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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.

TO-DAY

VISTAVISION

THE SEVEN LITTLE FOYS

BOB HOPE

Eddie Foy

The warm, wonderful

story of America's most fabulous show

busina femmily!

Costarrin

ÁT 2.30, 5.30,

7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

'THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1955.

Overent & Coming

FILMS

"The Seven Little Foys"

is inclined to be a sub story, лs are any that dwell with too much concentration on misfortune.

seven

In Eddie Foy's case his mis- fortune is largely that of having motherless children to bring up in his wife's it is Dat going to of knowing that she die and attempting to hide from her husband, and in the children's that of feeling that they are unwanted by

their father.

Hob Hope's sense of humour

explanted

his cri-Stage MYIY AN Elle Foy, but the distracted, somewhat ineffetem parent role he's saddled with in the serious parts are quite out of character, and there are lunes when one feets that even this mile Hamleting is not really hi

lu

SONGS

MILLY VITALE LA OLONA TOMAS MUSELA CLAPPE, Peta aldre le à bran

Deached by Maville fire rotors

Yashapes fou the by Matrite Schema I Man bli wr

EXTRA MORNING KING'S at 11.30 a.m.

Walt Disney's "BEAR COUNTRY" "PROWLERS OF THE EVERGLADES" and Cartoons: "PLUTO" otc.

SHOW TO-MORROW

ri

PRINCESS at 11.00 a.m. Paramount presents Yariety Programme of Technicolor Cartoons "POPEYE" etc.

Admission: $1.00, $1.50

PRINCESS

TO-MORROW

AT 12.30 P.M. ONLY

Kapil Pictures present a Super Indian Production The Most Intriguing Love & Revenge Story

Nigar • Kamal Kapoor in "KHAI BER"

Directed by Kidar Kapbor

6 Hit Songs

• Music by Hansraj Behl Regular Admission Pricos

Next Change at KING'S +PRINCESS + EMPIRE

VISTAVISION

JAMES STEWART~JUNE ALLYSON "Strategic Air Command

Color by TECHNICOLOR

FRANK LOVEJOY-ALEX NICOL - BARRY SULLIVAN - BRUCE BENNETT

Tuned by KANGEL | ROTSKITE . Deveel ko ANTHONY MANH. Saghey 34 VALANTINE DANTES

KENT LA1. D. Bary by a kaz, A. Prosentved the tent

ROX Y & BROADWAY

GRAND OPENING TO-DAY

Owing to longth of picture please note change of times: AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 & 9.40 P.M.

An Unforgettable Picture

of the Love Story of

a Great Musician and

Patriot!

"GIUSEPPE VERDI"

in GORGEOUS COLOR

Starring

Pierre CRESSOY Anna Maria FERRERO

Prosented by 20th Century-Fox

PRESENTE

TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW

ROXY:

At 12.00 Noon

A SELECTED PROGRAMME OF THREE STOOGES COMEDY & TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

Presented by Columbia

T

Reduced

BROADWAY: Walt Disney's

TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

PROGRAMME Presented by RKQ Radio Admission

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

!ENTAL

CURIONCU

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

ON OUR GIANT WIDE SCREEN!

MISTRESS OF A BARBARIC EMPIRE!

QUIN OF CHUALITA

THEODORA, SUVE EMPRESS

Filmat an à abala şeyond simagen de Parnicolor

SPECIAL MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW AT

* AT REDUCED, ADMISSION PRICKS) Stewart Granger in ? PRISONER OF ZENDA,

Eddie

Pory 12 LL carefree bachelor when he falls vietini to the charms of Molly Vitaly. In spite of being attracted to her, the prospeet of matrimony stest that m attack quite honestly, one begins to wonde: how the seveți little Foys aro going to get into the net,

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they have kny talent, ut body loves Pa, and that's how they get by.

every-

BY JANE ROBERTS

The New Films At A Glance

SHOWING

EMPIRE, KING'S and PRINCESS: "The Seven Lättle Foys”. The brello on-stage and behind-the-scenes story of the life of comedian Eddle Foy, Bob Hope, Molly Vitalo and James Cagney.

