1948-07-03 — Page 2

TO-DAY

· ONLY.

KINGS

AIR-CONDITIONED *

Blazing sun kindles mad passions in the high Stories!

GUER

YOUNG CHAPMAN

BELENTLESS

WILLARD PARKER ÁKÍM TAMIROFF

Jeron MacLANTE • THİKA ZAAZ URMĂ» Robert BARRAT « Chena ITNAJS

A 2.30, 5.15,

7.20 & 9.30 p.m.

COLOR #Y

TECHNICOLOR

Brempher by Kimathaktee + Directed by GEORGE SICERIAAN Produced by EUGENE D. ROONEY

ALSO LATEST FOX MOVIETONE NEWS

TO-MORROW

FA DRAMATIC CHALLENGE

TO YOUR HEART

ROBERT and RAYMOND HAJOM

HENRY FONDA · BARBARA BEL GEDDES VINCENT PRICE. ANN DVORAK

THE LONG NIGHT ·

AN ANATOLE LITVAK

PRODUCTION

Produced by ROBERT and RAYMOND HAKIM

.and AMATOLE LUTYAK

Directed by ANATOLE LITYAK Korven Play by JONK WESLEY

Haseena Korý by JACQUES VOT

RELEASED BY

RKO RADIO PICTURES Sć

BOOKINGS NOW OPEN!

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

TYRONE POWER in

** CRASH DIVE”

COLOR BY TECHNICOLOR!

with Anne BAXTER

A 20th Century-Fox Picture

Dana ANDREWS

At Reduced Pricos

LEE THEATRE

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

FINAL SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

ADDED:

STEWART

VALERIE

GRANGER HOBSON BLANCHE FURY

COLOR BY TECHNICOLON

A WADKER FITZGERALD

Reporuku by AUORET LINDOW & FTEN ROWERS,

Co by ManG ALLĒCALE.

Gester MAVUZÓCHALLAN

LATEST GAUMONT BRITISH NEWS

MORNING SHOW SUNDAY AT 13.30 A.M. ONLY

WALT DISNEY'S

"THE THREE CABALLEROS “

RONALD

SHIRLEY

In Technicolor'

AT REDUCED PRICES:

TEMPLE

RORY CALHOUN

LOIS MAXWELL

TO-MORROW

Hager

Gül

PENNY EDWARDS HARRY DAVENPORT PETER GODFREY

Syri točkeran » From a Novel by Edita Roberts › Muste te Frame Marmides j'a

ORIENTAL

COMMENCING TO-DAY:

2.30.15—7.30-9.30. P.M.

A Story from the groat Novel of a small-town girl who wanted

big-time llfo ... and got it!

TRACY TURNER SCOTT

CASS TIMBERLANE

TOM DRAKE MARY ASTOR - ALBERT DENKER

SPECIAL MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW. AT 12.30

"THE AIR FORCE"

Warner Bros. Picture

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1948.

A Seat in the Stalls Queens

SELAW més BLOOTS

BARBARA

Miss Sloots

AIR CONDITIONED..

by DAVID

IF YOU

Pictur

finds it fun LEWIN as Susan

for ng young Patsy Sloots is concerned, the trouble with this business of making films is that It leaves so little, time for the other exciting things like using a blue ration book to get sweets.

Miss Sloots from West Norwood, will have even less time for herself. For the second time in a month she is getting down to work on two pletures

once.

She will be racing between Shepherd's Bush for "It's Not Cricket" and Islington for "Vote for Huggett."

Shaw.

happy

That is why she was so playing the typist in "London Bo long To Me." When she was still Patsy Sloots, Susan Shaw had been a £6--Weck City typlat. She know all about it, the way the girls made up their hair before leaving the friends and omer at night, the talk about boy- the struggle to make last year's dress into this season's

model.

contract in her pocket, has no worry Now Miss Shaw, with a big money

about clothes-instead, she has the fear of being.

called n "clothes horse."

In one of her films she had a scene with

small-part player. As the camera moved in Susan Shaw half- turned so that the girl next to her

BEL GEDDES, This tiny 18-year-old Blonde, got the close-up.

NEW STAR

with the hard face and an in- Said the director; "I have seen a quisitive nose like a rabbit, is star move so that she would get the better known to you as Susan her-but I have never seen it hap- close-up and cut out anyone next to

BARBARA BEL GEDDES is Shaw. And I pick Miss Shaw pen that way before."

J

Stretch Of Parts

ONE unsual Quing about Susan Shaw

own

hailed as the No. 1 Ameri- as one of the most promising screen actresses Wo can film find of the year. After young winning all of the important have.

is her, capacity to criticise her I make that choice knowing that Studios they thought she was stage awards for her sensa-

performances, At Ealing tional performance in the In the past two years British pic in "It Always Rains on

Sund Broadway hit, "Deep Are the tures have presented us with a suc- Butt Susan told me sadly:

cession of newcomers ranging from my big scene with Googie Withers. studios Roots," major film

Jenn Simmons to Christine Norden. I just had not the experience to

who started as a dancer in "London The experience will come. Susan, Town," followed with a half-minuto walk-on part in the James Mason pleture "Upturned Glass," won her a contract with Sydney Box which and s continuous stretch of parts ever since.

