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SHOWING TO-DAY

LOVE PRIZE OF

THE ISLANDS!

LAMOUR HALL

ALOMA SOUTH SEAS

OF THE

Paramount's music-filled thrill spectacle in glowing TECHNICOLOR

with LYNNE OVERMAN - PHILIP REED KATHERINE DEMILLE FRITZ LEIBER DONA DRAKE-Directed by ALFRED SANTELL

S STARS

THEATRE

COMBINED SERVICES ENTERTAINMENT

Presents

BLANCHE LITTLER'S COMPANY

IN

WORM'S EYE VIEW

A COMEDY IN THREE ACTS

By

R. F. DELDERFIELD

NIGHTLY AT 7.30 P.M.

BOOKING HOURS: 12 p.m.--2 p.m. 4 p.m.-6.30 p.m;

Telephone: 58335.

LAST PERFORMANCE SATURDAY, 14th DEC.

DI

SUNDAY ONLY

'MUSIC FOR ALL"

A Programme of Light Classical Music

---Including-Works. By.

Elgar, Beethoven, Dvorak and Chopin,

with

MARIE ERLEIGH OTTO

FOORMAN

and

THE BAND OF THE 2ND BATTALION,. THE WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. (PRINCE OF WALES' OWN)

Under the Direction of Bandmaster B. B. White. A.R.C.M. AT 7.30 P.M.

12 p.m.--2 p.m. Telephone: 58335.

BOOKING HOURS:

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WANCHAL ROAD WAN CHAID

4 p.m.-6.30 p.m.

Please Note the Change of Time To-day at 2.30, 5.00, 7.15 & 9.30

• THE BEST OF "BEST TEN" IN 1945 •

In the most realistic tochnicolor splendor ever photographed,.. recreating the most stirring and dramatic events yot brought to the screen!

DARRYL

F. ZANUCK'S

IN

66 WILSON TECHNICOLOR

with Alexander KNOX. * Geraldine FITZGERALD TO-MORROW AT 12.30 P.M. ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY.

May WEST

SHOWING

TO-DAY

Victor THE HEAT'S ON”

MOORE' in

MAJESTIC

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1946.

FILM FAN FARE

NEWS OF

FILMS AND

PLAYERS

DARRYL ZANUCK is so pleased with the performance of Pegny Cummins in a minor role in "The Late George Apley" that he has sen! an order to all his executives

to

look out for an important story in star,the little Iristi netress who wan originally brought tu Hollywood for the role of Amber In "Forever Amber."

MALKING of rushing, Lizabeth TALE

Scott finished "Dead Rev- koning," with Humphrey Bogart at 5 pm on a Wednesday. And at 5.30 the next morning she started her new picture for Hal Wallis, "De- sert Town," in which, by the way, her mother is Mary Astor.

*

In Cary Grant's pleture, “Mr Lucky," the actor pertrays a gambler who, in his efforts to raise money, becomes Involved with women's war aid association. Forced to play the game' as he finds it, Lucky Joe, the' Greek" (Gary) must perforce learn to knit It is an awful spot-but Joc falls in lino, to the amazement

amusement of an audience that gathers outside.

SWEDEN'S NO. 1

ACTRESS

WRDEN has provided the screen

and

She travelled to England by

SHOWING

TO-DAY

p.m.

KINGS

M-G-M's HONEV

OF A MUSICALI

Direct From 'Long B'way

Run!

At 2.30, 5.10. 7.159.15 p.

METRO-

LDWYN MAYER PUTS ITS

BEST FOOT

SONG HITS!

TO-DAY

ONLY

FORWARD

"Bude Down, Winsock!" **Every][ma* "Wish May "The Thies '4′′

many marsi

INTECHNICOLOR

Starring

LUCILLE BALL HARRY JAMES

AND HIS MUSIC MARENIS

WILLIAM GAXTON VIRGINIA WEIDLER

QUEEN'S

A+ 2.30, 5.15,

7.15 & 9.15 p.m.

'GOLLY! IT'S STAN AND OLLIE!

air

STAN

world with some of its greatest with her husband, the Norwegian stars. The latest to emerge is Mal ballet dancer, Samuel Tutte Lem- Zeiterling who, with one film, has kow.

