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An explosive story
of violent lives...
lived dangerously!
COLUMBIA PICTURES presents
JENNIFER JONES JOHN GARFIELD
PEDRO ARMENDARIZ.
- JORN FEUSTON'S
WE WERE STRANGERS
Directed by JOHN HUSTON
QUEEN'S:
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SUNDAY MORNING SHOW AT 12 NOON
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QUEEN'S SALHAMBRA
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1949.
SEAT IN THE-STALLS
BROADWAY'S NEW GOLD COAST SETS THE PACE: NO SEATS FOR MONTHS
4 STAGE HITS MAKE
Night clubs packed: Queues wait for free food
COME FREDERIC
From FREDERICK COOK: New York.
dance floors. The furs in the
streets have that brand new, just glazed look.
Theatrically and socially, the one short block of 44th Street, season is hitting its stride again, Broadway's new Gold Coast, Is setting the pace for them all.” incomparable Lunts in "I Know
One side of the street, the
Love" and a slick new George Abbott revue,
"Touch und Go,"
Four theatres just off More and more tables Broadway, every one of encroach nightly on the minuto them playing a smash hit and sold out for months to come; crisp, cold moonlight nights; truffle packed bum- per to bumper across Man- |hattan; night clubs filled to the doors: florists' shops lighted all 'night, with my orchids worth thousands in the windows; lines of nge- ing "derelicts"
Across the way, still playing shivering
lo standing room only every outside the little window
"Where's where some charity doles ght, "South Pacific" and the
musicni,
Charley?" out free doorstep sand. These four, between them, clock wiches
this is $155,000 (approximately £50.- 000) every week, and Jament New York in December.
that their theatres are not twice Never kas
Bagind-on-the- the size. Subway, as O. Henry called it, the rity of fabulous wealth and degrading poverty site by side, Altered as it gillters now.
Broadway the Along
signs din dancing neon Dritance of the
sky.
huge
carly winter
The black lies and white
Are but uguin. The restaurants Lave turned oil the air condition. Ing and raised the steam heat to a point of suffocation for every
in but the girls body
their briefer and briefer frocks.
Royal Film
Performance
|
A sell-out
One street further
down. "Denth of a Salesman" is stil sell-out, with Gene Lockhart now as Willy Loman in place of
the exhauseta Lee J. Cobb,
Almost next door, the Bob Sterwood show, Miss Liberty,"
proving how
wrong tho la critics were, and filling the pince every night.
There is still a wait of days er weeks for seats at any of
other plays "The Mad wontan of Chailtot"
(Martin Bunt still terrife). the in- credible Mae West in her own "Diamond
" And A E. Matthews triuniphing over thein 11 in "Yes, M'Lord" ("The Chiltern Hundreds").
Rings the ball
Latest arrival from Britain to ring the Broadway beli: Emlyn Williams, in "Mont- erat," a grim tale of Bolivar, by Emmanuel Robles
of
Many of the leading stars +35 Britain and America were presented to the King and Queen and the Prin erases after the Royal Film
Coming UP, A at London's
revival Performance Odeon elnema, Marble Arch. Anita Loos "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," with a new star, Film chosen for the show with Carel Chenning, 4 Grt, blonde MOM's "The Fursyic Saga" in with the energy uf Danny Technicolour. Three of ita stars. Greer Garson. Walter Pidgeon and Errol Flynn, were
66 SWEDISH FOOTBALL IN here in person. TONG HONG
A Complete camera
record of Helsingborg's
visit, with highlights
of their three games
here!
RUNNING TIME:
Presented by
This year's stage show, pro- duced by Jack Hulbert, was burlesque of Cinderella, with Jean Shimons in the title role, Bus- Richard Attenborough 08 tons and Sir Ralph Richardson As the Demon King. Douglas Falrinks Jur.. spoke a mes- sage of Anglo-American good- wil.
the
best-
1 was STIC of dressed occasions for услга.
Favourite materials were
snilns and brocades.
stiff
The Queen, who had a ruby
diamond llars and neck
iz 1241
1 HOUR
་ ༣
luce, wore
short sable
cont
ver a cream crinoline
dress
TUNG HWA STUDIOS
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270, QUEEN'S RD. CENTRAL, PHONE 25720
TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.30 P.M.
TOWER OF TERROR.
