1947-07-26 — Page 2

QUEENS & ALHAMBRA

...DAILY. "ATTM**

DAILY AT

2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.15 P.M. 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20

SHOWING TO-DAY

THE GREATEST-

OUTDOOR

ROMANCE OF THEM ALL...

IN THE MOST

GORGEOUS Technicolor

EVER SEEN!

Owen Wister's

VIRGINIAN

ALL the ACTION

of the greatest western slicy over WETLANA • » •

ALL the ROMANCE

of the most famous fore

stwy of the west » »

ALL the BEAUTY

of the great extr

Tachilenler

Kirring

Joel MCCREA Brian DONLEVY Sonny TUFTS

Barbara Britton-Fay Bainter Tom Tully-Henry O'Neill

Prodused by Pod James • Directed by Evert Clare.

AT THE QUEEN?S-

TO-MORROW MORNING AT 11,30 A.M. ONLY

"LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN"

- Gone TIERNEY

SHOWING

TO-DAY

*IN TECHNICOLOR

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1947.

WHEN YOU CALL ME THAT,

SMILE,”

says the Virginian (Joel McCrea) to cattle rustler Trampas (Brian Donlevy) in a tense scene from the Techni- colour film version of Owen Wister's The Virginian," › showing now at the Queen's

and Alhambra Theatres.'.

THEATRE Directory

SHOWING TODAY

KING'S For Whom the Bell

Tolls.

QUEEN'S The Virginfan. ALHAMDIA-The-Virginian.

LEE The Drum.

NEXT CHANGE

QUEEN'S Mc Kippo." ALHAMBRA-Suicide Squadron. LEE Adventures, of Marin Eden.

Rank may sign Chaplin

THE best news of the enter marks-the bowler, the canc,

THE

THEY

tainment week is that of the floppy boots-was neither wanted a crowd of 300 "ex-

J. Arthur Rank's star-spangled good comedy nor good drama, shopping Jaunt in Hollywood, and was notably ruined when Joan Fontaine, Bing Crosby, Chaplin tried to mount the Claudette Colbert and Co. will' soup-box and put the world give our American film future a right. We need comedy in our swift upward box-office slant. film programme. The light-of- Yet the most intriguing rumour heart Charlie can supply it. is that Rank is likely to sign But not the heavy-handed Mr Charlie Chaplin on the dotted Charles Spencer Chaplin. line. But in what capacity? As the world's supreme clown - or the world's most frustrated political tub-thumper? I hope the former.

CHAPLIN'S

Intest film, "Monsieur Verdoux," was

PRITISH films, under a new ar

rangement,

announced recent between ly,

Sir Alexander Korda, head of British Lion and London Films, and Mr Spiro Skouras, president of 20th Century Fox, are guaranteed screen time in 800 American cinemas.

not well received. Broadway critics dipped their typewriter DAY MILLAND is to appear as a ribbons so firmly in acid that Nuremberg prosecutor In Bim Chaplin went away and

ed. It was not solely because dict."

tras" as background to Richard

Attenborough and Carol Marsh for The "extras" trade union, the Film a scene. from "Brighton Rock." Artists Association, could only supply 150 (there were heavy calis at other studios, they explained). the studio workers to bring along So Director John Boulting Invited their familles. Only 30 turned up.

the

FROM Body-and-Soul de-

partment Eileen Herlle, Kordu's new star, will play Gertrude in Laurence Olivier's nim of "Hamlet." But I notice strings to this plan."

Elleen is kindly permitted to op- Pear by permission of J. Arthur Rank, London Films and Tennent. She must algh, for the Plays, Ltd. days, not long ago, when she be- longed to herself.

Bee-heatre

·ADVANCE BOOKING OFFICE-

ST. FRANCIS HOTEL, QUEEN'S ROAD, CENTRAL Booking Hours: 11,00 am to 5.30.p.m. Daily

་

ENTIRELY NEW PRINT! SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.15, 7,30 & 9.30 P.M.

COLOURFULI ROMANTICI

THRILLING!

London Films Present an

ALEXANDER' KORDA PRODUCTION.

THE

DRUM

SABU

RAYMOND MASSEY VALERIE HOBSON ROGER LIVESEY DESMOND TESTER

Martin Walker and a case of 3,000

DIRECTED BY ZOLTAN KORDA IN TECHN.COLOR Released by Ealing Distribution

ALSO LATEST GAUMONT BRITISH NEWS NO. L 10.