Alm

Ealing Studios.

of

become Sweden's No. 1 star, and on Mai (pronounced "My") is demure, the strength of her success in petite, tilt-nosed and blonde, quite "Frenzy" hus been invited to unlike preconceived natlans

She is fascinating, England to make her first British Swedish stars,

"Frieda" for intense, anything but showy. Appearance in

This is her second visit to London, but she was a child of seven the last time, and It was after a four-year stay in Adelaide, Austraila. But she had not spuken English again until director Basil Dearden went to Stock- holm recently and interviewed her. She has been taking lessons since then. Naturally you

The extraordinary thing is can identify, that although she can speak only

understand the screen stars known as the English, she can Beard, the Body, the Groaner. every word that is said. the Look and the Snozzle-but This, as it happens, suits her part bar who loved Ray Milland in "The how are you on trade marks | admirably, for as Frieda she

THE Dowling sisters are doing all "who right-now it is Cuntle' has a lead with Chester Morris. Sister Doris was the gh-in-the-

Lost Week-end."

STARS come and go but Richard Dix goes on forever. He started

a new picture in late November, "The Hunter Is A Fugitive,"

tariller another in the "Whistler" series.

F

RED MacMURRAY has pur- chased the....comedy "Innocent Affair, and will star in it for his own independent mutual produc-

tlons...

TIBUIE," a 14-year-old Scotty,

which had been a constant companioti of Bette Davis since the dog was a puppy, was run over and kiffed by a car recently. The dog, deaf and almost blind, was n fami- Har figure at the studio where she

mis- invariably accompanied her tress.

VLAI

JLADIŠIH SOKOLOFF, the ac-

tor,

swears in Russian, uses purposes, English for all practical and dreams in French! Each Jan- guage, says he, is the best for those particular purposes. He is currènt- ly lending his talents to "Cloak and Danger," a film about the OSS.

WHO WERE THEY?

of the celebrities of long ago?

For instance, who was....

1. The Siren?

3. The Voice? (about 1920)

3. The Platinum Blonde?

4. Deadpan?

5. America's Sweetheart?.

0. The Flapper Girl?

7. Bounding Boy? (before Jr.)

0.

The Smiling Villain?

9. The Great Profile?

first

uppears as a girl who can scarcely speak English, mastering the langunge as the

"Frenz, develops,

was

attracted attention to her. This notable Swedish picture shown in Landon recently and was acclaimed by the press. 11 will be shown in America soon.

Zetterling

Prior to "Frenzy". Mai was on the Stockholm stage.

Since

then, she has made three more alms.

10. The Fat Man (before Sydney NEAT COMEDY

Greenstreet).

Answers are given at the foot of the next column.

CINEMA GUIDE

Showing To-day

KING'S—The Thin Man Goes:

Home, QUEEN'S-A-haunting We Will

Go,

ALHAMBRA—Aloma

South Seas,

Next Change

KING'S-Best Fout

of the

Forward

(To-morrow). QUEEN'S-Guest Wite (To-

morrow),

ALHAMBRA—Appointment lu

Tokyo (Wednesday),

Technicolour Life

Of Cole Porter

OF ERRORS

In "Guest Wife," which comes to- morrow to the Queen's, all the elements for a rip-roaring

comedy are neatly rolled together.

Chris Price, (Dick Foran) and his adoring wife, Mary (Claudette Col- bert), are about to depart for New York on a belated honeymoon. Their gay plans, however, are disturbed by the unexpected arrival of Joe Parker friend, (Don Ameche). Chris' best college chum and globe-trotting re- porter, who is en route to New York from the Orient. In the last-minute confusion, Chris misses the train. Next, Mary finds herself in New York with Joe....and is mistaken for his

To save Joe from possible disaster, Mary continues the deception. This hoax-known Es a "kibble"-dan-

A gerously gathers momentum. "Ribble," incidentally, is a story you third tell someone and then get a person to confirm.

Chris, unfortunately, is detained, devices, and Mary, left to her own finds herself an unwilling participant in one compromising situation after another.

