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KING'S - PRINCESS

2nd BIG WEEK! 3 SHOWS DAILY!

Due to the Unusual Length of the Picture Please Noto the Changé of Showing Timon: AT 2.00, 5.30 & 9.00 P.M.

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THE GREATEST NOVEL WRITTEN...NOW MAGNIFICENTLY ALIVE ON THE SCREEN!

Three unforgettable love stories, told against the background of a world war. In WAR AND PEACE, you'll experience a young man's first taste of battle, a girl's first tasty of love, a young mind's first taste of ideas, and a man's first laste of old

Age.

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War and Peace

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EXTRA MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW ~~

KING'S # 11.15 a.m.

20th Century-Fox'

PRINCESS at 11.00 a.m. Walt Disney's

All Technicolor Cartoon Programme

At Reduced Admission: $1.00 & $1.50

HOOVER : LIBERTY

CAUSEWAY BAY TEL-72371

KOWLOON

TEL 80148, 60240

2.30, 5.30, 7.30

NOW PLAYING G.9.30 P.M.

ALEXANDRA DUMA, ĮR'S immortal CLASSIC!

Greta GARBO Robert TAYLOR

M-G-M's

CAMILLE

with

Lionel Barrymore

SUNDAY EXTRA MATINEE — REDUCED ADMISSION

HOOVER at 12:00,

Jano Russoli

Gilbert Roland in "UNDERWATER"

TEACHERS

LIBERTY at 12:00 Robert Wagnor Janet Leigh in "PRINCE VALIENT"

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1957.

FILMS

Baby Doll

MENNESSÉE Williams is

TENN

BII

author

of the Macabre. Ho did it with “A

Desire".. Streetcar Named

He seems to have "done it" too with "Baby Doll." But "done what?"

Well, whatever he has done, The chances are that whether they like it or not, and whether they are glad they went to sc the film or not by the time they come out of the theatre, most

Боста

Hong- In

regular film kong, as verywhere elsc, (nud quite a number of people who

are not regular film goers) are bikely ta

10 and themselves queueing at the booking offle for a ticket for the doll.

How he "does {" is not so casy to work out.

The

ЗиссеБУ of "Streetenr" may have been duc to Mis Vivien Leigh

who acted the part of Blanche neurotic

nymphomaniae who drags her

way through the play and ends

a mental home at up Its a

the of it. As end

(1 plny, Atmosphere of The thing was powerful enough to send Miss

Leigh off for a similar kind of

test,

Dismal, Decay

But what was the play? At almost any modern mental home In England patients create as powerful

ulmosphere ผล

In "psychodramas" which they put on two or three times a month. Boiled down - "Streelcar" was the study of a deranged girl sup- ported by the squalidi conditions that helped to push her off the ralis.

Baby Doll is pretty much the here's the story:

same.

And

Current & Coming

BY JANE ROBERTS

This Week's Films

In Pictures

And this is the Baby Doll

As I have not yet seen it I cannot say how much Holly- wood sugar has been added to the original recipe by Rudolf Bestcr.

Uku Streetcur,' the scene is again the dismal decaying South, her husband's alibi, and she final- Archic Lee Meigham (Karl Aulden) flabby and forty, lives agrees to sign a paper which with his wife Baby Doll (Carroll Vacarro prepares.

On his reum Archle cannot Baker) and old Aust Rose on

but sense that something new fallen-apart plantation mansion

has been added to his troubles, But I can say that this film that belongs to another age.

and he quickly smells out what is one I do intend to see, and, Archie Lee is the owner of a His. Instead of doing anything from all accounts, expect to decrepit cotton gin — a mill in about it, he takes first to drink

enjoy. which cotton is cleared of seeds, the coward's strengthener-

then

out berserk, goes

But his machine has been jou maddened with raw spirit and

for more than a year.

un

FISH-EYE VIEW

Baby Doll is abous to turn 20 jealousy to find Vacorro, Unable The Silent World yeur's uld... a birthday

to do so, he fires instead at which she has agreed to become anything that moves until taken the true wife of Archle Lev, info custody by the town mar- The ill-matched pair spend their shall.

diving.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau's hobby or perhaps it would Ilves quarrolling over two Baker atives one of the

alm's favour-Carroll be nearer the truth to say In the big problems

mos main interest is deep sea money, and love. Archie is in a state of perpetual gripping test performances on

it.

