1955-12-17 — Page 2

KING'S ★✩ PRINCESS

A 2001 to M.

TO-DAY

FIRST STARTLING STORY OF THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS RIBE!

Technicolor

Cady Godiva

Staphstick

MAUREEN O'HARA GEORGE NADER

TORN THATCHER

ong VICTOR McLAGLEN - REX REASON AZ ARTHUR SELD'S

A UNIVERSAL INTERNATIONAL PICTURE

Free sample of "DANA" perfume to-day at Princess Paramount Movie-Star Calender for 1956 obtainable from theatre lobbies at $3

EXTRA MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW

King's at 11.30 a.m.

Princoss at 11.00 a.m. A Variety Programme of WALT DISNEY-RKO

TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

Admission: $1.00, $1.50

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1955.

FILMS

On my way to Hongkong Bay this from Repulse

morning. I saw an orange coloured steam-roller. Some people may think thia smacks of the comedian's opening "On my way to the theatre this evening a funny thing happened to

me...

BY JANE ROBERTS

ff

The New Films At A Glance

SHOWING

HOOVER: "The Flame and the Flesh". Flomaner against an

Enropean background.

Turner Lana

and Carion Thempson.

"The Last Time I Saw Paris", Sentimental nob story involving Elizabeth Taylor and Van Johnson. KING'S and PRINCESS: "Lady Godiva"". A romp through 11th century England that's fan enough if you don't expect too much historieşi fact. Maureen O'Hara, George Nader and Victor Melaglen.

LIBERTY others, less charit- able, may be tempted to talk of pink elephants — however, I DID orange-coloured steam roller me of and it DID remind Joan Crawford.

see an

The comparton is, 1 hope, ub- vicus, Holh tre dependable, and violently Karlsh, ident exhibitionistic,

זדי

Which brings

t

MIC

me lu

in every

"The Beg

can always a Crawford picture and on being full of the lady berset- she's

sikil it's almost possible to feel her fiery breathing down the product's neck-her dresses ara is exheme that an ordinary pet → son wind hundly dare to ty them on in the seclusion of the berlivom her cunthence in her

lity

to charm. bewitch of baldin 12 overwhelming and

NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD; "A Bullet for Joey", Edward G. Robinson is on the sido of law and George Raft provides the graft in thẩm tale. the ball. QUEEN'S And ALHAMBRA:

and dusting off her hands lilos a prize aghter.

094

She gets her man by theso tactics, but George Nader does not benefit, screenwise, by them. He appears, beside her energy, rather understuffed dummy, this not quite sure what all English history is about, a little overawed by it, and determined, at all costs, to keep a stiff upper I prefer him as an Ameri- up. ein delictive It's more his line of country.

taken

A

be

As for Victor Melagien and his two merry chuma -- AN sort of buckskin version of the three

at musketeers, always hand in an emergency (even if don't think a little lipsy)-- Audrey Toster is

they were even meant to

Maureen O'Hara is How ously. a pleture to look at, even though

among she is no longer ranks of the very young, and the whole film

n vigour and bounce that excuse the licence taken with history and the bana- ity of the dialogue.

"Mission over Korea". Romance plus action in a tribulo to the role of the prconnaissance aircraft used in the Korean war.

John Hodlak

Totter and Derek, Audrey

Maureen O'Suliran. ROXY and BROADWAY: "The Queen Bee".

John

With a smille she sigs everyone who comes in contact with her. Jean Craveford. Harry Sullivan, John Ireland, Betsy Palmer und Lucy Martow.

COMING

HOOVER and LIBERTY: "The King's Thief".

Another tilb

** history, muying up to Charles If's reign this time. A bigh grade swashbuckler. Ann Blyth, Edmond Purdom, David Niven and George Sanders,

These two cinemas will be showing some of the year's in theatrical that one

best M.G.M. plotures during the coming week. "The leave one of her pictures won-

King's Thief" will open on Friday, whs such

KING'S and PRINCESS: outchied hasta comtes did not bring on the laughter reserved

derma

Free "CLOETTA" Chocolato Wafer to patrons of this show embargowi

PRINCESS=

5

SHOWS TO-MORROW

"LADY GODIVA” EXTRA SHOW AT 12.30 P.M.

