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KING'S A PRINCESS

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GRAND OPENING TO-DAY

KING'S 5 SHOWS TO-MORROW "PARDNERS"

EXTRA PERFORMANCE AT 12,20 P.M.

Perunappt promote DEAN

JERRY

MARTIN LEWIS

In their BIO

LAUGH, BONG and DANCE Round-Up!

PARDNERS

color by TECHNICOLOR

Carring

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YEAR VISTA VISION

The Moon"

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KING'S

at 11.15 a.m.

Walt Disney's

PRINCESS

at 11.00 a.m. Special X'mas Attraction Walt Disney's ALL BRAND NEW

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Christmas is the

Present Time

for Tweed

EXECUTE SHRIRO ECHINACE

Recital 12 Melodien. Carnie Maurane, bariton, Lily

Bienvenu, phano.

ALOB143 RCHUBERT

Symphony No. 7 in C major Bruna Walter conducting The Philharmonie Symphony Or chestra of New York.

NOUIL TCHAIKOVSKY

The Sleeping Beauty Ballet

Op. 00. Andre Kostelanels and... bis

AĻOUST STRAVINSKY - COCTEAU

Bodim Rex, opera-oratorio in two acts after Sophocles. Igor Stravinsky conducting the Symphony Cologne Radio

Love Chansond

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1956.

FILMS

Before Royalty

Grace Kelly's roles have, from the beginning of her career, carefully been pick ed for their cool qualities.

lovely Never has the treen encouraged to

Jody' ick up

her

Cyc

Current & Coming

the rings, exuberant thoug they may be, seem

with audience to see how they are taking them. The conviction that they're good doesn't seem to be there.

10 be nut the спе сус

Martin-Lewis

like heels anet clown Rosalind Hussell or look even.

One would never guess Sho has

been mildly ruffled. groomed, cared for, soothed--if from “Pardners" that Mar-

Lewis she over needed it--and goneral- tin and

were not

་

The

in

Tho

BY JANE ROBERTS

10-back laat stqud, or even unt comineering, all-conquering female tycOOT (gently brought crashing to the ground by Agnes Moorehead) it's a breath

cienn

fresh air.

OT

As with "War and Peace" (31 bours and full three lasted a forty minutes) it has tried to cover a great deal of ground And I am not sure that it would not have produced a better re- The timing of this pair seems sult if it had

90 not been to have improved beyond men ambitious. sure and whereas in many of On the face of it, it is one of their previous (ims they relled the pictures that have come to

farce to get be described as on custard pie

"spectacles," "Pardnera! However, with Richard Burton originality in every in the cast it was bound to be

more than that and I I recommend this picture to even think the director meant indiscriminating lovers of fun to chip a little below the sur-

discerning face of cine moro

them through, situation.

there's

the

'Iron' Woman

auch

"The Iron Petticoat" is a riot, chiefly perhaps because it is

fun to 800 Katherine Hepburn, M putedly so difficult to work several with, taken down pegs by Bob Hope.

ty treated on the co-operative, exactly that,

ambitious

person ahe

little and quietly

When the panperod Undoublexy

mother's bay, Jerry Lewis, film-goer alike. She was a natural then, for the aristocratic, snobbish Tracy follows puppy-like in the wake of the tough cowboy. Denti played by Lord, originally

Martin, there's an affection - Katherine Hepburn in

wards hip from Martin, even Philadelphia Story". With

carlier pie

when he's telling him to go back exception in the

to tung that looks for loo real fures Katherine Hepburn

geis gle hously drunk and is found to be simulated.

comiting circumstances

When clety party fter a smart of the

this re-make of picture with Grace Kelly in the main role i was willing to be that this part would certainly

new in In the be included version

It was -even though the crux of the whole plot.

стих was wrong. So anyone who t

ide of the intrigued by the

Kelly stepping Mis simited

from her cjowni gracefully pedestal for a while should not miss High Sterely.

There are many other reasoils DR for

It of not leaving

called Chrishtas list, Reason called Las Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Louls Calbern and Celeste Holm-though Miss Hul's special brand of comesty Is getting just a fitile too fami- Har to raise the same hugh

sit ad in 115 carlier duys

ung and Satchmo" are old friends and they have made one or two records that show what partnership understanding

[KM]

to theirs when they can spurc the time from their respectively busy felds to get together.

In "High Society" Bing Crosby a millionaire sportsman and Is amateur song writer. He has at

married to the one time been fashionable, socially prominent Grace Kelly who has divorced him because of what she con- siders to be his feckless ways.

As the fim opens we learn ut a double attraction in wealthy Newport. There's

juzz festival, at which Louis Arm- strong and other famous players will be featured and there's also Grace Kelly's wexiding. She is good to marry John Lund business man but poor typu,

the

4

Kother. Bing Crosby

fur ostensibly appears, Festival but actually to try second time for Tracy

He has the co-operation of everyone except Tracy herself and if you saw Philadelphin Story" you'll know the out-

come

This picture, though, good by the standards of entertainment In general. doesn't quite attain the sparkle and humour of the original pictura. The former was sharp, clear and sophisticated. wärmer but "High Society" is the edge is off the humour and

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ALDIZI BAEN

Partita in E minor for viplin &

Istapo.

