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KING'S PRINCESS

NOW SHOWING

At 2.30, 6.15, 7.20 & 9.30 pm || At 2.30, 6.30, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m.

..A

A bottle of Coca Cola Froo to all

patrons at 2.30 p.m. performance today.

RKO RAINO PICTURES

"THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1957.

FILMS

BY JANE ROBERTS

THREE GIRLS IN TOWN

This Week's Films

In Pictures

QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

SHOWING TO-DAY

18 OF THESE SURVIVORS MUST

OVERBOARD!

GO

WHICH WOULD YOURSÄVI

Full of Funi

EDDIE

THEIR

FIRST MOVIE TOGETHERI

Full of Laughs! Full of Songs!

DEBBIE

FISHER REYNOLDS BUNDLE OF JOY

ADOLPHE MENJOU

TOMMY NOONAN

PITA TALBOT • LITTA MERKELSE

MELVILLE COOPLA DILL GOODWIN HOWARD MINEAR

by AND EACH THEY A

Seven day by RAAN KEASAA, ADMETERSON ARTİZMAN · Bury my POŻIE JACKSON

BORGULA TAUROS

Medal Membery and Dances Papa or MCK CETTE

MACORDON » Me by JOLÍF, APRON

TECHNICOLOR

Valmiminikamkantenatalak

RKO.SCOPE

--EXTRA MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW

KING'S at 11.15 a.m.

BUD & LOU in

"LOST IN HAREM"

An M-G-M Picture

PRINCESS at 11,00 a.m. 20th Century-Fox

· MIGHTY MOUSE TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

At Reduced Admission $1.00 & $1.50

PRINCESS

TO-MORROW

SOPHIA

Loren in "Boy On A Dolphin" The girl on a dolphin is assisted in her aquatic por- suits by Ladd and Webb.

Stereotyped

at 12.10 p.m.

Run For The Sun:

MINERVA Movietone, presents an Indian Film

SOHRAB MOD1 in

“RAJ HATH”

Also starring Madhubala. Pradeep Kumar, Ulhas, Kammo,

Murad and other

Produced & Directed by SOHRAB MODI

At Regular. Prices Book Early!

-

HOOVER LIBERTY

CAUSEWAY BAY (TEL-72571/

*

KOWLOON: TEL #014K 80249

SHOWING TO-DAY

13.

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

No. 1 pilot was killed, No. 2 was wounded! What would you do if you were the hostess?

M-G-M'S MASTERPIECE OF SUSPENSE!

DORIS DAY LOUIS JOURDAN BARRY SULLIVAN FRANK LOVEJOY

IN

JULIE

An ARWIN Production

AN MIG-M Moignée"

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SUNDAY MATINEE AT 12:00 REDUCED ADMISSION

HOOVER THEATRE

Gary Cooper Burt Lancaster in

"VERA CRUZ"

LIBERTY THEATRE Ava Gardner Humphrey Bogart in "THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA"

AIR - CONDITIONED

STAR METROPOLE

SHOWING TO.

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

RKHARD

TREVOR

WIDMARK HOWARD .GREER

JANE

RUN FOR

SUPERSCOPE

Fruă be TCCHIOLO

INTS!

THE SUN

çaēlamoyiligkonkavedenimb) Miund

+

STAR & METROPOLE, 5 SHOWS, TO-MORROW, Extra Performance of "RON FOR THE SUN"

At-12.30 p.mes

TO-MORROW SPECIAL Morning show STARBAI 13,00/2.021 || METROPOLE: At 11.00 .rt. THREE STOOGES COMEDY FOX TECHNICOLOR TECHNICOLOR CARTOONSİ

and

CARTOONS

- "At Rednous Prices»m

الذي المرة

DEBBIE Reynolds in "Bundle Of Joy"

She has a baby, and nobody believes her story that she's

as innocent as she looks..

DORIS

Day in "julio"

Julie is on the run and Louis Jourdan's after her. The snug is that he's her -usband.

whe no

11 Ability to faint with the published record that field. The inevitable happens eyes and

doesn't maller 2 Marilyn was with Fox, was re- and the couple Juckily coast gracefully

and afterwards was He is adamant, I've said before that ' down in the middle of the jungle great deal in a film of this sort, lensed

the fact that the brought back. with nothing more lethal than nor does

made however, that there tired of seeing getting

a disheveled hair-style for the picture must have been

blunder about her dismitsai, ro pretty girls with little act- girl and a becoming gash out on a very low budget.