D

sulk of the trials called "Sealed Ver-

in "Bonnie Prince Charlie," Korda,

AVID NIVEN, playing In The Dishop's. Wife" in Hollywood, was held up for his part

here

GLENN FORD

for

do

it was a sultry Sunday after-

Cornel WILDE

Joanne CRAIN

KING'S

AIR-CONDITIONED *

4 SHOWS

DAILY

- SPECIAL TIMES AT IZ NOON, 2.30, 5.30 & 9.00 P.M. ——— HELD OVER! · HELD OVER!!

ONE OF THE 113 GREATEST

PICTURES

KOF ALL [TIME-S

FOR WHOM THE BELL

GARY COOPER INGRID BERGMAN TOLLS

JAKIM TAMIROFF ARTURO DE CORDOVA ̈ ́ JOSEPH CALLEĨA • KATINA PAKINOU

SHOWING

TO-DAY

PRODUCED AND SAM WOOD

Dacty

IN TECHNICOLOR

AT 2.30, 5.20,

MAJESTIC 7.20 6 9.20 p.m.

COLUMBIA PICTURES presents

A.Sidney Buchman Produdion

&

A Song to Remember

Paul

in TECHNICOLOR

starting

Merla

MUNI OBERON

*

with CORNEL WILDE

NINA FOCH - GEORGE COULOURIS

Screen Play by Sidney Duchmag

Directed by CHARLES, VIDOR

"NEXT CHANGER "THE CANTERVILLE GHOST”.

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noon on Broadway that they

yawned widely. This story of PAUL ROBESON says he'll

a modern Blucheard, with Charlet Henry Wallace speak between "Othello" on Broadway-if they lie stripped of his famous trade the acts,"

Colonel Chinstrap Looks At Broadway

By DAVID LEWIN

Was

REGRET to report that What Chinstrap overlooked Colonel Chinstrap is deve that both the colonel and the club

werd in Brooklyn. "My loping a Brooklyn accent after fellah," he moaned, "they called this only a few days in America colonel a coinel, and the rat thing

with other Itma visitors from he invited me." Tomtopia. Colleague C. V. R. Thompson writes from New York:

As long as Jack Train's

| character kept his explorations

How Baby

of New York and its drinking Actors Are

habits to Broadway, his accent stayed as pure as driven gin.

A

perpetual asker of questions asked If the Colonel did not just love all these juley American steaks,; and got the reply: "Sir, I did not come to Americă to eat?”

Looked After

denh

BY PATRICIA CLARY The movie Industry has suggested that it could cut infant mortality

A carily who asked the bar ten-to practically nothing. der for something long, cold and full

Just have every baby spend his

bables

of gin, heard a rich liquid voice be-first few months entirely within the side him saying: "Sir, you are speak confines of a Hollywood studio. He ing of the woman I love.".

couldn't help but be, healthy. Broadway took to the Colonel

"We have everything for even when he showed an exasper here," a studio physician remarked ing Interest In meeting Gendro, me, "except guards at the gates Grant whom Broadwayites remem- swat down the germs as they fly ber vaguely in connection with the In." Civil War

เท. or something.

He was standing guard over 18 Colonel made But then the

babies, all under 90 days of

tactical error. He got an invitation working in "Variety Girl" with DEC,

It sounded all fight. He was meet an American colonel, and the meeting was to toka place in club.

COCO.COLA

OR TEA?

A cable was sent to him: "Win ye no' come home again?" and sign-·|· worried by bishops, cabled ed Alexander McKorda. Niven, back: "Who will rid me of this turbulent priest?" (Henry II. of Thomas B Bocket).

JACK LA RUE, tough type from

films, arrived in London trem Hollywood to play In "No Orchids for Miss Blandish," for Alliance Studios.

ONDON ARTS THEATRE, which Alee Clunes has run for Ave years today claims that whatever the slump, his theatre isn't in the red, is doing nicely, thanks. record of 85 playa and 2,754 per-

Mr Clunes proudly presents formances since he took over, states bers,

1

he has more than 25,000 members.

This is a great record for a little theatre which has always-lived- dangerously.

