1947-08-23 — Page 2

SHOWING

TO-DAY

COME...

KINGS

AIR-CONDITIONED

TO THIS LANDFUL

OF LOVELIES, LAUGHTER) AND MUSIC!

in

Paramount's Musical

Dorothy LAMOUR

Eddie BRACKEN GI LAMB

GS BARRY SULL

A 2.30, 5.15,

7:20 & 9.30 p.m.

The Stren of the Sar ongi-aberyofisand Eyefuls - 'Shipwreck“, Eddie and his pals - are calling you to this colorful, musical Par odisa.

"Rainbow Island

Directed by

RALPH MURPHY

Scrimply by

Waiter De Leon

and Arthur Phillips

IN TECHNICOLOR!

ADDED: LATEST METRO-NEWS

TO-MORROW MORNING AT 11,30 A.M. ONLY JACK LONDON'S

"ADVENTURES OF MARTIN EDEN"

with Glenn FORD

•

Claire TREVOR

Evelyn KEYES

Stuart ERWIN A Columbia Picture →→ At Reduced Pricer.

QUEENS & ALHAMBRA

DAILY AT

DAILY AT

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

SHOWING TO-DAY O

Please DON'T TELL ANYONE' WHAT, SHE DID1","

She's the kind of woman, most men want......... but shouldn't have!.

WARNERS

Mildred

STARRING

Perce

JOAN CRAWFORD CARSON SCOTT

EVE ARDEN • ANN BLYTH

DIRECTED STY

MICHAEL CURTIZ

•

BRUCE BENNETT

PRODUCED ST

JERRY WALD

AT THE QUEEN'S TO-MORROW.MORNING AT 11.30 A.M.

Spancar TRACY Robert YOUNG in M-G-M's

NORTHWEST PASSAGE

IN TECHNICOLOR

AT REDUCED PRICES!

ORIENTAL

FINAL SHOWING TO-DAY: 2.30—5.20-7.30-9.30 P.M.. M-G-M'S TOP-NOTCH ROMANTIC-DRAMA OF THE YEAR!

M-GM BRINGS YOU 1,000 ROMANTIC THRILLSI

GINGER ROGERS - LANA TURNER

As the love-starved movie queon,

Gold-digger at work!

WALTER PIDGEON VAN JOHNSON

Was he the jewel thief?

Romance for a hero!

Weekend at the Waldorf.

Commencing To-morrow: “NOTORIOU S”.

SPECIAL MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW AT. 12.30 P.M. the famous picture “LASSIE COMES HOME!”

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1947.

FILM FAN FARE

BOGART OR BACON

PRETTY Andrey Young, # Paramount Starlet, displays the latest thing Hollywood In

bathing suits Sho is being groomed by her studlo for big parts in films.

Ernest Betts

After 'Hamlet'-Macbeth by Orson Welles

RSON WELLES is

to mako "Macbeth" for less than £200,000 Trust little Annie Orson, as they call him, to make something gloomy; he loves a great slab of gloom be- neath a low ceiling.

and mer shows at Folkestone

he is Teignmouth and from these going to build up a revue repertory company.

Carroll's slogan for future stars: "If anyone's good I'll give them a whack at it. The other

Carroll (Levis) had better watch this.

*

Real interest of the news is that | CURGICAL operations in films are Hollywood is now following Britain, not my idea of fun, but you'll "Henry V dlarted it, "Hamlet" con- tinues It, Orson coples it. But whatever he makes, it will be worth seeing. Gloomy or

Hay I watch Orson closely.

by

Partrick Kirwan

- London. 【SAW) a very good American- film and thoroughly en joyed myself, but as I left the theatre I was confronted by the menacing words, "We work or we want," streaming. poross the length of a bombed site. We must work to get dollars. Dollars to pay our debts. Dollars to buy food and raw materials. ·But we must also pay dollars for our day-dreams, for the films that give the city-dweller the light and move- ment; the dramatic action and es- enpe from ugliness that nature alone provides free of charge..

