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KING'S ⋆ PRINCESS

A 17-7 20 6 90 PSI.

SHOWING TO-DAY

·WONDERFUL MUSICAL PUN IN THAT FABULOUS TOWN-LAS VEDASI

VISTAVISION

CREDERICK BRISSON THE

GIRL RUSH,

8 Song

HITS!

Color by TECHNICOLOR

ROSALIND FERNANDO

RUSSELL · LAMAS

Eddie Albert-Gloria De Haven

MARION (Críně Į sameS GLASON

the Frederipon Robert Post

Hubert Phrush and Jerome Davik

Robert Allon. A Paramount Picture

ADDED ATTRACTION

ON THE STAGE ›

IN PERSON

CHARLE'N

THE SENSATIONAL AMERICAN TV STAR

FEATURING THE FAN DANCE

SPECIAL MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW

KING'S

At 11.30 a.m,

1

PRINCESS

At 11.00 a.m.

"THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1956.

FILMS

Those of you who weren't

A quick enough off the mark mluse pictures you and would have liked to havo seen are being given 11 second chance during the next week or so, as there are three coming back that were shown in the more that recent past ni returns from overal years

A VARIETY PROGRAMME A VARIETY PROGRAMME

OF 20TH CENTURY FOX

OF WALT DISNEY'S

TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS" TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

AT REDUCED PRICES

PRINCESS

SPECIAL MATINEE

TOMORROW at 12.10 p.m.

An Indian Film of Superb Quality presented by

Pancholi Productions

"LOOTERA"

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Of the former,

ont

Current & Coming

BY JANE ROBERTS

The New Films At A Glance

SHOWING

HOOVER and LIBENTY: "David Copperfield", A re-issue of the pleturd based on Dickens novel, with an all-star cart, including Freddie Bartholomew in the titło role. KING'S and PRINCESS: "The Girl Rush", tosalind Rükseli breezes through this musical, working hard and dragging Fernando Lamas and Edale Albert with her. Gloria de Haven do-stars.

Adventur

QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: gives

there's the version Ē Sir

NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "Beng#zi"; Walter Durward" in

in the desert. Richard Conte, Victor Molaglén, Richard Scott's "Quentin

Carison and Mala Powers. which Robert Taylor plays the

An "Cockleshell Heroes". wing role, Robert Morley

Anglo-Amesteni strike against the enemy during the another of his well known

1930-1940 war, Trever Howard and Jose Ferrer. sketches of royalty an il is not

ROXY and BROADWAY: "The Deep Blue Sea". A Judge's always seen and Kay Kendall is

with leaves him for a test pilot, to find that there are a very bezuilful

In the

with equally ahead. Vivien Lælali, Kenneth Moré. Emlyn gatue of pollues.

Williams and Erio Portman,

Down

sve un-

Then there's the outdoor plc- Lure that takes us back into America's pioneering days when quiet, rugged heroës trekking west to escape the city allekera in the East. refer to Burt Lanenster's The Kentuckian."

The third

and best of the three pletures having a second the British pleure Bhowing is

The Kidnappers".

But perhaps many Bus consciously shrew the thought- less cruelly of children towards each other. Here is one that is that the dreadful word word "Heartworming" resumably im- plies, but never lives up to. Two 110s boys and a baby and are so delighted thy they keep the secret 10 themselves and take ture of H. 1% a simple story, cleon and Diet which is a wel-

change.

tume

The "David Copperfield" thai hus returned to the Hoover and Lib rly was made some years age and the names of several of the cost have passed Into the past of screen history. How- ever, when they were

in their primne, which, in the enga

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most of them, is when this pic- ture was made, they were very high in their profession.

Desert Gold Hunt

Starring: Nazir Khan, Jabeen, Begum Para, Nazir Hussain | van over, Rommel dead and

mal & Mridula

Direction: Ravindra - Music: C. Ramchandra

Regular Admission Pricos

HOOVER LIBERTY

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OPENS TO-DAY 2.30, 5.00, 7.20

& 9.40 P.M.

(Please note time of performance has been changed)

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DAVID

COPPERFIELD

With stai chi di 05 players featuring

WC FULDа ‹ MAUREEN OʻTULLIVAN. MADGE EVANS - EDNA MAY OLIVER FRANK LAWTON · ELIZABETH ALLAN LIONEL BARRYMORE

FREDDIE BARTHOLOMEW LEWIS STONE ROLAND YOUNG

SUNDAY MORNING MATINEE: REDUCED ADMISSION

Hoover at 12.00

"LILI"

Lesild Caron

Mel Ferrer

ORIENTAL

AIR CONDITIONED

Liberty at 12.30 "DRAGON SEED”

Katharine Hepbur Walter Huston

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.80

9.30 P.M.

4-TRACK, HIGH FIDELITY, STEREOPHONIC SOUNDI

2014 Center Vas práskíta

VIEW FROM POMPEY'S HEAD

In tha mander of

SICHRONIONIC SOUND CINEMASLOPE

SPECIAL MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW at 12.90 Gary Cooper in "BLOWING WILD") Warner Bros. film.

