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KING'S 5 SHOWS TO-MORROW “THE FIRST TEXAN” EXTRA PERFORMANCE AT 12.20 P.M.

KING'S ★ PRINCESS

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SHOWING TO-DAY

LUSTIEST OF ALL THE

NGREAT WESTERNERS!

The

First Texan JOEL MCCREA

FELICIA FAR - JEFF MEINOW

BHOPEVKINIS

TECHNICALDE

"acok ustisis Promen

KINGS at 11.15 a.m.,

EXTRA MORNING SHOW TOMORROW —

PRINCESS at 11.00 a.m. M.G.M. presents

Walt Disney-RKO

present

VARIETY PROGRAMME OF TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

At Reduced Admission: $1.00 & $1,50

ROXY & BROADWAY

Showing To-day ♦ Please noto change of times: AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 & 9.40 P.M.

20th Century For presenta

GORDON MacRAE

DAN DAILEY

ERNEST BORGNINE SHEREE NORTH

The Best Things In Life Are Free

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CINEMASCOPE

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TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW

ROXY: At 12.00 Noon | BROADWAY: At 12.30 p.m. 20th Century-Fox presents in CinemaScope & Color "BROKEN LANCE"

Starring Spencer Tracy Richard Widmark • Jean Peters

Reduced Admission

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1936.

FILMS

"The Battle Of The

River Plate"

The Battle of the River Plate" This is a fine war film that allows both sides to behave less tike savages than usual,

Although victory was to the Betish in this wa tussie, the Germans are given full credit for having behaved in # humune and gentlemanly way without the rancou and frenzied hate for us that is so often aliributed to them

The Bi

truc based evenis thai took place at the outhzrok of war ki 1930. Ata time when most people in Die išeitish Isles. thought that it would be a qulek war, over in a few mouths at the most, Vie pocket battleship. Grat Spee sheaked out of port. She changed her name, and by the use of | camouflage, her shape, severat mes befeat qu her fual descent Into the depths off Montevaleu

CE

were

The copiin wits an unusually etamming abel clever man, and to him had been allocated the duty nt skulking quietly around the sra, harusing Allied shipping at very

paint possible always

working alone. movements and strategy such a well-kept secret that the merchantmen sunk by him were. In the lytiest snuse of the words, Never Aware of what had them

hit

Peter Ploch plugs this Cup- tan ng horft with At Theatre, realism that

oul

45 ד

were

the

(2)- brings

word

gets quietly add competently on

Another Anc performance comes from Bernard Lee $9 The skipper of one of ihe merchant ships. As the Grat Spe's boat rows him, with the einer survivors, away from his sinking ship towards hils new priser his face la a mix- have been captured, and frus- ture of dingust that he should

tration at having been able to 20

about . nothing

With or piece of camorti

***

an enorinous hook come the side of the German In catch on to Lee's boat,

is-hooked and there he the duration

for

One

of the fines 1 Hood bost came when he was admitted to Captain Langsdorft's cabin, contrary to expectation, Trentont whit #

Trimast courtesy and offered a Scolch. After

certain amount of verle

German sparring. the captain, with n twinkle in his ve #isk* his captive If he would like to see over the ship. "Ah maji na well, sh've goi an hour or invo,” says Lee,

L

BY JANE ROBERTS

GRAF SPEE'S CAPTAIN

Finch Peter Langsdorff in

20

Capt.

"The Battle of the River Plate,"

B particularly good begins to this film. The at- mosphere of anticipation of excitement lo come is caught

the camera on moonlight might at sea. Nothing is visible but sen and sky. Thon the pointed outline of

into view slowly there стесне

put in most money and knows dinsk jen:1 abotet production, The grey ship silently clawing her

bicker's

current girl-friend www Throwb the water, her

being Intrudured into the show banutifully clean lines a joy to

with disastrous results-I could watch, but with her air of evil

go through the list and hardly ik her. It's most effective.

nne would be misring from "The Arafere good nich is the

Berl Things In Late Are Free" .. -pider-ikr movement of Th

dividers BCTUR the he plots the doom map as the next enemy Verse),

Yet in spite of the Endline of situations, this him has warmth

humour, br excellent staging of

"The First Texan" is a very good western.

consistently

Joel McCrón is good throughout na Som Houston the famous Man of Texas, His air of qules autho- rity nover degenerates into the merely wooden expression that many actors affect wher23 they wish to portray strength of character.

