gloomy girl of her fest

Ventetta.

Shy has an

of the

picture

Ale interesting in This Is My Love" as dots

A Kind Of

Irish

und her personality lukewarm If a flying saucer landed Longford was asked to appear,

It may thought she would make a good at Emiskerry, Co. Wicklow, bu decilned because he didn't foil for the aggressive Tony Cur the villagers wouldn't

and

seen

Fuster.

QUEEN'S

WB's Technicolor

ALHAMBRA Columbia's

VARIETY Dianne "CALAMITY JANE"

He's so busy spiking the guns

G. land-grabbing Edward

scheming that

Of

Robinson

and! wife, Barbara Stanwyck, May feels she's got getting her fair

and sbare of attention leaves him for a more interest- ing partner.

Everybody is grim in The Men" none of them Violent have much to be happy about anyway. In spite of his wealth Edward G. Robinson is a cripple and despised by his wife, who with bla is having an affair brother

A

She in turn is merely being used by the brother who

friemt.

The Kirk second daughter, for whom Glenn Ford falls after May Wynn has walked out on tim, doesn't feel there's any nature for them almost and Clean Ford, with

the him, is everyone against unhapplest of the foll

Western

us Mr Beet- uncertain #177

had

some investment cake on such want to do an actor out of a animal as a horse. even job.

However, as the camera its but I feel that both he and look up from their stout. Eventually

Miss Rush's toes picked up Hudson's cont behind the tree, ibus suggesting he his rival. Don Taylor, deserve When you've

the were trolden on to everyone's

and there was i was in two places at once, the something better.

Dublin bus make way

satisfaction, for It's a likeable Alm, however,

general exodus to the castle scene had to be reshot. Again Arthur und

and his co-robber the road

ruce from

his grounds to watch a scene shot Hudson the King

examined jewels, cursed, background

run, Canadian border to Mexico, kaights, and the Battle of against the

Mountain. Rock and hid behind the tree. Again which forms the loty of the Agincourt has been fought Sugarloaf

Hudson and an accomplice ap- the director was dissatisfied-- ilm, most exciting

in the fields next to your

this time with Hudson's techni- Tong Curtis

peared in tweed Jackets, beaver 1 {ገሮ Idealistic

farm, then web-footed hats and

A masks.

green- que in pulling mask from nose. about the prosulc

one trousered technician explained Not until the seventh time of subject of sports car designing, Martian becomes just but when he descends in actual of those things.

that the scene was to be their shooting was everyone happy. getaway after robbing a coach. driving he appears very much

GOOD GOING A volce culled: "Quici! Roll In character.

ts

The 54,000-acre demesne

in

ان

Europe.

It's an uncomplicated char-Powerscourt Castle, close by neterisation not calling for much Enniskerry, covers some of the

scenery more than good looks and dash. Anest both of which he wears like Henry V, Knights of the Round

Table, and many were made here.

found

of

HP Hudson pulled down his We began to understand why mask, examined the jewels in sixteen days' shooting et Powers- his hand,

they were

to yield only court was going

minutes screen fakes, and hurled them aside, twenty-five

tu time, and why two and a half uttering a curse acceptable olher film)

family audiences. The two minutes 'In the con' at the end robbers ran behind a tree, of a twelve-hour day was co- leaped on to horses, and gallop sidered good going.

to watch over

01

ul

second skin

kn Chase and Paul Kelly in secondary roles are their urmal

We flow urtent scives competent

and the

inc itself glued me to the edge of Hollywood company shooting a scenes for Captain Lightfoot, my seat

story the blood-and-thunder Interesting sidelights on

and British dra- highwaymen race are the police crganisation

the 1820s. for keeping the roads clear for goons, set in a 1,800-mile race and the news-

The first thing we saw paper and radio coverage from side the castle was a gentleman a helicopter. From a TV angle in wig and knee breeches, the course

offered ក.

น good opportunity for shots of some lovely reentry, the State of Nevada looking particularly attractive.

THOSE EYELASHES! Smugglers beware! You may think you can outwil the police, but just wait until a curvaceous lady secret agent looking like Maureen O'Hara is put on your trail.

oul-

smoking a large sigar; the first thing we saw inside was Rack Hudson-otherwise

'Mr Beef- cake-m improbably handsome. six-foot-three, who plays

the title role and described the film bo us DR

kind of Irish Western, only it's the British, not the redskins who play the 'heavies,""

Wo watched him play a ball- room sceno with co-star Bar- With one, or at any rate, not barn Rush. They danced a few more than three sweeps of har steps, then Miss Rush yelped, beautiful eyelashes, she'll have pouted prettily: "You trod on guessed your hiding places, made my foot, sir." Hudson denied deductions about your source of it. Mias Rush insisted. "I tell supply, won over your accom- | you, you treadod trod", plices and ruined the market for || "Out!" cried conteorie, whatever you're trying to soll.

