1955-02-26 — Page 2

KING'S PRINCESS; EMPIRE

AT 2.30, 5.15,

7.20 & 9.30

P.M.

AT 2.30, 5.30,

7.30 9.30.

.P.M.

AT 2.30, 5:20. 7.30 & 9,40 P.M.

OPENING TO-DAY

It's about Mrs. Leslie

...and the man she never quite

married!

SHIRLEY BOOTH ROBERT RYAN

ON

HAL WALLIS "ABOUT MRS.LESLIE

Bestarine MARIT MILLAR. ALEX NICOL

Berested by DANIEL MANN

scher PINS and HAL KANJEN

ADDED: SPECIAL ATTRACTION

VISTAVISION VISITS NORWAY

A PARAMOUNT SHORT COLOR BY TECHNICOLOR

MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW

KING'S at 11.30 a.m.

TECHNICOLOR

CARTOONS

Presented by 20th Century Fox

Admissions: $1.00 & $1.50

PRINCESSE

PRINCESS at 11.00 a.m. Programme of Tech. Cartoons & the 3 Stooges by Columbia

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1955.

FILMS-CURRENT AND COMING

Several first run cinemas are repeating films already released hore, the Capitol and Liberty going over al- most entirely to second runM when the present picture Anishes,

"Men of the Fighting Lady" is one of the better war pictures, and does not rely on action alone for its interest.

The cast is hended by some names that, provided they are given good material, often respond with good per formances.

is one and another and this time standard.

Keenan Wynn Van Johnson

their showing

is

seem

quite up to

a

1

They

to be typing Johnson as rather # stern strong young man with sense of duty-it's still novel contrast to his parts us Esther Williams' partner, but I hope they don't keep it up too long.

Keenan Wynn is በ ilutle harder than usuni, but having heard him say that all he wants to do is Ko! the Rghting over arul ge back to his family. what his we're pretty certain fate is going to.be.

By JANE ROBERTS

James Mason and Judy Garland in a scene from "A Star Is Born".

The New Films At A Glance

SHOWING

CAPITOL and LIBERTY; "Men of the Fighting Lady". Naval Van Johnson, Ate Arm action during the war in Korea.

Waller Pidgeon, Louis Calhern. Dewey Martin. Keenas Wynn, Frank Lovejoy.

IF

At Roduced Prices

31.

11

who was The young boxer with min "Teunesse Camp' I again on the team, this time wita

straightforward Martin is Dewey De the best of cholers 1

EMPIRE: "Sabrina".

Light comedy involving a chauffeur's William Holden, daughter and the sons of the house. Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepbarn.

Lis

HOOVER: "The Little Girl Named Cabbage",

Bm

A Chinese?

Waller Pidgeon 1K avuncular Commander.

the

TO-MORROW at 12.20 p.m.

A TRIUMPH

Jaimani Dawin presents a super Indian film

"RAMMAN”

Starring Meena Karan Dewan Purnima & Om Prakash

At Regular Prices

CAPITOL

THE HOHN GR

Tel 73363

LIBERTY

NEVA PERICUL

To

TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M. ON PANORAMIC SCREEN

The Most Exciting Air Adventure Ever Filmed! U.S. JET FIGHTERS IN KOREAN WAR Based on Michoner's Story "CASE OF THE BLIND PILOT" (EXTRA SHOW ON SUNDAY AT 12.30 P.M.)

TORN OUT OF A TORTURED SKY!

'THRILLS IN COLORI SMASHING THROUGH THE THRILL BARRIER SÅ MOM'S THUNDERING DRAMA THAT HAS ALL THE FURY, SWEEP AND POWE;

OF THE NAVY'S GREATEST WEAPON...THE JET PILOTI

MEN OF THE FIGHTING LADY

Cic. Harry A. Marieť

STARKING

VAN JOHNSON WALTER PIDGEON-LOUIS CALHER.

I took pages and notes when 1

pages

went

of

to БС but "A Star In Born" tempted to disvurd them and re- from construct 1s picture

Imemory.

The excessive length that some Angrienu and British audiences of doesn't Brem lo complada make the attention wonder, up- less you dislike Judy Garland

cape you'd in which cape

avoid the picture anyway, but I would like to have seen a more obvious in- provement in her technique be tween her early unrecognised daya and the Boul fadeout at the top of the tree.

Like m Judy gives a consistently complished performance in every show routine in the picture, de. 3s monstrating not how a star born and developed, which meant to be the point of the pic- ture, but how her talent is re- cognised and exploitect.

A

You may argue that a faulty performance in number isn't and that there are entertaining other ways of Indicating Imma- turily than by photographing slar doing less than her best. but it's sill the mast effective. If subtly treated.

The Indy of Shirley Booth.

KING'S and PRINCESS: "About Mrs. Leslie". the title looks at her turbulent past.

Robert Ryan

LEE: "The Princess and the Pile".

