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KING'S » PRINCESS

★ OPENS TO-DAY ★

WARNING!

This KATH kill youd

JERRY LEWIS

...funnier than ever

in the funniest picture ever

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THE DELICATE DELINQUENT

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DARREN MCGAVIN · MARTHA HYER!

Ferg ROBERT IVERS HORACE MIMAHON, proved by JERRY LEKAS warther and directed by

DON HUIRE A Paramount Pictures

PRINCESS

To-morrow at 11 a.m. Extra Morning Show

20th Century-Fox present a Programme of TERRYTOON TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS

Admission: $1.00. $1.50

LEE keatre

TO-DAY & TO-MORROW ONLY DAILY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M. BRILLIANTLY FILMED in all its magnificent spectacle and colour,

| The Rack Organisation presenta

A PAUL CZINNER— A. MAXWELL PRODUCTION

THE

Bolshoi WALLET

MED BELTRAN COLOUS

GALINA ULANOVA

RAISSA ETRUSHKOVA

NIKOLAI PADOTECHEV

and the BOLSHOI THEATRE MALLET

The ORCHETERA OF THE ROYAL OPERA HOUN COVERY SAROCH

MÁLNOMY HLM kunevad on PAUL <Z<NNER

ALSO: LATEST GAUMONT BRITISH NEWS Special Concession Rates to Students and Cultural Groups MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW AT 12.00 NOON

LAUREL AND HARDY

in

"THE DANCING MASTERS" Also: Technicolor Cartoons

At Reduced Prices: 50 Ct., 70 Cis. & $1.00

WATCH FOR THE OPENING DATE!

BROADWAT'S BIG BOY-LOVES-PA AMA-GIRL SENSATION IS ON THE SCREEN1

The

Pajama

WARNERCOLOR

Game

WARNER BROS

John Carol macile

Doris Day Affany y

COMING TO THE

ASTOR Kowloon LEE Hong Kong

HOOVER: LIBERTY

CAUSEWAY BAVNATELJSRVi

KOWLOON” FOR SOK

NOW SHOWING AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 and 9.30 P.M.

HORROR GRIPS EARTH

The

AS ROBOT RUNS AMOK!

Invisible Boy

TICKARO PHILIP

DIANE

EYER ABBOTT BREWSTER

ROBBY, THE ROBOT

SPECIAL SUNDAY MATINEE

HOOVER at 12.00 noon Grace Kelly Alec Guninness in

"THE SWAN

In CinemaScope & Color

: REDUCED ADMISSION LIBERTY at 12.30 p.m. ***John Derek”-” Elaina Stewart in ' THE ADVENTURES OF

HAJJI DARA!

In CinemaScope & Color

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1957.

Anthony Fuller's Column

CHRISTMAS FILM FARE IS

THERE is a very mixed fare for Christmas. Or

on the other hand, you might say it is like a Christmas stocking into which you dip and take your luck. In actual fact, there is no picture with a Christmaay flavour, but a few with a there are holiday atmosphere.

Take, for instance, "April Love," which will open at the 1 Roxy and the Broadway. have described it elsewhere as a twentieth century pastoral set to music.

I consider that a fairly good description. Pat Boone stare in it along with Shirley Jones.. It Is a nice wholesome picture, sund the songs are sweet," There is also a very nice and intelligent horse in the picture.

E

For romance, you will have to go along to the Star and Metropole. There, "Interlude" wil be on show. Here you get Junc Allyson and Rossabo Brazzi in a love drama fimed against the romance towns of Europe. This is quite a good show, and will suit the average adult extremely well.

VERY MIXED

Jerry Lewis eyes lovely Martha Hyer in "The Delicate Delinquent.”

The Delicate Delinquent." He against the holidays. It brings is assumed to have become Clark Gable back to the screen invalued with come juvenile clong with Yvonne Do Carlo. It gangy.

is an unusual theme, set in the deep South, in which Gable The Queen's and Alhambra buys a beautiful slave girl. The

in finding herself a slave." Jerry Lewis acting the goat in are offering a very good Rim Plot lies in the girl's background

Comedy? Then the King's and Princess is

with your show

APPAČONDITIONED.

