1947-07-19 — Page 2

SHOWING

TO-DAY

KINGS

AIR-CONDITIONED

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1947.

SHOWS Y

4 SHOWS DAILY

SPECIAL TIMES AT 12 NOON, 2.30, 5.30 AND 9.00 P.M.

CARY

, until you!”

nover kissed man

Cooper

INGRID

Bergman

Theirs a love story the whote world is talking about... the greatest mo tion picture of our times!

Paramount presents IN TECÙNICOLUR

FOR WHOM THE BELL

TOLLS

Spectacular

Thrills!

Unforgettable Romancel

Prated and Sam Wood

Directes de

Les Meatro

--ADVANCE BOOKING OFFICE

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│LAST 4 SHOWS TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

SHE LOVED ALL THE WRONG GUYS,

the

right one came

IDA LUPINO ROBERT ALDA ANDREA KING BRUCE BENNETT

THE SANG THE WAY SHE LOVED. WITH EVERYTHING SHE HAD!

"THE MAN I LOVE"

WARZERMIT Olsened by RADUL MALSH

Haari Kars singin

Why We Do Body sad Song!

ALSO LATEST GAUMONT BRITISH NEWS

TO-MORROW

"JOHN GARFIELD

GERALDINE FITZGERALD

NOBODY LIVES FOREVER"

SHOWING

TO-DAY

Big- FROM WARNERS HEL

ONNECTED

WALTER BRENNAN - FAYE EMERSON EULESCO GEORGE COULOURIS - GEORGE TOBIAS.

MAJESTIC

OREAT

SONO

song-swept story of how "DIXIE"

HITS!

was born!

..

At 2:30, 5.20,

7:20, & 9.20.

IXIE

Resplendent In Technicolor

Crosby Jamour

p.m.

Entertainment

NO HOLDS Inga Tidblad,

Sweden's Idol,

The

BARRED

violent het be- tween 4wd women ever filmed has just been, produced (at Walton-on-Thames, England where Johri Corfield's latest film "The Silk-While Unicorn" starring Margaret Lockwood, is now in production... can

Slaps and kicks are only in- between eldents in the baitle British starlets Joan. Green- wood and foan Rees, who fing each other to the ground and flercely as ɗny two battle.as wrestlers.

સારા

The aceno is a remand home dormitory and both girls-tiny fair-haired Joan Greenwood and tie brunette JoanˇNeca-- weigh under a hundred pounds,

FILMS and PLAYERS,

May Join Rank

STOCKHOLM.

"You also, Inga?", Thousands of Swedes groaned as it became known that Sweden's leading stage actress, Inga Tidblad, had listened to Mr Arthur Ranik's siren strains.

Hollywood took Ingrid Berg- many more. The Swedes were. man, Signo Hasso, Frank alarmed but did not shed tears, Sundstrom and Viveen Lind- because Sweden has movie fors, and will.perhaps buy Inga youth enough to stand an ox Lundgre and Nils Poppe and portation to both Holly-

Studio mud.... Ingrid Bergman expecting

H

CHARLES CHAPLIN, Sen, won't

Jun,

OLLYWOOD mud, tons of together in Mason's British movie, it, greets the eye as the "They Were Sisters" another chore that apparently falled to impress doors of . Universal's

the Hollywood chiefs: largest stage opens to reveni the filthiest set and the most

of dishevelled crew

actors

permit Charles Chaplin, working in any big Hollywood

to appear in Hollywood films. That movie. The fixture is "Brute

is way 22-year-old Junior is play Force," and the two stars toiling in local Little Theatre produc- ing in this scene are Burt Lan- tion and planning to make movies caster and Charles Bickford. In France next year, Unless their faces had been scraped clear there would have been no chance of recognising

them.

G

wood and London,

In Stockholm alone, with its 700,000 populatolon there are some 3,000 boys and girls attending daily dramatic schools hoping for a movie chance, Some thousand more bit players are already engaged by the Im contpanies besides the older, ex- perienced screen stars.

ilm

than onough for

meat.