Not a new pleture.

but still ope. Virginia Mayo, Walter Siczak. Walter Brennan. Victer Melagien,

来

"The Young Lovers". NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD:

Odlle Vernola. Two ideologies and their innocent victims

David Knight,

QUEEN'S

Show "A Star Is Born". and ALHAMBRA: business, ita romance and tragedy. Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson.

Robert Louls ROXY and BROADWAY: "Long John Silver".

Stevenson's famous character in some further adventures

Robert Newton, that his creator hadn't thought of.

HOOVER:

COMING

An American Laird Trouble In the Glen".

Orson getting a chilly welcome from the Highlanders. Welles, Margaret Lockwood, Forrest Tucker,

"Hell's Outpost". Outdoor plature concerning the Rod Cameron, Joan disputed rights to a tungsten mine. Leslie.

Musical whimsey in Bonnie Scotland. "Brigadoon". Gene Kelly and Crd Charisse.

Sples and counter-sples In Holland "Betrayed". during the war. Lana Turner, Clark Gable, Victor Mature. The pitfalls lying in KING'S and PRINCESS: "Playstri".

walt for a country girl in the Big City. Shelley Winters. Barry Sullivan.

NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "Arrow in the Dust". A

western Sterling Hayden, Colleen Gray.

A present day

ROXY and BROADWAY: "Carmen Jones".

Carmen, red hot and black. Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, Pearl Bailey.

In very other way this pie- ture is a triumph. It's easy to The see why it took so long. publicity flowering about it from ilme to me during the making said that Judy Garland would not appear on the set when she

put was in the mood and this usually

heavy drinking had been James occurred at night; that

asido while he worked to build Mason wasn't caring how long it took because he was being paid her into a successful actress, but by the day; that Judy Garland now that she's un top and he's had refused to go on with the losing ground rapidly, bitterness

to bogins to set it. picture; that she'd refused allow it to be cut, etc., etc.

wae warranted,

for less than adult minds beneath his dignity,

whe

young talo is fr

though a pretty enough boy, hasn't had quite enough acting experience to tackle such a long part and the band of rogues ac

aro In- companying Silver

from An- distinguishable one other.

There are one or two sednic shots tho! the Claveria Sope

lens treats well and the colour is kind to the eyes,

+

18 YEARS LATER

Here's something I found in an American newspaper friend won klud enough to pass to me;

"Clark Gable has just topped ano of Spencer Tracy's gays. Quite an achievement because Tracy pulled the gag 18 years ago!

Framed

and hanging on a wall in Gable's home is a flutter- ing Hongkong newspaper review of his 1937 movie, 'Parnell, which

was ponned by critic

Dust fading everywhere. The clipping was sent to him by the Trucy, who wrote werOS top: "Well, at least they love

you in Hongkong."

After being mobbed by fans in Hongkong recently during a ilm location there, Gable cableri Tracy four words:

"AND THEY STILL DO!"

Another possibly

joke

be provided Academy of Motion

Arts and

March.

strongly

UK

US will

by the

Pictures

curly

hinted

QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

3 SHOWS DAILY AT 2.30, 5.30 & 9.00 ̊P.M.

WARNER BROS.

CINEMASCOPE

JUDY GARLAND JAMES MASONED

Staris BULK

THHH

TECHNICOLOR

JACK CARSON CHARLES BIGKFORD

• TO-MORROW MORNING SHOWS

QUEEN'S

4 SHOWS "A Star Is Born" EXTRA PERFORMANCE AT 11.30 A.M.

ALHAMBRA

AT 11.30 A,M. ONLY Abbott & Costello

Meets Captain Kidd WB's Warner Color Hit! Reduced Prices:

$1.50, $1.00 & 70 Ch.

ROX Y & BROADWAY

SHOWING

TO-DAY

Water-Owing to longth of picturo please note change of times:

with the ROXY: At 2.30. 5.15, best pic-

7.30 & 9.40 p.m.

Sciences In It is

being thur "On the

off front" will make Academy Award for fure

DM'si director nule performance of the Year! And we shan't have se it.

and best

French Films

the three Or

French Alms shown at the China Fleet Club

weck the last

best wis "Jeux Interdite. although "Juliette" had a lot to recomm- mend it.

of

There was a simplicity about "Jeux Interdlis" that was dis arming. The theme was the absorption of two children with the ghoulish BUITLO stealing

crosses to embellish a started that cemetery,

had with the grave of the ittle girl's pet dog.

Here arc 110 "moppets"- these two children seem com- UNCORACIOUS pletely

od 20 camern. Attending the funeral of the boy's brother, their eyes meet

when they sce ♫ per- ticularly grand cross....."What a beauty," they intimate.

Their perfect timing and ex- pression would mako many adult players look like unre- hearsed amateurs.

Baffling Holes

Cute in Judy Garland's "come- back" film, A Star is Born, are critics of unitz fire by f America.

The original version ran for

BROADWAY: At 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 9.40 p.m.

THE FIRST TIME IN CINEMASCOPE!

CINEMASCOPE

Spans A New Horizon in Adventure!

