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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1950.

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Latest 20th Century-Fox Movietono Nows

1. U.S. Forces Prois Attack Against Reds in Korea.

General MacArthur arriving in Formosa, Meeting Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang Kai-shek.

2.

3. U.N. Hears Warren Austin's Expose of Russia's

Role in Korea War.

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TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW

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M-G-M Presents Esther WILLIAMS in "NEPTUNE'S DAUGHTER"

In Technicolor At Reduced Prices -

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M-G-M Presents

A Special Programme of "TECHNICOLOR

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Maureen

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Macdonald

O'HARA CAREY COMANCHE TERRITOR

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ALSO LATEST UNIVERSAL-INTERNATIONAL NEWSREEL "Cenoral Douglas MacArthur arrives in Formosa"; "The War in Korea."

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SPECIAL MORNING SHOW ON SUNDAY AT 12.30 Bud & Lou in "PARDON MY SARONG!”

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TWENTY-ONE"

Two new films that pack in life, drama

and

entertainment

1. PANIC IN THE STREETS

It is getting on for lunch their next contact and start an time, and the police surgeon piacale of mass-killing pacu

monic plague.

From that moment

ON

this

the

at headquarters in New Orleans is hungry. Well, 1 no ri-of-the-mill thriller, what is there to keep him? but a mounting drama, a chase Only a quick job, already the cause of humanity rather

than Justice. waiting for him on the slab in the mortuary-the body fished out of the river a. few hours before.

If the murdered man Some expert probes with the

and

bullets plague, then the men who mur- instruments which caused the recent mur. dered him must be carrying the der will be out for inspection. erms, too. Should the news- And oh, for, you think, here Papers be told, and the public we go again: Yet another cf warned?

the

efficient, there

but eventful

murder ne the less routine mysteries in which Hollywood speenlises.

come

ne

of the

implications.

in

and

Sa Richard Widmark, as a henil official. and Police Captain Paul Dourlus must ferret

secret. With superb skill, observation, speed, Kazan's camera followa them down the dusty strecLS, the sleazy dives, the back- entries, and hole-in-the-corner Lurs of the New Orleans slum-

belt.

This is an advance shot from Michael Wilding's forthcoming film, "Into the Blue" and finds the Mastermind of Charm a little less remote than usual as a pretty girl's chin rests on his hand.

The pretty teenager with Michael is Odile Ver. sois, who follows the tradition of Fair, French and Under Twenty-one Instituted with Anouk and Cecile Aubry.

HOLLYWOOD

LOWDOWN

By Sid

Ella Kazan, One of

Their clef eluts come when

Freakish mishaps - Gene world's greatest im and singe death strikes again, and again.

they Nelson is nursing painful duccters never lets you miss Their chief fear is that

plot's moments will not And their quarry in burns behind him from slidi time, and the bacill will haveing on a floor during one of hawled too Zur.

his dancing stints for "Ten film. For Two" at Warners; and Oh, yes, it la a tense Despite its breathless rush, Patricia Neal, same studio has time for all the touches that

SUPERB SKILL

Eut if that is done, the mur

Tek by a" jul-jawed

Only "Panie in the Streets" ng-aply called Jack Palance) to escape in the ducan't work out that way. For Light try when the bullets

Out, panic and spread thele death

clothes, and something else comes out will crying bund,

of breaths all over the nation. them. Germs. ATIUions deuly bacilli walling to make

WEEK-END SCREEN FARE

:thes

Ne Man Of Her Own (LEE & LIBERTY)

Barbra Sunwyck in

Di hr best Jules since "Stella Dallas" in a ปาก

a thought-provoking with

2.

LEE

DAILY AT 2.30, 5.20,

7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

Liberty

DAILY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

SHOWING TO-DAY

A DESPERATE LIE

Barbara

Stanwyck John Lund

and

In

BOOMERANGS INTO MURDER!

