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ROXY BROADWAY
AIR-CONDITIONED
Theatre
(AIR CONDITIONE
SHOWING TO-DAY PLEASE NOTE SPECIAL SHOWING TIMES: AT 2.30. 5.00, 7.20 & 9.40 P.M.
WINNER OF 2 OSCARS! AIR BATTLE SCENES PHOTOGRAPHED IN ACTUAL COMBAT BY MEMBERS OF THE U.S. FORCES AND THE GERMAN LUFTWAFFE!
This is Savage"...
WHO
WORE
HIS
HEART
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1950.
SEAT IN THE STALLS
Leonard Mosley Reports On A
NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
LEE Liberty
DAILY AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
DAILY AT 2.30, 5.20, |
7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
SHOWING TO-DAY
ladd..
in action, avenging his wu
time betrayu!!
Paznaual preberis
ALAN LADD
as
CAPTAIN CAREY U.S.A.
co-star
WANDA
HENDRIX
Francis Lederer
Joseph Calleia-A MITCHELL LEISEN.
production
Produced by RECHARO MATRALIN - Directed by MITCHELL LUSER
Browning by Robert Toscan
Board on the Pavić by Marta Jakey)
ON
WINGS!
12 BLOCK HIGH
GREGORY PECK
DARRYLF. ZANUCK HENRY KING
20
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TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW
ROXY AT 11.30 A.M.
20th Century-Fox Presents Tyrone Power Linda Darnell
Rita Hayworth. "MARK OF ZORRO” At Reduced Prices
TO-DAY
ONLY
THE PRIZE WIN-
NING RADIO SUSPENSE DRAMA THAT THRILLED 40,000,000 PEOPLE
| BROADWAY AT 12 NOON
RKO Radio Presents
"WALT DISNEY
TECHNICOLOR
CARTOONS"
A Special Programme For
The Children!
WKING'
...NOW ELECTRIFIES
THE SCREENI
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AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30
P.M.
SORRY
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Redbook Megstine
10YT:-"SCERY,
WRONG KUMZER"
with
LAN IPADS - MEKOTA COPET-HARCAD YEAWATER
ANATOLE KETYAK Patent by BA MAIS and ANNELE VETME
Also Universal-International Newsreel and "BEAU TIES"
(Color Little Lulu)
TO-MORROW
SEYMOUR NEBENZAL
ROBERT CUMMINGS BRIAN DONLEVY
THEAVEN ONLY Krows
THE
PICTURE
WITH
A
HEART!
MARJORIE REYNOLDS ➡nd start Kebun - Ján Chol
Bromley by An Arg and Bachant Ligh
31 Condula » Edga Kately
***JORIA CURTRIGHT
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SHOWING
TO-DAY
Cathay
AT 2.30, 5.30,
7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
A THOUSAND MYSTERIES OF THE SOUTH SEAS!
KARK WOMAN
June-as she
really is
JANE HYLTON... this cut from the film shows her as she lies in hospital taking treatment.
A YOUNG BRITISH ACTRESS TAKES ON THE JOB OF SCOTCHING THOSE 'SNAKE PIT' STORIES WHICH MAKE A BREAKDOWN SOUND MORE ALARMING THAN IT REALLY IS.
The drug has been injected, and the narcosis has begun. Lying back on the couch, the little housewife hovers in a horrid world midway between conscious ness and sleep.
Soothed by the questions from the doctor, her tensions are gradually re- laxing. A babble of nonsense, buried fears, long-forgotten prejudices and resentments pour from her lips. The first step on the road to recovery, from a nervous breakdown has been taken... It is a high-polot in a new Alu being munde-Britain's sanc and considered answer to that jolting American 11m about madness, "The Snake Pit."
HOLLYWOOD HUMOUR
Lovely
Jergent Adele said she fell more like a hanibarger than an actress after completing one of her crying
In scenes "Sugarloat" at Warners. The tears bad been In- dured by rubbing an onlon beneath her beautiful eyes.
the
WEEK-END SCREEN FARE
mutiny.
12 O'Clock Heh (ROXY & BROADWAY) Is the story of an The stor is an ordinary
American bomber group which, British housewife whose inental
after crippling losses in the balance has buckled. Not be-
Ger- cause, as in "The Snake Pit daylight raids on
many in the late war, is atm, she is hysterical, overbred, thoroughly demoralised andi subject to neurosis-but because
on the verge of the trials and stresses of life in practically modern England have got her
The group receives a new down,
Cramped
commander (played by Gregory housing
quarters Peck) who worries about rationing
is brought in to bolster
The flagging morale. shred her queues,
Is that breaking point.
im examines what it The interference of a bossy makes a fighting man and what her, her husband and the two actual raids mother-in-law, who lives with he expects of his lender.