In

EASTMAN COLOR

Long

John

SILVER

stering

ROBERT

NEWTON

KIT TAYLOR ⚫ CONNIE GILCHRIST • A JOSEPH KAUFMAN Production Presented by 20th Century-Fox

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ROXY & BROADWAY:

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5 Shows To-morrow, Extra Performance at 12.00 Noon.

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 &.9.30 P.M.

CHINA'S FOREMOST SCREEN ACTRESS LI LI-HWA At her best

“THE LITTLE GIRL NAMED CABBAGE”

with Huang Ho

Wong Yuen Loong

Even the Empress Dowager was moved by her unusual beauty!!!

One of the four big strange cases in the history of the Ching Dynasty! 11

over three hours, and was be- | 5 SHOWS ON SUNDAY: FIRST MATINEE AT 12 NOON claimed wherever it was shown.

Assuming that the tended do not relate to everyday boys for whom the life the horrific doings they read picture,

Under pressure from the dis- of in box, the new

"Treasure tributors, arguing that thres Island" theme and called "Long hours was too long for one pro- written around the

Silver," starring Robert John Newton, is not too grim for

them.

gramme, the Brothers Warner cut some 40 minutes from the film. It is this version we have here now.

To divert him she caricatures All this of course only bulit the sort of production number up the tremendous expectation in which one song is given to and sent the press book com- many different treatments that pilers scurrying to their diction- before they're all over you're uries for new ways of defining beartily sick of the tune. "stupendous”. And now that

The constant danger in which Dressed only in her practice

But listen to veteran Ameri- It's anally mached here I think that all the interest stirred up costume, she manages, with the Jim Hawkins finds himself is about it by fair mens and foul help of various, urdinary props offact to a large extent by his can film critic Bealey Crowther, picked up at random from the last-minute exapes and the who rechtly saw the edited vor. the natural cunning of which beson: "The cuts have produced sitting room, to convey Not only Judy Garland, but super-colossal epic dreamed up appears to possess more than his results that we shudder to tell. Outside of some justifiable trim- years' wrath.

ming in the carly part of the

every

cut minces for awards for their per-

The role of Long John Silver pleture, virtually The touching way in which

for

baffling in 15 tailor-made formances and it'll take a good

Robert leaves a gaping and actor 10 meal the "best sup James Mason responds is porting role" trophy from Jack keeping with the note of pathos Newton who leaps upon it with hole."

demoniac fury, worrying it, hit at intervals all through the siding away from it, roaring film

back to the attack and never Two weepy parts for even the

face to fall still most hardened to watch out for Even the terrible embarrass- allowing his are Judy's song "Born in a ment of seeing a man cry can't for a moment. Trunk" and the simple marriage spoil this pleture.

DEWEY MARTIN KEENAN WYN FRANK LOVEJOYJs Mason are obviously no- by her producer.

NEW YORK GREAT WORLD

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Kowloon, Tel. 53500

TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

THEY FOUGHT FOR HAPPINESS IN A

WORLD THAT WOULD NOT LET THEM LOVEI

THE & ANTINOR JAMII URRAMLATION

ODILE VERSÕIS DAVID

KNIGHT

Young Lovers

Survanakry by George Tabort'iad Nagin Katrides » Düvened

Carson.

ceremony

alars.

between the two

LOVABLE ROGUE

ANGRY GRACE

Grace Kelly doesn't get angry, He's a lovable rogue and It often, but she's incensed about Green the film had been cut by a the advertisements for

with quarter his constant occupation Fire in which she stars of the screen would have been

Stewart Granger. "A 86r Is Born" is full of

bearable for his antics alone.

She wants to know who took meaty, entertaining scenes, but "Treasure Island" is a story

The lack of any other real the liberty of putting her hend my favourite is that in which written, as everybody

Long on knows. Interest but the rascally

voluptuous body not her Judy, now the successful star, for children, by Robert Louis John Silver is a fault that oWD. comes home to her husband, fast Stevenson very clever author makes self apparent as the becoming

has-been. His who didn't think that writing film progresses. Jim Hawkina, And so say all of us!

Commencing

TO-DAY

EXTRA

AT 2.30, 5.20, MAJESTIC 7.30 & 9,90

P.M.

Black

Widow

GANGUR NOGERN

VAN HEELIN

GENE TIERNEY GEORGE PARI

דיין ולן

ORIENTAL

HERE YAQI. LI

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7:30 & 9.30 P.M. ON OUR GIANT WIDE SCREEN!

BURT LANCASTER

DACHE

TECHNICOLOR

JEAN PETERS

RITZ

SHOWING

TO-DAY

FIRST SHOWING IN KOWLOON.

DRAMA that

rips and tears!

GET OUT!

SELAN

ALIY

LINDA DARNELL

RICK JASON DAN DURYEA

FAITH BOMERGUE

THIS IS MY LOVE

عليكم قرأ ا

Rudolf Schock Germaine Damar

KONIA MANESE

King of the Circons

THEATRE