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William Holden &

Nancy Olson in

"UNION STATION"

PRINCESS at 11,00 a.m, Full Length Musical Technicolor Cartoon "HANSEL & GRETEL" and RKO Cartoons

Admission: $1.50 & $1.00

NEW YORK GREAT WORLD

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SHOWING TO-DAY

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"VERY FUNNY

THE FAMILY.**

BANK EGANISATION Berarti

'NIGEL PATRICK

KATHLEEN HARRISON,

DAVID TOMLINSON JILL DAY

in

EASTMAN

COLOUR

Screenplay by

Pat Backman &

and Paul Sarste

GREAT FUN FOR -Daily Mirror.

All For *Mary

Owed by War'de lore Produced by Paul Sashim

SUNDAY MATINEE AT 12.30 P.M.

NEW YORK: Fox Colour Cartoons GREAT WORLD:

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AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30

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Chadhay

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AKHIFMILE!

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1956.

FILMS

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If it were visually poor, "Carousel" would still worth seeing for the songs alone.

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It's hard to my which has more appeal-the shy love song "If I loved you", the cheeky "June is Bustin' out all over" o the song urging courage in the face of soTTOW "You'll never walk alone

Then too there's the lovely ex- trom presalone of philosophy Shirley Jones What's the use

wondring"

Gordon

of

und

MacRae's unusual "SvllloqUY" BS he builds up an imaginary life

for his born child,

Every single one of

songs- still

thesic and

tresh, now delightful in spite of the 10 years boon "out".........-L5 or so they've something special in the field of popular music and if some of the which production numbers of they form the kernel are over- laug, the melodies themselves re- to their sparkle.

New 'Scope'

But Carousel's append is not ta the cat alone. It's originat story"Lillom"

an

O

which is based, was med In 1930 with Charles Farrell and Rose Hobart, by Fox films, and this in turn, owed a lot to earlier Theatre Guild production -but the latest treatment is so different from the others that it could almost be called new.

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addition it Has been

Fox's 20th Century chosen as

tor the window shop

of their length demonstration latest proces "CinemaScope 53". I've already discoursed on this intest gadget when it was demonstrated

the Press.

to

to

Cinema Trade ni sundry interested bodi, some Lime 1p0: 30 10 now than it has ford the demonstration stage Anished to incorporation in a production ia that everything claimed for it in the pilot de- monstration la substantiated in

Carousel

all that's no rosted

en-

Every photographer imows that the

more a print is larged, the coarser becomes the grain and the less clear becomes

20th the image.

Century Fox have applied the converse and photographed their original m on 65 millimetre fim and con-

densed it to

35 the standard

nun. size, thereby retaining all the clericss

original of the end giving an illusion of great- er depth.

MacRae's Luck

Gordon

Macitor is said have haunted the offices of the casting director as soon as he heard that "Carousel" Was to

Sinatra.

Current Coming

BY JANE ROBERTS

This Week's Films In Pictures

An artist's piew of her subje ct.

Dorothy Malone sketches Jerry Lewis us she res him in "Artists aird Models".

Gordon MacRae as Billy Bigelow, the creus hand in "Carousel". The action takes

Maine, place in

New England.

response

or merely in

to the strong tug of the publiefty-you won't be disappointed,

Ha.

Ha

Martin and Lewis to me are rather like Abbott and Costello-though less funny thun 1 used to find these two rather lovable idiots -

once zeon,

pre- dictable.

always

True, in their latest comedy they

ftave more glamorous girls with whom to pose, more colour against which to lean and better songs with which to It's just that batter the cars. someone seems to have forgot- ten the comedy.

the

sympathetic role to take away the taste of his cold/in Richard Widmark film “Prize of Gold la most welcome. Even it JDay doesn't live up to the extravagant claims the

an

with the gong"has mado on her behalf, she's a happy natured girl and Kathleen Harrison is too seasoned a trouper to give one o twingo us regards her acting. So why does "All For Mary add up to not very much?

1 think it is perhaps

that everyone tries too hard with a plot that would have been more funny played on "throw-away Lines.

In a recent article written by Foter Finch he quotes Dame Edith Evans as having given him the valuable édvice that comedy should be treated though one were firing puff balls out of a cannon only then does it tickle the sense of the

idiculous:

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In this silly story of two grown men who contract chicken pox

during a holiday in Switzer land, while both are paying court to the same girl, everyone, Including the nanny, who tries to raise a laugh by, treating them amall boys. Is carnésly struggling with real powder and

19

shot.

A 'Weepie'

Poor Jane Wyman.

Just

the

Kain** single

came

a June Allyson seems to be everlastingly cast as that sticky product of the script writer's pen the Perfect Little Wife, so Jane Wyman is getting typed at Eternal Unfortunate.

In "Mircle In The there's hardly misfortune that doesn't her way in one shape or form.

She and her mother have a bad start-father deserts them when Jane is quite young. A sort of gloom descends on her Perhaps though, if one likes after that and sho dresson people sufficiently It con be drably, chooses as her friend a forgiven them if they make timid woman who will obvious- occasional asses of themselves—ly never even if they do it unfonally, as in the case of Martin, and Lewis, We've read a lot recently about

the

publicised marriage of Britain's Anthony Stcei and Sweden's Anita Ekberg, Miss Ekberg is one of those stars who are more clever at shining on the publicity pages of the press and in the pages of samo of those magazines that Hollywood hopes to show up in some of its forthcoming pictures,

than in her films,

Un- been

e

marry and resigns herself to loneliness.