AUSTRALIA'S

GOOD FILM PROSPECTS

newspaper

The prominent Christian Science Monitor pre- turn out each year two or three dicts that Australia may soon pictures of world class.

industry and its stars occupy a A review of Australia's film full-page in a recent issue of the Monitor.

The review includes;

of

A long story on the filming to Barbara Stanwyck and Joan Caul-"The. Overlanders,”

field. The babies were stealing every scene from the stars and they The history of Australian produc- were getting top-star treatment, tion from the time of "The Kelly

Each baby had on individual Gang" (1905 feature); dressing room complete with crib

Stories on Chips Rafferty. and milk-warming equipment. Out- Flynn, Mary side the dressing rooms, a portable Vynez, Ann Richards, Ron Randall, Maguire. Margaret kitchen unit was set up for prepar- John McCallum, and Peter Finch. ing formulas.

Each baby had a registered nurse;

Erro!

(Errol Flynn made his fim debut

In constant attendance and when in Charles Chauvel's "In the Wako

The cried he got more attention, and Burgess Meredith, over to more expett attention, than bo make "Mine Own Executioner" rated at home. for Korda, down't think there's : much difference between Holly- wood and British_studios."

of the Bounty").

The work of the Commonwealth

National Film Board leads the Monitor to sum up Australlan docu- mentary Aims ds "excellent.

hike the British, the Australian

A special aptitudo for tho documentary film," the paper. Bays. "Australia has scored effectively by understatement rather than overempliosis." ·

Commonwealth Film Laboratories Pty, Lid, has begun building its duction lot.

pro

..

"Limit Set By Low Though the bables were to be at Says Buzz: "In Hollywood they the studio less than two hours, the drink, Coco-Cola, in British studios limit set by Inw, there were changes It's tea,

of linen for each crib. Not only "I reckon they talk d bit more wore the sheets laundered in the about the weather in England than usual way but they were given "an In the States but, intrinsically, the extra sterilisation as well. film set-up is the same.

None of the Infants could be un- There is litle to choose between at a time, and a State of California two sound stages, executive block dor the lights more than 30 seconds The now nim studio will Include American and British technicians.

at a "You people are better in some welfare worker kept tab with 1 Australia's first Bound-dubbing things, ours are better ,in others.. stopwatch Whilo

the

cameras alage. cutting and editing rooms "So far as throwing money about, ground.

With the

newest overseas equip- they are just as crazy in England Before he started work, each in ment a restaurant with a capacity as they are in Hollywood."

fant got a thorough check up at the of 500 people and a theatrette. Meredith is making Mine Own Los Angeles board of education.

The company is providing new Executioner (based on the Balchin He got another when he finished. personnel as well as novel), under director Anthony And if one of them so much as ment for Australian Alms. Kimmins.

burpe_once too often during the six

It It to training sound-technicians, An Australian, Wing-Commander months following his movie, assign camera operators, cutting, and edit Frederic Hillon, is technical ad-ment, the studio will be respon- ing technicians, script · personnel, vier.

sible.

assistant directors, cincinatogra Kimmins wanted a pilot with For being so well taken care of phers and players. personal", experience and a know each baby gote U.S.$60 a day. In Commonwealth produced ledge of Spitares: Hilton had both most cases, that's more money than documentaries of all types and a D.F.C.

Daddy brings tome.

lengths during World War II.

..

now

equip-

78

and

NEXT CHANGE

EVELYN KEYES in JACK LONDON'S

CLAIRE TREVOR

"ADVENTURES OF MARTIN EDEN"

A Columbia.Picture.

CENTRAL

5 SHOWS TO-DAY

At 12.30, 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.15 P.M.

•

FIRST EPISODE

NAT LEVINE

PRESENTS

BELA LUGOSI The WHISPERING SHADOW

HENRY B WALTHALL

KARL DANE ROBERT WARWICK VIVA TATTERSALE

ORIENTAL

SHOWING TO-DAY:

2.305.20—7.30-9.30. P.M.

ACTION...Epic! DRAMA Triumph! THRILL..

.Spectaciol Thundering out of the West of covered wagons, Indians and Indian-fightars.. comes the adventure picture of all timol

THE WI

LIVES AGAIN IN THE LIFE OF ITS MOST

MCCREA - O'HARA • DARNELL:

BUFFALO

BILL

TECHNICOLOR

SPECIAL MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW AT 12.30 “IT'S A PLEASURE!" in TECHNICOLOR