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SHOWING

TO-DAY

QUEEN'S

at 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.15 p.m.

IT'LL MAKE YOUR HEART DEAT............IN RHUMBA RHYTHM I

“CARNIVAL IN COSTA RICA"

IN FIESTA TECHNICOLOR

Dick HAYMES . Vera ELLEN Cesar ROMERO

A 20th Century-Fox Picture

SUNDAY MORNING SHOW AT 11.30 A.M. ONLY

Errol FLYNN ❤

Olivia de HAVILLAND

"THE CHARGE OF

◊

THE LIGHT BRIGADE”

At Reduced Prices!

NEXT CHANGE

20% CNTAT FOR PARENTA AZURA PICTURES, BRO PRODUCION!

FRED Mac MURRAY

DE LIVED A

HUNDRED LIFE-

TIMES IN ONE!

But the woman ho loved al- ways know, no mattor what the headlines shrieked, that ho was safe ...and coming back to hert

EDDIE

LYNN BARI-CHARLES BICKFORD - THOMAS MITCHELL · LLOYD HOLAN • JAMES CLEASON

DEEN THEATRE

ADVANCE BOOKING OFFICE: ST. FRANCIS HOTEL BOOKING HOURS: 11.00 A.M. TO 5.30 P.M. DAILY

MORNING SHOW TO-DAY AT 12.00 NOON ONLY!

" VARIETY PROGRAMME

PLEDGE TO BATAAN

" CARTOONS IN TECHNICOLOR!

$1.50 Tax Incl.

$1.00

AT REDUCED PRICES: DRESS CIRCLE:

STALLS:

4 SHOWS TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.00, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.

NOW

Cary

GRANT SMITH

and Day

Nighte

THE STORY OF COLE PORTER,WITH THOSE COLE PORTER SONG SENSATIONS!

MONTY WOOLLEY-GINNY SIMMS-JANE WYNAN

EVE ANGLI • CARDS RAMIREZ » DONALD WOODS

Began her be Chorlac Mylinan |||I

and

MARY MARTIN

MICHAEL CURITZ ARMUR SCHWARZ

Be Torland, Warus beams fil

Adaptadon by Jock Hollin - Boved on the Corner nå Coto Parter » Orshestral Alvangelegen by kay Mar

ALHAMBRA THEATRE

FIVE SHOWS DAILY

AT 12.15; 2.30; 5.20; 7.20 & 9.20 P.M.

A CHINESE COMEDY!

"SHE WANTS TO

MARRY"

嫁當大女

featuring LI LI-HUA of "BARBER" FAME

CHANCE!

Dialogue in MANDARIN

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1948.

SHIRLEY TEMmple becamE A MOTHER ON JANUARY 30, WHEN LINDA SUSAN WAS BORN, IN THIS ARTICLE, HER HUSBAND, JOHN AGAR, REVEALS A FEW FACTS ABOUT THEIR DOMESTIC LIFE

LIFE WITH SHIRLEY

NE of the first things my wife and

com-

1 ngreed on before we were married was that we should have a munity of interest, That's why I gave up a promising career in business with my family's Chicago meat-packing_company_to become an actor. The girl I married. Shirley Temple-has been an actress all her life. With both of us acting, we'll have more in common. Packing meat always seemed to be rather dull anyway.

Then there's the matter of leading EL normal family life. In the two years we've been married, we haven't had a fight. The closest we ever came to it was over golf, when I got interested in the game and was apending more than the right amount of time on it. We renched that crisis by a logical com- promise no golf on Sundays, and Shirley is learning the game by going along with me on Saturdays.

Shirley and husband have

a chat between scenes of their first motion picture to- gether.

Another thing of mutual interest lery, for the Navajos are nated Is the fact that Shirley and I have silversmiths, shipping their products snade a pleture together-my first all over the world. and her thirty-seconÉ. We play the romantic leads in "War Party," a story of the American frontier right after the Civil War. In the picture, 1 play the part of a young West Pointer, while Shirley is the daughter of a

mander.

frontler

ON LOCATION

pont coin-

10 make the picture, the Modi

the

cluding Shirley and myself, to the Navajo Indian country near Sedom, Arizona. It was my first experience in the workings of mavir-inking. But more interesting than that were the 55,000 Indians who came down from the Navajo Reservation to take part in the big battle scenes in the 1 found that the Indians picture, were old hotels at appearing in In furt, for almost a quarter of it century, Hollywood's picture factories have been locationing big, outdoor scenes in Arizona, and the Indians look upon flm companies A source of revenue second only to occasional work on the nearby Santa Fe Railroad.

in-

When one family, we visited found that we

were to becorne father and mother ourselves, they pre- seated us with one of those papoose rigs the tailan mothers carry their offspring in, Shirley nud 1 ac- cepted in

in the grave manner it was presented.

Shirley thinks

co ht It the baby eventually becomes In- terested in beting, we'll do every- thing we can to help. But the im- portant thing in our baby's fe is Its own preference. Whatever It wants to de carver-wise, we'll be backing it enn-homired percent.

HAPPY TOGETHER PHERES only one consideratlus we

give about the child's going into motion pictures-will it be hat for him in any way? Shiley says it hasn't hurt her in any way, and agree. Just the same, we weigh all the factors carefully when the

tline comes.

be-kind-to-in-lawa

and

Kid from

Brooklyn tells how

he did it

BY DAVID LEWIN

Landon. ANNY KAYE, 35-year-old Wonder Man of American show business, came to London with a smile, a mop of carroty hair, and a pair of ex- pressive hands.