Each year the Brilish cinema-goer pays £20,000,000 for the pleasure of watching Hollywood films. It is a large amount for a people taxed almost boyond endurance and who must bear vast burdens of debt accumulated on the behalf of others. And unless there is some reciprocity In the exchange of films between ourselves and America it may be

that, as with cigarettes and tobdeco, we shall have to practise some self-denial. It is a case of Bogart or bacont

The Hollywood magnates are well aware of the danger, and Lately there has been no le publicity given to the popularity of British films with American audiences, and of the vast probabilities of profits to be made there. It is stated that this year will see British pictures recoup from Amerien at least £6,000,000 of the £20,000,000 paid to Hollywood.

FAIR PLAY NEEDED

HIS, on the face of it, would

S seem fair enough when the size of the two industries are compared, but when the distribution and ex-

As a fact, with its present oppor- tunities of access to American au-

ploitation costs are deducted the 20,000,000 will have shrunk to less than Mason's see a good one in Jomes

a million-a pretty poor ex- new pleture; "The Upturned Glass." change. A child has a critical brain opera- tion,

James and director Laurence Hun-diences no British Um can take Lington went to the Atkinson Mor- AROL REED'S next picture will ley Hospital, Wimbledon, to see the be u short story by Graham real thing, blood, scissors and. all. Greene ("Brighton Rock's": Buthor) Laurence passed out after four called "The Basement Room." Carol minutes, but James stuck it to the docen't like the title.. I ke Stend. sinister, dramatic, box-office title,

MAN is walking through

tnlt

more than £30,000 in America, a tithe of its costs, and of little help in the export drive,

Bellish films are Booming. Their quality as entertainment, technical excellence and antistic integrity are recognised wherever they are shown

THEATRES may bump in the A Berkeley-square with a woman in the world.

slump, be knocked sideways.by friend admiring her handbag. Ho

As an export they could not only filing or by sunshine, but showman asks to look at it, she says no, show the British way of life, but

ur grabs hold of it. Up comes a tal hip moot considerably Billy Rose, of New York, anya:

to redress don't think anything is going to handsome stranger and says: "Is this knock off this 2,000-year-old dar-man molesting you? Man friend the adverse trade balances.

But, to play its part, the industry ling. Legit will always be the Ram goes to take a sock at him, looks brandt of the entertainment busi-gain, and says: "Good heavens, Ray must be given dair play, at home and abroad. In America, the Bri- Milland!' ness,"

tish film must be given reasonable They all shake hands. The man

access to the masses, and not "road- HERE'S a good, new bang-up idea who struck at Ray Milland

Trom Carroll-Gibbons,-16-years-Bertle Meadows, who owns the shown" or tucked away in obscure

gh-brow cinemas, Chesterfield

Curzon-street; Club. band-leading at the Savoy He has a couple of two-hour sum- irl was Marie McGowan, one of the best-known mannequins in London,

Hotel

STRONG ON . SARONGS

Don't let anyone tell you that Dorothy Lamour, sultry-voiced star of "Rainbow Island," now at King's Theatre, is tired of wearing

sarongs.

the

In fact, she was so intrigued by the sarongs designed for her in the picture that she asked Edith Head, Paramount studio stylist, to design a group of evening gowns and play clothes pifterned after the movie attire.

Incidentally, Dottle's entire ward- robe in Hainbow Island," in which she is co-starred with Eddie Bene- ken and Gli Lamb, weighs exactly 42 ounces. It consists of six changes of sarongs.

Barry Sullivan, whom movie- hand- goers will remember as the some psychiatrist of "Lady in the Dark," Is the romantic lead oppo- site Dorothy in "Rainbow Island."

Things Look Up As Actor Swears Off

Hollywood-Everybody

happy

now on RKO Radio's "I Remem ber Mama" set, for Philip Dorn has given up smoking, as required by the story."

Irene Dunne is allergic to tobacco smoke and all others agreed Darn's abstinence improved th: smog silua- tion. In real life he quit smoking a year ago under doctor's orders.

