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KING'S - PRINCESS

SHOWING TO-DAY

THE SMALLEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD INVADES THE U.S.A)

PETER SELLERS JEAN SEBERG WILLIAM HARTNELL

THE

MOUSE

THAT ROARED

A

DAVID ROSSOFF

LED MCKERN

'U'

TECHNICOLOR"

Sestrple by Bugan machowsks and stamŤ MANN

PANINGIDA

MaidMint mal 14 pamanak NDERIKS UILTUM #lagleg justifi)

Bir by JaK JRPOLU

AN OPEN ROAD PRODUCTION # COLUMBIA PICTURE

PRINCESS

WEEK-END MORNING & MATINEE SHOWS At Reduced Pricon 20th Century-Fox Presents Fontaine Joan Collins

Color by De Luxe

TO-DAY AN 12.30 p.m.

James Mason Joan

Dorothy Dandridge Michael Rennie in "ISLAND IN THE SUN" In CinemaScope • To-morrow At 11.00 a‚m. 20th Century-Fox Presents "A PROGRAMME OF MIGHTY MOUSE AND VARIETY COLOR TERRYTOONS"

KING'S'

Dir

· Conditioned

To-morrow At 12.30 p.m. Jayne Mansfield • Joan Collins Dan Dailey in "THE WAYWARD BUS"

in CinemaScope

SUNDAY MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW AT 11 A.M. At Reduced Prices.

"UNIVERSAL-INTERNATIONAL TECHNICOLOR

CARTOONS"

HOOVER · GALA

TEL 71371

TEL. 52979

HELDOVER FOR THE 4th WEEK TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.00, 7.25 . 9.50 P.M. (Please note the re-arranged time of performances)

Vido Vision +7ECHNICOLOR

CARY GRANT

EVA MARIE SAINT

JAMES MASON

The Master

of Suspense

tells his

greatest tale!

- ALFRED HITCHCOCKS NORTH BY NORTHWEST

Special Matinee At Reduced Admission To-morrow

Gala Theatre at 11.00 a.m. Gala Theatro at 12,00 noon

Hoovor Theatre at 11.00 a.m. Hoover Theatre at 12.15 p.m.

Universal Pictures present COLOR CARTOONS

Richard Burton Frederic March in "ALEXANDER THE GREAT"

M-G-M presents TOM and JERRY COLOR CARTOONS

Danny Kaye Pier Angeli in "MERRY ANDREW"

Coming Soon to Hoover, Gala & Star

GENTLEMEN PREFER GIRLS! AND SHIRLEY'S OUT TO PROVE ITI

M-G-M

DAVID NIVEN SHIRLEY MacLAINE · GIG YOUNG ..

Academy Award-Win

ASK ANY

GIRL”

IN METROCOLOR!

In Cinemas a 1 LATERPE PRODUCTION

METROPOLE

Daici's Colossal Production

and Spectacle!

machiko kyo as

Princess

SEN

TO-DAY

At 2.30, 5.30, 7.30

9.30 p.m.

In Eastman COLOR

Big in Color

A Japanese Picture --- with English Subtitles

SPECIAL MATINEES SUNDAY AT REDUCED PRICES: 11.00 a.m. Paraiñount COLOR CARTOONS. 12.30, p.m. Elizabeth Taylor in "A PLACE IN THE SUN"

667 THE

THE "CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1959.

FILMS

THE Golden Age of Comedy" (Roxy and Broadway) is 90 minutes of long, lond laughter. Why ever they stopped making Alms which give you such a generous ration of laughter, I do not know. My owD who opinion is, women, dictate the fashions and modes of everything in this tired old world, have put, up the "stop" signal, Women take

themselves moro seriously than men do; they don't think it funny tó see someone stop a fruit ple with his face. Consequent- ly, no good fun these days.

I remember being given a programme as I entered a Ger- man muste hall, which begged the question, "Is humour inter- national In then proceeded to answer the question in philosophic manner that would be dared only

by a GerTILIA music hall programune,

The answer is, surely, that humour as humour, is interna- tional. A pompous church- warden tripping over a harsock and silly the collection; a man slipping up on a banana skin; în raceurately almed fruit pie hitting an unsuspect- 10 victim; outbursts of

ima- tional temper, and the sequences of such; surely all these belong to international Inughter.