After the desert fighting

Field Marshal Montgomery back in Europe, there were rumours of gold hidden in a mosque by the desert people. A Test, that's what the plot of "Bengazi" would have us be- Beve and W's a frusiblę story.

How much more or less prob- able would be

the success

of stick adventurers

Richard Conte. Vietar McLaglen and Httchard Erdman in finding it is

different matter.

None of them rust each other

there IN a further corn- plleation in the inevitable sp- parance on the seene of a gifl. Mala Powers ills this role and she is supposed to be the Irish daughter of McLaglen who has come out to see him after many led

in the "ould years of absence counthrio".

Richard Carlson is the hero.

COMING

BOOVER and LIBERTY: "Quentin Durward". A retur

Robert performance of this historical swashbuckler. Taylor, Rey Kendall and Roberi Morley.

**Tho Ban of Carotine Cherie". The son of the famous tady gets himself involved in Napoleon's plans for cap- turing Spain. A French picture starring Jean Claude FARCAL.

Glenn Ford, Dorothy ""Trial". A courtroom drama, Mazulie, Arthur Kennedy and the late John Hudiak. KING'S and PRINCESS; The Kidnappers".

second showing of the leuching British picture about two young boys who find and care for a small traby.

"The Benny Goodman Story",

A

·Honours and I cannot decide who is the botter. The former Has ohe

very strong scene in which he explains distractedly 10 d friend that he is completely astounded to have come back from

a golfing week-end to dla- cover that his mistress has tried to commit suicide its absence.

He puts over extremely well the altitude of an exuberant extrovert when confronted by the tortuous gyrations of on introvert's mind.

His love for mistress 1st Д

Lincere his nature will allow and ho has not the mental capacity to understand the depth of her despair when she realises that happiness lies no more with him than it đầu with her pompous husband.

Good Colour

Erie Portman too plays a very real person. In his bitter way

Is

ho has come to terms with life and

the different from brash Freddie as he is from the unimaginative judge. Nothing shocks him, nothing ruffles him, yet with an absence of drama he manages to indicate that he combines great understanding with an even greater desire to divorce

himself from. contact with the world.

There is rather an obvious chudy Many big jazz namen

lady from Moira Lister and In this story featuring the highlights in the career of the

the potted psychologer of claritiet player and band leader. Steve Alien and Donna Freddie's friend, although in

character,

but In unnecessary. Reed, with Gene Krußia, Fletcher Henderson and other musiclats playing themselves.

these are small points that are the easily engagement of the

outweighed by

the quamty

the rest of plcture.

The colour is good and photography, especially of

Is of a scents in Switzerland, very high standard. Another pleasure, for me, was to listen

Burt Lancaster.

"The Kentu&{{BH”. A return

his sun taconic brekwurdanyan and Diahne Foster, Diana Lynų and Donald McDonald. NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "Simon and Laura”.

sophistested British comedy that pokes fun at television. Peter Finch, Kay Kendall, Maurier Denliam and Murtet Pavlow.

A

QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "Plenic". A nisl town with all a small town's undercurrents. William Holden, Kim Novak, Rosalind Russell and Belly Field, ROXY and BROADWAY:

"The Lieutenant Wore Skirts".

Wife goes back into the Army and husband has a hard time trying to be near her. Sheree North and Tom Ewell.

A scene from "The Deep Blue Sea", starring Vivien Leigh, Kenneth More and Emlyn Williams.

up to her present confused proof of her lover's affection for

state of mind.

wife of

Rattigan Again married 10

but in reality she

her.

A

She is living to the dat as the This apparent change of

an out-of-work test nature is explained by plot,

is description of her as "n clergy- successful judge man's daughter who married the frst man who asked her and fell for the first man who gave

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the the

to the lovely voice of Vivien Leigh. She has one of the most cleat, soothing, delightfully. pitched voices on the screen.

Too Dizzy

The Girl Rush" takes place in Las Vegas and is chimed to be Rosalind Russell's first musical.

She

has certainly thrown herself heart and soul into it, almost as though she were try- ing to prove that she can be more bouncy, more noisy, and cover more ground in her song and

dance routines than any showgirl who has made musicals her business throughout her entire cores,

a

There's no doubt that she's a Ilicable person, but oh my good- nets, if she would only relox once or twice instead of carcer- Ing through the picture of mad rush with her mouth per- petually open us through she were out of breath.

She's 'one of those persistent- Iv optimistic people who win or lose a million dollars with equally careless abandon,

sho An inveterate gambler, Has Inherited this trait from her father. She has also inherited a hotel in Las Vegas from him-- or rather, she is given to under- the time stand she has, for by she has travelled down to take it over It hus been gambled away by her

by her father's partner, James Gleason,

We spend a rather tedious Rosalind Russell while breezes through Ferrarde Lamas

expensive club, sug- The mtaly parts

to go presling

changes, reorganising may denress you, but you As the wife of the judge the Kenneth Mort, as the plot, to the cabaret and generally be

self- Erle Portman will certainly not be bored had been cool, poised,

In an overbearing man- as the cyrilcal having assured, Atting into her

bookmaker and to Vivien Leigh her in the mistaken boller that by it.