This Is more Sweden, with its thirty-films-U» year production. Successful Swetics In Hollywood are also the best pro- paganda Sweden could cheapest, the Swedes end the But the stage players....Swedish theatre still keeps up to a very high standard despite the bitter competition by the movies. A strong

of group

excellent, perienced players still stick to the theatre, although the movies would give them more

money. And the

CX-

of

Swedish lovers of the theatre don't like seeing any depiction of this group,. and especially not to the film companies' beneßt. OSSIP

columnists say that the

Blond, blue-eyed Inga Tidblad

been of has film production of "Joan

the leading lady Are" must be rushed to completion Swedish theatre life for almost two

tragedienne --because star INGRID BERGMAN decades. expects a baby in December. The comedienne, she, always has

given "Bruic

Force" is another Mark wife of Dr Peter Lindstrom, Ingrid the audiences something to remem

has a sev

ber, She has served Thalia faith- Hellinger story apparently just as The star and her company are now fully for 25 years, and during this

a seven-year-old daughter, Pla. grim and uncompromising as "The

Hollywood preparing

film time the film producers only to Killers," which shoved Lancaster so far out in front that they can't "Joan of Arc," In Technicolour, on succeeded in persuading her to take

shooting schedule. four-month make his movies fast enough to a Playwright Maxwell Anderson, who "I love the theatre. I've loved it pease the taste of his public. Once wrote the play "Joan of Lorraine" since my sixth year," Mrs Tidblad more Lancaster is a penitentiary in-

triumph told

д correspondent. "I play mate, and, as usual, he is trying to for Bergman's New York break the gates-hence the muddy this year, is collaborating with An- classic and modern dramas with the tunnel and the two begrimed 2c- drew Solt on the screen play for same delight. Actually, I have no

"Joan of Arc."

tora.

COURTNEIDGE

American

NICELY NELZNICK “Duel in the Sun" furious. That

the costliest film ever made-Is in the shade. in Britain. No ono wants to distribute the £2,000,000 picture.

The Rank Organisation has re-

a movie part.

twice

objection to playing in movies,

though I prefer the stage. I. only strive to maloe the best out of my purt, and ́ ́never accept one that is not a really good one.

"That's the reason why I haven't

off-

simply found many movie worth playing.

was trip, to put her show, "Under the Co played much in films.

Broadway, Was ter." cancelled almost at the last minute. Passages were booked, closing told: "It's off. The deal Cicely was told: hús been

cancelled. Break to the cast." news

She Bald: "It was

haven't scripts

"As to the Eagle Lion offer, I

fused to handle it so long as Selz. notices put up at the theatre. Then I aven't yet said yes. I've got re-

nick insists on raising the Agure by 20 percent.

rental

British film exhibitors have re- Jected the suggestion that admission prices should be increased, as was done for "Gone With the Wind" (cost £1,700,000), and they refuse lo bear the increased cost them- Leives.

A CLEANDD-UP version of the

film was recently shown. It's colourful-technicolour -boklum, but ton long.

0.3

If it were cut by three-quarters of an hour it would be a rip-snort- ing, fast-moving Western with much relation to life as George Formby comedy, though first-class entertainment:

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SHOWING QUEENS

TO-DAY

TO-MORROW MORNING

At 230,

7.15 0.9.15 p.m.

BETTY GRABLE

VICTOR MATURE JACK OAKIE

SONG

OF THE

ISLANDS

Billy

MITCHELL BARBIER GILBERT

Sonja HENIE

Micheal O'SHEA

“IT'S A PLEASURE”

AT 11.30 A.M.? An RKO Radio Release In Technicolor

CENTRAL

SHOWING AT 12.30, 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.15 P.M..