515

quickly in Polding as Poplar, Toronto or Tibet,

con-

RE-N

CURRENT & COMING by ANTHONY FULLER

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, in a mirthquaking sequence from "The Golden Age of Comedy," showing at the Roxy and Broadway.

generally necessary with our The direction is sensitive, Western films,

the photography beautiful, as it catches the quicter mood of this ancient SOITOW of the beautiful Princess Sca.

trouble 13, owing

23 to combination of clrcumstances, the smallest country in the world does win,

over ot Peter Sellers takes

They need no explanation, they ar immediately under- blood. An audience responds the point of the expedition of in conquest, and seeing that Jean

Seberg is mughter which makes the does not do so badly.

is part of the lool, he world go rounut

Crazy it might be, but work out, it has just that touch of suggests ita

of

it

"The Golden Age Comedy," after explaining one

Or two perennial gaza, gives you plausibility which the sunimit sequences from the pobility. vintage years of comody cinema. You will 500 people you

The Goon fans will love it, anxi

gain Peter Sellers will

never expected to soc again. many admirers,

Will Rogers, guying the It only remains to say that lonely quick trigger cowboy, n the London premiere, small years before

of Bob Hope was diplomats

many ever heard of.

invited to s20 Two beauties, countries were whose lives were cut off by the film. Let us hope they did tragedy, who entered the film not get any ideas. world via custard farts ant Secondly, when Il comes to slapstick, Jean Harlow, "the laughing at bureaucracy in rengine platinum blonde" high places, It does seem that and Carole Lombard,

British Ams are pointing the Ben Turpin that cross-eyed way. And lastly the film comes genius, who Was making the in Technicolor, and was made front page of Kinema Komie, by Colurabin-British. during the first World War. Harry Langdon, another clown, for whom tragody lurked so near. And last of all, Laurel and Hardy. 1 wonder how many "Geordies" realise that Stan Laurel came from North Shields? another Japanese classic, The picture In the centre of made into a flim by the

PRINCESS

Sen,"

"P(Metropole) is yet

Uils page is 3 posed still. Daiei Company, photo- It i taken from a flm which explaited the possibilities of the graphed in Eastman Colour. first traffic snaris, Frustration

those who come new to lcuding to rising blood pressures these

Tomantic Ams of uld from that to this....until

Japan, 1 will permit myself a

For

I

But first an observations. have already pointed out the similarity between the feudal customs of Japan and England.

"Printer

example.

tem.

Sen," is

2

further

The screenplay is a represen- tative truly of the countless women of Japan who knew no freedom under the feudal sys.

Now although

West- many emners would query this, Japan claims she entered the modern

nt about the end of the after. long 16th Century. 1urbulent elvil war period. They

alalm the door to the modern age was forced open by Hideyoshi Toyotomi, who, allhough born roso rapidly to become Japan's zcal ruler, As I say, we would bearcely reckon that the dawn cf the modern age; and would definitely class a war lord as a feudal remainder.

C

commoner,

taina were married off to rival clans, really as hostages to peace. ...

at least it was hoped so.

will

Perhaps some viewers, eg 1, be reminded of the un- happy Ophelia, especially when Sen is more or les told; "Get thou to a nunnery."

So the charm of this film is the recapture of a forgotten mood, the rediscovery of a love story that had no happy ending. Yet a charm and a beauty, all

And made artistically.

its

own.

The lovely Machiko Kyo plays the role of the Princess, with o Ane supporting cast.

FILM BRIEFS

The similarity to England's YOU probably read in a fondul age is seen in the ex- mid-week edition of podleni marriages whereby the China Mail that “North the daughters of the chief- By Northwest" broke all local records for a first week run at the Box Office. The same thing happened The aim opens with a scene in New York where it the long-besieged Osaka opened at the Radio City Castic, We K.Q. of the Music Hall on August 6, Toyotomi Clan, before a general and in seven days grossed attack made by the Tokugawa 208,395 dollars. In all, 147,061 paying customers filed in to see 35 showings of the film. Hongkong is

in

the trafle jam seems like a longer explanation than is Army,

battle fell.

And Laurel and Hardy who began the violence" drive, off blithely, leaving their victims in the hands of the exasperated

taelfie cops,

This film about two allors on leave, stil, I think. rates the loudest, longest, and most laughs, of any Alms in the comedy market, before or since,

Let that be as it may, it was the ple-throwing Laurel and Hardy which had me doubled up. The whole thing is as if the storming of the Bastille carried out by a pie-throwing mob.

was

The fun is, it is the intent who suffer....for instance, the chap in the barber's chair, re- laxing into warm comfort, when a pie sails through the door and with all the precision of a guided missile, hlts nim squarely on)

the face.

