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KING'S ★ PRINCESS

SHOWING TO-DAY Please note the changs of showing times: 2.30, 5.00, 7.20 &′9.40 P.M.

a musical love story

Now! big as all outdoors!

RODGERS-HAMMERSTEIN'S

OKLAHOMA!

RICHARD RODGERS

OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN, U

Fitmed in CINEMASCOPE

TECHNICOLOR Starring:

A MAGNA PRODUCTION

Gordon MacRae, Cloria Grahame,

Shirley Jones, Gene Nofson..

"CADBURY'S' DRINKING CHOCOLATE free to patrons at 7.20 p.m. performance.

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PRINCESS at 11.00 a.m. Paramount's

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THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, JANUARY

FILMS

She Sins So

Delicately

DEBORAH Kerr sins so

delicately in "Tea and -Sympathy" and with such evident dedication, that the she adolescent to whom makes a present of her per- Ron must have been more embarrassed than flattered.

I found the whole picturo oper sentimental and although there was an honest attempt made to sort out the problems of in- hibited mature people as well as those of bowldered youth, only superficial emotiona were pro- duced to explain the complexi- ties of human nature.

years

·-1957.

BY JANE ROBERTS

This Week's Films In Pictures

The trucet words are spoken in a letter at the end of the picture. Deborah Rezz has taken what the author of the original play obviously considers to be strong reasures to help prove to one of her husband's pupils that he la not the oddity the other "men" of the school consider him and

tha he is reading of the th letter she has written him.

Whether or not it was her with Curly, played by Gor- farm hand who buys his dan- abasement that succeeded

indon MacRae, riding through geraus way into the respect of the two womers by his capacity turning him into the successful

beautifully coloured

hard work 14 played by singing that Rod Steiger and in addition to now is, is not proved. But look countryside

popular the fact all back she wonders whother happlest of ing her possibly misplaced lowering songs "O What a Beautiful 1 could have done

gloomy influence in the m of the standards she had set for beracit had not resulted in the Morning".

altogether.

John Kerr and Deborah Kerr in a scene from "Tea And Sympathy".

writer, husband and father he a Tomorrow, Sunday, At 12.10 P.M.

Madras Cine Corporation presents a Superb INDIAN PRODUCTION

“GUL-E-BAKAVALİ“

T. R. RAJKUMARI; G. VARA LAXMI HAJA

BULOCHANA,

THANGAVELU,

M. G. RAMCHANDAR, CHANDRABBU,

E. V. SAROJA, E.

A. KARUNANIDHI and 1001 othern-

Directed by RAMANNA.

R.

SAHADEVAN,

Produced by DHIREN DAS GUPTA

AT BEGULAR PRICES

ROXY & BROADWAY

2nd BIC WEEK! NOW SHOWING THE 8th DAY! AT 2.30, 5.30, 7,30 & 9.30 P.M.

From the best-selling novel of young love in war!

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Between

Heaven

and

Hel

COLOR

CinemaSCOPE

~Robert WAGNER Terry MOORE Broderick CRAWFORD

* BUDDY EBSON » ONO RESBAR), mum » BOIRO (ESDNER, Immune HARRY KIDAN

TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW

ROXY: At 12.00 Noon 20th Century-Fox presents In CinemaScope & Color "THERE'S NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS" Starring: Marilyn Monroe

Reduced Admission $1.50, $1.00 & 70 Ch.

¡BROADWAY: At 11.00 a,m.

Warner Brothers TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS At Reduced Prices Cannsciousė ¦erkamerome

failure of somebody who needed her sympathy far more than o tormented, adolescent boy her

husband.

for

that he

was niscast, without his

ba

world, sugar is preferable to" sploe. Being in frm disagree- ment, it is difficult to be objec- Live,

But to return to "The Ambas mador's Daughter". The 'daughter in question is Olivia de Havil- tand, still looking pretty and quite bolievably able to capti vate the younger John Forsythe. He is one of the GIs whose ba haviour in Paris has been by the authorities questioned back

in the United States, Adolphe Menjou a Senator from there who is firmly COT1- vinced that Paris should be de- clared

for forbidden arch American

servicemen, Myrna

A

Loy, still with the mischievous twinkle to her eye, is his wife, and much more understanding, Edward Arnold is the Ambas sador himself and also

towards

young sympathetic American manhood.

