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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1947.
A 230, 5.15. FILM OF DICKENS NOVEL
7.15 & 9.15 P.M.
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WALLRED HITCHCOCK'S
An Academy Award Winner! Gary COOPER as
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Joan LESLIE & Walter BRENNAN
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Tangier Woman!
Universal Presents
MARIA MONTEZ ROBERT PAIGE SABU
Tangier
A GEORGE WAGGNER
PRESTON FOSTER-LOUISE ALLBRITTON
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THIS IS THE ONE! THIS IS THE GREATEST
ARBARA STANWYCK
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„PERFORMANCE OF ALL TIME!
as "Jess," who changed the rules...in Waming
MY REPUTATION"
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GEORGE BAERT - LUCILE WATSON · EVE ARDEN - CURTIS BERHARDT
COMMENCING TO-MORROW
TYOU'LL NEVER MARRY HER WHEN YOU KNOW!!!
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FREDRIC MARCH BETTY FIELD
TOMORROW THE WORLD!
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FREDRIC MARCH
The Academy Award Winnor
of the your
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Cathay
SHOWING TO-DAY
At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 G 9.15 p.m.
A ROMANTIC THRILL-FILM WITH JUNGLE LOCALE!
Mara MONTEZ
Brian DONLEVY &
50 SARONG-CLAD GODDESSES OF LOVE!' in
SOUTH OF TAHITI
CHANCE! "HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN”
NEXT
ENHANCES PRESTIGE OF
BRITISH-MADE PICTURES
By HOWARD C..
HEYN
HOLLYWOOD.-The prestige of British films in America, elevated immeasurably by the screen version of "Henry V," has now been fortified by another excellent importation from the same source, the cinema adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel, "Great Expectations."
This film will have its trade publication and maga- The reaction of this critica) should be significant. American premiere in New zine writers has already group York about June 1. But an was presumably its initial for more than a minute after seen the picture in what They applauded the picture, spontaneously and vigorously, of
newspaper, screening here.
audience
DIAMOND
LIL IS SIGNED UP
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LONDON ROUND-UP BY ERNEST BETTS
Brian Desmond Hurst, who made Is the Arnhem Bim. "Theirs the Glory" is planning a dim ol the 50 RAF officers who were shot in 1014 when attempting an escape from Stalag Luft 3. Tommy Trinder during the second half of the performance of "Here, There and Everywhere," reported the progress of the Woodcock- Bakst fight each time as he re- turned to the stage from 1:19 dressing room. When he came on as Jane Russell he sold: "I can stop anything. I could even stop the big fight. By the way, Wood- cock lost in the seventh round."
I won't guarantee the truth of this story, but here it is.. Beatrice) Lillie, in private life Lady Peel, was in Paris when she was rung up by a Frenchman. Anxious to impress him with her French, she said: Ullo 'ullo-c'est Lady Parle qui
Preside
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Mae West, pistol-packing. hip- swinging momma of the movies, has been signed by Tom Arnold to appear in Londori this summer in hier Own play, "Diamond Lil"
1
Mae was a pre-war sensation, but I doubt if she is known to the bobby-soxers of this generation. Her claims to fame when she op- peared in "I'm No Angol" (1934) were her curves, her jewels, her epigrams on sex and a single phrase, "Come up and see me some time," which was the talk of the talkie salons in the 1930s.
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"Hamlet" will still be produced under the banner of the flam- boyant Two Cities' chlef, F. Del Gludice, who has just resigned from the job.
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Alfred Hitchcock has bought the rights of the talk-of-the-town "Power Without Glory," at the Fortune Theatre.
"Birthmark," the play about. Eva Braun (Mrs Hitler) and the son she brings to England, is going from the Embassy-to-the-Play- house.
. Glad to see that an actress 1 spot- ted three years ago. Moira Lister, 23, from Johannesburg, is getting stor billing in "Present Laughter" at the Hoymarket. She has talent and looks, got to London three years ago by backing two horses in Johannesburg for two pounds and winning £120, her fare to England.
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When Qld
Vic actor Alee Guin- ness was given a contract by Arthur Rank his comment was said to be: "Guinness may be good for Ranit, but is Rank good for Guinness?"
Somebody asked Vivien Leigh if she was playing Ophelia in her husband, Larry Olivier's, film-of "Hamlet" "No," sald Vivien, "but have you seen the cuts?"
PUPPY LOVE
TOM DRAKE and Boverly Tylar as Robert Shannon
and Alison Kolth in the film of A. J. Cronin's "The Green Years," at the King's,
Cinema Guide
CURRENT SHOWINGS
QUEEN'S-Notorious,
KING'S The Green Years,
LEE-My Reputation.
ALHAMBRA-Tangler,
CENTRAL-Tangler,
NEXT CHANGE
QUEEN'S-Brazil.
KING'S-Dixxle.
LEE Tomorrow the World.
ALHAMBRA-AII Through this
Night.
CENTRALAI Through the
Night.