This and much more. It it Is laughter you want, then the Roxy and the Broadway have it in abundance.

"THE

Mouse That Roared" (King's and Princess) has a farcical plot of with just that leaven satirical truth, which could have lifted it to the great | film comedy-political stan- dard.

As it is, it will be remembered for Petur Seller's triple role, the first as a war hero leading on army of 20 mon to invade the U.S.A. Second as the Grand Duchess Gloriann, anch the third pa the

Count Mountjoy.

suave

The plot, as I have suggested. has just that touch of subtlety which mak It an astringent obscrvation of current affairs.

A Cabinet meeting is taking place in the smallest country of the world.

The exchequer is exhausted; the problem to what to do

Ото minister miggest that they declare (war on America, lose the war and get enormous old afterworks.

This foolproof Idem, takes on Immediately, bat mother minister has extrtious doubla. "What Emppens if we winst” /ho RSKU

*Such an 10en is so riflaniou 'Chat: 1) gown' a big laugh. Than

NEW FILMS AT A GLANCE North By North-

SHOWING

KOXY & BROADWAY: "The Golden Age of Comedy." Sequences taken tram the comedies which had the customers helpless in the alles during the first three A decades of this century. sheer rollicking mirthquake that will send you falo the Kirect aching with laughter. Laurel and Hardy; WELL Rogers; Jean Harlow; Carole Lombard: Ben Turpin; and Harry Langdon.

KING'S & PRINCESS: "The In Mouse That Roared." which the smallest country In the world declares war on the States with the anti- cipation of getting licked

Funny, and getting aid. Bubile, 1 wise comment En a foolish strain. Poter Sellers in a triple role, ald- ed by Jean Seberg and William Hartnell.

bero

man

METROPOLE: "Princess Sen." A Dale big screen produc- tlon, photographed in East- Colour. Story has Japanese feudal period set- ting, based on Osaka Castle, and tells of thoses marriages of convenience between the feudat clank. Beautifully made and charmingly told. Starring the beautiful Machiko Kyo as the Princess Sen. HOOVER & GALA: "North by Northwest." Fourth week- end of Alfred Hitchcock's master thriller, retained be- fans are starting to CRUSO pile in at the last moment: Cary Grant; Eva Marie Saint; and James Mason. Vista Vision and Technicolor, LEE & ASTOR: Season of Cantonese Opera extended to October 12, when they will show a backlog of out- standing British and Ameri- can film productions.

COMING

ROXY & BROADWAY; "My Unde," French film which caused a sensation In both Britain and the States (half page in "Time") gela, and rives us, a lucky, break, fi Hongkong, Jroques Tail is sort "of Chaplinesque in bla comment 01 modern times... "TË i sad, not Yen", Wist- ful, with two left feet, ho, stumbles and Ddgets the through this comedy, little man (figuratively). In revolt against the soulicss mechanisation of life. Of course, every great clown wania to play tragedy. so does M. Tati... hui be is a GREAT clown.. KING'S & PRINCESS; “The Buccaneer" Colourful piece of history-fe, which gives Yul Brynner turn'ni jakinar on the Delilah Navy, and. giving" {} a. pasting" a-la”, Hollywood. Brynner/as Jean- Lafite, a pirate who saw the }ight womewhere about, the eighth gwolf Chariwa Estion: Claire Blooma and Charles

N

the

Boyer, make up the star- spangled cast. Yo-ho-ko, and a bottle of Coket METROPOLE: "Around

World in 80 Days" sifti scheduled as next certain production. This will be ̈a re-show

Milke Todd's dramzito and Colourful travelogue based on Jules Verne's novel.

of

. HOOVER & GALA: “AIK Any Glil" Romaatio comedy which has little Bed Blaing- hood, Shirley, Haspaine meeting'up' with the New York Wolves.`/Slick); uuart, catchy and quickûre,' with a fine cat. Dav1⁄44 Nhun, dis Young, and B

Shirley Mao-

Lame.

LEE & ASTORISTIEK BAY.”

in which Harley Mulla plays a Dildo girl, who becomes in- volved in a murder! hunt, Brink, well directed, with

performances + Troni.

John B

Boomer

iB

LEE

TO-NIGHT

at 8:00 p.m.

