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TO-DAY

ONLY

HENRY

FONDA

QUEEN'S

At 2.30, 5.15,

7.15 & 9.15 p.m.

GENE

TIERNEY

"RINGS ON HER FINGERS"

A 20TH CENTURY-FOX PICTURE

* SUNDAY MORNING, ONLY

AT 11:30 A‚M.

"ALL-COLORED CARTOON

PROGRAM”

BRAND NEW ONES FROM 20TH CENTURY-FOX AT REDUCED PRICES!

OPENING TO-MORROW

GRAND DOUBLE ATTRACTION!

ROUND-BY-

EXTRA!

BLOW BY BLOW!

JOE LOUIS

VS.

SERSEY WALCOTT

OFFICIAL HEAVY

CHAMP

RELEASED THROUGH AND RADIO PICTURES

PLUS THIS BIG ONE

She wrote the book ...but he

had the ideas!

JESSE LIKE and WALTET HEUER pent

It's the

hilarious

history of

a wayward

impuliol

CLAUDETTE COLBERT - JOHN WAYNE

In MERVYN ROY'S production of

Without Reservations

DON DofOREAN FRIDLA. Miss LOUILLA PARSONS" Picked by JESSE L. LASKY na Play by ANDREW S01.

ADVANCE BOOKING OFFICE

ST. FRANCIS HOTEL QUEEN'S ROAD, CENTRAL. BOOKING HOURS: 11.00 A.M. TO 5.30 P.M. DAILY.

LAST 4 SHOWS TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.10. 7.15 & 9.15 P.M.

SEE! THE ROYAL COUPLE IN

CAMERA CLOSE-UPS!

• THE ROYAL WEDDING

• HONEYMOON AT ROMSEY

• THE ROYAL COMMAND FILM PERFORMANCE

ALSO

MADELEIN

La Gradl

MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW |

AT 11.30 A.M. ONLY

LATEST NEWS:

THE ROYAL WEDDING.

* HONEYMOON AT ROMSEY

MARCH OF TIME:

"AMERICAN CUP"

COMEDY

COLOUR CARTOON AT REDUCED PRICES: $1.00 $0.50 INCL. TAX.

TO-DAY

ONLY

(PLAN JEUX 699

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1947.

率 FILMS FOR

YOUR CHRISTMAS

were

and

M-G-M's colourful young man stainpu into the ring to HERE is a big line-up of center 24 in

"Fiesta." It is true to its name-a save his sister from being Rored by first-rate films for the feast of colour, fun, music and the an enraged bull. entertainment of Hong Esther Williams type of charm.

The film la-in technicolour, and Although kong movie fans this Christ-

Esther swims in the there are Beautiful shots of Mexican 88. All the theatres have film, it in only incidental. Just try scenic spots where the picture was

a part she made. The bullfight scenen ambitious plans, and every- and guess what sort of a

hant She's a female matador, and inde at Tinxcala and Puebla, thing points to a really merry, no fooling! She plays the twin sin show the famous matators, Escudero, enjoyable holiday for picture-

ter to rdo Montalban. Their Estudiante, Colasera and Briones in bullaghter of great netion. Plenty of Mexican muste, father, a goors.

definitely on The emphasis is

renown, has hopes that his son will plus a demonstration of "La Bam- muunic, but spectacle, comedy and follow in the honoured profession, ba," the south of the bortler version nhl-feminine allure are all there but he prefers soft lights and guitar of the Jitterbug, by Cyd Charisse for the picking.

music. Marin Moralen otherwise and Montalban, One of Hongkong's top favourites, Esther-passes herself off as her Esther "Bathing Beauty" Williams, brother to try and save the family the comes to the King's Theatre on De- honour. In a terrife climax,

GREETINGS with a smile!

Joyana New fram

OUT HERE, THEY

GROW TOO FAST

'VE always thought that manners are a matter of longtitude rather than latitude, and I've now got so much used to California. turns of phrase that I find myself auto- matically answering "You bet!" when-thanked-for--anything; such being the local custom.

I also climax any meeting with on enthusiastic: "It's been so nice to meol you.

