1948-07-31 — Page 2

TO-DAY

HIER ONLY

KING'S

AIR-CONDITIONED

Glowing romance... wonderful music.

A movie

for your beart!

DENA

AT 2.30, 5.15,

7.20 & 9:30 p.m.

PERLE

ANDREWS.OBERON EL BARRYMORE

A JOHN 'CROMWELL production

NIGHT SONG

HOAGY CARMICHAEL;

(Produced by BARRIET PARSONS » Plase Concerts by LEIN STEVENs,

Performed by ARTUR RUBINSTEIN

Ved THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC-BYMPHONY ORCHESTRA • Conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY “preseted by JOHN GROMWELL •_ Loreen Pay by TRÁNH FERTON ang DICK IRVING HYLAND

SPECIAL ADDED ATTRACTION ——

THE UNBEATABLE “ 'JOE

LOUIS”

WORLD HEAVYweight chamPION

STATES. THIS IS HIS LAST FIGHT

·EXCLUSIVE RKO SCREEN

SHOTS THAT MAKE HISTORY.

EXTRA RETURN MATCH

JOE LOUIS

JERSEY JOE WALCOTT

EKWORSHIP OFFICIAL FIGHT FILMST LICENSED THROUGH RKO RADIO PICTURES

TO-MORROW MORNING AT 11.30 A.M. BETTY GRABLE in

"THE DOLLY SISTERS"

COLOR BY TECHNICOLOR

with John PAYNE Juno HAVER

A 20th Century-Fox Picture — AT REDUCED PRICES

TO-MORROW

Alexander Körda presentare

Afilm ni nilagether wessual merit”

**Daily MailTM

"The perfect Chriflar"

Sunda, Chronicle"

BURGESS MEREDITH DULCIE GRAY

KIERON MOORE

MINE OWN EXECUTIONER

and introducing CHRISTINE

NORDEN

AN ANTHONY KUMMINS PRODUCTION

CENTRAL

"HEATRE

270 QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL PHONE 25720

5 SHOWS

— DAILY

AT 12.30, 2.30, 5.15, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

FIRST EPISODE

THE GREATEST THRILL SHOW ON EARTH!

SEE. Thousands Ites a terrential Naudin

the greatest tummal in the land

SEX..The Delta Dasih Ray, the matt

deadly power known to science.

SEI

The lowest depths of e real radłym mina

*SEE....... The most daring

ahun-tan va anar le

ony picture.

SER....... The Jailest

oction mystery

elal ever

filmed.

DAREDEVILS THE RED CIRCLE

A

Republic

BIRIAL IN 12 O

SHOWING

TO-DAY

20

-CRAFTERS

CHARLES QUIGLEY HERMAN BRIX DAVID SHARPE CAROLE LANDIS

Cathay

Vanchal Road, Wanchal

Gralle....... Gershwin

"AT, 2.30, 5.30,

7.30. G.9.30 ̊p.m.

BETTY GRABLE

DICK HAYMES

in

THE Shocking

MISS PILGRIM

in TECHNICOLOR

Granel

NOTICE: Â FREE SAMPLE OF KOLYNOS DENTAL CREAM.

will be given, toʻovery person buying a ticket

TO-DAY AT EVERY PERFORMANCE:

SUNDAY: EXTRA SHOWN 19WILD BILL HICKOK RIDES”

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

LA A SEAT

SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1948.

THE

Mason discovers it pays to

be rude

by DAVID LEWIN

trip.

N Hollywood today James stunt for Rank pictures." At that Mason can look back on 18 time he had broken with Mr Rank, months of not making pic and was booked for a Hollywood tures and be a very happy man." In New York the newspaper men He has made his inactivity went to meet him wher his ship pay off at the rate of £1,000 docked. Mr Mason would pose for for three minutes.

pictures but only against "sultable backgrounds."

future reference.

The photographers noted this for Then Mr Mason opened up with: "Arthur Rank is the worst thing that has happened to the British picture industry."

Everything about the Mason family

The "Hitle

Hollywood this year, men"-that is what they call the cats. --were tucked up in an apartment in:

Hollywood.

Daily Variety telephoned Mrs Mason for her views on the film "Hollywood is elty, and she said: horrible. Hollywood has turned out only one good picture during the

of

Sierra past year Treasure Madre.

"Hollywood ought to be ashamed of itself for giving Oscars to actors it feels sentimental about, instead of

cam them."

Mr to those who Mason has not yet won an Oscar.

INTO THE JUNGLE THE closer Mr Mason came

Hollywood the harsher became, his comments.

to

All that won expected of their women, he said in April this year, And he was "placid pulchritude." was preparing to go "Into the jungle with all fangs protruding."