"BIG WAN TIN CANTONESE 'OPERA presenti "THE COLOURED PHOENIX ́ LANTERN"

(燈鸞彩)

BY REQUEST REPEAT PERFORMANCES Commencing Monday, 12th Octo. 1959

LANA TURNER

JOHN GAVIN

SANDRA DEE DAN O'HERLIKY

E' SKWIK KONSTY

Imitation

of Life

COLOR

SUSAN KOHNER ROBERT ALBA- QUANITA MOORE - MAHALIA JACKSON

A UNIVERSAL-INTERNATIONAL PICTURE ́... ́

EARL GRANT Lin

Mator

TO-NIGHT at 8.00 p.m.

SIEN FUNG MING CANTONESE OPERA prozantı "THE_REGENERATION IN THE RED-PLUM CHAMBER"

(記梅紅世再)

ROXY & BROADWAY

SHOWING TO-DAY ★

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

Proudly presents -----------

"SOME OF THE FINEST SIGHT GAGS

FROM WHAT MANY PEOPLE CONSIDER THE FUNNIEST PICTURES EVER FILMED!"

BRING THE FAMILY! EVERY AGE IS THE GOLDEN ARE FOR...

THE GOLDEN AGE OF COMEDY

LAUREL & HARDY - WILL ROGERS - CARÓLE LOMBARD - JEAN HARLOW BEN TURPIN - HARRY LANGOON - KEYSTONE COʻS

Laorti

& Hardy

BROADWAY: At 11.00 a.m.

BROADWAY: 5 Shows To-morrow, Extra Performance of "THE GOLDEN AGE OF COMEDY" At 12.15 p.m.

TOMORROW MORNING SHOW ● AT REDUCED PRICES

ROXY: At 12,00 Noon 20th Century-Fox presents In CinemaScope & Color "THE SUN ALSO RISES"

Starring: Tyrone Power

Ava Gardner

LATEST

WARNER BROTHERS

TECHNICOLOR

CARTOONS

PROGRAMME

ORIENTAL MAJESTIC

BIR CONDITIONED

than most SHOWING TO-DAY

duo to

west, places. It come on at the Empire, At £30, 530, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m. Leicester Square, Just A MOTION PICTURE THAT about now. There will be FACES THE FACTS OF TEIN». 10 general release in AGERS! Britain until November 23.

*

*

The Rank Organisation, who distribule Anglo Amalgamated films out here, have been sitting on a comedy for the last few weeks, "Curry On Nurse." It is chako full of the stuff that somehow places this kind of comedy so high. Good situa- tions and lightning-like gags.

It is about a hospital, and you watch as it Alls

up with customers in the men's ward. All different types.

You have to be quick;' in fact, a little ahead, It's so quick. A chap is taken to the bathroom. He kicks up a row. Says the nurse, "What a fuss you are making about a little thing."

Later, the same nurse, giving an injection says, "And to think I called you a baby?"

**

***

**

At the Century Theatre, Auck-

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 9.30° PM;

A story of lost

innocence!

previnis

Morning Show Tomorrow -12.30 "THE SQUARE PROF

RITZ

land, which generally only rates FINAL SHOWINE TOD

a three days show, the first of | As 2.30, E32,

this "Carry On

övér a mozidir.

" series Tan

The Alm WAS

"Carry On Sergeant."

In Christchurol, "Carry. Ou Nurse,”..." had to finish up after the State a`sir 'weeks 'TUD ́AR Theaire was already committed toʻ... another" filma. However, the Mayfair took the film, and it ran for twelve weeka.

• In short," "Carry On Nurse" has broken sit 'rooorðs In- New Zealand.c

***

Qulio a number of people who got to know the people who were working on "Ferry To Hongkong,” will remember Gerry Lewis, who was handling Ranks publicity out here,

Cherry has resigned from Pinewood, and .ba. become Director of Publicity for Bryan-. slim's "This Entertainer" which halstarted production Bitippertoni,

'at

ROBERT

FESS

PA JACK

TAYLOR LOUISE PARKER LORD HANGMAN

- TO-MORROW ---- GORDON SCOTTE SARA SHANTIN AM "TAZZANA GELATENT ADVENEDŽ V 22

W. H. Hudson's great romanti

adventure of

· South'América

AUDREY HEPBURN ANTHONY PERKINS GREEN MANSIONS. (...), Kia, forħidden largely at

beyond the Luares

TROCOLOR

to Start LEE J. COBB

Bunday Morning Show "ISLAND, IN THE SUN”

CAPITOL

SHOWING TO-DAY ——

At 2.30, 5.00, 7.20 & 9.45, P.M.

THEY GAUGHT ALLHELM TR

AND HURLES

IT BACK

AT

Show

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