Somewhere between the two have been Hazel Court, Carol Marsh, Sally Ann Howes and Susan Shaw,

Turning Point

sought her services. RKO Radio has succeeded in signing her to a contract. Her first picture is "The Long Night," in which she co-stars with Henry Fonda, Vincent Price and Ann Dvorak. The picture comes this

THE turning point for Susan Shaw week-end to the King's.

Daughter of

was the general acclaim for her the

nated acting ability in "It Always Rains scenic de-on Sunday" and her great common signer, Nor- sense.

Bel Ask her what it is like to star in mon Gedder, Bar- pictures at 18 and sho says: "I'm not barn was born a star. Come round in 20 years and in New York maybe I'll

give you the answer She at-

then.

I do not think I can claim to tended several be a real actress until I am 38,”

schoola

Susan Shaw private

looks upon it like and manifest this: you must have experience-it ed acting as- is experience that counts always. pirations at "I do not use tricks in front of the an early age.

camera. When I play a part there must be some of me in It."

City

After her father accured walk- on part for her in an Ethel Barry- more play, she went into Alexander Kirkland's summer stock” company, and later won an important role in one of his Broadway plays.

Fol-

In-

-1941 she toured America as one of the leads in "Junior Miss." lowing this, sha-appeared, through no fault of her own, in a succession of Broadway fallures.

In 1943 she was tested in Holly wood for Hunt Stromberg's "Guest in the House," without result, She appeared in another series of un- successful New York productions, during which she met and married Carl Schreuer, young electrical en- gineer. After her daughter, Susan, was born, Barbara appeared In "Deep Are the Roots," on the New York stage in 1045.

its

Before the play had finished nine months run, Barbara was In

Hollywood, preparing for her movie

debut.

carry it off perfectly."

Before she starts on Vote for Huggelt" she will go through her daily performance of wiggling her face until the muscles are complete- ly relaxed. She has to be at

casc before she can do anything at all.

That is why I have one fear for Miss Show-it is

that producers, realling they are on a good thing, will work her too hard. Two plc- lures at the same time are a strain.

And anyway, it leaves her too little time for baking chocolate cakes at her Regent's Park flat.

'Hamlet' restore's our film prestige

by STEPHEN WATTS

Being, a conversation piece between the critto

and & flmgoer.

LAURENCE.

OLIVIER'S

film of "Hamlet" is a masterpiece. It is beautiful to look at and to listen to: It is moving, gripping, exciting...

Yes, that's all fine, but I haven't looked at Shakespeare since school,

Is this Alm

and then he bored me. entertaining?

Champion. Fan ably emphatically yes. If you

In Hollywood

Arlyne Rogers, America's cham-

If you mean does it "occupy agree-

mean "amuse"-well, don't go ing for laughs, although there

are

What do you call essential? Well, Goethe said the essence of "Hamlet" is in the lines:

The time is out of joint;

O cursed spite That ever I

right. That's in-and Olivier makes it all even clearer by saying at the stort that this is the tragedy of a man who couldn't make up his mind.

was born to set

·SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.15)-7.20 & 9,30° P.M.

Lough Yourself Sick A This SUE: 308 HOPEL

BOB

HOPE

SIGNE

WILLIAM

HASSO BENDIX

WHERE THERE'S

LIFE

ADDED ATTRACTIONS Latest Nows of the Day and Color Cartoon!

NEXT CHANGE

THEY LOVE TO FIGHT.......THEY LOVE TO LAUGH

‚BUT MOST OF ALL, THEY LOVE TO LOVE! :

Niven

duction

Perfect Marriage

LODIE ALBERT

Charlie Ruggles » Virglola Field

Rize Jahnson • Zaru Bits -

Dienstad by LiWIE ALLEN

TO-MORROW'S MORNING SHOWE

AT 11,30 A.M. ONLY

"VARIETY PROGRAM"

Technicolor Cartoons!

It

SHOWING

TO-DAY

Would I understand it all7 Certainly. The setting, the acting, the camera-work-all are intensely rent and convincing. "And the poetry Tragedy, isn't it? "The Gloony is so Intelligently spoken you can't Dane" and all that?

Bome.

pion movie fan selected by Motion Yes, it's tragedy. But not gloomy, Picture magazine, has returned to It's real tragedy, which is inspir- New York, thrilled in the know- | ing.

ledge that she had been granted a You're going to tell me it's art. very rare privilege for Hollywood Certainly, but not arty. Its artis- visitors-the studio ban sightseers was lifted in her case and tentious.

against the qualities are intrinisic, not pre- was given the complete grand

photographed stage

she

tour.

play,

miss a point.

