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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1947.

Enterlassement

QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA CHARLIE CHAPLIN'S FIRST

2.30,

DAILY AT

5.15

DAILY AT

.15, 7.15 09.15 P.M. 2.30, 5.20, 7,20 1&19.20 P.M.

SHOWING TO-DAY

CURRENT TOPICS ¦

TO THE TROPICS!

FORGET

COME ON T

July Three Tho# Y

Working Girls O

Gay, Grand, Hiliteer Crise in Prevent') -Tockalutai Muilid?

Happy Go

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MARTIN POWELL HUTTON BRACKEN VALLEE

TOUT #

For

Larby

Laundry dur

Dimited by CURTIN BERKHARDT=Soon Play by Maar Deken, Norman Fazants, and Matrin Prank A Puranawal Mature

AT THE QUEEN'S

TO-MORROW MORNING AT 11.30 A.M.

Maureen O'HARA

Charlos LAUGHTON

THIS LAND IS MINE

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New AMAZING ADVENTURES

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THRILL

CHAPTERS

The gangs take to wings ...to blast the Axis spies from America's skips!

DEAD END KIDS

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LITTLE TOUGH GUYS

આ

JUNIOR G-MEN OF THE AIR

with

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Franti DARRO Richard LANE

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PICTURE SINCE 1940 IS

IMA SATIRE ON EARD

By HOWARD C. HEYN

◄HARLIE CHAPLIN calls “Monsieur Verdoux,” his first picture since 1940, "a comedy of murder." This sounds like a contradiction' in terms, but the film is just that—a satirical approach to the oft-told exploits of Bluebeard, the wife-killer.

Ernest Betts

Rene Clair has a new idea

PARIS.

THE lights are up in Paris. All the shows are lit with long flaments of flame rocket- ing along the boulevards, is just the front-of-the-house decoration, the facade.

That

But

has

"Monsieur Vertioux".. been variously received. But, at least. no critic was in- different; the praise and tho censure were equally Intenso. Most critics agree that the pic- ture is easily the most unusual mont and, in many ways, the interesting Hollywood screen project in a long time.

"Monsieur Verdoux" undoubtedly will be popular road, for it has many facets reminiscent of European cinema technique. As for talent,

An

mimist.

is superb.

tent, Chaplin remains the undeniably fine panto scenes seriously, at many of the theo through. His portrayal of old the low comedy of his earlier days age in the final scenes, when he is about to be brought to justice for his crlines,

There is some question whether Life in the city is gay. it is also sad, like the songs the low comedy touches detract from the finely drawn Irony Chaplin Maurice Chevalier used to sing, achieves so well. It may be

that there should have been more of the FILMS: Most talked-of Aims here are "La Belle et La Bete" ("Beauty old Chaplin antes, or none at all. and the Beast"), highbrow nim for For the most part, "Monsieur. Ver-

new Charlot the Common Man by the French doux" presents poot, Jean Co

Cocteau.

Dapper, urbane, shrewd, and at the It's a modern fairy tale with start-same time slightly ridiculous. ling photography and wit; "Batallon du Clel" "Air Squadron"), which describes itself, and "Brief Encoun-

ter

Nowest picture of all is Rene' Clair's first production in his native Faris for 13 years. "Le Silence est d'Or" ("Silence is Golden"). Mau-

Chevaller stars.

rice

This picture will set up a buzz it only because Clair has done some- thing.

revolutionary to kill that old, bogey of the foreign Bimdubbing" (using an off-stage voice in English- over a French one).

actor

toyubló" for the star of

Ruthless Business

Chaplin, cannot resist certain social and political references. On the whole, these are not overdone, but they might have bear spread more evenly through the picture.

·

with their fortunes he plays the locle market. "Business," he says, a ruthless business." At the end. sentenced to death

as a m389 MUX- derer. He calmly proclaims fact, guilty of mass murder through people, the nation, the world,

-warfare,

the in

The picture runs for two hours and five minutes, and would not be damaged by closer editing. Chaplin

wrote the screen play, directed the film, produced it, acked in it and

which even composed the musle, outstanding. Martha Raye, the comedienne, Lo featured, and her performance is more natural, more effective, than any she has been per- mitted to give for the screen in years:

The Teat of the cast, largely un-. khown insofar as Hollywood-is con- cerned, are nonetheless excellent.

Verdoux" was two "Monsieur years in the making. It is Chaplin's first new picture since The Great Ja Verdoux, In Chaplin's conception, Dictator" which was released Is a discharged bank clerk who 1840. The Gold Rush" was re espouses a cafeer of duping, marry Issued in the interim, but this was ing and polsoning a succession of puroly, on editing Job Associated simple-minded, but wealthy women." Press.

an English-speaking HONGKONG-BORN STAR

the Alm. In Clair's Alm, the sound of Chevaller's voice fades out, while

a suggestion of what he says, re- corded on the sound track, gives you meaning-Just a few words.

the

perhaps.