Naturally the GI and tho "Ambassador's daughter fall in love and lots of Paris is used as a background in the prOCESSI,

It is difficult to see how a cultured boy 111oo Forsythe could have sch

Likable

moron for a friend as Tommy Noonan, but BA Noonan gets most of the laughs it isn't very important.

Further Word

Of Praise

F "Between Heaven and Het!”

1s

Of wrote Inst week and reel His voice is warm, the sun

When the likable Curly pene- hs shiring, he's a handsome

the review further word of young man full of high spirits trates the dimness of the nithy that for those who did not read

In which he lives and

The and all is very right with the hack world.

In the song "Pare Jud is dead praise would be useful. The boy has turned out to be a

to influence him to kill subject of war and its effect on

Kill the He

Aghting Init rides up to the farm tries Her husband, balanced adult,

Greenwood himself, so that people will imaginatively dealt with in this deserted by her kmmediately after house of Charlotte

and sorry they disliked him, the picture and there is an absence Shirtey Jones and flexy the "eldent" is still the over-

a chudow of the sentiment that so often schoolboy,

who, with in spite of all the Extraneous song seemed to cust

the brightness that detracts from thomea that could possibly

creep in through- that even

the sincerity of

have

if not the best out the screenplay, the maip succeeded it could not entirely

Guch films. established right brain in the world, at least

litt

Broderick Crawford For exdlemfent I've not soca lover Laurey sympathetic schoolmaster.

Curly Loves Laurey Yet both

the

The problems of youth, have come to realise, are often transient and perhaps it might have been better if he had stuck to what the headmaster's wilo tested.

The Advice

"My Dear" was the essence of the novica offered her, schoolmaster's wife's duty is to remain aloof from the problems and

politics of a Boys' School to dispense lea and

on Sunday after sympathy

Deborah Kerr, though trying initially to conform, finds that that the boisterousness of the boys, matching her husband's animal spirita, is making her a partisan for a sensitive boy who is being vicitimised for pre- ferring poetry to horseplay and beauty to bawdy tal

talk.

50

thread away.

Curly

haan'b

are going to fight their way in mything.In any recent western acted as well since "All the

end uut of each other's favour through the film to prove that neither is easy to get and well worth waiting for.

to compare with the runaway King's Men" and Robert Wagner buggy ride Sud has contrived shows that he is much

behind the

morn mellow, then save herself from the to 'directness 15 temptied with her she whips

her,

mort

More 'Rock'

of

to drive Laurey to a party and than just another good looking has managed to lag so far pot of the Box Office watchers.

the others that bala Charlotte Greenwood, though able to stop

stop without her

cries being heard. alarm given some sharp lines in some

In places, is che, has been in the past, Ber, is obviously about to overfales

Y comments on "Rock, Rock, the horses MR are much as they up allowed

the pair of and kindliness and she

them dre to show more tact

were for the predecessorS that whirled than

off into a wild stampede produced by her usual bellow- that had ma gripping the sides the "Rock" school, except that this one is more of a series of ing shouting forthrightness. of my seat with terror.

a musical This is a musical so different variety turns than we have been reproduced in from any other that it would with a story. Many will miss

Bill Haley's For instance 1

Comets who are "Oklahoma".

be a pity to miss it, found

more well known to Hongkong many of

the

dancê

listeners than Alan Freed's 18 long and the sequences too

piece Rock 'n Roll Bars but gangling, folksy choreogaphy of

one thing is certain. There Agnes De Mille to not to my

will be plenty of noise. Luste

In fact the whole film le too long and would be better for some cutting.

Some of the faults in "Carou-

that

However, with a production has become almost legend before its 21st birthday, it would be difficult to visualise as less than the gigantic, it

colossal, super stupendous. operind epic of the year.

Superfluous

A Light Piece

Of Fluff

"THE

Ambassador's Daughter" is a light piece of fluff that in spite of bringing In American con- cern for the behaviour of her servicemen in foreign capitals remains gay und free from politics.

She interferes rather breezily I felt and there is an under- lying feeling that beneath her concom for the hurt of the boy much younger than she herself now is, that there is a desire to live again for a little while the happiness she found

The with her first husband--a young

comedy comes from It reminds me of a film of a of nineteen.