Now beyond the above, I can- not be certain for at the moment there is a little confusion in Hongkong's cinema world as new buildings go up and others come down, and one thing and another,

Hoover and Liberty have

a film, "The

Invisible

Д sort of science-Action

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QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

TO-DAY

ENTIRELY NEW VERSION OF THE EXCITING ADVENTURES OF

ALF-BABA

and the 40 Thieves"

Boy,"

thing in which the Robot- alcals the picture. They have also

new print of Laurel and Hardy In "Bonnie Scotland, which

will be the choles for the holi- days.

English Dialogue

to

The next difficulty in the Leo and Astor group. The one was have re-opened, and the other to hayo

opened simultaneously. They have some Jolly good filma lined up, but unfortunately, the Astor cannot come inte line because they have not yet received per- mission to open their doors.

So the Lee has to carry on, have re- but although Ranks leased the Bolshoi Ballet to one theatre alone, that is an excep- 13on to the distributor's rule. Before the

"Pajana Game"

is released, the Astor must re- celve its permit. It is possible, however, that the Ballet will have a good run.

There you are then, that's the Fare. All the plc- Christmas

In their different ways. tures are bright and entertaining

STAR THEATRE METROPOLE NEW FILMS AT A GLANCE

⚫ GRAND OPENING TO-DAY • AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 and 9.30 P.M.

The most terrifying Suspense your heart has ever felt!

Man Afraid

CINEMASCOPE.

GEORGE NADER · PHYLLIS THAXTER TUM HOVEY HAROLD 2. STOKE - EDUARD FRANZ · RETA SUAM

A UNIVERSAL-INTERNATIONAL PICTURE

TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW STAR: At 11.00 a.m. ANDERSON'S FAIRY TALE COLOR CARTOON

METROPOLE: A 1100 am. COLUMBIA TECHNICOLOR

At Reduced Prices

CARTOONS

At 12.30 p.m.

Esther WILLIAMS In "NEPTUNE'S DAUGHTER" An M.G.M. Color Picture At Bedused Prices

GREAT CHRISTMAS ATTRACTION COMING TO STAR & METROPOLE

INTERNAZIONA

MARIANHE COOK

JUNE ALLYSON

{ FRANCOISE ROSAY - KEITH ANDES

ROSSANO BRAZZI Interlude

-CirimaSeved lesamomor.

FENCES HERER MELEE STATE (.

WATCH FOR THE GRAND OPENING DATEI

WINNER

HOUSE

SPECIAL

X'mas & New Year's Eves & Days Dinners Chinese Style Dinner Will Be Served Individually. Or In Partios Dance Music By

CELSO & his Quartetto Moderne Presenting

Miss Carmen Soriano Singing Sweetheart of Manila * LATEST SONG HITS:

* COLOURFUL BALLOONS

LOVELY TOYS

Where Music & Atmosphere Blend

Like Sparkling Champagne-

For Table Reservations Phone. 70301 -

SHOWING

LFE: "The Bolshoi Ballet"

th Galina lanova and Bolshoi Theatre Company, ROXY & BROADWAY; “John An of the Black Gangs." Italian spectacular in Eng.

1100VER & LIBERTY; "The layisible Roy." A solence-

thriller. Richard fiction

Eyer, Philip Abbot, Diana Brewster, and Robby the Robot,

KING'S & PRINCESS:

"The

Delicate Delinquent Jerry Lewis in a crasy comedy. QUEEN'S

ALHAMBRA:

*

"All-Baba and the Forty Thieves. A colourful ver slop of this pantomime classic, starring Fernandel STAR

METROPOLE:

COMING

LEE & ASTOR: "The Pajama Game." Doris Day. John and Kalit, Carol Haney, Eddie For, in the screen version of the Broadway KUBOEKR ROXY

& BROADWAY: "April Love." Pat Boone and Shirley Jones, in modern pastoral with five NOW Songs, HOOVER

A

"Man Afraid." A terrify- ine suspense thriller, star- ring George Nader, Phys Thoxler, and Tim Havey.

