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LEE Theatre

'AIR-CONDITIONED, OzonizeU AND WARM.

(Take Any Eartbound Tram or Routa No. 5 Bus).

COMMENCING TO-DAY

4 SHOWS AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.20 P.M.

SWIFT LOVE AND ROARING

ACTION IN UNTAMED ALASKA!,

Directed by iENAY-

HATHAWAY, who gave you "Lives of Bengal Lancer" and "Souliot Jea′′

SPAWN of the NORT

SHOWING

GEORGE RAFTS

HENRY FONDA - DOROTHY LAMOUR

A Feramount Picture with

Akim Tamiraff John Barrymora- Lynne Overman'

5

- Bimetal by Henry Kallaway · Produced by kibes tenia

SHOWS TO-MORROW

EXTRA PERFORMANCE

AT 11.30 A.M.

TODAY Liberty

AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30 P.M.

London Films Present

David Niven in

BONNIE

SHOWING

TO-DAY

PRINCE

CHARLIE .........

with

co-staring

Margaret Leighton

JUDY CAMPNELL - JACK HAWKINS MORLAND GRAHAM FINLAY CUPRIG

CLIVEN DAGOK-JONES

Died

fo Colour Le Tahinter

ANTHONY KIMMELNS

SUNDAY MORNING SHOW

At 12.30 p.m.

At Reduced Prices!

A new programme of Marvellous cartoons and Varictics

consisting of:-

CRABLAND

picnic problem

GALLOPING HOOFS CRONIC CRAZY

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1950,

AUSEAT IN THE STALLS

THAT'S WHERE SHE IS!

Screen star Norma Shearer and her ski-instructor husband, Murtin Arrogue, prepare to try the slopes at St Moritz, Switzerland, where they are vacationing. They first met when Norma had to learn how to ski for her last film-“Escape”— in 1941.

Stars

helped them on

the road to stardom

HOLLYWOOD

IS BRUTAL

Says Rossellini

Roberto Rossellini, Italian director of "Stromboli," starring Ingrid Bergman, is reported to have suld in an Interview: "I renounce all claims to its earnings in the U.S. because I do not recognise it na my film."

In the Interview--with the wookly

newspaper Vio Nuova (New Ways)-lossellini at- tacked the RKO promotion of "Strombol" and the "low level of culture and intelligence of Hollywood."

He is reported as saying: "My version, which is what will be shown in Europe, has been muti- Inted there for about 35 minutes of projection time.

"The setting has been redone, and I have discovered at my expense the brutal and uncivi- lised methods of Hollywood.

"They said of Ingrid: "We will never partion

rdon her, and she will suffer the consequence.

The facts of my private life, my sentiments, have been served to the public deformed and distorted with the basest ]ies. We could have resolved the problem of the child very simply.

"For us it has been a trial of courage, but everyone may Judge on he wishes, even in the worst of manners.

"There were rumours that I

WAD

of Mrs had sold news about my intimate life to make money from It. It was said that the baby crippled and deformed so as to force me to let photographs be taken."

attractive one Where are the stars of to- back when she appeared in the more morrow coming from? One stage production. "Deep Are Cary Grant.

Dut Betsy Drake answer might well be: from the Roots"

woukin't be a star today if Cary But before you sit down and the stars of today. For Grant hadn't seen her in the write your favourite star for a such outstanding performers play and then met her on the job as his protege, take another look at the list. All these people as Cary Grant, Robert Mit boat returning to America.

In less time than it takes to had the intent that de- chum, Jane Russell, Robert tell it, Betry made her alm de-

a break, and the #eryes Ryan. Bette Davis and Ida but as Cary's co-star in RKO perience that knew how Lupino have turned talent Radio's "Every Girl Should Be capitalise on it when it came hao Glace fol- long. Beint a protege isn't a scouts and come up with Married." and

lowed it with several success short cut to success;..

It's Just some of the screen's brightful alms. She has slice drop iravelling in a faster car along est newcomers.

ped the protege label for the the same long road.

So many

nopiring

astors

I would like to be the proteges of stars that they have made the 'stellar group a wary and surpi- cious one. As a matter of fact, producers and directors can give a promising youngster a bigger boost up the ladder but

association with a star name

doesn't hurt a bit.

Player & Protege

The player-and-protege re-

BEACH MASTER FOREST GANGSTER etc. and etc. | Intionchip can begin in any one

ORIENTAL

SEKONITAIR CONDITIONED BRIN

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Final Showing To-day: 2.30—5.30—7.30 & 9.30 p.m.

A Thousand Wondors and A Million Thrills .... in the Amazing Drama of a Jungle Paradise Guarded by the Ferocious Warriors of the Flaming Arrow!

TARZAN HOLDS SECRET OF ETERNAL YOUTH.