༢,

A

But I don't want poetry and soll- loquies in films,

I'll have to leave your conversion jo Shakespeare and Olivier. But un- less you have absolutely no feeling It's just a

for the beauty and power of some of isn't it? Troubled since the war by an un-

the noblest English ever written you Nonsense. It is a film, every inch won't find the poetry worrying you. precedented avalanche of tourists. of it. Olivier's conception ranges far As for soliloquies, Olivier lets you the studios have been tightly clamp-from the limitations of the

stage. hear much of them without moving cd recently for all but the most

his lips think aloud. distinguished guests.

is restless camera Jolas the words in telling the story. His Да flows.

*

*

Miss Rogers, in addition to being

guest on

numerous radio pro- gramme

lavish party and having given in her honour by Atwaler Kent at his palatial estate, visited I hear he's cut a lot of the play. the Paramount,

Well, he has made a 4-hour play Republic, RKO, Columbia, 20th Century-Fox and into a 212-hour Allm. Obviously Universal lots and was a guest at some things had to go. Some I re-

the homes of George Burns and gret, but only a pedant would fault

I know-To be or not to be"-all those quotations.

But one great strength of Olivier's performance is that he takes you into the character's mind and even the "quotation" speeches do not like elocutionary test-pieces.

Words, words, wards,

seem

The duel at the end is the best fight

Yes, but plenty of action too.

Gracic Allen and George Mont- the film scribusly on its cuts. I gomery and Dinah Shore. She also would call the adaptation bald but I've seen in years, and Olivier's anal met virtually every star in Holly- | judicious. All the essentials are leap to kill the king is breathtaking. wood.

there.

How

BOB - Hóre "PLAYS A DANGEROUS GAME⠀ In his Paramount comedy, “Where Thero's Life," now at: the Queen's Theatre, with Signo Hasso and Willam Bendix? · IIis friendly, gun- toling partner is Dennis Hoer, · Bob pórizayun dino dockey, who breaks all laugh recordsj

Douglas Fairbanks stuff?

蠢

Popoyo Cartoons!

Sports: AMPHIBIOUS FICHTERS' AT REDUCED PRICES!

AT 2.30, 5.20,

MAJESTIC 7.20 & 9.20 p.m.

HUMPHREY

BOGARY

LIZABETH

SCOTT

JOHN GROMWELL'S

Dead

Reckoning

NEXT CHANCE

SHOWING

TO-DAY

W

Claries

Morris CARNOVSKY-CANE

Main Wals

PRINCE MILLER FORD

Screenplay by Otiune 1. 1. Dirett, diese Fider

Directed by JOHN CROMWELL

PC SIDKEY DIDORLY

VALERIANA COLUMBIA PICTURE

"THE SEVENTH NATIONAL

ATHLETIC MEET"

Cathay

At 2.30, 5.30,

7.30 & 9.30 p.m.

If you like-but there's great KAYE'S FUNNIEST ... IN EVERY SENSE OUT OF THIS WORLD!

Olivier and

emotional drama too. Elleen Helle (as his mother) have n royal row-a pulverising duct in passion.

What about the Ghost-I hate ghosts. They're silly.

Well, you can't have Hamlet with- out his father's ghost. But I will agree that the ghost is not very con- vincing.

+

Oh, so you have some then?

criticlama

Not, many, certainly not enough to damage the total effect. Thero are a couple of flashbacks I didn't core for much. And I could have done with a shade less of Ophelia's madess and death.

Doesn't it drag-21⁄2 hours?

No. I've seen it twice and not a dull moment. The slow passages have great atmosphere. But once or twice 1. thought the

mobility of the camera betrayed Olivier into exces-

sive exploring and Ungering..

How about the acting?..

Olivier is magnificent-one of the

"It's all solid,entertalament.. Kaye mskas - Walter Mitty" this year's wonder mani".

-LOOK magata

SAMUEL GOLDWYN preventi DANNY VIRGINIA

KAYE · MAYANG

and the Goldwyn Girls

in

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Ä TECHNICOLOR

BORIS KARLOFF-FAY BAINTER - ANN RUTHERFORD

NOTICE

ST STEPHEN'S COLLEGE

STANLEY

Parents, Old Boys, Internces

great acting performances of our and other friends arewatnily

me. And I cannot see how Eileen

PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS

Copios of photograph taken

by the South China Morning Post and Hong Kong Telograph

Herlle, Basil Sydney, Norman Woo-Invited to the Prizegiving, Staff Photographers are on view land, or Felix Aylmer could have Saturday July 10th at 8.30 p.m. been bettered. Jenn Simmons, 100-

a sweet, lovely, touching Ophelia.

So

you think a like it?

at St Stephier's College, Stanley.

I think it is a great and memorable on T. W. Kwok has kindly con- film. It restores the prestigo of sented to distribute the prizes. British Alms, which has slipped, late-

ly. The rest is up to you.

In the

Morning Post S

ORDERS' BOOKED.