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mohd Country Comes Savage Greed... Sultry Love...Great Adventure!

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Paramount Praents

PAUL

Lancaster Henreid Rains Lorre

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· WALLİS' PRODUCHON

Rope

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A CRIPPING STORY OF YOUTH IN THE TOILS OF THE UNDERWORLD!

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"LITTLE

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“NANOOK OF THE NORTH".

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1949.

SEAT IN THE STALLS

U.S. Dictator And Samson Compete For Film Honours

From FREDERICK COOK: New York For a first-class lesson in food Intentions, did, in fact, American politics, do not much good work, but turned

into tho

American miss the now Hollywood dictator.

pleture, "All the King's Men." It is also an exciting

Arst

WATCH RUTH

story, altogether one of the - People: Bath Roman, my best pieces of film-making nomination for the star most to come out of California worth watching in pictures of the year, draws *Randolph this year.

Scott

her

nim CLA

next partner....Rex Harrison has decided not to continue, acting in the play **Anno of the Thousand Days" which means that the show (now touring) will close at the year end.... Emlyn Williams,

playing the lead here in "Montserrat," bas been submitted to the usual quiz by the local papers: Who is the bost

in London? actor Williams

repilod: Laurenco

"All the King'a Men" is based on some aspects of the life of the late Huey Long. It bore for a time the label, "Not to be consumed off the premises."

Columbla Pictures,

who made it, asked me to see it and tell them whether I thought it should go to London; would English audiences understand

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ACTION-PACKED

tactfully

My answer...on both counts: "It's a tie between an enthusiastic yes. I belleve Olivier and John Gielgud.".... turned most English people

Colman has Ronald know enough of the man who rose down the chance to return to to power in Louisiana with the stage apposita Helen Hayes

in "The Wisteria Trees"

Thosa who remember the career of Kinglish Huey Long will appreciate

the

honesty and dramatle force of the picture; those who do not will BUD And action-packed and & tremendous story.

FILMS FOR YOUR

CHRISTMAS

Two technicolour musicals, Bob Hope and Lucille Ball. "Sorrowful Jones," which will

niso

A Damon Runyon comedy be the Christmas feature at the teaming Bob Hope and King's Theatre, has in it Lucille Ball with FL TICW the newest moppet to captur child discovery, Mary Jane the hearts of all. Saunders, and a drama set

ngainst the background of the South African diamond mines round out a varied and entertaining selection of films for the cinemagoer at Christmas.

A 41m that will be first choice with many Is "The Barkley of Broadway" at the Queen's and Alhambra

Theatres which brings together agala a

dance leum that has been favoured of our cinemagoers now for quite a few years-Glager Rogers and Fred Astaire.

ns

pry loose from Lancaster the location of a cache of diamonds. Lancashire, a former milde, has returned to

forbidden the diamond aren in spite of the commander's threats to his Ike. Henreld plays the viclously cruel commander of Diamond- stadt, who wants the diamonds and would like nothing better than to kill Lancaster to get them The latter has an old them score to settle with Henreld and his desire for vengeance met!- vates the feree fights between them that follow his return.

Miss Calvet's romantic pre- ference for Lancaster

enater further

him fans Henrold's hatred of and adds fuel to their Hip- and-death determination to get the diamonds and each other.

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Through It all Rains manipu- Inter the strings. suavely Mephistophelian. His acting, as always, superbly finished, Ralas creates a sinister character of the unscrupulous Martingale,

On celluloid, the dictator's name is not Long, of course. It is Willie Stark A tremen- dous performance to given by Broderick Crawford. And one to match it is given by Mer- his McCambridge cedes admiror, secretary and mistress.

ад

MURDER SCENE

Joanne Dru plays his society girl friend. The final murder it might scene is to realistic have been clipped from the newsreels of 20 years ago.

Competing with it for the title of Film of the Week is the new De Mille eple, "Samkon and Delilah." This is one of the best of Do Mille's Bible stories, if you like that sort of thing.