FOR LONDON

VARIETY: Going to London from the Bobino music hall, top variety star Georges Ulmer, Jimmy Cagney type with a charmed voice and that je-nc-sals-quot thing that gets you.

Variety as a whole isn't much to look at In Paris, but the Bal Tabarin and Folies Bergere still make

nur shows look wan and tawdry.

REFLECTIONS: I Paris didn't like Barbara Stanwyck turning up with- out make-up. They wanted her to a star. 2. Best free show: Hnusewives buying eggs оп the -boulevards-for-12 francs oach- -(six- pence). 3. Nobody cares for Bing Crosby,

look

́SENSATIONAL PLAY THEATRES: Most sensational play in Paris's 65 theatres is "L'Im- maculee" ("The Immaculate Woman"). It describes what would happen to a child produced by "test tube" methods.

SONGS: Most popular is "Pigalle," about back-street life in the Place and strummy, chummy

charming.

CLOTHES. JEWELS: Everyone withr

money is buying clothes, no- body buying jewels, taxation is too high. People only wear evening dress on two nights-Thursday night at the Ritz, Friday night at Maxim's. To breathe at ellher place is to go broke.

SPEAKS 6 LANGUAGES

By PATRICIA CLARY

CTRESS Joan Lorring, a fluent conversationalist-in

A French, German, Russian, Chinese and Japanese, says

she speaks English better as a result.'

...

Miss Lorring, born in Hong- nationality, picked up the other kong, believea that familiarity languages through hilm,”

Miss Lorring's co-workers on the with many languages makes for

latest proficiency in each.

of "The Gangsters," her picture, commented on her ability to "My mother was Russian and my speak strapty but graphically. father was English, and I learned to "As a child I had to be able to

their languages, and

a minimum use Day things with speak both

well," she

she explained. "I uncon- Chinese as "My father was a stockbroker and did business with almost every most. I think that's true of anyone who has to talk with people of many

of

explained.usly used. the one which said the

Cinema Guide.

CURRENT SHOWINGS

KING'S They Were Expendable. QUEEN'S—Happy Go Lucky. LEE--Stage Door Cantern. ALHAMBRA--Happy Go Lucky.

NEXT CHANCE

KING'B-Week-end at the

dort.

why: sea captaing, soldiers with, lots of foreign service, adventurers who travel around world are generally articulato never wordy."

and

the

but

Misa Lorring's gift with words stands her in good stend in movie

making. Many times she comes up with

a suggestion which simplifies dialogue and speeds it up. She thinks movie scripts talk too much,

involve

so her suggestions usually cutting down on the verbiage.

Miss Lorning's father, Mr Fred "hunch" In Bilis of Hongkong, had Wal- 1939 that the United States and wor. Ho

QUEEN'S Fallen Angel. LEE Too Young to Know. ALHAMBRA-The Glass Key.,

ON AN ISLAND HOLIDAY

DICK POWELL, Betty Hutton, Mary, Martin, Eddio Brac- kon and Rudy Valles hold forth merrily in a scene from "Happy Go Lucky,” Technicolour musical comedy now showing at the Queen's and Alhambra Theatres. There's plenty of music, gage and girls.

Japan would soon be at

sent

his wite and daughter to America, but he didn't leave him- sett. As result, he rpent four

In a Japanese prison camp. yellss Lorring gat

a movie con-

tract after she appeared in a radio show and was nominated for Academy award as a result of her work in "The Corn Is Green.”

an

ALK-END AT|

THE WALDORF

"Week-End at the Waldorf,"

which opens tomorrow at the King's Theatre, takes theatre-. goers on a forty-eight hour visit inside the world's most fabulous hotel.

It is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ád- venture drama. Two new romantic combinationg. Ginger Rogers and Walter Pidgeon, Lama Turner and Van Johnson.'

They meet in a fascinating story of personalities from every walk of life who and common ground in the spectacular precincts OL the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Through Its revolving doors: pass a parado

of persons as fabulous, as the plushy New York landmark itself. Match- ing the unfolding stories of their lives and loves is the hotel, as vibrating and alive as any one of its occupants.

Important is the Waldorf setting is Xavier Cugat and his music which bas been a tradition of the hostelry's Starlight Rool for the past twelva summers. Edward Arnold, Robert Benchley, Phyllis Tanxter, Keenan Wynn, Leon Ames and Rosemary Do Camp, In the featured support cast, add prestige to the production. Miss Rogers, at Academy Award fame, is hero, eten in'an “M-G-M picture, for the first time, in the ex- cifing Fole of a screen star,"

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