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KING'S

TO-MORROW

At 11.30 am.”

EXTRA MORNING SHOW

Alan Ladd in "DESERT LEGION"

in Technicolor

Reduced Prices: $1.00, $1.50

KING'S PRINCESS

*

At 2.30, 8.15, 7:20 4 9.30 pm at 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m.

SHOWING TO-DAY

FOUR DESPERATE PEOPLE WHOSE UNE VON AD LIFE WAS THE BEAN THEY HAD BRANDED STRA

SMOKE SIGNAL

**** TECHNICOLOR

DANA ANDREWS PIPER LAURIE

•

*REX REASON • WILLIAM TALMAN

A UNIVERSAL-INTERNATIONAL PICTURE

PRINCESS

At: 11.00 a.m.

FILMED ALONG

THE TRENCHEROS COLORADO

RAPOST

TO-MORROW

EXTRA SHOWS

Warner Bros. prosent

Technicolor Cartoons Programme

- At Reduced Prices

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At 12.10 p.m.

(Please note time)

A Super Indian Production Jayashree&Pradeep Kumar in

"SUBAH KA TARA” (Morning Star) the story of a forlorn woman's dismal life

Directed by V. Shantaram Music by C. Ramchandra 9 Song Hits - 16 Reels - Regular Prices ★ NEXT CHANGE ★ Inspired by the Original Drawings of the Girls and Staff of St. Trinian's" by RONALD SEARLE

ALASTAIR SIM

The Belles

- of St. Trinian's

RO X Y & BROADWAY

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

-FOR THE ITINE

A SKIFTION PICTURE! VERDI'S

AIDA

harping bellliantly beyond the copkinson af

tīk napomaže glorious aríus voeg by the

· grant operatir valnes að var gets -portal avama portrayed by “a splendiE

of the“dorado?

Sophia Loren-LOSS MAXWELL

Birth Clemente Frommal · Sa Duga Pla Prodantas

Relebend by 19th Century's

*TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW

ROXY: A 12.00 Noon | BROADWAY: At 12.30 p.m. SELECTED PROGRAMME| A SPECIAL PROGRAMME

OF TECHNICOLOR

OF TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

BAR CARTOONS Presented by Paramount Presented by Fox & M.G.M.

Reduced Admission

Roxy: $1.50, $1.00 & 70. Cts. Broadway: $1.20 & 70 CH.

Crystal Lounge

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Leading Night Club in Town DANCE & ENJOY EXCELLENT MUSIC:

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LUNCH TEA DINNER

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1955.

FILMS-CURRENT AND COMING

Sta

By JANE ROBERTS

The Belles of Trinian's" is a riotous romp, bearing no resemblance to like reality, and which, "Abbott and Costello Meet

The Keystone Cope" may be The New Films At A Glance

your meat or your poison.

Perhaps they were previewed on a good day, because silly though the situations in both WWIE, they made me chuckle quite loudly-a reaction usually sted by an empty chema.

engineer in Top Secret than

George Cole is one of our more versatile comedians and nothing could be more in con- trast with his bewildered young

shoed the pointed

padded- shouldered sply of "The Belles of St. Trinian's".

The whole thing is the great- est fim, with horses hidden in schoolgirls' bedrooms, pitched battles in the class rooms and, presiding ever the shambles, the Headmistress of St. Trinian's

Alistair Simm

Quite different is the Abbott which Costello picture and

follows "The Belles

of St

Trinian's". The humour

is

The Headmistress Alistair Sim

SHOWING

EMPIRE: "The Nebraskan”. A western. Phil Carey and

Roberta Haynes.

A western ta which the hero faces a court martial for deserting to the Indians. Dana Andrews and Piper Laurie.

"Green Fire", A search for HOOVER and LIBERTY:

emeralds in South America is hindered by the sismor- nus owner of a coffee plantation, Stewart Granger, Grace Kelly and Paul Douglas

KING'S and PRINCESS "Smoke Signal".

NEW YORK and GESAT WORLD: "The Man Between”, Intrigue on the frontier between East and West Berlin. James Mason, Claire Bloom. Hildegarde Neff. QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: Tight Spot" A gangster story. Ginger Rogers, Edward G. Robinson and Brian Keith ROXY and BROADWAY: "Aida". Verdi's musle, the voleta of well-known opera singers on the sound track and the laces of Bim personalities on the screen. Sophia Loren and Lois Maxwell, with the voices of Renata Tebaldi and Ebbe Stirnani.