Simpler Names Preferred
Once upon a time, names of movie stars were picked for their exotic quality-temember Theda Bara, Nito, Naldi, and
recently, Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich?
more
Stars are given, or allowed to keep, Nowadays, the trend is reversal.
nice, simple names like Mary Hal- |· cher, Jean Peters, Jane Powell, Jim
the final scene-and, applause from a studio press proview au- dience is lamentably infrequent,
"Great Expectations" in unques- tionably one of the nest flims to rench the American screen in several years, The picture is beautiful In every respect. But perhaps its greatest strength (aside from a very solld story) ties in accuracy and taste with which its players were chosen, Hollywood could, and should, learn from it a valuable les- son In casting.
The press nudience stood around lauding the film until the theatre marquee lights were extinguished.
Lú.
Mortla
They seemed to like best the per- formances of John Hills, Anthony Wager,
Francis Bernard Miles, Sullivan, Valerie Hobson, Hunt and Jean Simmons. A few detcaled too wide a variance in the characterisations of Estella as a child (by Miss Simmons) and Estella as an adult (by Miss Hobson).
"The Egg And I"
Although the pictures have nothing in common, it is difficult to resist à comparison between "Great Expectations and Hollywood's latest super-spectacle, a silly effusion call- ed "The Egg and I which was shown a few evenings carlier. most all the outstanding virtues of "Great Expectations" were unistand- Ing faults in "The Egg und 12”
AI-
The latter im Ilkewise was adapt- ed from a book, by Betty Macdonald, but the story was changed com- pletely by the injection of an Allogl- cal and routine romantic triangle. The book, while it was no Dickensian classic, related fairly humorously the experiences of a city girl transplant- ed by her husband to a rugged life of raising chickens on a dilapidated
farm.
There is, however, a minimum of comedy in the screen version, built upon some of the most decrepit stock situations known to the cinema-the fastidious city-bred girl wallowing in a mud puddle, fainting (to indicate pregnancy) and later leaving her baby in the arms of a cab driver, This should provide suflicient illus tration of the so-called comic pat- tern.
Bit Too Matura
Claudette Colbert and Fred Mac- Murray, stars of the flim, are com- petent players when reasonably cost, but are really a bit too mature for such kittenish performances. And despite all the advance. publicity, there aren't even very many chic- kens in the plciure.
This inconsequential offering, pro- duced at a reported cost of $2,000,000, was given.....lis premiere with all the. false glamour of the Hollywood tradition. Avid spectators (without tickets) sel in specially constructed bleachers outside the theatre to watch the arrival of mink and or watc chid-adorned chld.
celebrities. Several policemen pushed the paying patrons around (even the producers) as if they were so many suspected sub- versives,Associated Press.
Davis, Bill Williams, Charles Rus- FILM OF
sell, etc.
So what happened when Tamara
Brothers Logged her Pauln Drew. When Walter Wanger took over her: contract, he wondered if he shouldn't hucle the trend and change her name to something more exotic and romantic.
du Bols arrived in town.. Warner CRONIN
How about Tamara du Bois?
NOVEL
Opening at the King's Theatre to- day is the film version of A. J. Cronin's bestseller, "The Green
boy, Robert Shannon.
SOUTH SEAS TO NORTH AFRICA Years," the story of the little Irish
MARIA MONTEZ has stored away her sarong and taken ship for the hot, sands of the North African desort. Above- is how she looks in har new picture, "Tangier, showing at the Central and Alhambra,
As in the book, the story begins with the adoption of Robert by the narrow-minded and penny- pinching Papa Leckle and the. feud between domineering Grandma Lec- kie and the boy's irascible great- over which is to guide then
mis schooling The narrative
traces the "green years" through which Robert grown into manhood, his first initiation into the einssroom, his puppy love adoration of Allson Keith, his graduation and his failure to complete the examinations for a scholarship.
The Cronin characterisations are brought to life by an excellent cast. Charles Coburn plays Grandpa Gow; Tom Drake plays Robert and Beverly Tyler is Alison.
SOUTH AFRICAN IN FILMS
Appearing in Two Citles "Vice Versa," now being made at Denham, England, is a man who fought in the Boer War, was in the Johannesburg Mounted Police for six years, was a circus rider, and has also been on the stage.
He is J. Franklin-James, & barels- ter in real life, who plays the Clerk of the Court in this humorous pro-"] duction.
Mr Franklin-James, who will be 77 in June, wears his own wie for his part in the film. It is dil years' fold.
SHOWING
TO-DAY
KINGS
AIR-CONDITIONED
At seventeen, a girl's heart is so wise-a boy's so achingly unsure
M-G-M has caught, with vibrant wormlh and under- standing, the spirit of this thrilling adventure of youth. In lovel
An M-Q-M picture
The
Green
Years
At 2.30, 5.10,
7.15 & 9.15 P.M.
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Hero's the funniest comedy you ever saw!.
HE'S A SUPER-STUPOR SLEUTH!,
Red SKELTON
WHISTLING in Dixie
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GUY KIBBEE DIANA LEWIS
PETER WHITNEY
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HEDY LAMARR ROBERT WALKERÊN JUNE ALLYSON
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