Gloria Grahame as dumb Ado few years back in which Jean It's possible to read whatever the girl who just can't Arthur was

a serious-minded one likes

say "No." This song is quite Congresswoman went to Berlin

Investigate Sympathy", in spite of the suggestive but Gloria Grahame to

reports of American challowness of the players, so puta euch fun and innocent fraternisation perhaps it succeeds by provoke wickedness into it that it is soldiers in Berlin with the Ing thought. Leit Ericson is never offensive. This is the best poverty-stricken frauleins,

to be corrected, the best member of the cart. role she has ever attempted and am preparod

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"THE STUDENT. PRINCÉZ

Starring: Edmund

No Ann Blyth

At: 12.30 p.m.,

Errol Flynn

of

it would be a mood thing if she but the title comes to mind as starred incomparable Marizkie

Missbandoned all her sultry, diren "Forelan Affair and

parta

on the concentrated comedy from now on Her scene Dietrich. with father and philandering As with so many re-makes niest in the film. He too gets gaiety insouciance of full marks for a good per- the originals have been a little formance.

mislaid.

This Musical Etic Albert in one of this fun and second thoughts these days,

"OKLAHOMA!" gets off

The difficult role of Jud, the Possibly it is the present day to a wonderful start brooding 'mentally. deranged feeling

NEWS

That

thaat

in an uncertnin

ABOUT FILMS

clover chid actress, music entitled "It's a Wonderful Mandy Miller, now aged eleven, World".

Tale of Two ofiter

Presented in Techni- is due to start Alming early in is very natural and appealing colour and SpectaScope, the story July. It will be produced by

New Films -At- A Glance

SHOWING

HOOVER and LIBERTY;'

**Tea and Sympathy": Romantko Entanglement between a schoolmaster's wife and one

of her husband's charges. Deborah Karr, John

коль Leif Ericson,

KING'S. and PRINCESS: FORlahoma?": Screen versions of the success- musical. Gordon Maorse, Shirley Jones, Rod Bielgur, Gioría Grahams, Gene Nelson, METROPOLE and STAR: The Ambassadors Smooth Daughter": comedy set in Cinema- Paris, Olivia de Havilland,

Forsythe,

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in "Child in the House) rem deals with, two young song. Sydney Box. The director's cently previewed at the Odeon, writers (played by Terence Mor name has yet to be announced,etween Heaven and Marble

2 gan and George Cole) who are but the screenplay will be by This Golden, London

aim adapted from trying to crash London's "Tin T.E.B. Clarke, author of The a nove by Janet McNeill, tolls Pan-Alley. Kathleen Harrison, Blue Lamp, The Lavender Hill with an unele and stunt she does tions, in cast as their Cockney Casting: It is probable, that how the little girl goes to a famed for comedy characterisd Mob and Passport To Fimilco, not know while her mother is tandlady. and Mylene Nicole

111 and her beloved ne'er-dowwell

police.

father in hiding from the pe, young newcomer from France, if Ding Bogarde will play the role Mother Her, Mahlonable, or Bury features Ted Heath and his story of the French Revolution. oma vivacious heroine. The pics of Carton in Charles Dlekcins eleni aunt (Phyllis Calyer) Music, and the hie fures include other films to come are her barrister uncio. Caput en Wdr Chent" withe 10@1-/ A"The Mayor of Czsterbridge" |

Hawall

Version of

children and matters are further entender le, of course, grow, the Thomas Hardy novel

Pow........anything! complianted her when how the world's foremost ez of a proud man's fall and the father (Stanley

Baker) Recepti Dj Bjoing hitisic and in visiɑ of a young stranger to take secretly and

tells her starch of

of the poor, he and this is place in th century Eng- fely nothing about how day in London Old love and hates Band begon a tour of America and

are revived among the monita, the fires time in 20 years that a

and

though the happy encima British, Ortheatres had visited the

wel toe Joan Tattleder, I scene United States,

what contrived, the film holds

• oria's 7 Enfeite 26 Donkeysti

“provádés, eorcellent light reliei as

the mold who befriends Bandy; °C. Haker Busdifield, who dátsóðað

also provided the screenplay,

plequiður för

the book by Nevil Shuto,

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Tea and Sympathy

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