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The Wildest Beauty

"in the Paris Whirls!”

She led a reckless fifa but knew when a real love came her way.

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"THE LAST TIME I SAW PARIS"

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CINEMASCOPE Spans A New Horizon in Adventure!

LASTMAN COLON

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ROBERT NEWTON

KIT TAYLOR CONNIE GILCHRIST A JOSEPH KAUFMAM Production

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Walt Disney's Feature-Length Color Cartoon "PETER PAN"

FESTIVAL DRAMA

April 11th, 12th Kai Tak Players

“QUEEN ELIZABETH SLEPT HERE" at the Missions

to Seamen.

April 14th, 15th, 16th. H.K, Stage Club

"THE RIVALS" at the China Fleet Club.

April 16th King's College

“INFANTICIDE" (in Cantonese) at the College

April 17th St. John's Sunday School

"CHILDREN FROM GALILEE" at the Cathedral.

April 18th, 19th Linden Players

"WHILE THE SUN SHINES" at the Missions to

Seamen.

April 21st, 22nd, 23rd Sino-British Club ·

"SORROWS OF THE FORBIDDEN CITY”.

(in Mandarin)

April 22nd, 23rd Garrison Players

"RELATIVE VALUES" at the Missions to Seamen.

'April 22nd, 23rd, 24th Sino-British Club

"DREAM OF THE RED CHAMBER"

(in Cantonese) at Queen's College.

AWARDED BY UNITED NATIONS AS BEST FILM OF 1954 BRITISH FILM ACADEMY 1954 AWARD:

CORNELL BORCHERS as best foreign actress YVONNE MITCHELL as best British actress for the role they play in this film TWO WOMEN- EACH

WITH THE RIGHT TO CALL THIS BOY HER SON

Exling Studios present a Michael Bafson production

THE DIVIDED HEART

CORNELL BORCHERS:YVONNE MITCHELL

ARMIN DAHLEN ALEXANDER KNOX

DIRECTED BY TOMABLES · CHEHYOR, PRODUCED

MICHAEL TROYSAN, WRITTEN BY JACK-MONTTIYOMÁNÍ

"ARTHUR RANK ORGANISATION PRESENTATION TO

COMING TO THE LEE THEATRE

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 9

Interesting

From News Stories

Parts Oz

The

World

She Paints-With The Help He's Going To

Of A Cockroach

RU

Spend 14 Months In The Arctic

Montreal.

Chicago. UTH Van Sickle Ford claimed recently that she was the only artist

who ever teamed up with a cockroach to produce a painting. "Actually, I think there were`j Mrs Ford is prestiting a one- Mrs Ford lives at suburban several cockroaches," she said. woman show of a series of water | Aurora (with her. husband, "They should get full credit as colours and oils she made on a Albert, & utility gas enginceT, my collaborators.”

recent trip to the Caribbean A handsome, Crey-haired A Robinson Crusoe ad- Islands.

woman,, Mrs Ford is Director of venture, northern style, 'Utopia' For Africans when the Chicago Academy of Fine begins for a young Fish wman-and-a-ranga show," she Arts where 500 artista are study- eries Board scientist in She became acquainted with design, dress fashioning and June, when the Board's re- the talented insect, or Insects, variouza ghaphic arts Among search vessel, Calanus. in Halti, which provided the her former students were Wallheads for the Arctic. settings for many of her vividly-Disney. Fcoloured natiye: scenes,

South Africa's Experimental Metropolis

Johannesburg.

...

'I Was Mad'

"I woke up the morning and

tg commercial art, Interior

"But I don't think any of then wi

wver get the touch that Roscoe the reach achieved," she said.

Mrs Ford sald that in watching

Of the six men on board, four will return in Autumn of next year. But Dr Ted Grainger, of Moncton, N.

ch, N. B., and his man Friday, Danish Anderson,

Skipper, Hans

a no moor the Calanus |

inlot of Hudson's

found a reach: nibbling at the Rocca work, she found that he in a and stay on board the ice-

painting-of a native girl doing was especially fond of eating my laundry-which I had done red and green paints. One of the main features of the right before," she said. "mu people might say this

Daveytown, £7,000,000 Wit-

"I was mad at first. But then micant he was colour blind she watersrand model township I realised that the bug which I said.

"But no colour blind artist Arst of 40,000 squatters have surface a texture I'd never be could do such fine work."- moved on April 1, is, that unable to duplicate with a brush, United Press. like Johannesburg's Meadow-

for Africans to which the named Roseco had given the

lands scheme, African tenants will be able to build houses worth £3,000, if they

afford it.

can

If their means are much more slcoder they сал accept Benoni Town Council's offer of £200 worth of building materials (£10 deposit, re- mainder repayable, over 20 years) and build a modest one or two-room home,

And if

FILMS-CURRENT AND COMING

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who

if they cannot afford the clegant splendour of the 10 deposit or prefer to be Roman, it is Chandler Tenants they cair occupy quecemes off second best.

houses built by

of the

a

the

council. For this they will pay

£2-35.

to £2-55. month inclusive of services. Should they later decide to buy the home they rent they may do

a period of 30 So over years with payments less than

they pay in rent

"SNOB AREA” TOO

Daveytown will have its "snob

Intrigue And

Dancing

I was charged last week (by a friend, happily) with being more fair to French films than to their British or American counterparts. It was said that

1

Javanese prince is treated com- pletely naturally.