►

And if you want a course ini: FROM DEBRETT how to accomplish all this,, phy

visit to the New Work or the While they sorted

this out, Great World next wook and we had a look at the chat lat, watch

her nt work in and found it not unlike a pagó Trom Debrett, The Hon. Granla Wingmold she gratuitously tells

daughter of Lady Mocdonald Carey, she's been Powersebut, has a small pari; around-and in har travels has Lord and Lady Mount Charles, apparently learned from people who loaned Slan's Castle to the who haven't yet been discovered film unit, appear as nobility in by Scotland Yard or the FDI. a carriage robbed by highway-

Her mothods and results musi

man Hadson: shots of Beau Sava ostred « few raised aro Pare Castle Include a portrait brows in those sugust establish of Lady Lambart and son Sir Olivery in period costume. (SIE. i takou place on the Oliver obligingly drove a tractor Mediterranean seaboard, both for the smit); while the Earl of

ed off

Doris Day

Howard Keel

PROGRAM

13 Stooges Color Cartoons)

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HOOVER

CAUSEWAY DAY

TEL.

71371

NOW SHOWING

2.30, 5.30, 7.30

9.30 P.M.

The Biggest Battle The West Evor Staged!

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AND MAGNIFICENT NEW EASTMAN COLOR

RULL

MAIT

ROBERTSON MURPHY NAISH

Released Ihre Umuted Artists •

Sunday Morning at 12 noon: Roduced Admission ABBOTT and COSTELLO

in "LOST IN ALASKA"

LEE Theatre

AIR CONDITIONED, OZONIZED AND WARM

presents

businessTOR PAO CANTONESE OPERA COMPANÝ

"It's wonderful A noment later they sur- Allums," our taxi driver prised us by emerging again us on the way back. "Fella was from behind the tree. The tellin' me they fit that Hudson pationt technician explained lod with a brand new set of

tweeds, galloping

then horgemen

rub them with were doubles; that the studio sandpaper to make them look disked to see such a hand- old. Can you imagine, now?"

the

Colony's New Theatre

With a minimum of publicity, the New York Theatre opened its doors to the Hongkong pubile fast Sunday. There would probably have been a much larger blaze had the opening date heen more certain.

Postponed several times, it wam't until Saturday morning that the licence was received, and the rush to take ad- vantage of the Chinese New Year holiday business resulted in several minor details being overlooked.

Literally within Walking distance of each other, there are now four first run cinemas at Causeway Bay and one can't help wondering if they'll all pay. There are strong rumours of one of them changing its status shortly, but this will sull leave iliree very close together.

Belush, American and Chinero plotures will get a show- ing at the how elseins and there's a reasonable hope that the first will be allowed longer running time than the paltry two days mid-week that they've almost invariably had in the past, irrespective of their merit.

The British comedy, “MAD ABOUT MEN” Was a Teod choice. Not too heavy and with plenty. In 16 to amuse Chinese audiences, it went well with the holiday atmosphere. Having the same owner (Be is the first to control a plo- ture house on each side of the harbour), the New York Theatre will release is pictures concurrently with the Gresi World, hitherto ́ssociated with the Leo.

the plotures to which we can look forward_ aro

11072="THOKE" starring Charles Laughton and John

Mille; Richard Burton, representing, the warlime RAF pilot. Douglas Bader, in "REACH FOR THE SKY') LauroNDO Olivier's production of "RICHARD ZII” In which he also takes POKE MIKE "LIND "Vævtting ""PUN BRA THALL/NOT HAVE THERE","

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SHOWING SIMULTANEOUSLY TO-DAY 4'Shows Dally: 2.30-5.307.30 & 9.30 P.M. 4-Track Stereophonic Saund Giant Wido Servon!

Woman's World

SPECIAL MORNING SHOW

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Bad and Lou În "JACK & THE BEAN STALKI

Clifton WEBB⚫ June ALLYSON | Lancin BACALL-Fred MuMURRAY Artada DAME Cortel WILDE

Trade CHARLES MACKETT //

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