Meanwhile, we're just trying to be

It is the hands you notice an average domestic type family and observe the rules of family to first: long, thin, and tapering We visit Shirley's brother and his to well-manicured fingernails. | wite Shirley and 1 spent many of our

and play bridge. We also Achi a mobile face and an agile abserve these Visiting leisure hours

wit and you have the reason teresting people, who arc really visit them frequently. Occasionally

their homes, we have an evening out for dancing, why Kaye will one day be the primitive artists. In whole families from small children and Shirley keeps a firm hand on world's No. 1 clown,

The uses these assets themselves our budget. grandparents busy

to put over In other words, we're happy to his seat sougs, and to emphasise his with making useful articles such or

Kars. He

"They are colourful rugs, poftery, pani pictures gether as we plan a long future for and jewellery-particularly jewel intr family.

props. They speak a language any audience can understand.""

Satiric Songs

Comic wins another

million or so

says:

Kaye'n art Is pantomime. He tearned it the hard way playing to audiences who had no English in the

Far East. It took him a

a long time

to be discovered. In the early 'thirties he was in a cabaret act at a London hotel. No one knew him. In America he toured the seaside resorts, and worked in hotels keep- ing the guests happy when it was wet outside. Cowan-has-given-Dinah--(Mrs.dux The only difference is

"i'm_still_daing_just

By PAULA WALLING

HOLLYWOOD.

ZEALTHY comedian Harold George Montgomery) the top role of for the past eight years Kaye |

Wheel has become even

that

a singing secretary in the picture.

He has not yet, however, found an has been doing it for more than £2,000 a week in U.S. variety shows, actress to take the part played hy

cabarets, and films. Mary Martin on the stage.

wealthier: he won his plagiarism suit against Univerani Pictures,

In London, at the Palladium, he will Lloyd first sued this studio in three of his oki 1945 over

pictures "Up In Arms," "Wonder NN Blyth has been chosen to play hislut over the satiric songs from

Man,"

*The and

libe From comedies, "Welcome Danger," A the mermaid in Nunnally John-

"Mr. Brooklyn. "Professor Beware" and "The son's production of the novel,

His wife. Sylvin, whom he mar Peabody nut the Mermaid"-in Freshman."

which William Powell will play Mr.fried in 1939, writes some of his SAMPLE; Tlls bur- Peabody, and Andrea King, his wife, numbers. these The film has been postponed to allow | lesque of a Hollywood Bim's credit in its Ano to

Lillian titles: Bnish her role in

of the Hellman's "Another Part

Art direction, Finklepuff, Forest."

Interiors, Minerva Buff. Photography, Alonzo Tek,

Recorded round, Ozncedle

He claimed

that Universal lifted sequences bodily out of three Mims, and used them

intern productions.

frad

At that time, Lloyd declared con- fidently: 1 ought to get at least a million dollars."

name,

The comedian's lawyer refused to PARBARA Stanwyck and Burt Lan-

In "Sorry," will co-star the exact sun that his client easter has receivedt.

Wrong Number,“ He added: "It was the largest pay- munt ever made in a playlartsın sulf in the United States,"

Anton Litvak is directing this Alm. taken from the radio thriller. about a woman who hears her own murder:

Multi-milhonaire Lloyd is happy, planned over the telephone.

尊

RITISH actor Len

Gem (Who THEIR teen-age slim fans en netty played the Constable of France 1 Larry Parks and wife in Olivier's Ifenry V1 appears to be Garrett calling for the police recently settling in Hollywood.

The couple returned home late t Genn, who made "Mourning. Be- entes Electra" for RKO, is now cynlight to And the house blazing with

fighter. starring with Rosalind Russell m "Youthful vandals had broken la. "The Velvet Touch"-and his wife and were staging a swing session in Marguerite Bonnar (she is the writer) the drawing-room.

is jolning hun here

The Parks were just annoyed until they found one girl in Larry's ESTER COWAN'S adoptation of bed, wearing a pair of his pyjamas.

J that Broadway musical, "One Touch of Genius” will be Aimed after Dinah Shore's baby arrives.

Her Husband's

Affair

OLD-T

Beck,

pickknackery by Thackery, by Zachary,

Terpsichore by Dickery. And Bickery by Dock.

Je ups it in gradually increas- ing tempo. How is it done? Ac- cording to Kaye it is too simple. He has wonderful

memory, hard

words don't worry him, and he wan

a baritone to a tenor, and almost

force his voice do anything from

up to top C for a coloratura soprano, Likes Work

Thrown in for the same price is an ability to switch into crooning {

Bussian, excited Ralian, or aristoera- lie_English.

revels in his Kaye likes work, newly won luxury of a'home in Hollywood and an apartment in New York, fondles his hand-made silk D-TIME director D.W. Griffith, shirts, and remembers he really is 73. is a bachelor at heart, is the kid who came from Brooklyn, second wife, Evelyn, 33, told the whose father

a Russian-born Divorce Court Judge. Evelyn got garment worker. her divorce.

He admits his wife has helped him The Rita Hayworth-Orson Welles to get to the top, and says "Sylvin divorce suit which made ali head- has a ne head on my shoulders." lines, leaves Rita free.

The courts gave Ritu the custody

of their three-year-old daughter, Re-

"Her Husband's Affate," which is becca Weller, and restored to Rita

the next change at

King's her maiden name of Margarita Can- the Theatre, is a merry farce of marital sino.

Franchot Tone. mix-ups..

us the husband, and Lucille Ball,

Ds bis better half, are involval in some of

the funniest situations in mony movie moon.

THE Frank SinatratarGexpleting

their third child iffJuña,

The Alm pokes fun at people In ETTY GRAIRE Whom I w

business and their BE the advertising

απ

clining

stop-at-nothing attempts to sell the husband, ig, public

new products. The dressed yomote dialogue in breezy and flippant, the acling by the stars and a well-

Cils|her tig&VITEI

with

waa

THEATRE

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