Thon into her te breezes Van Johnson. He le a young To soldier who speaks to her

his the street and changes original intentions when he dis. covers that she is a "nice gir".

goes off with her

Things seem about to look up for our poor little heroine but sci overseas

Soldier not for long.

boy is and although he Keepsake firmly clutched in bis hand and on his lips the vow to love her for ever,

we just know that Jane's stars just aren't going to allow her a happy ending.

Apart from her marriage, the latest story about her is that she really is a good actress, fortunately we havent

Death on the field of battle, given an opportunity of seeing

& Tosing fight with pneumonio any of the pictures of her that

and heavenly visions in the and "Artiss prove it,

roin all come Into this the his Models" in't going to lift

ame Wyman weeple. veil. In spite

пате of her

been taunted, throughout his life, by the sins of his father. And yet, In spite of

his

be inade into a picture and to have been bitterly disappointed dourness and on the face of it, when the role went to Frank his unsympatholic part, his attraction for the simple Julle However, at the last moment, Jordan is real and bellevable. Sinatra, never one of Almdom's

Shirley Jones as Julle is most co-operative stars, had sweet, simple and lovable, and difference of opinion with the I can think of no one else who producers and

the part was would have fitted the role MacRac's.

well. of having shown that

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in sparkle almost any role i

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he can

For whatever reason you go don't think that Sinatra would to seo "Carousel"-for the rich have made a better glowering, singing of Metropolitan Opera surly, weale misunderstood hero atar Claramae Turner, for the than Gordon MacRae, Hardly vigorous dancing of the chorus

choreographer ever does he mile and, as the under

Rod part demands, goes through the Alexander, for the lovely songs fim with a perpetual chip on of Rogers and Hammerstein, for his shoulder, caused by having the unusual quailty of the story

THE SOUTHEAST ASIA FILM FESTIVAL

being on the credit titles, her role is limited to a very short appearalice in an abbreviated costume that would distruct at- tention from her acting, even if there were any to watch.

The same goes for Eve Gabor A little more is required of and delivered by Shirley MacLaine and Dorothy Malone, and while we're on the subject, ittle more about Shirley Maclaire.

With Harry k

su

She's the girl who tomed so well with John Forsythe in

Trouble Comedienne roles that coll good looks

well, obviously her forte and although those mme good looks are quite. unconventional, there's no doubt about their presence. Shirley MacLaine is a new and invigorating personality › who seems to possess uno invaluable gift of not tak

taking 'herself' as The public are being invited lo

etch from seriously as the-coms to There are 3 films

first appearance. It would be the films entered for the Hongking, the Philippines and

reheshing to see a lot more of Third Annual Film Festival of Indonesia Ave from Japan, two

hero. Southeast Asia at the Queen's och from Taiwan, Thailand on

and Singapore/Matayn, and Alhambra cinemas next Among the four guest entrica work. The usual prices will be (the Festival being intended charged. It will be a tight principally to promote interest schedule as 24 films are to be in Southeast Asian productions). shown in the short space of Care French and Italian films. days, starting on Tuesday.

Here is the schedule

Date

Plim

Jurie.12 "French · Can-Can”

PESHKUTAN Ajah**

"Rakibi samlingarama” #Ä“bak" Dalita" -

13. "Manusia Bucji”

Junie

June

Juno

Jane

Belamat Tinggal

*Speed - King**

· Queen's 'Alhambra

(Gnest· Entry) 130 p.m. 7.39 pan. VEĽznGonella), 536 pleti.: 939 pan.

Valgsapámý "-4.30, dən. 2.30 păm (Phillysindi) 9,30° pam. £30 p.m.

(Tadonienia) '7.30 p.m. 7.30 pm. [(alongkong) (3.39 plan. 9.30 paní, Kekasihka")****

(Slingupvcw/Malaya) ^7.30 pami. 230 pm.

Site (dapan) (130) plan. 5.30 pai"

(Philippines)" ~ 2.39 p.m., 739 plan, (Ullek.Relay) (830 p.m/; §20 pin. ***(Thalindő) 1930 p.m. : 1.50 pan, (TAIWAN) (9.30 p.m., 5.30 p.m.

14 Lapang Kayumanggi!"

"Lost Conilnert!". *This Urothers"

“Dawn na. Ilish Ment

15 Minamoto, Yoshitung"

"The Long Latia“

[STRĺňa (Forever".

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„VING

foder" AN

**La `Shan"

"The Floating Cloud" “Breid, Love & Fazutkay!

ori

The only people of con- anch sequence in Artists Models whom I haven't men

200 the stars, Déan toned Martin and Jerry Lewis. They play Martin and Lewis.

Inhibitions

I wish I could say more In favour of All Fot Mary””. It's easy to slate picture that's in bad taste, that. dwells deliberately on the morbid or the immoral for. the sake of the box office or that offends the religious Busceptibilities of a section. of the community.

latest

New Films

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