comfortable surrounding a herself. As her husband, It is hers and an equally tedious It opens with the attempted neatly as if she

were perfectly

Emlyn Williams doesn't have to one while Lamas attempts to suicide of Vivien Leigh in a ser content. The contrast is all the do much more than look la- fell her that he holds the mort- vice fat in London, A book more marked, when after Q

almost telligent,

Impossibly gage on the broken down holol maker, whose past has included, short campaign by the breez! among many things, training as slangy ex-RAF plot, she capitu- gentlemanly and straight from next door that was really left

Gayle Row; but this he does her. a doctor, is called to bring her lates completely. loaves her

competently. round and as a rather shaky husband for him, and turns into woman is hauled back to ilte, wi a neurotic, Infatuated woman are shown the events that have constantly demanding.

Anatole Litvak has pro-

도

who still loves her,

The drama, however, les not

the irregularity of her her the eye". duced and directed a most association with the fler, but moving film version of in his frustrating Inability to be Terence Rattigan's play, the man she has imagined him "The Deep Blue Sea"> It to be.

The men of kita Journey for two of “The

Meaty Parts

Kenneth More and Eric Port- tie for the male acting fresh man

Shy And Sty

In direct contrast to Rosalind Russell's exuberance, Femundo Lands certis to be trying to net with restraint, but he overdors it ant nothing very much at all comes deross the screen except the shadowy figura of

nicely dressed young man lib is sure- ly too kind hearted to be able

10

Control a totzh gambing

in a city

QUEEN'S

SHOWS TO-MORROW "COCKLESHELL HEROES" EXTRA PERFORMANCE AT 11,30 A.M.

QUEEN'S

& ALHAMBRA

1.30, 5.5, 1.40 & 0,30 pain.

SHOWING TO-DAY

"IN CANOES SO TINY. WE DIDN'T EVEN HAVE

ROOM TO SHAKE WITH FRIGHT

Jose

Trevor

FERRER HOWARD

COCKLESHELL HEROES

A WARWICK PRODUCTION

› COLUMBIA PICTURE

CHINASCOPE

Z++++++++++++ ALHAMBRA **********

TOMORROW AT 11,30 A.M. ONLY M-G-M's TOM & JERRY

COLOR CARTOONS

In CinemaScope

REDUCED PRICES: $1.50, $1,00 ₺ 70 Ch.

ROXY & BROADWAY

GRAND OPENING TO-DAY

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

VIVIEN LEICH

The Twice Academy Award Star of "GONE WITH THE WIND"

and

"A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE" Back on the Screen!

THE STORY OF AN INFIDELITYI

Aleander Korda pistandı

a LONDON FILM

VIVIEN LEIGH KENNETH MORE

Kalensed by 20th Century-fos

In the Wonder WE LIEBLOMONIC SOUND

ROXY:

THE DEEP BLUE

SEA CINEMASCOPE

EDOW BEI

Eric PORTMAN-Emlyn WILLIAMS

ADDED ATTRACTION! CINEMASCOPE SPECIAL "THE NAUGHTY MERMAIDS" Color by De Luxo,

TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW AT 12.00 NOON

BROADWAY:

Richard Widmark in "STREET WITH NO NAME"

Burt Lancaster Deborah Kerr In "FROM HERE TO ETERNITY" Presented by Columbia

Reduced

Roxy: $1,50, $1.00 & 70 cts.

↓

Presented by 20th Century-Fox Admission -

Broadway: $1.20 & 70 ch.

NEW YORK GREAT WORLD.

Causeway Bay, Tel. 78721

Kowloon, Tel. 53500,

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7,30 & 9.30. P.M.

THEY HOLED UP IN HELLI RICHARD CONTE

VICTOR MCLABLEN C RICHARD CARLSON MALA POWERS

BENGAZI

that

WANDTRAKS EKOMAN

establishment must attract moto erboked characters to the square inch than any other place in the world.

Eddie Albert, as the not very amari bon of à micoesshut real Calata tycoot (now anyond who ever goes to the, pictures must irely know that word) falls for Miss Rused in a more obvious way than Lasting and bither of the two could be imagined to which Д whirlwind, he would beat the more firely.

bo In love

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at his usual angle, is shy and by tume, and in general, behaves in His normal way, wine a TV personality who is Pory well kilówfi in America, Bolove, (her fidme Marion Lore, and I raust confese It meant nothing to me) provides

Titlo

Thvis interest on comedy the⚫ more elderly place

for

James

Gleason

The dancing in the beginning inbou but there is too much

of is too manuch of Rosalind

SÜPERSCOPI

GONZALES RENZALES

SUNDAY MATINEE AT 12.30 P.M. NEW YORK: Fox Technicolor Cartoons GREAT WORLD: `Paramount Technicolor Certoons

At Roduced Admissions

Sheum's Circus

Victoria Park, Causeway Bay TO DAY

3. SHOWS DAILY AT 230; 7.00 & 9.30 P.M. Most Attractive programmE Thrilling! Wonderfull

nuwell and for day rostures 100 opens daily 1. p.m. › Admission--Children: 20 etdi

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