FASHIONS IN PAREUS

Cole Porter, the famous composer After an opening, regardless of the whose career is the basis for the show's prospects, he usunity gives technicolour musical, "Night und a large party to which be Invites Day

now being made by Warner not only the entire cast, which Bros. ts probably the only song numbers perhaps a hundred, but

Whoever said South Sea islanders writer of note who did not begin his practically all New York at least are not style conselous had better professional climb from the slums or the New York, that matters.

hold everything and go to the Al- "honky tonk."

hambra to see "Aloma of the South Porter also has a bizarre sense of Sens."

friends

there's 3048 successor to First, humour. One of his close In Monty Woolley. Woolley once the sarong--it's called a PAREU.

Was barn on mid-Westem farm,

but, not too long after that fundamental and initially important event, he began moving in the Have him a cocktail, parly at the Ritz Second, there are different parcus amartest of circles,, alded and abettes before he sailed on a cruise to the for every ocension. One for the kit by an

South Sens. Porter arrived at the chen, another for street wear. Inheritance of some seven party an hour late, escorting a millions of dollars!

tailored yard or so. smartly Mr Porter did more than move in bearded lady in a blue velvet evening evening stepping, still more for swin

tiress. He just wanted to the smartest circles. On many

of

sleeping and rituals. show mined there are pareus to occasions he showed the smartest of beard,

luck, good liealth and

At 2.30; 5.20, 7.20 G9.20

P.M.

Woolley that anyone could grow

bo

the smart net what it really was to

smart.. In Paris, where he lived:

LOVE! CONQUESTS! SPECTACLES! All In Flaming Technicolorl Maria MONTEZ. Jon Hall

·

IN

SABU

"WHITE SAVAGE

In Technicejor!

Universal Super Production

2

Food

for

bring good

In 1938, he smashed both his legs time of them look like un ab- during the roaring 20's, he furushed in a horseriding #pill. He wrote the But

success or

high point of his

LAUREL

OUVER

HARDY

and

DANTE

THE MAGICIAN

ail mixed up in mirth, mystery...

and Black Magiel

A-HAUNTING

WE WILL GO

ADDED.! LATEST MARCH OF TIME!

HE LENDS HER

TO-MORROW

AS A LEND-LEASE

COLBERT AMECHE

WIFE SHE ANS THEM BOTH BACK

-BUT GOOD!

HE BORROWS HER.

Guest Wife

SUNDAY MORNING PERFORMANCE· AT 11.30 A.M.

"CASABLANCA”

with Humphrey BOGART

Ingrid BERGMAN

ORIENTAL

SHOWING TO-DAY: 2.30-5.157.15-9.15 P.M.

A THOUSAND AND ONE UPROARIOUS LAUGHSI`

TWO WOLVES IN SHEIKS' CLOTHING

"... MEET THE QUEEN OF ARABY!

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ROAD TO

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two

Answers

his house from garret to wine cellar score of "You Never Know in a breviated dream and make last year's with zebra rugs, platinum wallpaper hospital bed and the score of "Leave sarong look ng out of style as old- and red lacquered chales covered It to Me" in a wheelchair. But the fashioned laced corsets, with white kid.

Porter is also one of the few tune which cost him more than smiths who is not concerned with the was a party he threw lo or failure of his confpositions. the coming out of

and Geraldine, Joc On the op

opening night of Q Broadway ny he had nicknamed his show, while everyone else involved maimed legs, from their plaster casts. In the production is gradually having About 300 guests turned up for the a nervous breakdown, Forter will in affair. Porter slept all through the variably be found nattily dressed, affair in a coma under the doctor's 3. Jenn Harlow. 4. Buster Keaton. sporting a new piece of jewellery, orders. When he woke up, he heard 5. Mary Pickford 6. Colleen Moore. and calmly puffing at a cigaretie about all the fuss and said. "Ap. 7 Douglas Fairbanks. 8, Roy which he takes from a spectacular parently everyone had a wonderful D'Arcy. B. John Barrymore. gold case.

Ume. I'm sorry I missed 11,".

John Bunny,

1. Theda Bara.. 2, Conrad Napel.

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