#

NEW YORK GREAT WORLD

CARFEWAY BAY, TEL. 78721

TOL53500 KOMLOOR,

SHOWING TO-DAY

AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

Edward G.

ROBINSON

THE SCREEN'S TOP

**TOUOR GUYSM

MEET FACE

TO

FACE!

BUKETTO MOSCH

A Bullet

For Joey

George

0 1

RAFT

SUNDAY MATINEE AT 12.30 P.M.

NEW YORK:

"PINOCCHIO"

GREAT WORLD: FOX TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

COMMENCING TUESDAY 20TH DEC.

LOVER! ROVER!

HOWARD HUGHES

prents

SON OF SINBAD

starring

DALE ROBERTSON SALLY FORREST LIL st. CYR VINCENT PRICE --

MARI BLANCHARD.

SUPERSCOPE

TECHNICOLOR

EMPIRE

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

A CHINESE MANDARIN PICTURE "BLOOD WILL TELL"

In Eastman Color

Starring: LI LI-HWA

• WONG YIN

TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW AT 11.00 A.M..

"WHITE WITCH DOCTOR"

in Technicolor

Starring: Susan HAYWARD • Robert MITCHUM

Parisian Grill

FESTIVE FARE

X'MAS EVE NEW YEAR'S EVE

NORBERT MATTISON

MICHAEL BODER

LIMITED BOOKINGS.

Violin Vocal

Grand Plano

TEL, 27880

for those whose tricks do not quile crane VII.

με

A Domineering Woman

That the latter does not hap- is due to Joan Crawford's superlative all-confidence. Flow watch anger she will be able t play these

underst/xu!,

bukinced

domineering,

emotionally

Women

1113-

11-

is debalalik. but in spite of the contrived, theatrical pkn of "The Queen BU"

በባ

"Cult of the Cobra". A templo dedicated to snake worship is invaded by GI's. Vengeance follows them from India to New York. Faith DotETSUO and Kathleen Hughes.

"You're Never Too Young". Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis

another of their crazy comedics. NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD; "Son of Sinbad". girls, dashing hero and an Arabian Nichis atmosphere in the essence of this picture.

Vincent Prico makes

Seantly clad

19011

a convincing Omar the Tentmaker, Dale Robert- iries hard to be the hero and Lilli St. Cyr and Mari Blanchard wear hot weather clothing. ROXY and BROADWAY: "The Living Swamp" and "The The former is a documentary about Dancing Masters".

seen

her Lady To

10 Law ever

the swamplands of southern Georgia, with production and narratton in the hands of two of 20th Century Fox's stars, Jeffrey Hunter and Dale Robertson; and the latter In a Laurel and Hardy comedy.

Now let's look at what they've dome with Lady Godiva in the film version. For a start, she's

to been

ailowed

retain her passionate devotion to the cause of the Saxon working man- however, as most of her mine fiery speeches are delivered in an American-Irish brogue, they even lose a little conviction.

the

there can bo possesses enough important job meat to satisfy the appetite as her

418- But if you're not interested in Barry Sullivan, illusioned husband who drinks to the modesty of the rescue side of the American Army, there's In marrying Kirget his mistake

and John still a romantle angle. Audrey her, is too wooden

Totter-who radiales personall- land, as the lover Chatterly, 1 too

ty in spite of her lack of looks woman of her ove altrocled a

and John, Derek-who has The acting of shou undoubted unstr.

he can act of shown that

force doesn't her sister-in-law. Betsy Palmer, though he

Mission and her cousu, Lucy Marlow, point home is too stilted-yet this him stili Korea"-indulge in a sort of run- has the ring of quality about it, hug battle with romance during

Joan Crawford und the others may make as

as minny head-in-air ex as they like, the dialogue

be

mannered

can

Ato

AB

ກ

Over

the court of the picture, and as the stern-fated star of the whole thing (John Hodiak) gets his just reward hefore the end, leaving a rather aging Maureen for bini, O'Sullivan to mourn provides the love interest.

the

No Longer One Way Traffic

the

the British

I have just read through the first Issue of a Review Affairs, of British Film published by Film Producers Association and one article seemed to me to sum up very well the trend of picture making today.