HOOVER and LIBERTY: “Waierino Bridge". The brief love story of an Army officer on leave from the war, and a "fallen woman". Robert Taylor and Vivien Leigh.

NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: “Big House, U.S.A.”. A prison drama, full of violence and revenge. Broderick Crawford and Ralph Meeker.

QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "A Streetcar Named Desire”. The full gamul of human emotions, Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando.

ROXY and BROADWAY:

"Cliuseppe Verdi". The dring composer looks back over his life. Ferraniacolour and with the volcen of 'Tito Gobbi and Mario del Monaco.

COMING

EMPIRE, KING'S and PRINCESS: "Strategic Air Command". This picture might almost be called a bird's eye view of America's Air Force traluing programme, with special silention to bombers. Light wifely relief, in her usual fashion, from June Allyson. James Stewart also stars. HOOVER and LIBERTY. "The Blackboard Jungle". The most controversial tim since "On the Waterfront" gives A frightening picture of juvenile delinquency fu Ameri-

can schouls and of the sometimes inadequate mental ability of schoolmasters to deal with IL. Glenn Ford and Louis Calhern.

NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "The While Orchid”. Exploration and remuner among the picturesque rutus of Mexico Peggle Cumile and William Lundigan.

"Man of the Moment". A Whitehall fling-clerk is suddenly rocketed into a position of power and Influence with disastrous results in the political world. A natural for Norman Wisdom.

QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "Ballie Taxi".

The sterling

work done by helicopters engaged on rescite work during the Korean War. Bierling Hayden.

Land of the Pharaohs" A De-Mille-sized cast and Jack Hawkins as Pharaoh, with Joan Collins and others. ROXY and BROADWAY:

"Love Is a Many-Splendoured Thing". If you don't mind an English newspaper cor- respondent being turned into an American this picture with a Hongkong background will possibly move you.

modern world and the endless grechnesa of

Mexican jungles, the script writer must have been transported too,

Needless to GIFY, SULE

Mr Lundi- Gan's knowledge (cinemawiac) for greater than ours, ani în the slightly patronizing manner of a

scientist, ho space-ship gazes into the heavens and given tongue about his dream of แ tribe of Mexican Indians Hving Somewhere far, far south, who haven't changed for centuries,

For his

this expedition Dupla, he needs a Cameraman -ond of course, for the sake of the Box Office, it turns out to be a woman!

to

П

He'd been exported his frien ~a man-and doesn't take klud- By to the substitute However, Peggle Custle, with many wrigKit and 45 provocative Klance, succeeds in winning not unly Mr Landigan, but the bemused Mexican grandee who guides them

For the rest of the picture the ruins play second fiddle to the teaser. "who is to Rel Miss Castle?

Claustrophobia In

The Big House

As nasty a bunch of coll- blooded criminals as you'll find anywhere are collected together in "Big House. U.S.A.".

Bull-necked Broderick Craw ford, a natural leader with the Instincts of a wolf who prefers The brains of to hunt alon the team, He and four others are placed together in a celt in Casabel Island prison and plan to freak out

fils companions Include kidnapper, A narcotics smug aler,

who psychopathle case re the racial intolerance Kills for most welt

excitement Brid i indirectly blamed for much

Frigger-happy gangster et their cruelty.

Ruthlessness and lack of pity are unpicasant things to watch, But there is no doubt but that this im has holding power,

about

ally

reformat All but the brutal, as the film showerl

Not knowing enough Juvenile delinquency in country, America included, 1 do not feet qualined to judge pleture on the third point The VET

raisexi, bui although it may not bo a suitable subject for enter- tainment, It deserves it Tot cr

lan commentation for the excel lent acting from everyone Die cast from the star down to the pupils with just lines to deliver

words |"exploata- 1lon f childer" even hinted at, and Mr Foy is given a Technicolour halo for having found a way out of his sumculties.