BROADWAY SACS

The legitimate stage is 1 such a poor way on Brond- way that New York's constant

there

the The story, adopted from Damon Runyon's "Little Mas Marker, centres around

Sor- rowful Jones, a penny-pinching Broadway bookle who accepts a desperato betlor's

assertion that young security for his

The

development of the plot child entirely on leaves the Bob's hands and the Comedy

In typical develops

Hope fashion with horse dopers un the trail for his blood.

The story is an old one, re- bashed over and again in every

but the dance daughter other musical, numbers aro Rogers-Astaire wager. specials and many will see the picture more than once to learn the "Swing Trol"

A terpsichorean treat offered Dances In One"

is A

"Four

number

to the

lune of

the

the

Harry Warren-Ira Gershwin SODA. "Manhattan Downbeat," Incorporating the steps of rumba. samba, foxtrot and awing with the music. from one tempo to the other.

This unusual routine is per-

stage dancers. Bongs

formed on a

revolving chorus of 48 with a Pentured are nine new and af Astaire version of French accent.

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Lucille Ball, the *beautiful

doll with plenty

on the ball and who is honest, hep and terrife" of the Runyon story,

the in

chores off helps Bou playing parent. She starts in the story As night club singer and there are nine songs, in- cluding Sweet Adeline" and "Rock-A-Bye Baby" with Bob Hope joining in.

Is

For sheer Runyonese enter- tainment alone,

the film almost tops on the Christmas and bill. Add everything d minny fan might give it first choice. The holidays are long enough for the others as well.

Peter Lorre comes through

magnificently with his portrayal of Toady, disreputable floater who will sell anyone down the river for a price.

The flim Includes some of the mast rugged fight screened.

scenes ever

Captain Kidd

Had A Good

Press Agent

By PATRICIA CLARY

An expert on pirate life and lore saya Captain Kidd Packed With Action must have had a good press

If you like your Alm enter-agent. tainment charged with dan- gerous

hold.

Christmaa

that

the

were

Actually, retired adventure, sensational K. D. Ian

Lt. Cmdr. Murray says, Kidd action and intriguing romance--

was just peanuts as a pirate. then Hal Walls' "Rope of

"He doesn't deserve to be as The Barkleys of Broadway"

Sand," which is the the tenth Bim featuring

famous as he is," Murray said.

other pirates Gluger and Fred together. Here offering at the Lee and Liberty Mous

Theatres, is a "must" on your worse than he. He had the bad they start off married, being a

movie list. husband and wife tear

luck to be singled out and made 1:1

It is the kind of thriller that vaudeville. Fred is satisfied with

an example of vaudeville, Ginger isn't.

She will

keep you sitting on

Murray, who boned up on wants

to be a dramatic actress, edge of your sent und will send

years at sea plrates during 20 you home satisfled The alory centres around the

you with the Royal Navy, is in as much excitement Hollywood as technical adviser feud that evolves of these con-

have seen as the screen The situa- fleting prefervers.

about pirates, Uon stays humorous all the "Rope of Sand" co-stars Burton a comedy

Universal International's Paul Henreld, "Double Crossbones." way through and is helped a Lancaster,

Claude Rains, Peter Lorre and by a

"I saw the movie about Cap- grand cast that includes

luscious Bille Burke and a new dis introduces

Corinne in Kidd," he added. "It was France,

the covery from

Jacques Calvet, Parisienne beauty,

greatly exaggerat demand, how- only Francols.

woman in the cast, on Murray doesn't whom all

that ever;

the movie-makers ably turned are understand- Though most film fans would Misi Calvet portrays a seduc-adhere too strictly to the letter of truth. In "Double Cross- be catlafted with the comedy tive Capetown cafe girl who is bones," for instance, they that is always so much alive in hired by stockholder Rains to

semble

Henry Morgan, Captain Kidd, Blackbeard and Anne Bonney at a time when some had been dead for years and others were still in school,

SECRET OF SUCCESS "The secret of success as ankie. It had never received technical adviser is being adop- be quite the same since

proper medical attention, and table, Murray shrugged. Ingrid Bergman ylalted it the poor lad had difficulty drug-

Murray got his job after ha for the filming of ging himself about the Island's had gone to Hollywood to re- "Stromboli," mado by Direc- rugged terrain.

tire, appeared on a-radio quiz. show and disclosed to the mas ber of ceremonies that he was an authority on pirates.