WILFRID LAWSON · MOVITA·
MICHAEL RENNY and MORLAND GRAHAM
- ALSO
“THE STORY OF BIRTH”
SHOWING
TO-DAY
FOR ADULTS ONLY
Princess Elizabeth
cream and gold evening dress,
with bustie bow
fur
stole.
and
white
fur
Princess
а white
bow and
Margarel
over
п
pink
three-quarter Jength
chat
sequin-embroidered dress.
Anthony Bond, seven years- Derek old rom of screen star Bond, presented il bouquet to Princess Elizabeth,
The performance raised over £30,000 fo the Cinematograph which Trade Benevolent Fund. relebrates its silver jubilee this year.
WEEK-END
SCREEN FARE
Bu Dear
to
My
Heart
WHEN IN ROME
IL TEMPO
UNINTISA
ITALO ARADA SEH
-Misch Auer, molion plc- ture comedian, catches up with his reading in his hotel room at Rome, Italy, where he was appearing in a new film.
£55,000
CAROL CHANNING
The Gft, blonde with "the energy of Danny Kaye" and a voice to match,
Kaye and a voice to ALI Before they became team Weinbley Stadium.
Lunt bad been playing at Among theatre-goers the Clarence and Fontanno at retum of the Lunts has started Dulcy. When they went into a debate on how it is that this "Design for
Living," Coward husband-and-wito (com Bre decreed that the billing should always billed Գ Alfred Lunt rend: Alfred
Lunt, Lynne and Lynne Fontanne, and never Fontanne and Noel Coward. the other way round.
Noel decided
I hear that the matter wns He:l{ex}
for them by Noel Cowardd.
Why? As Lunt tells it, "Noel just felt that it ran caster off the tongue in that order, and wo simply accepted it."
-(London Express Service)
DAVID LEWIN'S
Spotlight
Who is there in town to take up Humphrey Bogart and Erroll Flynn when they say they are just about the only pair left not too scared to have any fun once they get away from the studios?
Bogart in New York the other day started mourning for the tlme when stars could have a good brawl and enjoy themselves In public without "old biddles telling me to go round bowing and scraping."
And Flynn was quite ready to agree with colleague Bogart.
Sald he: "I wear red socks with n dinner jacket and I get into fights in burs. So what? Too many stara are scared to have a Ding when they're not working.
They keep straight
that's today. Reing
to form all the time.
"Come to vacation it, the trouble with flming Everyone knows what's to happen next."
He is right, of course. Remember Theda Bara7 Re- member Barrymore?
Oh boy they blazed around in and out of Hollywood and built themselves a legend which
Familiar Face?
Ramon Novarro, Holly- KING'S) 15 Walt Disney's wood's Latin heart-throb It is who first started leaving black ladies limp some 25 years genuine arilcic), ago, is back in the limelight.
third attempt to mix real actors and cartoon characters. the story, largely, of a sheep (the
which, rather than meet the The flappers of yesteryear
unhappy end all binck
sheep
remember Ramon. an army of bobby- Iry fair. In the film are Bobby And
Thu Driscoll and Buri Ives.
weren't even soxers, who
merit, wins a prize at a coun- still
former owns the sheep and the born when Novarro was latter provides the vocal accom
vaniment for the animators.
We Were Strangers (QUEEN'S
a
top star, are returning him to new movie fame.
All this is the result of the
& ALHAMBRA) stars Jennifer RKO Radlo melodrama, "The Big Jonez, John Gardeld and Pedre Steal," which brought Ramon Armendariz. It is about Cuba about 20 years ago groaning un-back before the cameras after **more than a decade of der tho heal
of a tyrant obscurity. Women in the
Jen-ord nifer 18 a revolutionary. Armendariz is a political police view nudience took a good long
look and started willing. I
returns are any indica-
type. Gorfield is another revo-100k lutionary or a fence-sitter who early
Bagayang magkasam, AT 2.30, 5.20, bo won over? Nothing tion, Navarro is back wil
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*
Now that he faces a
preTM
accond
FLYNN
Last night's ocard
peopic paid millions to see сп cellulold.
Take closer look at Flynn and see how he has set out to do a "ttle hell-raising."
Into the fountain
At five years old he was be- Ing sent home from a party be- cause he ducked all the little boys and girls into a fountain.
A promising start.. Then he grew up, became an actor and pulled of pearl fishing in Tahiti. After that a little gold prospecting in New Guinea,
By the time he had gone to Hollywood he had settled down.
But-
her
1941-He was having a fight with a columnist. The newo- paper man's wife Jabbed him with a fork. Sald Flynn: "She was just trying to defend husband, That's courage." 1942A busy year. alleged attack ou a girl, a couple of good brawls, and the army and
navy rejected him for service because of an en- larged heart.