EDGAR RICE

DURROUGHS

-in his most amazing

thrill-adventurel

TARZAN'S MAGIC

FOUNTAIN

LEX BARKER and BRENDA JOYCE

ALBIST DEKKER - EVELYN ANKERS - CHARLES DRAKT

SPECIAL MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW AT 12.30

of a thousand ways. It may be a family affair, as the case of Robert Mitchum and his sister, Carol.

The significant Item here is "break" that Bob didn't get a

for her until he thought she wan ready. She had been sing- ing in night spots up and

down the west coast for a few years, getting the experience which would put her over when the time came.

Then one day Bob called ber

from NKO Radio Studioa, working in "Car-

WAS

where he riate Entrance", to come in for T Interview with Producer

| Alex Goftleib, who was seeking new talent for his musical "Two Ticketa 10 Broadway."

Carol made a successful test and even if she doesn't land the part (50 casting decisions have been made vet) che has the studio interested in her.

Jane Russell, always ready 10 do a beneft for others, found ette could be of help right in family. Her brother.

her own Wally, married a pretty young. model named Leslye Danning, with dramalle ambitions.

Jane coached her, Saw to it that she received proper school-

and experience

ins

and was happier than anyone else when Leslye was signed to a long- term contract by U-1, where she has appeared in peveral

"BUD & LOU MEET FRANKENSTEIN" [short features,

SHOWING

TO-DAY

Cathay

At 2.30, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30

p.m.

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF TIME

THE GREATEST STORY THE WEEY EVER TOLDI ADVENTURE. EXCITEMENT.. SPECTACLE,

HOWARD HAWKS“ GREAT PRODUCTION

Save Your Eyes

RED RIVER

JOHN WAYNE MONTGOMERY CLIFT

HALTER BIENNAN JOANNE CRU

St. John Ambulanco Brigade

FREE AMBULANCE

SERVICE

in

MA ORZINE'S

Cary Grant meets Betsy Drake on a shopping tour "Every Girl Should Be Married." Cary introduced Betsy to the films. Now Betsy is Mrs Cary Grant.

How Disney

Found Cinderella

Fact followed fable when

it came to casting the

Lupino's Choice coveted title role in Walt

Wanted," was a hit and both youngsters won, contracts MGM

CX-

to

"But I had done it, they would have been quick to condemn me for exhibitionism."

-(London Express Service)

ROXIE BROADWAY

CO-SHOWING TO-DAY

4 SHOWS AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

NEW MAGIC!

•

NEW MUSIC! NEW TIMES....... OF THE WORLD'S

GREATEST ENTERTAINER !

COLUMBIA PICTURES present

LARRY PARKS

in

JOLSON SINGS AGAIN

COLOR

SIDNEY BUCKHAN PRODUCTION

TECHNICOLOR

with BARBARA HALE

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DEMAREST - DONATH - GOODWYN

# MCCORMICK » Tan SHAYNE

KEY LEE

Straten are Pradost vy

SIDNEY BECKILAM

BOOKINGS NOW OPEN!

SUNDAY MORNING SHOW

ROXY AT 11.30 A.M. | BROADWAY AT 12 NOON 20th Century-Fox presents Entirely Now Programmo

"ANOTHER VARIETY

PROGRAMME OFTM

Bob Hope Beats COLOURED CARTOONS"

His Old Pal

Bob Hope beat out his pal Bing Crosby for the No. 1 movie money-making spot of 1949.

picture

The nation's motion exhibitors made the cholce, in

a poll by the Motion Picture Herald, a trade publication,

Hope, master of the quick quip, was left speechless. IT13 studio said he was working on appropriate

comment, but wasn't forthcoming, Then took off for Palm Springs, where his writers are whipping up his next radio show,

At Reduced Prices Exclusive First Showing in

Hongkong

**FOX TERRYTOON-COLOR-

CARTOONS"

Exclusivo First Showing in

Kowloon

QUEENS & ALHAMBRA

SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30 P.M.

Jt he

JAMES CAGNEY

Crosby had held the top rung for five consecutive years, a record. But Hope, with "Pale- face" and "Sorrowful Jones" grossing heavily at the theatres, outdrew Crosby's two releases of the Year, "A Connecticut Yankee" and Top O' The Morning,"

IL Wa Crosby's 10th ap- pearance in the lop ten and Hope's seventh, The latter's previous high was second place In 1943.

Training the leaders, in order, were Abbott & Costello, Johri Wayne, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, Betty Grable, Esther Williams, Humphrey Bogart and Ciark Gable.-Associated Press.

RADIO REVIEW

In

By Michael Sydenham

next Friday about the "Story of

دكم

Nominated For The Academy Award As The Best Actor in 'WHITE HEAT'!