'ORDERS FROM TOKYO”

An eye-witness account of the appalling destruction of the city of MANILA in TECHNICOLORI

ALSO

MORE EXCITING THAN THE MAGNITUDE OF

THE CANADIAN NORTHWEST ITSELFI

comes this thrill-

ing drama of the dangerous life of the "Mountia". who has poly one code-Out Your

Manor glil

ond puts them

both!

It's Breath Taking!

It's Sensational!

or

the peated offers and also studied Eng- Hish scripts before. This week all over

the next I expect a new script. I good. 11 suddenly. Had we known about it heard about being very before, we could have carried on in that is the case, I will accept im- London Instead of closing. No rea-mediately.

Reason whispered: ton was given."

"In such case I am going to Lon-

the Americans thought the show a don this summer during my vaca-

bit dated.

tion."

RIGHT NAMES FOR

THE RIGHT PARTS

By PATRICIA CLARY

Preston Sturges, producer, who is recurring to me for months once,"

to convinced that the right choice of Sturges said. "I finally found

The Biople, in which Jennifer Jones, fatally wounded, crawls her dying lover aptly justifies the

un's synical nickname, "Lust the Dust.".

д

tishlsis was sturges' idest

Franklin Pangborn in another good, name. He gave it to "Sullivan's

a name for a character often is as place for it in The Miracle of Mor- ih Important as the part itself, has odd gan's

Ho unburdened himself of several names in his mental pigeon-holes

for other

that that have been stored there

nomes... in

picture "Rotskwatski." "Glumpf," "Shot- yenrs.

When the right character comes

"McNanny"" and "Tuerck."

of m JAMES MASON's Hollywood 'en-

gogements are hanging fire be along, Sturges draps the right name cause he insists on having his wife out. And it's a big relief to get rid

dims. The of it, pa as leading lady in his

"The names keep flashing on Travels,"

"It doesn't mean thing," he studio moguls may be influenced by Broadway's strong criticism of Mrs and off in front of my eyes until I Mason (Pamela Kelling), as Bath get rid of them." he said. "They said, "It's just the way it sounds. The nearest I've come to Aidden her. husband's recent even wake me up at night."

Upperman' sheba In

Sturges latest use of an odd ap- meanings is 'Reverend Broadway play. The pair played

pellative is "Diddlebock," the name in H

"Hall the Conquering Hero. Some under which Harold Lloyd staggers names bring an unexpected laugh. in "The Sin of Harold I didn't think it was funny to call Paddlebock."

Rudy Vallee John D. Hackensacker

THEATRE Directory

SHOWING TO-DAY Queen's Song of the Islands, Leo The Man I Love, King's-For Whom the Bell Tolls. Alhambra-Yellow Canary.

NEXT CHANGE

Queen's The Thief. of Bagdad. Leo Nobody Lives Forever. Alhambra-Spitfire.

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nino III but the audience did."

for, saved that name years," Sturges said. "I was going to make a story about a law

Sturges Among the other nomes Arm has utilised In movies are Bildoc- HHibelner, Hadrian and of 'Diddlebock, Diddlebock, Diddle- ker,

raft bock and

Just Asweld. But he still has a

Werewolf

oral But it

.

Atted the character in this picture." flashing before his eyes day, and

Unfortunately, the name wasn't night:

I'll never make. enough movies unique. A real Harold Diddlebock

them all," he said. showed up, said be committed to to get rid of sin' and what was California. Pic "Maybe I could give them to the

guy who naries Pullman tures going to do about it?

kept United Press. "The name Kockenlocker

.

Quiet Hero, and Deadly Fighter He Designed SPITFIRE" is the name of the engrossing new picture star-- ring Leslie Howard and David Niven. It's also the name of the deadly fighter plane(shown below) designed by R. J. Mitchell and credited with having saved Britain from the Luftwaffe. Howard portraya Mitchell in the drama, and thereby reveals one of the greatest of human atorics,., for Mitchell gave his life to perfect his plane, The English beauty. Rosamund John, plays. Mitchell's wife in this Samuel Goldwyn presentation coming next week to the Alhambra,

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