I happened to like It-perhaps panie to retrieve her. ing ability, vacant expres the forehead for the man. sions and tom shirts being rever Howard, older than the had a

Enter now our two vikalns, the mood in which I went along "She was under contract when

little to do with my

don't we had a stock company of some lugged through swamps and here I believe I forgot to men- enjoyment-and carried half fainting through tion that his name is Richard expect an epic, the colour and thirty or forty your people." Jungles in order to prove Widmark has so much more even pace will compensate for his version begins, "She couldn't

churn then the so-called author the stereotyped story. that the hero is a he-man,

if you

that when he meets is demise

Not so Peter Little To Be Said

1001-

{

I seem to remember having I was quite sorry. beon equally rude about serven Van Eyck. As a German

eer in "Allack" he was suit- Englishmen who go about call ably convincing, but as a con-

"oid boy" and ing strangers

offirmed Nazi, hiding away in the Abandon Ship:..

It would be nice to be able Germans, who la this year of jungle until the day of libera 1957 persist in being unsubtle on his performance is, to be to say something good about about the glory of coming from kind, mediocre.

do a thing then. And she didn't ket an opportunity to do any

ng except a few walk-cas.

"There was nothing remark- able about hor-nothing to make me think any more of her than some of the other girls I had.

"When there was on economy

wave, we let her go along with company. She went to cnother most of the others in the stock studio, which didn't use her.

pure Aryan stock. An added bete And so to Jane Greer, Hers "Abandon Ship but with ruir is the simple peasant who is a new type of attraction and out risking the possibility is browbeaten by the aristocratie the coolness, lack of the more of a sit-down strike from That shows how unremarkable Englishmen and the serogant obvious, comettet curves and my al too patient type- the girl was. German yel is wooed into swet general air of restraint was re-writer there is little to be playing a small role h The reasonableness by an American freshing. whose only form

That her acting is

"A year or so later I saw her

Asphalt Jungle. I was looking communica limited to a widening of the said for it.

for a girl for a part in All About Tyrone Power, as the man in tion with hun is an air of help-

charge of en over-filed lifeboat Eve. I liked her work. It was an oll repeated

crammed with grond hotel flashy, but for what it was I characters whose dialogue is as thought she was perfect, hackneyed as their reactions,

lessness and

"Grnelas".

In spite of all this there is something about "Run For The Sun" that makes it an entertain. ing Blm. The plot is about as subtle as a sledgehammer and the stock characters incntioned

their above need never oper mouths if originality of dialogue is what you're after, yet suk- prisingly though you and your- self caring what happens to the

hero and heroine.

Literary Slumming

For

eminent writer, Richard Widmark's colloquial college Americanese, is ulerary slumming of the first order and Even Jane Greer's suggestion that he should talk as good as he wrlles, falls on deaf ears,

He's suppose to be a serious minded author who has sudden- ly stopped writing because of pereanul worries and problems. I seem to remember having read somewhere that, these identicul

troubles acted us a spur to the Imaginative "class who make. their living by the typewriter- however, Mr Widmark is mould- cd from different clay and from being a 'secker after truth" be has descended to being a Wider. from reality

This is where the girl comes in.

the

Shele the, representative of a magazine opecializing in And- Ing out the truth-if the sub- ject has been so dull af-to-bb unsordid-about» personalities and events in the news. Natural- ly she can't tell the object of her investigations that he is Just another headline so romanes has to creep it. If you haven't guessed by now this by pure accident these two find that they have a lot in common and tlint the Netion of, love develops Into the fact of affection, then you must be either very young, o never have' attended an American produced movie' be- fore.

Young Lovers

Of Into the blue fy our young lovers in pain ald . two monter that the "Auftraff Con sroller "af" Kal Taqwould pi bibly haver allow" on tile air-

New Films -At-

A Glance

a

SHOWING

HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Julle"; Doris Day is the Istest screen wife to be on the run from a jealous husband. With Louls Jourdan, Barry Sullivan, Frank Lovejoy, KING'S and PRINCESS: "Bundle of Joy": Debbie has baby and its alt good clean fun. With Zadle: Fisher, L. METROPOLE and STAR: "Kun For the Sun": Richard Wismark and Jane Grear stumble-en a mystery in»«ther jungle and have to 'slosh through an awful lot of water before the happy ending. QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "Abandon-Shipi')----★ British tale of shipwreck with Tyrone Power 25 the "Gallant Captain". ROXY and BROADWAY: *Boy On A Dolphin: Bophia Loren, and Alan Ladd ve low in the water with Clifton Webb looking on.