Ho has been living a part so long

That is what some American radio stations have been pre- pared to pay to have Mr Mason take up some of their air time. It is because James Mason, his wife, Pamela Kellino, and five was news, and while Mason was that he cannot easily "snap out of cats ("four regular cats and waiting for his marathon lawsult it" as the Americans would say, but one maid's cat") have been able with David Rose to be settled, he he le a fine actor, an outstanding to push themselves into Ameri- jolted Hollywood by saying he wasn't screen personality. Now that his law- interested in which star they plan- sult seems settled, he should get can newspapers on an average ned to put opposite him.

down to acting and making pictures. of five times a week.

They have done it with a succes- alon of acid and splintering com- ments on everything, from Mr Rank to Hollywood morals.

That hos given 30-year-old, Huddersfield-born James Mason the title "The Rudest Man in America." Ife clings to it as gladly as an actress to her first "Ogear."

MEAN AND MOODY

MASON realised rapidly enough

that being "mean and moody" on the screen was not enough to keep

him on top of popularity polls. So with the aid of his wife he slowly and methodically began to bulld for himself, an "out of the studio" per sonality,

In a land where star values are oven more important and sacrosanct than baseball scores, that was some- thing.

MASON TASTES

HILE the newspaper 'columnists investigated the Mason tastes in sweaters, dogs, and bird seed, Mr Mason, Mrs Mason, five cats (and Johnny Monaghan, who writes film scripts) packed up for a trip across Amèrica.

Before they went there was that brief encounter with the New York

Bugs bangs

Mickey into

2nd place

critics when Mason put himself on A ROUGH and tough little rabbit has taken over from Mickey the Broadway stage in "Bathsheba."

That struggled along for

Mouse as America's No. 1 cartoon Lwo weeks, then

But in favourite. His name is Bugs Bunny after the mlere

misunderstanding about him. He is "It was the first script James and not a friendly churacter,

the Stork Celly folded.

He started by being sharp with Mrs Mason was quoted as Prend his creators wish there to be no

people on the sets, here in Britain, and ho scared the more timid ones into the studio bars in search of "stiffeners."

for Then, just before he left America in 1946, he faunched the campaign in public.

He was reported to have sald of the Royal Film performance: "It is

I read when we arrived in America. At a sneak preview last night

We decided to do it and not to read Well, that will any other scripts, leach us not to be so lazy."

It also showed that Mre Mason was not lagging far behind when it cume to pointed remarks.

The Mason entourage WUB in

a vulgar display and a publicity Phoenix, Arizona, on is way to

AROUND BRITISH

FORTUNE

STUDIOS

was warned: "Bugs will punch you in the nose and kick you in the shins as soon as he look at you."

After seeing some of his cartoons I have to report that Mickey is a gentleman com- pared with Bugs

That is

why his de signers are little scared about. intro- ducing him to Britain.

So far only n few Bugs Bunny cartoons have been tried out in the cinemas here, but in Amerien

ก

BUGS hard-hitting

carrot cater:

By HATTIE GRIMSTEAD playa many arbour with a glass of milk for her strange tricks in the film invalid husband, whose part is play- world. Not long ago redhaired when Rusty saw the mille, he got puta Bugs on top, with the Walt

ed by Sir Cedric Hardwicke. But nation-wide, poll 17-year-old, Claire Bloom, an up and

It, Disney marched along

behind unknown extra, was tested for his tall poker-straight mewing de- place. the part of Ophelia in "Hamlet," mandingly, Director Anthony

cartoons getting second

MARGARET LOCKWOOD puts on

in the Sla Field pleture, "Cardboard

31.

but was rejected in favour of Asquith hardly dared to hope Rusty .would repeat his performance Jean Simmons. She left the while the cameras turned, but he did a blonde wig to play Nell Gwynne studio weeping, but Sidney Box it five times before strolling away Cavaller." She will also have to happened to walk into the pro- with all the aplomb of a seasoned look-18_for_the_part_instead of jection room while her test was

actor. being screened and made a persuaded to speak to Tommy, the Incidentally, Rusty could not be mental note of her obvious terrler, and Marie Lohr's Own talent. Now he has given Pekinese. Madame, which also ap- Claire a part in "The Blind God- pear in "The Winslow Boy" dess" and is training her for future stardom.

Another brilliant newcomer

Dame Edith Evans When Dame Edith Evans made her first Alm, "Queen of Spades," at Welwyn Studios, she took plong her

is taking ALFRED HITCHCOCK no chances with the censors for the Ingrid Bergman picture "Under Capricom." He will invite them to the studio to watch any "delicato scenes" being shot. He explained: since I am going to make the ple ture with ten-minute takes it would here and a minute there."

