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LEG Theatre

FAIR CUOLLA, DE PEUSMEDJELA D. SZOMIZED AND PURIFIED

TAKE ANY EASTBOUND TEAM OR ROUTE NO, Y HUS

SHOWING TO-DAY

FOUR SHOWS AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

Deep in murder...deeper in love!

The Woman'

from Tangier

NOELE JERGENS. HOPKIN DOANE

MICHALE DUANE #INT GREEN ELS

Prebend by ITIN BIOMEW

ALSO: THREE STOOCES COMEDY "MALICE IN THE PALACE”

TO-DAY

ALHAMBRA

ONLY

AIR - CONDITIONED.)

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

THE

Action!

Color!

M-G-M's BIG TECHNICOLOR SPECTACLE!

utriders

GALDI

-JOEL

MCCREA

ARLENE DAHL, SULLIVAN - JARMAN, Jr.- WHITMORE • NOVARRO

OPENS

TO-MORROW •

⚫ SHOWING

TO-DAY

M-G-M presents

"The Doctor And The Girl" with Glenn Ford Janot Leigh

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

INCONDITIONED ki

QUEEN'S

MGMS hilarious answer to

WHO WEARS THE PANTS!

SPENCER

TRACY HEPBURN

KATHARINE

Adam's Rib

FUNNIEST POTURE IN JOYEARS! EXTRA! Special News of the Day First Actual Camera Record of the Landings in Inchon, under the Direction of Gen. MacArthur (from the terrific Naval Bombardment to the capturo of Kimpo airfield,

SHOWING

TO-DAY

MAJESTIC

AT 2.30, 5.00, 7.20 & 9.30 P.M.

|BAIR-CONDITIONED

BY POPULAR REQUEST!

FOR TWO DAYS ONLY!

Thrill to matchless muile...

as she dances between her two loves!

J. ARTHUR RANK PRESENTS

Anton WALBROOK, Moira SHEARER in

THE RED SHOES

NEXT CHANGE

SHOWING

TO-DAY

COLOR BY TECHNICOLOR

Brian DONLEVY * Helan WALKER in "IMPACT!”

KING'S

FAIR-CONDITIONED

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

HELPLESS MAIDENS STOLEN FOR HEATHEN HAREM.

and Tarzan vows vengeance!

NEWEST

BALDO, LUGAR NICÉ'EUDIOVERS"

TARZAN AND

THE SLAVE GIRL

LEX BARKER

VANESSA BROWN ROBERTALDA

"DENISE BARGEL+AKTISH SHIELDS « Produced by TOL, LESTER

Directed by SKOLEM Serieophy ky žáner Jacoby, Kemolé Belgard-Based upon the character streated by Engir çe verought

Also Latoit Universal-International Newsreel

SHOWING

TO-DAY-

The Cisco Ald

Beauty and the Bandit

GILBERT ROLAND

Meet reste day

resterday

At Every

Street Corner

By G. GRAFTON

GREEN

It

on

F you take the train commemorate local or national from Lendon nnd vents of importance during the travel through Britain's 200 yours. richest wheat growing area Dominating the city is of East Anglia you arrive great square Norman castle in two and a half hours at n artificial mound in the heart of the maze of strects. In it is Norwich. There in that housed the city's main museum capital city of the County of and art gallery. For 500 years Norfolk, with a recorded the castle was used as a county 100l and today you can still me history of 1,000 years, you rematelings on the walls of the find a. lving example of dungeons, deep beneath, which what can be achieved by a bear witness to the

kept there. aturdy, independent and adaptable people.

prisoners

Along one side of the market place runs the new city

hall, Norwich was a great city in an outstanding example ol Her wealth modern functional architecture. the 14th century. and prosperity were founded by Beside it, in sharp contrast, hier merchants and skilled lands a lttle manterpiece of a erotismen. Goldsmiths and building In dint, the Guildhall, Ellversmiths, weavers of woollen from which for 500 years the and silken stuffs, wood carvers elly was governed. It was be- and Iron workers flourished. gun in 1407 and its walla of:

In the reign of Queen Eilza- quarent flint blocks. In so beth, in the 10th century, Nor- closely together that a penknife wich became the third city in could not be inserted

between

the kingdom and prospered un- them, stand as firm today, as

til the industrial revolution of when they were built.

the 19th century brought the

golden age of craftsmanship to

a clone. But Norwich, too, had

Local Museum

a revolution of her own. Her The same, distinctive Ant people learned new trades, new construction

[n seen In the

quired new skills. Today, with Bridewell-the home of the first 120,000 Inhabitouts, she hos mayor of Norwich in 1403 azain ncblevet industrial great- which is now a museum of locat ness as one of the centres of Industries and contains ft re- Britain's boot and shoe industry minder that wire netting

was

in the mint of an almost invented and first manufactured wholly agricultural county.

in the elty.

But the glories of Norwich ere not only architectural. you walk through the Madder-

Festival Contre

IL

which

be sold for

Colonal Steven Jamos

Lindsay Hardlo

STEEL-MAKER

-until now he's been a steel-breaker

NOLONEL

COLAMES

LONDON.

by FREDERICK ELLIS

£7,000.

RX-

British rights to the discovery ----- after it had been turned down by others,

So Metal Industries started to make its own oxygen. And to make it for other firms. This started a Berce trade war with British Oxygen,

given, British Oxygen admitted

Bafore the judgment

stefcat. Hardle named

his. termo-ho would sc}} his oxygen business for 200,000 of his rival's £1 shares. Today they are worth £4,342,000,

STEVEN LINDSAY HARDIE, D.S.O., the 65- year-old Scottish million- aire Socialist chosen to head the State Steel Corporation, Mr McCrone, back from the has spent the Inst 28 years wars without a job, drifted into

Tough, Independent Hardlo Firth of on the doing two things-wrecking shipbreaking

Forth.

fought his rivals to come to his steel and cutting steel.

terms, after A court mult On the boards of 34 com Hardio they talked shipbreak- Oxygen on patents.

Over the odd lunch with brought against him by British panica, ho dominates the g. And in 1922 the two wreckers, the £10,000,000 Metal oflicers cet up their own ship Industries firm whore offshoot breaking business. Between Сох

and Danks taiped

the them they sank their joint sav scuttled German fleet to food inge into the venturo-about scrap

to the steel furnaces, And he bosses the £18,000,000 British Oxygen Company, which makes the cylinders of gas used Form a tiny yard at Charles- Later Hardie bought another ent through the toughest town, five miles up the river block of Oxygen shares from steel.

from the Forth Bridge, the ven- the Unilever combino, And Luck

and lunches made ture became Metal Industries into his hands fell control of his Steven

Hardie, once a struggling now the biggest shipbreakers in former rivals. Last year they Glasgow chartered accountant, Europe, making profts lust made a profit of £3,300,000, Into

one of Britain's most year of £026,000, And it in

Four years

Hardle powerful Industrialisis.

due to Robert McCrone that startled industrialists by joining Luck in serving in the 81st Steven Hardlo is boss of the the Socialist Party. He weat Highland Division during the British Oxygen combine. Kaiser's war. For there he mot

on record: "I will not be en Ble users of oxygen to cut up active member, but I will sup Robert Walcon McCrane,

their ships,

McCrone heard port the party. The future of Funches he had in Glasgow about a new wonder discovery tho country dependa Al wartime friend of quid oxygen in Germany. Labour Party"