New Moppet

Stromboli Now Movie-Minded

The volcanic island of young he burned one of his Stromboli, Italy, will never legs verty

to from knee

tor Roberto Rossellini for The physical handicaps made

RKO Radio

Bartolo extremely shy and self Presence of the film troupe conscious. Ho was afraid of affected almost every one of people. tho 700 inhabitants,

1s

D

U-I heard about him and Hired him to show the art Miss Bergman and Rossellini department bow to build pirate Village bailes now wear their noticed him one day, far on the ships for another high. sens. hair in the windblown manner fringe of a group of children epic, "Buccaneer's 'Girl". of Miss Bergman, instead of the which followed the camera men Now that Murray's been In cardfully braided coiffures of and crews wherever they went Hollywood a while, he's begin- their mothers and grand- The day they left Stromboll, ning to wish he could get in Bartolo received a package of front of the camera as Henry new clothing and an invitation Morgan instead of standing be- from the star and the producer hind. It seeing that Morgan to accompany them to Rome for looks okay. medical treatment.

Murray, known on the act as It will take three months for The Commander," "wears ag Bartolo's leg to be healed. Dur-beard just like a pirate and ing that time an eye surgeon never appears without his 'navy will work on his eye, cap.

mothers.

The children have learned to speak English. And although Strothboli is without a theatre, most of the people who have never seen a movie: are now movie-onthusiasts, jan Menu An Kindness

Bartolo Narduzzo, 11, will be eternally grateful, that Roberto The youngster is excited about "It's always been with me," Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman his fortheeming return to his he said, touching it tenderly, chose the Island of Stromboil to bothe island, where now he "It went, in the water four make their pleture, made hopes for the Arst time to be times."

Bartolo, the son of a blind come part of the crowd, instead

"I also," he added, "unwill- labourer, had impaired vision in of a pliable shadow on the ingly went with it."

When he was yory.edge...........

¡Prest.

United

is really to theatro in London to speak of, while everything here is fine, 15

beginning to sound ridiculous

A

Not for decades has there been so dull

season here. The season is now past the half-way mark. New produc- tions total 17, against 20 Inst year.

At the last count, Brondway ofered some 25 shows against London's 40.

In addition, there is nothing here remotely cumparable with London's thriving theatre clubs where shows often of profes- sional standard are produced for subscription audiences.

As A matter of fact, what Broadway could use just now

an import or two from London, +

Fon

THE NEW SHOWS

Among the new shows: Ray- mont Massey and Mady Christians in Strindberg's "The Cornell, Father"; Katharine Torin Thatcher, Henry Stephen

In "That Lady"" (Kate O'Brien's dramatisation of her novel, "For One Sweet Grope); Alexander Knox in his own melodrama, "The Closing Door," murder mystery: "Regina," musical version of Lillian Hell- man's drama. "The Little Foxes," with Jane Pickens.

Pick of the new musicals (but it is no "Oklahoma" or *Kiss

is "Texas, me, Kate") L'I Darlin," with Kenny Delmar, Danny Scholl, Mary Hatcher. None .of these is hall-marked for a West End triumph.

(*- RUTU' ROMAN JERMg Thə (star most worlls watching..

--{London Express/Bervice)

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"I KNOW THE SHAME

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JEANNE

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MADELEINE

CARROLL

GEORGE

SANDERS

RICHARD

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