Dirk Bogarde, formes painter, and shaggy black dog Barty, who was be impossible to cut out a minute writer. He makes his debut as the subsequently allowed to sit at her footman in "Eather Waters". On fect during one of

of her scenes. Dame

WISECRACK from the wings!

his first day at the studio he was Edith enjoyed her screen debut so shown a pair of spirited carriage much that she is going to appear horses and told to drive them up a with Emlyn Williams in his new "He is an actor who always retires hands before. For his second ple- Dolwyn," produced at Shepperton |}

Welsh comedy, "The Last Days of discreetly into the foreground."

hill-he had never held reins in his

ture "Allen Corn" he was informed he was a music student and directed

D.L.

to alt down at his piano--he couldn't CASANOVA, THE GREAT LOVER

play a notel

Hardly Surprisad

Then he reported to act in "Once a Jolly Swagman", so was hardly surprised when they showed him racing, motor cycle.and announced he was a famous speedway star. However, a professional tutor was in attendance on the occasion before the

cameras began to turn. Technicians as well as actors nre expected to suffer gladly in the cause. When Jean Simmons, Donald Houston and the rest of "The Blue company returned from Pinewood's make-up expert, George Blacker, had to match up their

sun-tan tonca since the real ones wero inpluly

fading.

So several carpenters and

wordran girls volunteered to be tanned by violet rays and then test out the various grease-paints on their arti- flelally reddened skins, the mosi realistic then being used by the stacl

Court, busy in the New comedy "It's Not Cricket, hus just. sequired "a town sult in the naw London grey shade, soft and be coming. It has a pleated skirt and a high-fiting, side-fastened jacket trimmed with matching braid,

Fashion Note

The

Another

nole comes · from

ect of wanna", in which Ursula

Jeans acts superbly as the typical British housewife, looking after ber family under present-day preoccupa- tlons. She wears a serviceable green canvas apron, for all, except three, of her scenes show hor working in hor kitchen!

Anne Crawford unravels her old woollen sweaters between scenes for Hard to be Good", ready to reknit them into new styles for next winter for Anno, of course, Scottish, and

and 19 proud to be called

thrifty

non-descript 'cat

whitch Rusty, resides in the canteen scullery at Shepperton Studios, was recently, persuaded to play his 'first part. Given a piece of fah, Rusty, conson ted to all on the lawn. constructed for a scene In The Winslow Boy" in which Marie. Lohr crosses to phil

COMING to the Queen's Theatre tomorrow is a new

Arthur Rank film made in Hollywood,: Adventures of Casanova *** Arturo de Cordova, as Casanova the 18th con fury adventurer, soldier and Prent lover And Tucille Bremer, as Lady Bianca, the daughter of the governor of Sicily, are shown above in a scene from the Alm. Turhan Bey also has a feeding role as Lorenzo, a patriotic youth.

Queen's ALHAMBRA

AIR-CONDITIONED

TO-DAY ONLY AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30 P.M.` VIVECA LINDFORS, (the Sensational Now Swedish Star) 'HAS BEEN COMPARED TO INGRID BERGMAN!

Ho mado no alibis for the way he lived... She made none

for being

in his Farmat

DENNIS MORGAN VIVECA LINDFORS

In WARNER BROS

"To the Victor

"O THE VICTOR SOES THIS WOKAHK

. OPENING TO-MORROW QUEEN'S "ADVENTURES OF

CASANOVA".

with Arturo do CORDOVA

OPENS

TO-MORROW

ALHAMBRA "DREAMS OF THE RED CHAMBER" Dialogue in MANDARIN

Queen's

AIR-CONDITIONED.

Adventures of

CASANOVATM

VARIUNO DE CORDOVA LUCILLE BRUMIZA

• TURMAN BEY - KOBLIN NAGH

OPENS

TO-MORROW

TO-MORROW MORNING AT 11.30 AM. ONLY Cary GRANT -Alexis SMITH "NIGHT AND DAY"

A-WARNER BROS. PICTURE — IN TECHNICOLOR AT REDUCED PRICES!

SHOWING

TO-DAY

MAJESTIC

Darryl F. Zanuck

prosants

DANA ANDREWS

Boomerang!

JANE WYATT LEE J.COBB

„Directed by

Produced by

· ELIA KAZAN • LOUIS de ROCHEMONT ·

AT 2.30, 5.20,

7.20 & 9.20 p.m.

20

CENTURY FOX

IUPH

SUNDAY: Laurel & Hardy in “JITTERBUGS"

They

Gave

their

Livės.

We, too

may give through the

HONGKONG

WAR M÷E\M-ORIAL FUND

Band-your

donation to

-Sha-Hon; Trinitrots: -

· Lowe," Bingham. d. Matibawa

Mercantile Bank Bldg.

COMING TO KING'S

STOR

IT'S TERRIFIC

CHURCH NOTICE

GOBTEL HALL: (Duddell Birsek, Hongkong) (Between the Bank of China and the, National City Bank of New York),

Bunday | 11 am. Breaking.» of ↑ Brend, (for Believers' only), "Bunday"""""

Vă pat. Chapel Barvios,a, Tuesday......... ■ p.m. Bible Study) Lapa Thursday Bum. Prayer. Mentirga Special Meeting for: Ladies on Munday! 2nd "August," "at:1.29′′p.mir en mane shrjang

waloons