Oficial war dims made during i
are used for the children, finally tip her mind over the precipice--and when yng combat scenes and these 11:0 wakes up
add up to an atmosphere of she is
in realism achieved only by a very mental home.
small minority of the films we have seen that were based an stories coming out of either of the two World Wars,
and nerves to
EXTRA PERFORMANCE
5 SHOWS TO-MORROW "CAPTAIN CAREY U.S.A."
LEE of 11.30 a.m.-
TO-DAY
ONLY
LIBERTY at 12.30 p.m.
MAJESTIC
"CONDITIONED
AT 2.30, 5.20,
7.20 & 9.30- P.M.
"UNPARALLELED ACHIEVEMENT FOR AMERICAN MOTION PICTURES!"
Karvard Celmin
ORSON WELLES- MACBETH
"Produced and Directed by DISON WELLES
ADDEDI LATEST WARNER-PATHE NEWSREEL FIRST SHOWING IN COLONY!
YANKS FIGHT BACK IN KOREA! WORLD MOURNS CANADA'S MACKENZIE KINGI KING LEOPOLD RETURNS TO BELGIUM. NATIONAL A.A.U. SWIM CHAMPIONSHIP.
ETC. ETC. ETC.
✰ COMMENCING TO-MORROW ✯ SUNDAY EXTRA SHOW AT 1200 NOON Donald O'CONNOR Gloria Do HAVEN in "YES SIR, THAT'S MY BABY" COLOR BY TECHNICOLOR
Her chance For the past three weeks some of the ablest mental specialists Jane Hylton, the Rank star in Ur tain have been on duty who has
her hitherto wen
Beyond the Forest (QUEEN'H' with a lm company at one of place in Alms as a wishy-washy & ALHAMBRA) brings
1110:3 famous mental flugzett daughter or the patient heavy-dried, dark-haired Bette hospitals in the South.
talespiri In "Passport to Davis, not only as wicked s Their job: to help point an Pimlien."
Cefs the chance of ever but. indeed, aboliral. authentic pelare of what it her carcer in this picture-a That is what her vist following: Be to, have fand how to cure) chance to show whether theke of Bette and all wha make a nervous breakcown.
can equal Olivia de Havillandis point of seeing her films will
for sincerity. tension and come away ratisded. pathon ander the sires of a
TO-DAY Miss Davis here is the bured; inental collapse.
but hitienis wife of a country From what I have ren of own doctor who wirbes to g iter. on the bet and In The cape to a life of luxury, She "rh" he is going to be di cavernas all we mortals do Cond.
that the average person has
Rich and beautiful, but simple enough
Being rich, and beautiful, rasts, "than straining one's bark muake other people and renowned, and glamor just to
unhappy with envy." ou hasn't had much effect Jupon the every-day living of Joan Crawford. This great star of Warner Bros' drama, "The Damned Don't Cry,"
acts less like a great star |than anybody you can think
of.
She doesn't believe in diet- |ing, for example, nor in coneral- ing the six or eight mischievous freckles Just above the bridge of her nose. She calls almost everybody "Honey," including the carpenters, and the grip, nud the electricians, and the labour- ers who work with her
nt tho studio.
the
Glamorous Joan
But the producers uf "Mrs always a full-time Job on his Stade's nem" (1 hope that handle striving to be master of terrible title will be cuged) his fate. Even murder doesn't stres that this is not going to help very much. be a harrowing picture.
No Snake Pits
The im b que that cincina- rorrs who are nol necessarily Davis fans will appreciate for a well-presented story. For Belle Scenes in the hospital, where Davis it in another personal the star is brought back triumph. An excellent cast that norinality, have bren wade in eludes Joseph Cotters (as the the wards and grounds of the husband), David Brian. Ruth Roman and Dona Drake tries Leacnek, the hard to steal the spotlight but director explains: "The cumula-never gets near to doing it.
mental home.
And as Phil
live effect of our
Sorry, Wronk
Number persuade people
(KING'S) is another very mentally disturbed not to entertaining lm over a week-
is to
arc whe
Com-
afraid of treatment-tu vince them, beyond all doubt, that there are no Snake Pit here
us of the best available. For that reason the story of It is about woman who Mrs Stade's nervous breakdown
overhears her
end in which the movie houses, seem to have conspired to give
belng
is as simple and down to earth plotted and in an hour and a
enters
js
SHOWING
| AT 2.30, 5.15.
7.20
QUEEN'S 6 9.30
SEE AMERICA'S NO. 1 FUNNY-MAN IN
"Hey, Warner Bros.
THE KNOW-WUELSY
P.M.
What Have You Done to Me?"
8 SONG
HITS!