St. Trinians Put

In The Shade

When The Blackboard Jungle" WAS shown America it drew & storm of criticism from schools. parents and from the vari- MUN races that are repre-

sented in it.

It was said not to give a true prcture of the real problem of juvenile delinquency in Ameri- cam a hoods, to fail to make ifs point in the end, and to be unnecessarily vicious.

_1 te rerlainly found the hortiums in Glenn Ford's class a de tably cruel and sly gang

do not think that handling of them would have

MAJESTIC

OPENS TO-DAY

At 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

Santa Fe Passage JÖRN PAYNE - EXTEN DOMENONE - ROD CAMERON

in

Tew

advises Caller, and to

The erolle, neurotic record- ing "Ruck around the clock" is used at the beginning to set the mod of the boys, and the black, mesmerised look on their facea as they listen to its rest. less beat is a warning of what is to follow.

ha

Although this may not be n comfortable in to see, it can- not be ignored and unly The aqueamish should leave it alone.

The Magic Of

Mexico

for that

A Coming Film

The Royal Family's associa- Hon with the Alm industry hot been relatively short-lived, and it is only in recent years that they have honoured the Indus try at large by their presence at the annual Roy! Command performances.

QUEEN'S

TOMORROW MORNING AT 1:1.30 A.M.

Columbia's Technicolor Classic!' - "THE CAINE MUTINY” Humphrey Bogart Jose Ferrar⚫ Van Johnson AT REDUCED PRICES!

Ford is introduced to us as a starry-eyed schoolmuster start. ng his first job His enthusiasın is somewhat dampened by the

These, of course, are oceastong hackadaisical ni Blude

which gain Like:

of specini kind veteran masters—one in particu-

lustre through their association ar is played in a frighteningly

with the Royal Family--much 13 disiflusioned manner

by Los

1 liked "The

White do Ascol and the Windsor Horse hin that Calbern- who assur

Show Orchid". The love story it Unt!! the advent of **Tho this particular New York school Is populated by sadistie morons self was a little thin - B Dam Busters" however—Asso- with no wish to learn and an conglomeration of unlikely cinted British-Paibe's re- Inbred proclivity for creating? people in several unlikely creation of the epic R.A.F. raid trouble.

"Never turn your back on the situations but the scenery on the Mochne and Eder damy

of World War was gorgeous (and I will not.

$193 had ever been accorded further the bad impression on even attempt to apologise the honour of a double Royal Ford's first day, the boys are

much misused premiere, an occurrence throw- called to order for the head-

the esteem muster's ddress by enuli- word). Added to this, the Ing much light on

which in

Wing Commander flower-cured individual bellow- troubles into which the

Gibson, Guy

and the hudklup" from a balcony. principals Hot themselves squadron he led, are held.

were provocative of tension, The first of the premieres No Schoolboy

if not of credibility.

held at the Empire, the even- on And yet I suppose the breath- Leicester Square,

16. Honoured by catching grandeur of centuries- ing of May old ruins, bull by a people as the presence of H.R.H. Princess Their

no school- rud as they were united against Margaret there was a sense of boy

pranks such us frogs in outside influences, can bring out ocension about it equalled by desks or even saftpetre in ink the poetess, even

of In a brassy few other Royal premieres wells.

These little thugs play ate blonde like Peggle Castle.

recent years. really rough. The attempted

So perhaps I'm being a litle rape of a schoolmistress, the hard when I say that the situa- brutal beating-up Ford is sula- Jected to, anonymous letters to tions were unlikely. his wife, suggesting his infidelity (sho is expecting a baby) are but

n few of their Hendish antics.

his

ing

To-morrow Morning Show "PANIC IN THE STREET"!

Pranks

tricks are

about Let me tell you story:

was

QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

4.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m.

230, 120, 1, A Man path.

SHOWING TO-DAY

WARNER BROL

BRING THE SCREEN ALL THE PIRE OF

"A Streetcar Named Desire"

BIA KAZAN......