NO MAN OF HER OWN

with SANE COWLATELIS TRAXTER - KYLE KETIEDI

LEART GALL

A

MITCHELL LEISEN-

Producton • PRANOVAI PIETIES

Produced by RICHARD MAIBAUM • Dwected by MITCHILÉ LESSEN Screenplay by SUIT BENSIN and TASHIKING TURKEY

Added Attraction at LEE LATEST REPORT FROM EMBATTLED KOREA, FILMED UNDER FIRE BY DEPT. OF DEFENCE AND PARAMOUNT NEWS CAMERAMAN!

B-29 Superforts take off from Okinawa for raids on key enemy targots Marino Army Units wipe out Communist mortar and machine gun crews,

ctc.

MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW AT

LIBERTY

AT 12.30 P.M.

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AT REDUCED PRICES

QUEENS ALHAMBRA

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★ 5 SHOWS TO-MORROW ★ Extra Performance 'ON THE TOWN'

QUEEN'S

AT 1130 A.M.

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ALHAMBRA

AT 12 NOON —

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

M-G-M'S BIGGEST TECHNICOLOR MUSICALI

rican art in alma- the odd in "The Breaking Point," Come on, everybody, let's all go ON THE TOWN!

characters off the waterfront, sat down on a set chair that tha spider was under and got the sly de-lances home life of Widmark, the bad bitten

her right behind jea- femper of Douglas, the

fecute animosities, tempera-pretty knee.

Chets the chimp in Tarzan

rents, ani

frustrations. This is a film that makes up ples has been insured for $50,- 000!... And did you know boredom.

Powell's middle to me for hours of 1 In fact, one of the films that William

name is Horatio?!... or, that of the year.

Bette Davis once worked as

feguard at a resort on the that James of "The Daughter Barton, in There is no pomp and no false Rosie O'Grady," made his stage This story was, for me.

age of two, and the greatest to come out of patriotem. Though the enmera debut at the

Tomises on Leo Gem and Au-was touring Ee country in Without doubt

vaudeville the war.

act at the age and thony Steel (a handsome

. or, that Ann Sothern "The Wooden Horse" is the

as the four? new bar) itapressive

the granddaughter of Simon mot remarkable escape

the Latte, story of all time.

Atlantic? THE WOODEN HORSE

In

*

of

two prisoners on their way out, s The man who Invented

it takes time tu observe

#

You will be glad to know editions in the prison camp the modern submarine?

itself and beautifully points

THE IRONY OF IT the Delly that the screen version of it

ep the bar atom.

the

uf "The Steve Cochran, Turns out to be the best film arrels.

rade Don't Cry, in Britain temper-fraying we have made

of Damned rhebla that afflict hundreds this year.

active

young men condemned to couple

without harm and went uranium weeks For chitht

that the

enforces idleness .and prison camp, biales

of life M: Stanwyck here plays anotorious Nazi

Stalag Luft H.. two British Barbed-wire. mithr who sur:&

AF oficer: tunnelled their

Inevitably, 11 lels mewhat when the actual has been made, and cficers are making their To Sweden.

unw.

tied woman's entity,

There:

test

is a murder involved. The cast way to freesam auder the is a good une and includes Jonna couple of hundred German Lu, Jane Cowi and Phyllis Jards.

Thaxter,

UNDERSTATEMENT

While relays of men perform - ALHAMBRA) is a technicolour el inexhaustible Xymnastics

TECHNICOLOR

GENE KELLY FRANK SINATRA

BETTY GARREIT: ANN MILLER

ON THE TOWN

JULES MUNSHIN VERA-ELLEN

ot bucking horses The Most Outstand- bunting without a bum during ing Picture Of The behind his

down

recent condido, Calif.

vacation ES- Now he's nurs-

of poison ivy ng a terrible case from working in his own gar- the den.

Foola Day is April

way jucky, for lovely Ruth Roman. that is. She signed her Warner contract on April 1, 1940, unil NEAT AND RIPE

had her, option picked up on On the Town (QUEEN'S &

In the Interim mustent with the usual array of over the wooden horse and its chante here with some fine the made

But Jack Lee's direction has April 1, 1050,

several hit pictures,

the with

French got a big raise and was elevated Bequentes

lo full stardor.