MOLLY

CASTLE sends a

̈ ́HOLLYWOOD-LEYTERTM

ORG wouldn't exchange it for a

the So I drove along

strecia

Once I used to be a little tense white Christmas. about this in case I didn't get it in first. any answer being necessarily thinking about Christmas and pre- anti-climactic.

I understood sents (everyone It Hollywood

that pent exactly how a certain English Star wants n

So

wrlies under

felt when I thus went Hollywood Water except Bob Hope who says on her. Still, it was no more than he can't hold his breath that long). It had been nice meet about Norma Shearer I recalled a

and because, we'd been the truth.

talking Ing her.

star LIVING SPACE

I had lunch with her and with

Woolf

of the late Jimmy

(Son C.M. and now a screen play writer) in her dressing-room.

mald

story I'd heard about a new she'd discovered.

REFRESHING

DISNEY'S LATEST

T the Queen's, opening on Christ-

Disney's Arst live-action musical The drama, "Song of the South." picture is the co-ordination of story enacted by

characters

A mas Day, will be seen Wall

a

with parallel sequences by animated cartoon characters based on

Chandler Harris' "Uncle

folk tales

Joel

It is certainly em

ambitious

production, and wii! most

old alike. A and appent to young fine choice for a Christmas film.

The story concerns the falling out of a southern newspaper editor and his wife through his political activi- ties. She takes their sor to her mother's plantation, where he meets incle Remus, who tells him about Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox and the other aliding animals. The child later for cause and reason pro les the the arents' reconciliation.

There is plenty of music; in fact, no less an 16 songs specially com posed. "Sooner or Laler

and "Zipndee Doodah" promise to be real hot favourites.

LAUCH TEAM

ROUCHO Marx and Carmen Miranda - can you imagine the combination! That's what "Copaca- bann" is made of. And "Copact- nana is the Christmas show at the Lee Theatre. And there'll be queurs, you bett Teaming up

up two highly

artistic fun-makers is always something of

n risk, for although they may be highly spontaneous Individually, they may not hit off together at all. However, Groucho, away from his famous brothers for the first

time, and the volatile Brazilian bombshell and a team as ham are as much OXER.

The setting is a swank New York night club, where La Miranda is an entertainer. Furlous fun and melo- ious music. Not to be overlooked are the Gorgeous

Copa

Girls!

Another musical-and a really good

one also-is

"The Time, The

Place and The Girl." That's to be shown over the holidays slinul- faneously at the Central and Alham- bra. Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Janis Palge. Martha Vickers, Alon Hale and S. Z. Sakall, together with Carmen Cavallaro and his orchestra, All in all, a rood time has been Inid on, and so here's hoping you'll have a happy Christmas!

SPOTLIGHT ON STARS AND FILMS

ABRIEL PASCAL, Britain's

G most fabulous film producer,

shooting of his Shaw picture. flew to Rome recently to arrange

"Androcles and the Lion."

a large living-robin, the free even when she left, so she my shal-theatre in Verona for

she fresh.

giri,

dork and attractive, sturs at home

Starring is Barry Fitzgerald, with a cast from the Abbey Theatre. Dublin. Gabby Pascal, criticised for As a matter Norma was up in the mountains the

"Cæsar £1,300,000

and of fact, it's more than a dressing at an hotel and was leafing through Cleopatra," told me: "This will be

hotel's scrapbook when one simple.

Nothing fantastic. I use room-it's n complete bungalow, the with a

bedroom, face struck her. She didn't forget the bathroom and kitchen, and a maid who used to wait un Joan reported to the casting director at

The new Mrs. Pascal, 21-year-old Hennett and knows all the answers.. her home studio-M-G-M-and he Valerie Jakabffy, an lollan

The irony of the situation is that, sent off minions who returned with while my friend has this bungalow Janet Leigh, 18 years old and dalsy to look after the farm. Fifty-three- year-old Gabby changed his mind for use as a dressing-room, can't find a house to live in other-

when he met her about marrying In fact she was so ingenuous that,

in Paris two months ago. wise, so has to stay with friends.