COMING

HOOVER and LIBERTY:

"I'

Dog's Life""; Romance wrd, a...-dag. Jeff Richards, Jazma Lewis, Edmund : Gwont, -Dean Jagger and “win- fre":

KING'S and -PRINCESS: "H¢llywood or Bud”, A

·REATtin and Lowie comes. 2 JAMALKAN QUEEN'S and - ALHAM-

BRA: The

Wrong Max Henry Fonda Bi angeln talu s about vàn Innocenti maiASE Włomn setio make him look guilty, kg dCA, MARK ROXY and BROADWAY: "The Way To The Gold": Adventure etc. With --Follrey-Hunterr

looks as though he were acilag

in a nightmare Alm designed for

dancers and execuled by a Greek chorus.

'I Gambled'

"I gambled, re-signed her un- Poer Marie Lohr, whose pre- der long-term contract. I put vious work 1 have always ad- her on the real road to stardom.” The written word here glves an inired, must have shuddered mere realistically than in A Impression of an outsize Zanuck Town Like Alice" at her ap- So. That his ego is certainly

big not even he could deny. pearance and dialogue.

Idea Good

He talks as readily of his olar gambles that falled as he does of his riumphs. "I've had a con-

The idea was good, but it's viction a number of times that certain personnities would come only too obvious that it was

through as stars and they vehicle with which to build up didn't," he confesses.

tho British blue-eyed boy,

One such personality Is Ed- Stephen Boyd, and to emphasise mund Purdom, "Purdom?" he the appeal of Linda Christian's echoes sharply. "I took him out ex-husband-Tyrone Power.

of desperation. I had to have The problems of the castaways somebody when Brando walked of the Bicboat never come

10 out of The Eryptian"

to

life and even that,veleron actor All the same; he is still not James Hayter brings little con- viction to his part.

Mal Zete sure he was competely wrong there, "He was pushed way over terling would have done better his head," he says and you can have Buck to refugee understand what he means. "I but characterisations if the black still thinle he has talent, and while camera is going to be hasn't found himself yet. He ຕ arkin to her t least muy still become one of the big she'd get some sympathy that ones."

way, and as for Lloyd Nolan

Well!

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SUNDAY MORNING SHOWS

AT 11.30 A.M.

QUEEN'S

ALHAMBRA Columbia Pictures Present..

"A SONG TO REMEMBER" "THE THREE STOOGES".

Starring

and

J

Cornel Wilde • Morlo Obaron!! VARIETY PROGRAMME

AT REDUCED PRICES!

ROXY & BROADWAY

SHOWING TO-DAY ★ Please noto thango of times:

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

"ALAN

CLIFTON SOPHIA LADD WEBB LOREN

BOY ON A DOLPHIN

GÓLON BY, “chilambing " CINEMASCOPE BELUM ADS SORSTES + «FORGE MESTRALIA

ROXY. &. BROADWAY: 5 Shows To-morrow, Extra Performance of "BOY ON A DOLPHIN" ROXY: At 12.00 Noon || BROADWAY: At 12.30 p.m.

BROADWAY: To-morrow Special Morning Show At 11.00 am. M-G-M TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS At Reduced Prices

ORIENTAL MAJESTIC

TO-DAY

CONDITIONED

AT 2.30, 5.30. 7.30 & 1,30 P.M. The Most realitaklog Adventure That Even Tore Mountain & Huy

20th CENTURY-FOX

presents

HYD

MILLAND-QUINN, PASET

THE RIVER'S

EDGE CINEMASCOPE

COLD!

LOK

Morning Show To-Morrow 12.30 "DARK AVENGER"

SHOWING TO-DAY: AŁ 2.80, 8,20, 7:30 a 9.30.5.0 The.Greatest Show On Earth!

TID DE CONTAROTNE

PRIZES JEANKARTES

Folies Bergere

HADA GRAY

(English Sub-Titles). Distributed by PATHE OVERSEAS LTD.

Sunday Morning iShow 12.30 "JUNGLE GODDESSTM

Monroe Will Never EMPIRE CAPITOL RITZ

Touch Grable

"Monroe will never touch the heights of Betty Grable, even if she keeps going for tem years." Darryla E Zanuck, the biggest movie gambler Hollywood... his known minkes this state- mont emphatically. He takes production credit for all tho Grable pictures at Twentieth Century-Fox, except for a couple made before ho moved in there.

In

stard,

comparing these Zanuck is talking in terms not; of talent bul in profite and Josses di-the gaming table of thà box" olles. The money sho tractel" The exclaims--of Groble

No many years the

• WEN “Number One in the

Podle. Her spletures. grossed mord thaa'any other star, I think, including Shirley Temiolati ****That lows, DOW sofia th Monroe clair,

Zanuck

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THE

VAGABOND KING

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At 2.30, 520, (1.30 a 9.30 p.m..

in his heart-l's empty if he doesn't haya a woman töprés:

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