THEATRE Directory

SHOWING TODAY QUEEN'S-Mildred Prce.. KING'S Rainbow Island, LEE Ser A Dark Strenger." ALUAMPRA-MIldre:i Plaren, CENTRAI-Riders of Death Val-

lty

NEXT CHANGE

QUEEN'S Haiter's Cosilc, TEE-It Happened Tomorrow. 'CENTRAL-Her: Caine the Co-

is.

the Co-

ALKAMURA-Here Come t

eds.

M

Was

ONEY DOESN'T MEAN - ANYTHING DEPARTMENT Cro-Goldwyn-Mayer are to spend €31,000,000 in, ten years at nw Elstree Studies. They start in September..

*

their

ADLER'S WELLS BALLET, which closed at Covent Garden £100,000 and in June 21, made wo stars-Moira Shearer and Beryl Gray,

a

Moira, who said "Yes," then "No," then "Yes" to new film about ballet, "Red Shoes," will miss the provincial tour this autumn to make

$1.

At home the Industry must be given every facility to increase its output and satisfy the growing de mand. Studio space and equipment are hampering expansion and keep- Ing British production at less than one-tenth that of Hollywood.

It would seem of small, use the vast Rank

organisation to buy chairs of cinemas throughout the world I they are still dependent on Hollywood for 80 percent of their flims.

The talent, enthusiasm, and ex- Given perience are all available. space for expansion, the film- industry would work as never be fore, and lend a very willing hund posters in banishing the gloomy that tell us how perilously near wo

are to want...

FROM SUICIDE TO SUCCESS

JOAN CRAWFORD, who has a powerful part in "Allåsest Pierce," now at the Queen's'and Alhambra Theatres, won an Academy Above she is seen with Award for her acting in this picture. Zachary Scott, who plays -good-for-nothing that nearly

ruin for her and her daughter.

Causes

LE

Theatre

ADVANCE BOOKING OFFICE

ST. FRANCIS HOTEL, QUEEN'S ROAD, CENTRAL BOOKING HOURS: 11:00 a.m. to 5.30 pim. Dally

LAST 4 SHOWS TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.00, 7.15′&′′9.30 P.M. (PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE OF TIME):

DEBORAH2

KERR

W

The

for the

girl

the

little

black

book!

Hunt

DEBORAH KERR

TREVOR HOWARD

"I SEE A

DARK STRANGER".

ALIAS "THE ADVENTURESS"

Linda DARNELL

TO-MORROW

."

Dick POWELL Jack QAKIE

in

IT HAPPENED TO-MORROW “

A UNITED ARTISTS RELEASE.

CENTRAL.

5 SHOWS TO-DAY

AT 12.30, 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9,15 P:M. FIRST EPISODE

A MILLION-DOLLAR SUPER-SERIAL!

With a million-dollar cast of dare-devils...in the supar- serial of all time.....1....

DICK

LEO

BUCK

FORAN CARRILLO JONES

CHARLES DICKFORD

RIDERS OF DEATH VALLEY

. SHOWING

TO-DAY.

M-G-M

PICTURE

SHOWING TO-DAY

LON CHANEY, Jr. HOAH BEERY,Jr.

"BIG BOY" WILLIAMS JEANNE KELLY MONTE BLUE

MAJESTIC

At 2.30, 5,20,

7.20 & 9.20 p.m.

ROMANCE! DRAMA

INKA NEW ELASSIE

ADVENTURE!

SON OF LASSIE

IN TECHNICOLORS

PETER LAWFORD DONALD CRISP

#111 SOUND COMFORTABLE SEATS

SAT 2.30, 5.20,

Cathay

·7.30 & 9.30

P.M.

THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING NOVEL OF 1944, NOW BECOMES THE GREATEST PICTURE OF 19471 :.

"A BELL FOR ADANO"?

Starring Gone TIERNEY John HODIAK Directed by HENRY KING OPENING TO-MORROW

Tangier

Maria MONTEZ-Robert PAIGE SABU Preston FOSTER Louise ALLBRITTON