she was pleased to be paid $50 a week, so innocent that when they shall never get

Four years ago he was saying: GAINED 15LB.

married, nid her a lead opposite Lunch

from the offered Was brought

Bernard said: "That's right. scenes to studio commissary and served by Johnson, with the Arst the coloured mald. We had English be made on location, she refused, He is way to my play. But all mixed grill such as you could not saying she couldn't afford the hotel that

Tiris unsophistication. I noted; came along. get in England these days, and the HONEYMOON" sort of salad to be found nowhere when I saw the test they had made but in California. My friend has of her, shines out on the screen and is very refreshing. Like on April

4 SHOWS TO-MORROW FRANCHOT TONE ANN RICHARDS in

1. ARTHUR RANK'S~~~~ "LOST

ALSO

"FOOTBALL DEFENCE" "PALESTINE" "HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY"

galned

15lb. on American food. So I

I said it been nice meet- shower, you might say.

had been ing her which, indeed, it had, and, I set off down the street.

It had been raining and now It elear, the distant mountains blue,

WAS

V-lookingrass lawns, freshly

the red flowers on

AT the cucalyptus trees still spangled

Cathay 2.50 5.20,

7.20 & 9.30 p.m.

ACTION! ADVENTURE! SPECTACLE! ROMANCE! EVERY BULLET TELLS ITS STORY!

EVERY KISS PAYS ITS PRICE!

John WAYNE Marlene DIETRICH Randolph SCOTT in

'THE SPOILERS"

with Harry CAREY Margaret LINDSAY

OPENING TO-MORROW

THEIR NEWEST FUN! THEIR FUNNIEST HIT!

Bud ABBOTT &

Lou COSTELLO in

“HIT THE ICE””

with Ginny SIMMS & 50 BEAUTIES SUNDAY EXTRA SHOW AT 12.30 P.M.-

"BUFFALLO BILL' “ÎN TECHNICOLOR

Jool McCREA Madrean O'HARA In

Linda DARNELL

with

Also, the Christ- mas decorations were beginning

On one Jawn I saw a vost appear. vals of pink candles, eft, fall and fitted with electric flames.

These

THEATRE Directory

TO-DAY'S FILMS

QUEEN'S--Rugs On

Van

was forgotten when Valcric

A

睢

PAT O'Brien regelved an honorary Letters) at the centenary celebra- Lilt. D. degree (Doctor of

tion of St Francis College in Loretto, Pennsylvania. The

star

SHOWING

TO-DAY KINGS

M-G-M's

A GREAT HEART-DRAMA I

#

The TECHNICOLOR Triumphi

AT. 2.30, 5.15,

7.20 & 9.30 p.m.

NATIONAL VELVET

A CLARENCE BROWN Production MICKEY ROONEY

Torring

and a great

cast!

AN_M-G-M-PICTURE

To-morrow Morning at 11.30 A.M. Only Dorothy LAMOUR ~Jon HALL in 'ALOMA of the SOUTH SEAS

IN TECHNICOLOURI

A Paramount Picture-At Reduced Prices

ORIENTAL

SHOWING TO-DAY:

YOU'LL CRY

YOU'LL LAUCH

2.30—5.15—7.20—-9.20 P.M. THROUGH YOUR CHEERS! THROUGH YOUR TEARS!

THE FIRST BIG HUMAN

STORY OF THE WARI

RICHARD Inegaskic

GUADALCANAL

DIARY

Preston FOSTER · Loyd HOLM Wiliam BENDIX » Richard CONTE Anthony QUIN

SPECIAL MORNING SHOWS ON SUNDAY FIRST MORNING SHOW COMMENGES AT 10.15 A.M.

THE LAST INDIAN FILM

PRATIMA”

or ("UNION OF 2 HEARTS") IN HINDUSTANI DIALOGUE A SUPER SOCIAL PICTURE OF THE BOMBAY TALKING STUDIOS

with MISS SWARNALTATA, MISS JYOTI, DEELIP KUMAR, SHAH NAWAZ, MISS CHAN- DRIKA, MISS NAJMA, MISS ZEBUNISSA AND MANY OTHERS.