COMING

Adult

KING'S and PRINCESS: "Belles of St Trinian's".

goings-on in Girls' Sebool. Allstar Sir, and George Cole.

"Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Cops". . The famous comedy team become film stars. HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Deep In My Heart".

A life of Sigmund Romberg with many well-known MGM stars making brief appearances. Jose Ferrer and Merle Oberont NEW YORK: "The Titfield Thunderbolt". An English_vil- lage runs its own train service. Stanley Holloway, John Gregson and Naunton Wayne. GREAT WORLD: "It Started in Paradise".

A designing

woman discovers that something beside ambition is required to run a fashion bause successfully............. Jane Hilton, Ian Hunter and Muriel Pavlow. NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: The Golden Mistress". Adventure story set in Haiti. John Azar and Rosemarie

Bowe.

Father and ALHAMBRA "The Detective”. -QUEEN'S.

Brown proves

ves that his methods of detection are better than those of the Police. Alec Guinness, Peter Finch and Joan Greenwood.

ROXY and BROADWAY: "Violent Saturday". The moral

is that crime doesn't pay. Richard Eran. Victor Mature and Sylvia Sydney.

Rough Riding

On The River

"Smoke Signal" is one of those pictures you think you know all about before you go to, and discover before the end that although it has' the usual ingredients, a bet- ter than usual western cas- serole has resulted.

favourably

I'd compare with many of the efforts the horse and gum school has given ws-it's so "Share or "Ox- Baw Incident but there's point to the story, the actors seem sach to have read the whole script instead of his or her part plus the cue lines Immediately preceding and the river that snape hungrily at the amall party who entrust their lives to it seems to be the ever-present menace the story

writer meant it to be.

Dana Andrews is a cavally officer being taken down the treacherous Colorado River to stand trial for desertion to the Ute Indians. These same Ute Indians, far from being grate- ful for his championship, harry the small group all the way: they never came close enough to be seen, but arrogantly in- dicate their presence by smoke signals, pot shots at the boats on the river and torturing and killing any straggier rash eBough to detach himself from the main party.

The daughter of the dead Commandant of the post Andrews has deserted is feminine, conservative, "pas“ sionately devoted to the truth, (und, let's whisper It, in spite of her prettiness, verges on the blue-stocking) plus being en- gaged to another cavalry officer. This doesn't stop her. from being interested in the prisoner.

Feeling is strained by the fact that it is

the prisoner's advice, based on his knowledge In addition, there's gambler, a stagecoach, a Lov of the Indians, that must often able Old Character (Wallace be taken by his captors. When there a.re Ford) and loads of Indians they disregard it

fatal results. Take your children, with you— they'll be able to explain

bits you can't under you the stand.

lovely, "Go, and never enter :ceae) and is played by

this house again.”

"Get out may be just as hammy, but at least it could be said by a modern man without danger of a giggle from the ra- jected maiden,

The former is what we get from this production of "Aida" American, the jokes are charac- and while the power of the story terstic of this comedy team and and the drama of the muse you are well prepared for every prevented me from giggling, I new gag before it appears. In should have welcorned less fuss spite of all this it contrives to and more feeling. be funny.

"Opera On The

Screen

all

operas

Roberta Haynes.

Alec Guinness

At His Best

to

Now don't jump to the con- clusion that I'm advocating the "Carmen Jones" treatment for

As Alec Guinness in "The" the but surely schoolgirlish dancing could have Delective" will probably been pepped up a bit and the only be appearing at the chorus have been taught to Queen's and Alhambra for behave.more like actors and less

a few days, I would advise you not to wait too long before going to see him.

Lovers of opera need not ie dressed up singers. fear that they will be dis- In oce scene I caught one look. appointed by the film ver- ing out of the corner of her eye, sion of "Aida" now showing noticing she wasn't level with door neighbour 231

at the Roxy and Broadway. her next

doing a double shuffle to get

After all, they are in the habit back into position!

of paying much more than three Much has been written of the dollars to see a performance with far less beautiful principals now Italian hope, Sophia Loren than Sophia Loren and Lois-the threat to the reigning "Aida" It's Maxwell and hear much less ac Lollobrigida, In complished singers than Remata impassible to tell whether or not Tebaldi and Ebbe Stignani, she has star quality. She has whose voices are dubbed into the profile of a lovely face an the sound track,

a coin, she has the typical Italian film star's figure, but she moves through the picture in a trance and it will take me, at least, an- other aim to decide whether she

The sets, though not as lavish as some of the million dollar productions we are treated to, are way beyond what is possible on a stage, and Verd's lovely ranks with the pin-ups or the music has been faithfully replayers. produced,

the

The same reassurance cannot,

is sad to say, be extended to general alm-going-public. Yes, it has pleasing colouring. yes, it has two most attractive leading ladi

ladies but what it lacks

is the warmth and reality of the fim technique.