It said that once upon a time all roads led to Hollywood, the movie stars Mecct

The European discovery could hardly wait

the for

cable conlairing the dollywood offer. Especially the English-speaking player.

"Good" the Lynies

would say when he or she had made a first hit, "Too good. They'll be off to Hollywood be

can Gay fore you

"Action" again.” A reputation was only considered half made until it had received the seat of Holly- wood approval.

The actor's attitude was un- Brillsh derstandable; but for producers it was no joke. Com- was all very petition for talent well, but lu this instance tha

loaded. dico were role casting wag headache.

Leading- perpetua)

The famous ride, however, has been attacked with fur more

Although the ori- Today this is changing. The imagination. ginal difference of opinion was one-way star traffic is pussing. one of pulley, it was still a do- British stars still go to Holly- mcalic

In Issue.

Screen wood sometimes but they go Version

Godlya" we for a visit, for speelfie picture. of "Lady our colleen. Mauren, And they return, have (O'Hara it

it is, now,) advising, visit the old folks at home, but and browbeating a eagerly, to work. And the other-

Con- way fessor into uniting the divided Hollywood stars go to England

man senan and observation slips their extremely unsuitable unionlating

Variations On The

nigeleenth century melodrama, but the odd little grain of com-

through In spite of it all and when Joun Crawford declaims, with the customary Crawford druma that "there's something of me in every woman," she never said a truer word.

As for the plot, it's a a country house setting with the beauti

Godiva Theme

The Earl of Merela and

ful wife radiating sweetness, Lord of Coventry in competence and innor in- security, and the rest of the

her lune. cast dancing

New War Film

On Korea

"Mission Over Korea" is a modest little war film that is more restful than most of the others that have modern warfare as a back ground, in that instead screaming jets taking the centre of the stage, the hero

L-5.

of

Edward the

trafic

A

not just

to

substantial-—

It's quite a triumph to realise that British flms are no longer

me industry

that city would refuse to look,

MAJESTIC

England of that day, bringing now her stubborn husband to his knees by the simple expedient of locking the bedroom door against him, and finally riding the poor relations of the film her hair, to prove that although through Coventry, clad only in пет the this was the punishment usually early 11th century, Leofric, meted out to women of bad re- was obviously a man who putation, hers was so pure and liked a dare. His excessive unsullied that the good people of Laxation having brought about a great deal of bud feeling against him, his public-spirited wife became most anxious about the situation, In fact, #he began to be such a bore on the subject that her husband thought that only strong measures would keep the family peace.

even with such a treat fold be- SHOWING TO-DAY fore their eyes!

Princess Maureen Shows Her Charms

I've always imagined Leotric as a lusty bull of a man bal- seroudy rowdy when hoppy,

bear cruel as a

when crossed and not a comfortable person He is supposed to have offered to have around the house. to "case the burden of taxation," concession to this conception of is that slow moving little to use a popular phrase of the tim is admitted

in the picture, reconnaissance aircraft, the present day, if his importunate by Leotrie declaring that he spouse would rido naked

aked cannot sland the Norman prin- through the streets of Coventry ess King B

Edward wishes him to Lady Godiva must have possessed spirit as well as long marzy, in order to cement re- hair, because she took Lectric lations between the Saxons and the Normans) as Norman wo- up on his offer and started the men are too much given to the famous story. History says that he kept his side of the bargain vapours.

urs. Maureen O'Hara (not yot married to him) hene enters and the citizens of Coventry the Isis by beaving an enor wero duly grateful.

mous log into the fire, hauling a heavy table across the room.

It handles as simply as a car, and in spite of a tendency to seck out every air pocket on the course, is surprisingly comfort- able to ride in.