An
1044-A fight with Sonja Herle's busband with Flynn explaining; "Maybe the tre my
bad or some-.
think was
in
1940-The crew in fils two- masted schooner Zaca mutiny because his wife takes over command and acts like Captain Bligh.
And Flynn was saying
it was all very simple.
Just pick on him it seems.
People
"On my yacht I'd like to be
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M-G-M presents ALEXANDRE DUMAS
The Three Musketeers
COLOR BY TECHNICOLOR.
LANA
TURNER
a Lady de Winter
GENE
KELLY
as D'Artagnan
JUNE
→ YAN
ALLYSON
a Constance
+
ANGELA
HEFLIN LANSBURY
'as Arbor
as Queen Anne
SPECIAL MORNING SHOW ON SUNDAY AT 12.30 Technicolar "Adventures of Robinhood"
Film
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At 12.30, 3.00,
7.30 & 9.30
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PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF TIME WITH 16 REELS CONQUERING A NEW WORLD OF ADVENTURE! MASTER OF THE SWORD ........ AND HEART!
Captain fresh Castile
TYRONE
HOT LON
POWER?
NEXT CHANGE:——Anna NEAGLE in
"“MAYTIME in MAYFAIR”.
Color by Technicolor with Michael WILDING
able to beat a tomtom or wear THE MOST UP-TO-DATE THEATRE ON THE MAINLAND
want to. But a leopard skin if beban saman van when I anchored off Marsellies Ramon Novarro returns
some weeks
the loenl ago to the screen after an 11-pleasure boats, instead of going the Monle Cristo year absence for "The Big round
trips Steal," an RKO Radlo Chateau d'If, advertised round my boat-instead." been highlighted by overnight melodrama starring Robert acclaim He had stardom
lo a story about a Cuban ro-helping of screen fame, Novarro volution A Yankee heart isn't sure he wants it. throb.
"NOT A LOVER "I'm a character actor," he lover. I think Roughshod (ROXY) is about says, not a people who fight roughshod and those Indies must have made live. roughshod until Lour mistake." stranded: women from a wide Novarro's nolable career has open town cross their path. It would seem that someone should set up house at this stage, but that's not to be: For, hark! A ruthless killer le stalking their trail, Bang Bang Bang!
literally thrust upon him when Mitchum, Jane Greer, and
"Formocracy' Nevertheless Flynu. Ülkes
to
ho scored in the silent classic, William Bendix. Novarro strike what he call a blow for "Ben Hur," his first important portrays a shrewd police Tberty whenever possible. The
· official in Mexico.
varies.
Liberty
FINAL
4 BKOWS
At 2,30,
5.30, 7.30
TO-DAT.
Argid Mitcoin Avatar memm tudna trojka,
formula of the "blow" And occasionally it is a
When he arrived in London
little
GIRL WITH A
HEART
Flaxy
ICE!
lino
Martin
film role.
Ho received a second boost North West Mounted Police (LEE) is in the DeMille trail after the advent of sound with tion. It stars Clary Cooper, "Mata Hari." He gave up pic ment, and prospered at both. He on the elusive side, Pauletto Goddard and Madeleine $10,000, voluntarily, when
and a weekly salary of owns a ranch, two opariment
OF he houses and the biggest depart the last time they gave him a Carroll. The title tells the storiesided he hail razned enough ment store building in San form to fill in. - Aguinst the he wrote ine "Occupation and the rest is DoMille. The old
Fernando Valley, He also has
and Dgainst the "Sox." mian hasn't yet lost his touch money and recognition.
I felt that there were other nequired
on fee" he put an outlook ord, this plature was made quite
"Occupation" things
In life of great im that makes him serene and toler-
Just
revolt
against como years ago!"
portance, tan, ho, rays.
"I ant. เอก"
of returned to acting because "Nothing wrong in that sure Flynn formocracy," says Maytime in Mayfair wanted to seek them out." (BROADWAY) is an Anna For 12 yea Novarro has, that is my profession and I en- Neagle-Michael Wilding, otterbeen doing Just that. He has Joy it," he explains. "But I do Ing. Not their best, but still tackled business for, occupation, not arck Inme anymore. I Noogle and Wilding.
and philosophy for enlighten- value my privacy too highly."
"
my.
What do you say, Mr Bogart?
{London Express) Service)
New
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