In a now Love Story you will always remember! It is played by well-known Indian film stars with delightful dances and song-hits you will surely enjoy!

NOTE: Patrons are reminded that this is the LAST & THE

BEST INDIAN PICTURE, AFTER WHICH NO MORE INDIAN FILMS WILL BE SHOWN IN THE COLONY (DUE TO UNAVOIDABLE CIRCUMSTANCES), RE-

MEMBER THIS IS THE LAST INDIAN FILM! JUST ONE SHOW ONLY! PLEASE DO NOT MISS IT!

THE REGULAR MORNING SHOW AT 12.30 "BACK TO BATAAN" A Very Exciting Picture

ALHAMBRANATHEATRE

戆

TO-DAY ONLY AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 P.M.

The Worm Turns...

BUD

LOV

ABBOTT COSTELLO

and turns on

the FUN!

IT'S SOMETHING NEW from BUD and Lou!

...as low lens the tables on Bud in their muddest metee of maids

and mischief!

The Time of Their Lives

OPENS of RKO Radio's "Fighting Father TO-MORROW! Dunne" fald the cornerstone, of a national shirino to St Genesius, patron saint of actors.

FRED ASTAIRE . 13 unpacking

those dancing shoes he put away when finished making "Blue Her Fingers Skies" a year ago. He has agreed to take a dancing part in the new Crawford pleture. "Time to

(Gene Tierney, Henry Fonda)

decorations, and the fact KING'S—Nailonal Velvet, (Mickey he is keen. Hollywood 10

that the Christmas flower, poin- Bettla reddens in the last week of December and is thickly clustered fround

every house, is the only way. you could tell it was mid-winter.

On the empty street corners are bunches of Christmas trees for sale, but a lot of people trim the trees In their own garden. The only disadvantage to this is that trees grow so fabulously in this climate that anybo planting a three-foot tree may find himself trimming 30-footer before many years.

In fact, there's one tree nt the corner of Beverly and Coldwater Canyon, which is about 76 feet tall

and

Christmas they cach have to use more and more lights. It's a gay sight, though, and for

now,

Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor)

LEE-White Cradle Inn (Madeleine trying to interest him in

Carroll, Ian Hunter)

་

·

a Bing

F

WALT Disney's musical feature

Crosby musical as well. CENTRAL--T10 Fighting Dovil Latest report on Aalaire: He is Herman fat (yes, he is getting plump), fit Powell, Dogs (Lee

and 47. Brix)

Diary ORIENTAL-Guadalcanal

(Preston Foster, Lloyd Nolan) W4 Dad Fancy Free" launches CATHAY—The Spollers (John

A. a new dance "The Beatleto," Wayne, Marlene Dietrich)

tendril from a gaint vine executes ALHAMBRA—The, Tima of Their It In the "Mickey and the Beanstalle"

Lives (Bud Abbott, Lou Cos episode. It's a holero-type dance. iello)!

best LFRED Hitchcock,

director of thrillern, in the business, says he always reads the STAR-In Thia Our Life (Bette end of a mystery novel first becauso

Davis, Olivia de Havilland) he cannot stand-the-suspenso.

MAJESTIC-Tarzan and the Ilan- tress (Johnny Welsmutter, Brenda Joyce)

the

:

SHOWING

TO-DAY

MARJORIE REYNOLDS BINNIE BARNES

**SECRET AGENT NO.

- DIALOGUE IN MANDARIN

AT- 2.30, 5.20.

MAJESTIC 2009.20 p.m.

TERROR STALKS LONE WHITE BEAUTY...

in vengeance-maddened Junglet-

EDGAR RICE BURROUGHY

TARZAN and the

HUNTRESS

JOHNNY WESSMULLER • BRENDA JOYCE

JOHNNY SHEFFIELD COMPATRICIA MILTON » MANTÉM MƏCLAST

FIDHUTER BY SÖL LESSER - Ruppen Franja and Dan Kokratna ali neverung grat

GRAND CHRISTMAS ATTRACTION "THE YEARLING" in Technicolor