CHARLES K FELDMAN

VIVIEN LEIGH MARION BRANDO

AND

*********** ALHAMBRA

TOMORROW AT 11.30 A.M. ONLY Columbia's Academy Award Winnor! "FROM HERE TO ETERNITY" Burt Lancaster • Deborah Korr

REDUCED PRICES: $1.50, $1.00 & 70 Cts.

HOOVER LIBERTY

CAUSEWAY BAY TEL72371

KOWLOON

TEL 00353

2.30, 5.20, 7.30

NOW PLAYING G 9.40 p.m.

IMMORTAL CLASSIC OF THE SCREEN!!

M.G⚫M Preadsto

WATERLOO . Bridge

Farring

VIVIEN LEIGH ROBERT TAYLOR

Dinated by MERVYN LE ROY

Fate brought them together And fate put them asunder

All happened on Waterloo Bridge! II

SUNDAY MORNING MATINEE: REDUCED ADMISSION Hoover At 12.00 Noon Liberty At 12.30 p.m.

May 10 was, of course,

anniversary tweith

of great raid on the Ruhr Dane, the and all the

surviving and next-of-kin

the

the

"THE STUDENT PRINCE”

of

and Edmund Purdom

We find, al the beginning, engaged to the attack wero William Lundlgan (looking like guests of honour at

the first A younger edition of Dennis performance. An almost identi- But to be fair, their background Kocfe) tallding into a tape re- cal premiere was held tho is indicated as being mors to

describing In rather following evening in blame than intentional evil. corder

terms,

the origins, presence of Their Royal High- The Duke and Duchers

The Puerto Rican boy is louket actions and artistic accom- nesses

EMPIRE

down on (apparently the term connection "spick" meaning Puerto Rican pehments of one of the ancient of Gloucester.

tribes of Mexico, regarded as one of particular

not quite quick eBr was My ebr opprobrium) even by the other enough to catch which of the boya whose parentage 19 suspect.

'tees It was, but I gather it was The

Intelligent negro, more than the others, in nevertheless hore desire to make its mark pre-Aztec, pre-Inca variety roused to killing pitch by being on the future manifested itself colled a nigger, and the slum in the erection of giant edifices conditions of their homes, as that though crumbling and de- faced have dreamed their way through the centuries,

CAPITOL RITZ

At 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 and 9:30 p.m.

GARY

COOPER

BARAN BUFET WEE

LANCASTER VERA CRUZ

SUNDAY MORNING SHO

United Artists presents BAREFOOT CONTESSA } with Ava Gardner, 2

$12.30 p.m.. Subliä Picturus; asento

“FLIGHT - NURSE”

the

TO-MORROW AT 11.00 A.M. ERROL FLYNN

MASTER OF BALLANTRAE”

William Lundigan, as I was, “THE

fa rather carried awyty by Mexico's past, and I must say, that faced with the brooding heat, the

expressionless. ruins

in Technicolor

that seem to mock his silly 40 Ctu., 70 Cts. & $1.00.only

Straight from Paris

NORBERT MATISSON

Late of Casino Enghien, Casino Deauville and Les Compagnons de la Chanson

With MICHAEL BODER at the Grand Piano

TO-NIGHT

Parisian Grill

with Ann Blyth

疥

"TOAST OF NEW ORLEANS"

with Kathryn: Grayson and Mario Lanzo

NEW YORK GREAT WORLD

CAUSEWAY BAY, TEL-78729

KOWLOON, -5 TEL:93503-

SHOWING TO-DAY

AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.50 6. 9,30 P.M.: 10.

A TRUE STORY FROM THE FILES OF F.B.I. FILMED

IN THE ACTUAL' PLACE WHERE IT HAPPENEDI

WE'RE BUSTIN'OUT

OF THIS TOMB...

AND WE DON'T

CARE HOW MANY

OF YOU

WE HAVE TO KILL!

BIO HOUSE

USA.

GRANTORO MEEKER

Released this UNITED ARTISTS

SUNDAY, MATINIE AT 12.30 P.M. NEW YORK:- Wamér Bros. Technicólor Cartoons GREAT WORLD: 3 Stooges Comedy & Technicalor Cartoons

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