When we see

Children -Might Explain

I've said some sharp things about Piper Laurie in the past, been but she seems to have coachd quite efficiently for this part and makes the Army daughter a believable person whose counterpart you might reccruise.

Emeralds And

Coffee

Through a series of un-} avoidable mishaps I was not able to see "Green Fire" before this column went to press.

As the Father Brown of G. K Chesterton's famous detec

For your guidance, the story tive stories he is at his most de concerns an adventurer and his lightful-in fact I don't think partner-Stewart Granger and geen him in a Paul Douglas-whose search, for I have ever screen role. I liked so much an emerald mine in South Everything about him, twinkles America involves the des- of the truction, by direct and indirect with kindness not slushy, over-sweet variety, but methods, of a coffee plantation the kindness that can at times owned by Grace Kelly. be ruthless and apparently un-

The accent appears to be on feeling in order to achieve the actic rather than acting, but

the three

CILD maximum good.

main actors

His quarry in The Detec- Usually be relied on to give an tive" is not so much the person interesting performance, so the of the notorious picture thief, picture should be worth seeing. but his scal, and he goes after Peter Finch with a

single Magic Spells. And

minded tenacity that finally subdues him and delivers him into the soothing arma, of Joan Greenwood.

Angry Natives

Both Peter Finch and Joan The Golden Mistress" Another misunderstood Greenwood bebove with a quiet was filmed entirely in Haiti,

an opera per redskin nearly bites the dust elegance that nevertheless man which, quite apart from the formed on the stage, the stylised in "The Nebraskan”. The ages to suggest hidden fires-- gestures, theatrical acting and often forma

and features

physically unattractive Frey of his brother Sioux ciating pair to watch in any story, holds an interest in

thing they attempt. They are itself. the and of the U.S. Cavalry as both actors whose presence in a The plot is what you might artists seem unimportant beside well, "Wingfoot" has to go picture is quite enough recom- expect from this Hlanti sa close- the beauty of the music and the through quite a lot before mendation at any time.

ly connected with Voodoo-a electric feeling generated solely Army Scout Phil Carey is

search for golden idbis, enunity of by a live show.

For

good measure there is also the native Haitians, combined able to prove his innocence cell Parker as a high dignitary with magle speis and treks We go to the cinema for a totally different form of cater to the satisfaction of every of the Church (I've forgotten his through the jungle. tainment. We don't expect or ore, desire reality most of the time,

of

but we do Like the illusion It. There's 2 girl somewhere We don't expect the hero of a about tox, as you can guess, modern melodrama to point She's a dance hall hostess, (the dramatically at the door and Mecca of all but the most uply old west, it declaim sternly to the cringing females in the

That Familiar Voice.

A

It Was Sue Stone's!

picturegoers magazine in Mr Tucker did not want the London has discovered

fusual over-empbatle, drania- voice that –

the voice insisting ""This film ancé attracted attention in the editorial, is the most S wonderful, etc.” offices of the China Mail This Columbia, decided that scIDE" thing different was wanted. same voice was heard recent ly at the Queen's and Alham- A." WOMEN'S

n's voice for a start, hra Theatres when the trailer of “End of the Affelr^

Publidty chief Tucker knew was

Just the girl because he had often talked to her on the phone. She

Suzette (was

In case, SOT he did OE HOMES.

thing damilor about the voice, Bras, quite covertly, that Stone, a reporter on a London

of Suzette Stone, who wrote

many

feature stories and Bim Wirkies Jai

notes for the China

Apparently Columbia

pubiidity chief, - Alles was quite fascicated by the voico. The problem wa

the Andr

8614-787 taller for

Johnson, Bruf Tobel

voice,

Cat the Is her

QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

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SHE'S JUST A LIVING DOLL.......

· BUT FOR HOW LONG?

GINGER EDWARD 6.

ROGERS ROBINSON

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AT 11.30 A.M.

ALHAMBRA

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"THE SORROW OF THE FORBIDDEN

CITY"

(Dialogue in Mandarin)

ALL STAR CAST

'Directed by Yau Ke

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