Sonata in G minor for. violin &

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Sonata No. 3 in E major for

violin and piano.

Issac Stem vlon, Alexandar

Zakia plane.

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Italian Serenida in G major. Quartet in D minor. The New Music Quartet.

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cinema entertainment, from the outset,

There is some attenipt mady to create of Alexander the Great character that can bu 10 Here Is understood today. Chenglo Khan mumbling bis fulse whiskers through

Tartar Woman is fer my". Richard Burton, if he in 1134 ne, everyone's idea of Alexan der the Great, le at lenet a person to

whom thoughts and feelings could ho attributet

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Perhuje all these stories about a parting of the ways for this Mixessful pair is all a publicity stunt after all, Jerry Lewis is reported to have said at the big

It tells of a Russian woman

boy without gala premiere of "High Society"

bark in Hollywood

flier who comes down on the that the split-up western side of the Iron Curtain trol.

Philip of Macedonia is given trying

which for personal reasons. something we're

never know!"

however have nothing to do with rather less than his due, bring lack of faith in the rectitude of shown as a rolstering barbarlan Meanwhile there are ruingira

with Ideas above his station. New Russia. the thay Lewis is to be starred by

as the far-secinu Hob Hope is a happy-go-lucky rather than Hal Walls in a comedy with

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have been. murt Elvis Presley and that Producer American pilul due for a spot of roller

March has this role, leave

before Katherine Fudrie Jusl Joe Pasornak has high hopes of

from the with Danielle Darrieux as us Deon Martin

a comedian, Hepburn descends

akies, and the Tight in his eyes wife, Olympins, actor and singer on his own.

I will have more to ray of Apparently Pasternak discovered ay's exactly whit he is going to

"Alexander do with her time in London,

The Great" Martin ten years ago he was

His Bisions are rudely shat week. then a prize Aghter, but didn't

however, white, ha thir chough of him to do me than give him a test and then given the job of escorting the Tudy wherever she drop hun Now, nowever, on the prickly

wants to go

view to with a strength of his partnership with Jerry Lewis, Pasternak is pre-converting ter 14 donneratio life His dreams of during Martin in his first solo ways of picture. He claims it will estat luscious lovelies in picces, Hope Eves aff will, bad gruer to take care of his new job,

him as a first class sint. The title 10,000 Bedrooms

To return to "Partners." It's happy show with Marlin and Lewis parodying nil the favour- ite tricks

western

Lised

TI

James Robertson Justice of

a Soviet spy and ail people. he. David KossSOIT and Hope's chilly but wealthy girl friend- Noelle Middleton compleate matters for Hope la no mean Look out too for an fashion.

from performance

For those who don't like to see their particular form of amuse, mock of, it might men made

jese excellent dangerously

Bul for the others dancer are tired of seeing that Kropotkin.

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majeste. who ridiculous

man-lo-man," back-

Films

New

-At- A Glance

SHOWING

HOOVER and LIBERTY: "High Society": A musical version of "The Philadelphia Story", Crosby, Frank Sinatr Sinatra, Grace Kelly, Louis Armstrong, Louli Callern.

Bing

KING'S and PRINCESS: "Pardners": A Martin and Lewis comedy. With Agnes Moorehead, Lari Nelson, Jeff Morrow METROPOLE and STAR: "Alexander the Great": Spectacle with some paychology thrown in. Richard Burton, Fredrio March, Danielle Dar rieux, Claita Bloom. QUEEN'S and ALILAM.

BILA: "Sandako running in the jungles of Cuba,

Alan Ladd, Lloyd Nolan, Roskana

Podesta.

BOXY and BROADWAY: *The Iron Petticoat": Comedy about a Russian iler who comes down on our side of- the-curiain, Katherine Hepburn, Bol Hope, James Robertson Justice.

COMING HOOVER' and 'LIBERTY: "Tea and Sympathy":

Romanila entanglemauti between a schoolmaster's

́and'

wire

her

husband's pupli

Deborah, Kerr, John'

Kest, Leif Ericson KINGES AND FRINCESS; "Oklahoma!" Screen Version of the success

musical

Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones,

Gloria Bod Steiger,

Grahame, Gene Nelson. METROPOLE and STAR:

Smooth

Daughter": comedy sein Cinema

Parli Olivia de

Forsythe

Robert Helpmann

next

Gun Running

"Santiago" has frozen- faced Alan Ladd gan run- ning in the jungles of Cuba with, at first, a strict par- tiality for the cause of Alan Ladd.

Bul LIN time goes by love comes into his life in the shape of Rossun Podestu. Miss Posta, i reens, is a Cuban patciol, determined to free her native country from the menace of the all conquering Spaniards. Ladd is lost in Miss Pódesta's tolla and if he doesn't make the fortune he was initially unti-

the elpating, girl who played Helen of Troy is probably the 1 shall have to see next best thing.

The villain "Alexander the Great"

ain of the piece is the man who created the role of second time before being Captain Queeg in "The Caino able adequately pass Mutiny" cn the New York judgment upon it.

stuge Lloyd Nolan.

A Spectacle

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