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But setting aside the intrica cies of the story, which tend to give

contradisting picture of the war-time rola of Hari, the daughter Mata the film should not be missed by any lover of dancing.

Unlike The Sign of the Pagan" in which she only dances once, Ludmilla Tcherina has four lengthy sequences as

Bay bound ship

all winter. Normally, the stubby, 43-ton Calarus is pulled ashore near the settlement at Igloolik before the big freeze-up.

Dr Grainger seems unper- turbed at the prespect of spend- ing a total of 14 months with the walrus and seals of the Arctle.

"We have to use dried milk, of course, and most of us grow beards." said the 27-year-oldi veteran of six summer trips in the Calanus.

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TAGGING WALRUS Dr Grainger's chiel, Dr Maxwell Dunbar, zoology pro- Lessor at McGill University, will

expect pgt go on this year's tión But he still wears beard, a relic of last summer's trip. Dunbar, Grainger, Ander- man 'sailed sen and one other the Calanus 1,000 miles to Mon- treal last Autumn. The voyage weeks because of hurricanes. from Hudson's Bay took three

Tagging walrus will be one of the more exciting assignments crew of the Calanus. Mata "Hari's daughter. They for the

estimated 3,000 walrus in the north Hudson's vary in style from classical to There are an

on Bay gion.

carriage way boulevard along (got by with far more. praise some sensual WALDOT which

which

native

than it merited, simply because looks deceptively professional

it was in a foreign language.

with Faced

thought

Daughter of Mata Hari" with 'a

mer and traders who can afford hornes beyond the

of the municipally- provoker I approached The scope assisted scheme will be able

certain amount of caution and to build. Daveytown will have shops (36) Possibly a more critical sye than at a cost of £180,000), two it would have received before cinemas, a beer ball and beet the challenge. garden, market, social cen- tre and library. There will be five schools, a civic centre, courts, police station, creche and clinic, the latter costing

£31,000.

A block of offices will be built for African professional men such as doctors, attorneys and accountants.

of

found it an absorbing Alm, giving a dramatised idea what it must have been like in Indonesia during the troubled years of the last war, with Dutch, and Japanese, partisans and collaborators fighting for SUDremacy.

There are many loopholes in the plot, but the case for both put Daveytown will do away with Dutch and Javanese is

There is · 10 Apex, a squatters' camp cur- quite well, rently a blot on busy, indus- nonsense about colour bars, and trial East Rand. United the love affair between the beautiful Dutch dancer and the

Press.

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"You just go up behind them modern ballet in which she is on the rocks and stick a sharp joined by some of Katherine tag into one or two of them be

fore they slide off into the sea," Dunham's coloured dancers.

Again, comparing this Franco said Dr Grainger. "They hardly Italian production with the feel it because they have a thick American Sign of the Pagan" layer of fat under the skin." it is interesting to see haw Other objects of the expedi

it

different is the use made of tien are the study of seals and Ludmilla Teherina. She seems plankton-United Press,

far more comfortable speaking French and appearing in some scenes almost without make-up than she does as the highly princess of the glamourised CinemaScope picture,

A Enal word on this' difference of approach how satisfactory is to have a Continental it finish with the inevitable logical conclusion Instead of the last- minute rescue so deat to the DI American movie hearts makers.

A Triumph For

Virtue

The four principals of "The Silver Challee” showing at the Queen's and Alhambra are "nicely divided into pairs-two are good and two evil, and of course you know who will win in the final reel,

Your hissea should be re- served for Jack Palarire and Virginia Mayo, sorcerer and assistant respectively, and a suitably dramatic fate overtakes them as a result of their de- signs upon the silver chalice of the tile.

Representing virtue are Pier *Angeli and Paul Newman and to bim falls the job of making a framework for the cup used at the Last Supper.

The costumes look expensive, the sets lavish and the spectacle overwhelming.

Africolossal!

“Untamed" on the big Roxy and Broadway screens is a goLe with the windy story with Susan Hayward going all out to get her man and having to chase him. from Ireland to South Africa 'to do it. The quarry is Tyrone Power who has popped across to

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ROXY & BROADWAY: 5 SHOWS TO-MORROW

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for his own little piece of em- pira wrested from the Zulus.

Before reaching the peaceful backwaters of success, Susan Hayward has a turbulent time of it. John Justin marries her, Richard Egan

chases ber; Tyrone Power eludes her, the Boer War passca over her head, she has two children and loses all her money".

The publicity men have coined" a word for this South African western. They call it "Africo- Jorsal"

For The Young

At Heart

Joltany the Giant Killer follbys the fortunes of a young boy who is reduced to midget sizz.by a giant and is rescued and restored to normal by a svarta cf bees and insects

This full length cartoon won 3 price at the Venice film festival and for the colour alone tas distinction was well, merited

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