Jeff Morrow, deserting lika space ship roles for vice, showa tip rather poorly beside McCreu, his more fumboyant style ap-

theatrical pearing

compared with the controlled; assurance of the latter. Perhaps this WAY because we have seen fairly re- cently the much more phleg- matic Sterling Hayden in thei same role that of Jim Bowle.

In addition to these two well known western characters,

la given President Jackson place, as is Steve Austin and the one and only Davy Crockett,

Felicia Farr is the love in- terest, playing her part with more Intelligence than is allow. ed most westem heroines, and the veleran character actor Wallace Ford has blossomed milf In a flowery Irish brogue.

For once. too, attention has been

The given to the plot. Texan's

the revolt

ugainst domination of Mexico grows from individual resentimen, through public meetings, to an

prising ነገ "pen

J Togle i reasoned series of steps.

The few faulls ocksur in the cents of Bighting, which do not appeur authentie thiough but taken all round, this is fur above the average westerni,

Tas Birth of the Blues" (the "Guys And Dolls"

pkture deserves lo succeed on the merits of this number alone and to and lots of lovely ham, served ur 2% Though the principal actors knew I was ham and didn't care, tectuse they liked it anyway.

There's a small bubble burst

"Guys and Dolls” is making a welcome return to Hongkong for about a week and I strongly utge you to see it if you missed 11 before. i enjoyed it so much I shall most certainly try to

secand look. It' when the myth that Al Jolsoqueeze in the time to take a Joley" to his contemporaries with a difference and sparkles

the big was always

hearted with the wit and humour that clown of Show Business li ex-

in Damon Runyon's alone, ploded. By inference he's shown up to be rather a swollen-headed gentleman.

every facet of the mon's The inour 14 restrained yet elraracter as he would appear to sally mart both Anthony Quayle nlhང{ When he leans over and John Gregson in the Batish

puffing apparently chip? zazn

mak their paris be imperturb bly at his egar lievable. 1 liked expreally the while he plans his next ki, scene in Anthony Quayle's ship the immense concentration tak- which he brating officers

ng pince in his mind is put for the amme balle. There over without it single having to be epokun. He heids quiet, feien checking of de- you as though you

with is, a Patural deference for the

ofkerer enjor

from the juniors hum, studying

problem wh

while the discussion Is 011 an from every angle and slowly official basis, and a subtle re methodically laying your plans. laxation of tension

Mi ፟ሱ የት . with

Coplader

doubt Laugstor

point of 18 no every posible Captain Ahab, rolling his eyes, picared, the convivial bottle is plotting his courses is though brught out

drink to the

The three male members of success of the operation.

this cust make the picture what 11 18 Sherce North's singing For light relief there are the

and dancing are indifferent and sex ne. In The South American

style jerky-Marilyn's port with the American com- throne was never in danger of negotiating, bribing. toppling from competition by bullying and cajoling the

pro- Sherce prietor of the local Bistro inta giving him a ringside sual for The last reel drama,

Altogether a very entertaining

inspired from

011

hugh El

Roxy: $1.50, $1.00 & 70 Cts. Broadway: $1.20 & 70 Cts. | tracking down his prey with u

E÷dy

Broadway: To-morrow Special Morning Show At 11.00 a.m. UNIVERSAL TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS PROGRAMME

At Reduced Prices

CAPITOL RITZ

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5. CAPITAL AT 350m.

RITZ AT 2.30,

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"HELEN OF TROY

FROM WARNER BA08.11 CINEMABCOPE AND WARNERCOLOR

ROSSANA PODESTA as Helen JACK SERNAS Paris SIR CEDRIC HARDWICKE

STANLEY BAKER NIALL MacGINNIS » ROBERT DOUGLAS • FORIN THATCHER - MAUSTEE Screenplay by JOHN TWIST and HUGH GRAY, Directed by ROBERT WISE

CAPITOL

— Next Change "ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK"

Sunday Morning Show A 12.30 p.m. "MY FAVOURITE SPY" Bob Hope & Hedy Lamarr

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Charlton Heston in "SECRET OF THE INCAS'' Color By Technicolor

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TO-DAY

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A1 2.30 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m.