Time turmell over his unconsummated record.

Against

Combining work and pleasure "Possibly the dir- marriage, and over the competi- Magazine.

test American-made moon he has produced a pleture that tion offered try the newer and

pleture that more efficicat cotton gia run by ferally exhibited."

has ever been although possibly appealing to

Imited audience has in I Silva Vacurru.

But perhaps that comment is enough imagination and feeling to recommend really against the film. for the subject Tennessee Williams

meant it it to anyone who has over felt to be that way.

the urge to throw caution to the winds and risk his future on something he likes rather than on

on business

that he feels will bring in a great deal of money or power.

hinat

Archie fals behind ch furniture payinents and one day arrives home to and that the furniture company has

removed verything except an old crib---- the one which was enlarged to cover a 15,000 square foot sign thisplayed on the Sherman Hotel to Chicago. It covered a third of un acre and was said to be the largest advertisement ever positi!.

New Trouble

The producers proudly clator that the advertisement was as Large as the Statue of Liberty.

THREE STARS

The Barretts

The colour is good and the commentary sufficiently Gallic

the

To recuperate from the to take the picture out of the Doll at the Queen's and run of ordinary documentaries. have "The The eericness of underwater Alhambra, we

is captured well and Barretts of Wimpole Street" swimmi

Jacques-Yves at the Hoover and Liberty. Cousteau's boat, is obviously

John Gielgud brings his Cas- his most prized possession, sius to put gall into America's

What it lacks in story is com

for favourite villain the tyran-

the interest pensated

by

the last few

To add to his troubles, Archie ale: father who keeps his aroused inds the local cafe amply a daughter from the man she wanders into his rival's place, loves.

during years In this form of sport Anyone borty! by his present Jones brings employment and who feels ho celebrations with brass bands back her many splendoured love has an inclination to go below und

speeches, just as a fire

to work on that handsome giant- the surface would be well ad- breaks out which destroys the sized he-min Bill Travers, vlect to see this picture.

whose best remembered role

whore everyone has gathered fur Aut Jennifer

gin.

Archie makes a deal with his was in Bhowani Junction, and GARBO FLASHBACK rival after the disaster, and who now plays Robert Brown- things should have been looking ing.

a MUST for your bookshelf up for him.

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However, he has to leave the plantation to buy a bearing for his old machine.

Vacarro, sure that Archio was responsible for the arson, makes use of the absence to make love to Baby Doll. He hopes to break

EMPIRE

SISEREZHİK. **480103

TO-DAY

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

* MOLE DENGATIONAL, SPORT OF THE CHA-CHA!

MARY KAYE YOU

SELEY CLOTE

To-morrow Morning Show At 11 a.m. "CASABLANCA”

The conjunction of these three stars should be enough to cast n promising horoscope for the film in Hongkong.

Camille

For picturegoers who have never seen "Camille"

ROXY & BROADWAY

SHOWING TO-DAY

Owing to length of picture please note change of times:

AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 & 9.40 P.M.

GINA LOLLOBRIGIDA

In

"THE MOST

BEAUTIFUL WOMAN

IN THE WORLD"

COLON by DE LUXE

with

VITTORIO GASSMAN

A 20th Century-Fox Ralasse

5 SHOWS TO-MORROW, Extra Performance of "THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN THE WORLD”. ROXY: At 12.00 Noon, BROADWAY: At 12.30 p.m.

BROADWAY: Tomorrow Special Morning Show At 11,00 a.m. M,G.M, TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

At Reduced Prican, woman,

let me say that it is an ex- perience not to be lightly dismissed.

Whatever may be your feel- ings about the elusive Garbo and the legend she, or her friends have built up about her talent, it la true that when sho made this picture she was A very beautiful woman and after all, isn't that what most people go to the cinema to soot

The story of the picture is frankly sentimental. It's the sort of

thing that makes on excellent operatio Ubretto, Gir! moets boy, both are attracted to each other, father is not sympatheile, considering the girl to bo of a lower social status then

son; father pleads, girl capitulates and is discovered to be dying of con- cumption.

What makes this picture so different is the cluzive appeal Harlow and of Garbo. Jean James Dean have became names with which to conjure because of their early deaths. Garbo la still slive, has made few pic- tures, yet has managed to re- main in the minds of

people who have probably only her in this ane picture.