$ PRINCESS:

KING'S

Affair,” "Spanish absorbing KOMANDO

AB

in # breath-taking .of beauty. Carmen Sévilla and Richard Killey,

QUEEN'S

ALHAMBRA: "Band wi Angels." Clark Gable and Yvonne DeCarlo

2

La

S

STAR

LIBERTY:

Laurel and Hardy in their funniest comedy,

Spoland." cartoons.

Flus

Bunnie coloured

Deep South' rozmnoè. METROPOLE:

匙

"Interlude." A forbidden against

interinde ilmed

Europe's most enchanting SOCDCIT.

ROXY & BROADWAY

★ SHOWING TO-DAY ★ AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M. STIRRING ADVENTURE OF HATE AND LOVE! OUTSTANDING EPIC BETWEEN WAR AND PEACE!

In SUPERCINESCOPE

"JOHN OF THE BLACK GANGS"

COLOR BY FERRANIACOLOR

Starring: Vittorio GASSMAN • Constanco SMITH A Super Italian Picture in English Version Released by CATHAY ORGANISATION. ROXY & BROADWAY: 5 Shows To-morrow Extra Performance of "JOHN OF THE BLACK_GANGS" ROXY: At 12.00 Noon || BROADWAY: At 12.30 p.m. BROADWAY: To-morrow Special Morning Show

At 11.00 a.m.

· WALT DISNEY'S TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS At Reduced Prices

ROXY & BROADWAY

GALA PREMIERE ON TUES., 24TH DEC. 'AT 9.30 P.M.

The most WONDERFUL Entertainment that over

captivated your heart!

BOONE

JONES

April Love

BOOKINGS OPEN TO MORROW

STABBING

FERNANDEL

IN PORGEOUS RASTMANCOLOR

Relonend thru Cathay-Organisation.

QUEEN'S ADDED ATTRACTIONS ON THE STAGE

Plus

MARGARET

& MAURICE

in Thoir Sensational DANCE do VALENTINO &

WHIP BOLERO

•

BILLY BANKS

The Dynamic Singer

& Comedian from

Broadway

And Lovely SHIRLEY SIMMONS

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SUNDAY MORNING SHOW QUEEN'S of 11.30 a.m. ALHAMBRA ¡t 11 á.m. "ONCE UPON A TIME"

Starring: REAL-LIFE ANIMALS- AND

"THE RED BALLOON”

ALHAMBRA-OPENING TO-MORROW

“ANIMAL FARM”

Color in Technicolor

ORIENTAL MAJESTIC

AIR

'CONDITIONED

SHOWING TO-DAY

AT 2.30, 5.20, 7,30 a 9.30 PM.

A BREATH-TAKINGLY_BOLD PHAMA FULL OF ACTION!

LOVE AND MURDER WERK BITY A

KISS APARTI

Pier ANGELI

MA FERRER

Jahn KERA Bichele MORGAN TheVINTAGE

CINEMASCOPE ■ METROCOLDE WIN THEODORE AİKEL LEIF ERICKSON

Morning Show To-Morrow 12.30 "SON OF SINBAD"

To-Day At Special Times 2.30, 5.00, 7.20 & 0.40 p.m.

ON OUR NEW "PERLUX" SCREEN!

Tyrone POWER Ava GARGNER". Mel FERRER · Eriol ELYRIE Eddie ALBERT

JANURE'S

ERNEST

MENING'WAY'S

SINAISO

ASCOPE DOLOR NU DE JUNY

Morning Show. Tp-Alorrow "DEND OF THE BIVER”

CAPITOL RITZ

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

Cortadicare

To:Merrow Herning Showe John PAYNE ↑ R903|| BRAGAN

SSEE'S PARTNER" TECHNICOLOR

OPENS TO-DAY

At 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 & 0.40 PM.

TYRONE POWER

ACX THOMPSON

KIM NOVAK

THE

EDDY

RIA SHAW

Jo-marrow Special Show At 12.10 p.m. "O, K, NERO!!

EVERY PARTY

MUST HAVE

BEAT THE BUZZ

(CHAD VALLEY)

GAME FOR ALL AGES

OETAINABLE FROM ALL LEADING STORES