JAMES CAGNEY

WHITE HEAT

VARNER BROS;

VIRGINIA

MAYO

EDMOND OBRIEN

5 SHOWS 'WHITE HEAT' TO-MORROW

Extra Performanco

•

QUEEN'S (at 11.30 a.m.) ALHAMBRA (at 12 Noon)"

SHOWING

TO-DAY

"weather men" in

When Ida

turned Disney's all-cartoon musical

a few months' Lupino

time tainly the senior of its present- director she remembered the version of public's

"Cinderella." Radio Hongkong will change day announcers, in giving a talk plea for fresh talent Walt played Prince Char-its studios. From the the Weather Map."-IIe should and gave the leads in her first alm to two talented unknowns, ming and spent months of cramped. rather depressing certainly know it for he in one named Sally Forrest und Keefe tireless searching and test-and dingy atmosphere of its of the best Brasselle. The movie, "Not ing before finally fitting the present home, it will move Hongkong.

at glass slipper to the foot of into the modern, newly-built

Ilene Woods.

and well-appointed Electra Ida's

production company, But it was really the volce, House, the Cable and Wire-

Elizabeth Ann has started a Flirmakera, Inc., now distribut- rather than the foot, of the less building and a

new new series

of Children's fiolf chanteuse through RKO, plans to use blonde young ilg

that comer to the Hongkong Hours also on each Dimney'n the name polley in future films, determined

choice Waterfront.

Friday She now la interviewing dozens from among some four hundred

Evening. Every other Friday she is leaving space in her pro- of unknowns, one of whom candidates. Ilene will not sp- will play the lead in "Nico pear on the screen og the esisur

this will gramme for any young people

who Girt."

by Technicolour film is an all-moke little difference, at first, 10 She tells

sing or play an instrument. Ten years ago, when Raberl cartoon feature,

me that the first your evening's listening but will these is pretty young-16-Mary of But her full personality as it it is hoped eliminate the pecu Ramsey who when she went for Ryan was a struggling young Broadway actor,

his is known to one of

millions of radio ar

her Budition closest friends was an

Impressed equally listeners is felt as the sings of hear from time to time and cut unknown night club M.C. and the yearnings, the trials and the out the off-stage remarks that Committee to such actor named Herb Anderson. triumph of one of the most fa- sometimes creep into the studios, with her lovely voice When Anderson seitled in Helly, nous maids in all folidore,

passed auditions for senlord na wood

last year

well as juniors. Bob started Ilene is well qualified for the At Electra House they are now him off with a email rolo in a role, the most glamorous ever preparing and assembling tho picture in which he was star-created by Walt'a wizardry. equipment specially brought red, "The Set-Up." That was all She has appeared on all major from England for Radio Hong-

“

understand that I

knocking noises

that wo

This is of the most

Herb needed and today he is radio networks under top spondern kind and

The

moro accurato

the an extent that the

I have had several requesta steadily employed

free-sorship.

It will no lince the conclusion of the lance performer.

Her background includes two doubt greatly improve trans- Gilbert and Sullivan programme

President'a mission Bette Davis, who is starring appearances at the

and give

trato last week that a completo per- In RKO's

Story

of a Ball

command

performances voice reproduction. Studio space formance of one of their operas Divorce," was the woman behind for Army and Navy and three has been considerably enlarged might be given one evening. the scenes for David Brian, years on the alr with Paul and should give more scope for Each week "Opern Half Hour" whose work in such films

Whitemon,

producing full length plays. attracts many regular steners "Intruder in the Dust" vindi- She's also no stranger to tho

perhaps it would be possible to cates her good judgment.

Bing Crosby show, the

five a series of complete per. formancca each fortnight or, if that is too much, each month.

Jack Don

Cur-

Janet Leigh, soon to star og-Carson programme and

In Hong Kong the weather and nesite John Wayne in RKO McNeill's Breakfast Club.

asure tuple of Radio's "Jet Plot." would stilrently her time is divided beita misdeeds la be receptionist

conversation at and

some slago in California tween radio television. resort were it not for Norma Considering that

Disney any day. From the Observatory Shearer, who started her (o-wanted "Cinderella" to be hio in Kowloon twice each day a

to Congratulations harmonious blending of weather forecast is Issued and

Phillips fowlerso words Coombes for a most enjoyable Dropped The Label music and cartoon, it was real-upon these

pro made. ly a perfect when Bene plans

kept and evening in "Forum of the Air" A talented, beautiful girt out Woods donned the figurative Hongkong's most able and cer- charming and clever mani

broken. Len Starbuck—one of -Also” to Father Sheridan, a London on its ear a few yours glass slipper.

by consulting CHINESE OPTICAL CO.

47 One's

"

Tel. Hongkong 26093

Kowloon

ward screen stardom.

50000

most

KING'S

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TO-DAY

AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30 P.M.

EXTRA PERFORMANCE ON SUNDAY

AT 11.30 A.M.

ONIVÉRVÁR

BUD

COU

•More GHOULISH glea than when they met

FRANKENSTEIN!

"ABBOTT and COSTELLO MEET The KILLER. BORIS KARLOFF"

Screenplay by HUGH WEDLOCK, HOWARD SNYDER and JOHN GRANT. Directed by CHARLES T. BARTON Produced by ROBERT-ARTHUR

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