MILTON BERLE and VIRGINIA MAYO
ALWAYS LEAVE THEM LAUGHING
RUTH ROMAN
SHOWS TO-MORROW
BERT LAHR
Extra Performanco "ALWAYS LEAVE THEM LAUGHING" AÐ 11.30 AM.
ORIENTAL
**
AIR
CONDITIONED
as they come (a bit too simple half of helpless horror has no sometimes).
recourse but to shudder and From the moment' the star await an inevitable dernist,
nental home thin
Barbara Stanwyck, as the bed- British Am calls on all the ridden neurotic who has no resources of mental therapy an other means of saving herself the country to show that there but the telephone, turns in a
nothing shameful about fine performance, in
in what neurotic illness, and nothing to almost a shrick-by-shrick - be feared about a cure.
count of how anyone would And yet Jane Hylton is not feel in a a similar situation. shown going through un cast The cast again, with Burt cure. Shock treatment is given Lancaster, Ann Richards, Wen- The narcosis is closely followed. dell Corey and Harold In one sequence the escapes and Vermilyea, is an excellent one, Tako Any Eastern Tram Car or Happy Valley Bur coes home to her children, and has to be brought back again.
Yet, from reading the script
Final Showing To-day: 2.30—5.30—7,30 & 9.30 P.M. FOUR FRIENDS and seeing much of the flim
made, I think
achieves it the incredible role of an Oss
Hong Kong Screen favourito "SHIRLEY TEMPLE" in Italy. The fact that no ect-and turns out a moving
Is back again in her Latest Action Picturo! though possibly sometimes highly exclling, story with the
THRILL-BY-THRILL convincingly acquainted with Ladd's features
It Pounds into Your Heart! made: that there really are no through the medium. of the Snake Pits in Britain.
screen, could possibly take for anyone else but on Ameri- Suggestions,
can la again airily dismissed.
It is, therefore, understand- Sidelight on, the production able that Ladd was betrayed by While I was
mental tume home recently some of
Itallon traitor and the the nim's story has him returning actual patients complained that to Italy after the war to track Porta of the Aim were no1 Uhe man down. accurate.
ONE WEAKNESS
She is not at all extravagant, and never makes a show of
money, spending
with possible exception of buying a dozen pairs of shoes at a lime. Shoes are her anly weakness.
She's a regular attendant at her neighbourhood movie theatre, where the knits if the picture happens to be draggy, or glares at baz and popcorn crunchers if it happens to be exciting,
She hing four adopted children-Christina, Christopher, Cathy and Cynthia-and intelmed by common household [chores, such
cooking and washing and Ironing. Wäshing BARBARA ANN BCOTT, 22- ranchines fascinate her, and she year-old Canadian Ice-skating cften startles her
in London with next-door champion neighbours by hanging kiddie perfect performance in "Rose clothes on the lines in her Marie on Ice," leaves career backyard.
worries to a four-man com- mitice back home In Toronto, NO VAIN DISPLAY
Two lawyers, a banker and a She never has been known to business man-friends of her make a valn display of her father before he dled-take wealth. The cupboards of her care of her money, sign the home-large
of the contracts, and decide what sho because children-do not bulge with shall do next. platinum-trimmed dishes; its
casc
at the
A whole ward was invited tu
Captain Carey, U.S.A. (LEE LIBERTY) jumps Alan Ladd buck on us and once again in
cr
un-
bads do not glisten with Bilka Just the same, Miss 'Scolt has stand on the set and watch the
no golden ta mind of her own. She would | sequence, take by take. Their and relaxation in detective or
is
Many brain in this world ged to a routine of scientific philosophical speculation and salins; there are
suggestions were sharp and to Axtures in the bathrooms, norike to try a film-but only if the story wero more important
the point and everyone of them cowboy fletion and it would he kuflern at
to uters at the doors.
was accepted-particularly by wrong than the skating.
therefore, that zay, thinks butlers are "160
Jane Hylton,
had Laud who
us un ex-OSS
man 18 Houy that
chauffeurs ore. Skating bring her in around previously - spent Q week, incapable of being entertaining. likewise, and that women who £2,000 a week. Hier committee disguised as a medical student, In any case, there are Wangla weight themselves down under invest the money and leave her in the wards. to get the right Hendrix and Joseph Calleth ́in a fortune's worth of jewels are a few hundreds a week to buy sort of background for her per- the cost and of these two lesser Just plain stupk. "There are clothes, pay the rent and keep formance. pleasanter things to do," the herself amused.
-{London Bagrits Service)
PRIDE OF KENTUCKY
TECHNICOLOR
BARRY
LON
SHIRLEY TEMPLE FITZGERALD-McCALLISTER
COMMENCING TO-MORROW÷“SIREN OF ATLANTIS” SPECIAL MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW AT 1230 Bghts from Hollywood we are ANOTHER NEW CARTOON PROGRAMME necing far too little.
M-G-M
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