A well-known film from world's famous novell

Morning - Show⋅ To«Murrow '18.

Jansen Ataware in #MAN FRON LARARIF"

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.15, 4.45, 7.10 & 9.40 P.M.

RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIT'S

The King and I

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BUNDAY MORNING SHOW

AMAZ. 12.12.0. "CAPTAIN LIGHTFOOT"

CinemaÏcope. 4. Colors...

scuse

combination of skill act intui- tion.

He is a logged man with

humour never mentator allowed to interfer with his work, who likes his job and

New Films -At- A Glance

SHOWING

A

HOOVER and LIBERTY:

"Guys and Dalls": Toptal performance of the excellent musical, Matiun Brando, Једи Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine, KING'S and PRINCESH: A "The First Texan' western. Joel McCrea, Felicia Farr. Jeff Morrow. QUEEN'S and ALHAM- BRA: "Battle of the River Plate": The par salt and capture of the German pocket battle- ship "Graf Spee". Peter Finch, Bernard Lee. John Gregson, Anthony Quayle. HOXY and BROADWAY:

"The

Bert Things In Free": A Life

Arc musical. Ernest Borg- nine, Ban Dalloy Gordon Macrae, Sheree North.

COMING

HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Madame Curie"; Greer Garson as the famNIQUE Woman cientist and Walter Pidgton ma her husband. "High: 'Society": A musical version of The Philadelphia Story". Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra. KING'S and PRINCESS; "La Vern Shakedown":

Crime in the fashionable rambling report. Dennis O'Keefe, Coleen Gray,

Charles Winninger,

Thomas Gomes.. QUEEN'S and · ALHAM- BRA: "Woman of the River": A murky melo. drama

Sophis with Loren as the wornan it gbew(Bos, ROXY and BROADWAY: Baby and the Battleship":"- High Jinka in one of HM · Shitm/ John Mills, Richard

The

An

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"The Best Things

In Life Are Free"

Although the dialogue is broad at times in "The Best Things In Life Are Free" it is essentially happy, homely picture that glori- fies all the accepted virtues. Ernest Borgnine, though rough, n Carouser with his poker-playing gangster com- panions, is a very loyal friend.

Din Dalley, a diffident piano player

the partnership comprising De Sylva, Br wn and Henderson, works with patience, kindliness and unfailing good humour to rench the peaks of Show Business,

the

Mart

of

ад

Gordon Macrae, a great bay with the girls and possessed of an ambition that makes him

the contemplate treading heads of

his

faithful buddies to soar СУСП higher, turns out to be too nice to do it in the end,

even

And Bhoreo North, the urspotted darling of them all. radiates an understanding and sympathy seldom discovered in a blonde show girl's make-up.

So there they are. Three nice Buys and a girl with the oldest story in Show Business-that" of initiat struggle leading LO BLOCCAS generating natural jealousy to be fully superseded by whatever it wat that united them all in the first place.

As can be seen from the litte --a tune nearly_everyone must know "The Beat Things In Life Are Free" is a musical.. I tructs with songs, dances

Interlinking and

dialogue, the history of a musical partnership that thrived during the 201.

There's quite a lot in it ythal'a ? bonial," and that cinema audieneca must know backwards Atmosphere"

the backstagn during successful show, interference at rehearsals by the backer, who's

her

"The First Texan"

Regular readers of this column will know by now

that westerns are not usual-

ly my cup of tea, How- ever, my sighs at the thought of another outdoor epic to be seen justified this week.

were un-

musical

Gift

QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

QUEEN'S

ALHAMBRA

2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m.| 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 ₺ 9.40 p.m. ★ SHOWING TO-DAY ★✯

At last the true story is revealed ....... the death of the mighty Braf Spee JOHN GREGSON ANTHONY QUAYLE,

PETER FINCH

THE BATTLE

OF THE RIVER PLATE

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