Now that some of the pic turcy mado during the Korcan war are being released, the L-5's

CAPITOL RITZ

TO-DAY

AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

Technicalor CHIEF CRAZY

HORSE

AILURE MATURE SILZAN BALÍ

2 B

Sunday Morning Show

OF THE WORLDS

SHOWING TO-DAY

At 2.30, 5.00, 7.30 & 0.45 pm.

MGARDE GUT OF YEN SZARY OF TUI OLE VRE.

Gil B. De Mille s

UNION PACIFIC

STANWICK

Janes

ORIENTAL

AN ECINCTE ELİMİNLƏ

at 2.30 5.20 1:30 & 9.30 pm

HER LIPS LIED

and then the

guns spoke!

VIRGINIA MAYO

DENNIS MORGAN-DAVIÐ FARRAR

PEARL OF THE

SOUTH PACIFIC

To-Merrow Morning Show

At 12.30 p.m. Reduced Admission Bud & Lou "HOLD THAT GHOST"!

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30

9.30 PM.

THE BEST PICTURE MARILYN MONROE EVER MADE!

20

...a thundering act of tout etrtement!

MARILYN MONROE JOSEPH COTTEN JEAN PETERS

SPECIAL

TER MENSCH M RICHARD BREEN

AT 12.30

QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

SHOWING TO-DAY

IT'S ACK-ACK

ACTION-PACKED

ADVENTURE!

MISSION ́OVER

KOREA

John

John

Maureen

Audrey | HODIAK DEREK TOTTER - O'SULLIVAN.

A COINZIA PICTURE

• TO-MORROW MORNING SHOWS •

QUEEN'S

5 SHOWS

"MISSION OVER KOREA”

AT 11.30 A.M.

ALHAMBRA

AT 11.30 A.M. ONLY Columbia's

VARIETY PROGRAM

13 Stoogos - Color Cartoons AT REDUCED PRICES!

ROX Y & BROADWAY

FINAL SHOWING TO-DAY

A

AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

COLUMBIA PICTURES presente

Crawlord

QUEEN

BEE

AKERSY WALD Prediction

TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW AT 12.00 NOON

ROXY:

SELECTED PROGRAMME

OF TECHNICOLOR

CARTOONS

Presented by

Paramount Films

BROADWAY:

Cary Grant Ann Sheridan

In

"I WAS A MALE WAR BRIDE"

A 20th Century-Fax Comedy

Reduced Admission

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

GRAND OPENING TO-MORROW

WILD

20

CERTI

EXCITING!

FASCINATING!

The Most Dangerous Labyrinth

Intimately Photographed

CromaSCOPE

FEATURETTE

in

The

Living Swamp

fraded by

JEFFREY HUNTER L

Fabulous Adventures in the Okulencžer Wilds!

ADDED ATTRACTION! Your favourite bustle-bound buffoons in a non-stop marathon of FUN!

Stan LAUREL and Oliver HARDY

in "THE DANCING MASTERS” A 20th Century-Fox Pictures

HOOVER : LIBERTY

BAY TENTA871

BOWLOON

REPERTOIRE of MGM FAVOURITES At Hoover TODAY At Liberty

2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 2.80, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.40 "FLAME AND THE FLESH" | "LAST TIME 1 SAW PARIS"

Lana Turner

Carlos Thompson

Elizabeth Taylor

Van Johnson

TO-MORROW SUNDAY

2.30, 5.10, 7.20 679.40 | 2.30, 5.30; 7,30 & 9,30 "LAST TIME I SAW PARIS" | "VALLEY OF THE KINGS”

Elizabeth Taylor

Van Johnson

SUNDAY MORNING MATINEE:

Hoover at 12.00

Eleanor Parker

Robert Taylor

REDUCED ADMISSION

Liberty at 12.30

MGM COLOR CARTOONS

MONDAY 19th DECEMBER “EXECUTIVE SUITE" \"FLAME AND THE FLESH”

HOTEL MIRAMAR

GOLD ROOM DINNER DANCE

every night

Music by

TONY AREVALO. & HIS "MIRAMAR” CABALLEROS & presenting Tonight SOLITA

Nathan & Kimberley Rouds Kowloon

Etol

TL; A1261