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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

December 14, 1940.

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The Doctor Takes a Wife

"The Doctor Takes a Wife" comes.to the King's to- morrow. But actually he didn't take a wife. It was she who captured him, following the customary sport of the. dominant sex,

PRIDE AND

PREJUDICE

She was June Cameron (Loretta Young) author of the best-selling novel. "Spinsters. Ain't Spinach." He was young Tim Sterling (Ray Milland), a doctor Two brilliant stars have been perfectly teamed in. "Pride and yearning for professorships Prejudice," which is now show- and no lover of spinach. ing at the Queen's and Alhambra Thautres. They are Greer Gar-

En route for New York they son, of "Guoilbye, Mr. Chips!" get mixed up in a wedding party, fame, and Laurence Olivier. and "Just Married" scrawled on who gave one of his greatest the back of their car, and the performances in "Wuthering reporters well and truly trussing Heights."

them up in matrimony the fol- In the charming and amusing story lowing morning.

of pride, prejudice and ranntre in early nineteenth-century England, alapted from Jane Auston's novel. Miss Garson In east Elizabeth Bernel, eldest of five unwedded aughters of modest family. When Batey, wealthy member of a proud So June has to write a sequel and distinguished unse, comes to

America's No. 1 Spinster mar ried! All that spinach unspun! What a betrayal of America's spinsters!

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with

Hye in the village, the lennet cap

Trance

to the spinach, "Marriage Ain't is set for alm. Measles," and find a new public. At first he inclined to look Which means that Tim, though down on the untouth and obvious engaged to Marylin Thomas Hennets, and he breaks un

the (Gall Patrick), has to stay Bgley, and Jane Bennel, because of his best friend, Mr. "married" to keep up the sales he does not think she is worthy of, of the new novel.

Later, he discovers that family tradition is 2101

Is not nearly so Important A pretty plot, you will are a raminer, when he himself falls in. 16 unravelled

an infinity of love with Elizabeth. coinle scenes. One which will leave Mr. Bennet is played by Edmund' you limp is where Loretta is forcibly Gwenn, and Mary Boland is seen concealed in Ray Milland's car while rain in a hilarious comedy role as he is talking to his Banece, This is the mother of the brood of five in the best tradition of Hollywood Maureen O'Sullivan plays the gentle craziness.

Jane Bennet. Ann Rutherford is Reginald Owen is seen in the port THE ROARING TWENTIES `DR. CYCLOPS (QUEEN'S)- Lydia, livellest of the sisters, Marsh of that king of all Christmas-haters, (KING'S)—They were indeed ram- The fantastic story was obviously Scrooge, and from the moment he pageous, those nineteen-twenties, and written largely to exploit the skill of shambles into his offee and snurls nasvhere more so thon in America, the trick cameraman, and it may be "Humbug" at the greetings of his The great experiment of Prohibition said entirely to succeed from this beaningly cheerful nephew he holds was tried, and led to an orgy of angle.

crime which seems funtastic und un- attention

real to the youth of to-day.

A scientist, Dr. Thorkel (Albert Gene Lockhart plays Bob Cratchi Although this aim is in essence Dekker) discovers a method of re- -- more rotund Cratchit, probably, the story of the rise and fall of a ducing human beings to about than Dickens had Imagined when he gangster, it takes itself seriously, as lenth of their size, and the camera Wrote of Serioge's bullied and brow-social document. What might have records with ingenuity and in colour beaten clerk, but one, nevertheless, been just another film of racketeers, the success of his experiments. that satisfies.

however, is

Interest given

by The keen film-goer will have an factual commentary and pretty goot upportunity here of comporing the acting. The cast is headed by James method with the cartoon version of Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Priscilla Gulliver among the Lilliputians, so Lane and Gladys George,

recently shown.

story-t

You will notice two Lorettas in this tunt is Mary and Heather Alel

-the hard, catlike man-hater, is Kitty. spitting Independence at the posses- sive male; and, later on, the' yleld- - ing, dove-like Loretta, with dreaming eyes,

the

yes and unclest beauty. This atar evidently doesn't want to be typed. She wants to net, and by some overnight on the part of the management, she's been allowed to.

nx it?

NEXT WEEK'S NEW FILMS

Well done, Loretta. How did you A CHRISTMAS CAROL (QUEEN'S)—Many will find this Edmund Gwenn, in a sinoli part. Interesting, and although it is not so is everything Bernard Shaw thought much a version of the Dickens story of lilm, and gives a grand portrait of as an unintentional burlesque, It is a bewildered father."

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The fun is done with immense gusto and good will, and, it Dickens Is forrotten, it pleasen well enough.

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