BIG STRIKE

MGM stars.

the

musicals veyed by

of these

two

I

+

Place has been kept up

while they were found in the flim for Gene Kelly, short of food and falling in underground in Lubeck, with al Frank

Sinatra, Vera-Ellen, strength, the escapees were comic old Danish sea-captam, ! Betty Garrett and Ann Miller, concealed inaldo, digging.

kle-out in Copenhagen.

Д Chuckle of the week was Masing ore Lauritz Melchior,

And Re ending (which The triumph

cati from Judy Judy Hurbis,

Garland,

Canova in Texas. Sho said Mickey Rooney, Esther Willlains men, in face of enormous risks, won't give away here) is neat telephone

and ripe with fun.

a friend has discovered and Xavier Cugat and hisetbacks, and accidents, le con

Best sequence: a collapse In that director Jack Leg

.. Vlá on his ai}! Genn some lund Orchestra. MGM'S

with Leo the tunnel, of their own and with an inspired sonchialalice, struggling to get free and local trade papers, Angela Lans have a style

and understate-

minutesbury has announced that she's they are invariably entertaining Kood-humour,

that will help to give this Nui guards only two

INOT expecting the stork and When Wille Comes Marching remarkable episode in rightful way.

A splendid screen version, fo that she 15, ready for pletures. Home (ROXY & BROADWAY) place in British war-time tradl fact, of the loontest (and yet

MALE HENIE is a comedy on army life star-tion.

most heartening) incident f Not that it is bang-the- ring Dan Dailey as a patriotic

the war. drum,

sce-how-wonderful-we- young fellow who is the first lo eulist but can't get overseas British-are kind through one complication after another.

of picture. AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.30

"IT'S THE COMEDY OF THE YEAR!

P.M.

Alotion Pictura

Alopar

Davis Montgomery

WARNER BROS:

JUNE BRIDE"

TOM FULLY KEM Tap to £**

FAY BAINIER ET be be BRETAGNE WINDUST HOHRY BLÄMKE. ADDED! LATEST KOREAN WAR NEWS

OPENS TO MORROW, 5 SHOWS

AT 12.00 NOON, 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.30 P.M. Ida LUPINO, Dang CLARK, Wayno MORRIS in "DEEP VALLEY”.

Finally, everything goes right and within a few days he dies over the Atlantic, is dropped over France, joins the under- ground, scopes to London with Nazi secrels and in flown to Warhington for a top-secret con- ference. Twentieth Century- Fox throw in two of their up- and-coming starlets, Corinne Calvet and Colleen Townsend, In what Alm.

I really enjoyable

Comanche Territory (KING`8) Carey and co-stars Macdonald Maureen O'Hara and crores of Comanchirs. It is based on the life and times of Jim How!e, who liked Comanches and also gave his name to a type of two-edge hunting knife that millions of boys and girls have read about in Westem stories.

-(London Expron Service)

Peter, played by Leo Gean, making his way · through the tunnel.

in

GENE

.

the screen's first

NELSON, the Broad- way dancer who's now scoring his first cinematic triumph Warner Bros.' Technicolour

"The musleal,

Daughter Roste

malo

of

be

jcc-

** wants to O'Grady,

skating star, and has asked the valley lot to keep him in mind

for a yarn

grounds.

with skating back-

Heretofore. only femmes

Yoar!

WOMEN WITHOUT

THEIR MEN...

Atthallowyof

MEN WITHOUT THEIR WOMENI

DARRYL F. ZANUCK

THREE CAME HOME

CLAUDETTE COLBERT

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PRESS

FAIRE DIOMAUT BIOTIKE DESSING SEASE PATIKAYA PHOTOGRAPHS

EAN HESSIESDO) MANULIY MASN'

have copped the glory of such Coming Very Soon

productions, with

like

girls Henie, Beilin and Ralston en-

Д joying Nelson wor

veritable monopoly. skater long be- Ho fore he became a dancer. was featured in one of Henke's awn shows, and he was on the TORd and the White Way with "It Happens On Iet."

Nelson always anties when he tells people whère te at- quired his skill with the blades. It was in sunny southern Cali- fornia. He was a whiz before real he ever saw a piece of teet

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