It's worth a visit to conjec- ture whether she will be membered ten years from to day.

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New Films -At- A Glance

SHOWING

HOOVER and LIBERTY:

"Camille"; A revival of the Greta Garbo classic. KING'S End PRINCESS: "War and Peace": Tol- stoy's immense work ent down to three hours of MOZDON time. Andrey Hepburn, Mel Ferrer, Henry Fonds, Herbert Lom, Oscar ‘Homolka, METROPOLE

and STAB: Unguarded

Mo- -teen-ager (maio)

tos cher (fernalo) and a series of surgeative incidents.

A A

A

Bus

QUEEN'S and ALHAM-

BRA:

"Baby Doll":

of combination Stop" and "A Streetcar Named Desire", Carrol Baker.

ROXY and BROADWAY:

"The

Mort Beautiful Woman In The World": Operatio arias and Gina

Vit- Lollobrigida. With torio Gassman,

COMING

HOOVER and LIBERTY: "The Barroits of With- pole Street": Elizabeth Taylor. KING'S and PRINCESS: "Back From Eternity" Adventure in the Janglo of Bouth America, Anita Ekberg, Robert Ryan, Hoa Bleiger. METROPOLE and STAR:

"Bandido": QUEEN'S and ALHAM-

BRA: **The Bilept World": Underwater fishing, produced by Juoques-Yves Cousitau, ROXY and BROADWAY! "Oh Men! Oh Women!": Farco.

For That Perfect Evening → DINE & DANCE

at

Winner Restaurant

NIGHT CLUB

Music by BENNY & KI Melody Makers

AT USUAL PRICE WINNER HOUSE King's Road

QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

SDS MapR51

-- SHOWING TO-DAY

babydol

ELIA KAZAN'S

Modaction

151

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS'

nidest story'

WARNER BROS. KARL MALDEN-CARROLL BAKER ELI WALLACH

TO-MORROW AT 11,30 A.M. ONLY

QUEEN'S

WB's CinemaScope

"MR. ROBERTS"

James Cagay

Henry Fonda

ALHAMBRA

Warner Bros.

COLOR CARTOONS

-AT REDUCED PRICES

CAPITOL FRITZ

SHOWING TO-DAY

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

PARAMOUNT PRESENTS

SPENCER TRACY ROBERT WAGNER:

CLAIRE TREVOR

Érded and braced by EXWARD DMYTRYK

TECHNICOLOR' Schaarby by RASALT KÕIK DOUGALL

THE MOUNTAIN

Actually Plastenje upalimat Armint The IRENEHAVESH, 199

YISTAVISION

TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW AT 12.30 P.M.

CAPITOL

Dean MARTIN sorry LEWIS

“AT WAR WITH

THE ARMY"

RITZ

Phil CARRY

GORI BYANS

&

| "WYOMING RENEGADES”

In Technicolor

AIR - CONDITIONED

STAR · METROPOLE

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

GEORGE NADER

ESTHER WILLIAMS

UNGUARDED MOMENT

sai and ite shocking affarenqti!

JOHN SAXON • TECHNICOLOR

› DOMARO ANDREWS-LES TEDMAYNE + A UNIVERSAL-INTERNATIONAL PICTURE

STAR: 5 SHOWS TO - MORROW Extra Performance of

"THE UNGUARDED MOMENT” At 1839 pas

MORNING SHOW

TO-MORROW STAR: At 11.00 a.m. TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

PROGRAMME

Presented by Univerzal

METROFOLE: A1 11.00 4. FOX TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

At 12.30 pm, In CINEMASCOPE & COLOR Tyrone Power in “UNTAMED” At Reduced Prices

ORIENTAL MAJESTIC

AIN

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ANTHONY STEEL

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OFERIEN

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Morning Show To-MorroW 18.30 "THE LAST TIME I SAW PARIS"

CHECKPOINT

LISTIAN COLOUR

TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW AT REDUCED PRICKS "THR LONG GRAY, LINE"

in Cinematicope & Color

The Garrison Planers

present

TWO ONE — ACT PLAYS

"DARK BROWN” “HIGH TEA":

by

Philip Johnson

and.

Hugh Miller

FRIDAY & SATURDAY, MARCH 15th & 16th:

KING GEORGE'S HALL

THE MISSIONS TO SEAMEN

Seats at $4.00 ☎ $2.30. From: SKINNERS, Pedder Street,