11o bought for his company the

10

with McCrone,

THEY

OUT OF

ago

on the

--(London Express Service}

WANT TO

TO GET HOLLYWOOD

HE most striking fac- Mews," which 1 do not tor in the British film think even makers would now clolm was other than Acene this autumn and

dull. The sume company

STEPHEN

WATTS

Thousands of people, from market (the street in many parts of the world, will madder used in

dyeing visit Norwich for the first time

you come across what winter is unquestionably created a good dival of Interest next year, for the city has been appears to be a typical Eliza-going to be the important in advance with their "Night

bethan black and white build- chosen as one of the provincial

American and the City." largely made in centres for the Festival of Bri- . t is the home of the Nor-part played by

London's streets, but it, too, made companies. Enin, 1951, and will hold its own wich Players who have mate

disappointed. Indeed, when festival from June 10 to 30. the Muddermarket Theatre Even to the average, casually Darryl Zanuck recently gave a will be typical of a city where famous throughout Britain, and loformed man it is fairly obvious Press conference in Landon and

to the why this is so. Expenditure on the every rond, perhaps, only you meet yesterday at

Atm was Ol Vie. This theatre, s

mentioned, he British street corner.

replica

production of money spread his hands

Co - wide in a of a 18th century playhouse, is earned by the showing of generous gesture and said, "It Headquarters of

film the festival largely the achievement of one Amercan alm

in Britain but will be the Assembly Rooms,

se of the Anest examples of Nugent Monck came to Norwich is now written into the law of

fat. More than 30 years ago blocked by currency regulations was just a bad picture--that's 18th century domestic architce- fure in Britain, which

chip

and month

-

comments on Anglo American operation in production

Britain's

not to

perhaps the most interesting of all in wholly native-the first co-operative Brlish fim. When the slump was at its lowest depth, the Association of Cines Technicians enlisted the aid or the Notional Film Finance Corporation for the production of a fim which would at least provide work for some of their idle inembers,

a

12

urren

thing of the kind in England Sts (the Theatre seats only 250) though it is a good deal more Garson and Walter Pidgeon inted in a big crop of them Clowes, especially suitable since

(x-

They are the most recent

ression of that spirit of loch! patriotism which has gudded the city's development as much the cultural os the industrial feld.

They

have

Tho big companies were facilities. generous in offering Producer,

and director

slar (Roger Livesey) agreed to defer have after an unspectacular career na the land. Not all the revenue,

their own payments, and all the Then more recently there was Olivier in the list of en actor. He bought the bulld- of course, but up to a point. The

technicians accepted the lowest just been redecorated to equip

possible rate, with interest in them as a communal centre for ed his small savings to more the Americans spend, the The Minlyer Story, tequel to leading actors a word

and successful be confused with "Alm sturs." it, Ndapt time. oh bas put on

after more they are permitted to take the celebrated Norwich citizens for all

the bonus-producing results it, Hollywood-made "Mrs Miniver" productions home in dollars.

But apropos staro, For sheer beauty of workman- which have made no great pro-

and es- and when, the venture showed of World War 11 fame. Despite pecially inale uturs of world But that is not the whole story, the

profit. The subject is taken they probably surpass

Greer repute, the Anglo-Americanisa- from a re-appearance of

novel called "Green but have set new standards of than half of It. Several Holly les

tion of British studios has Grow the Bushes

by Howard theatrical achievement.

19* roles which wood men now in London have

suppose almost have deserve the ndjective "beloved" at the present time. There is it is a story which is amenable told me that they want to make

make the general critical view was James Stewart, making his first Anonymous Actors in Britain. in

out-of-door to a good deal of that the sequel was a sad let British film,

"No Highway" shooting. The that getting down after the origin

only thing not Now, at the age of 74, Nugent said they thought

One with Glynis Jehna and Marlenc

yet fixed is the exhibition of the while n Monck is preparing two species out of Hollywood for

were Dietrich; David Niven in Happy picture which must, of course, or two writers, in fact, Inow of

far nu city with so productions for next year's fen- was good

them and for their suficiently ungentlemanly

with Vera Ellen and to Go Lovely"

be decided on many kinds of museums or more val

its merits or both

that they could make Shakespearest pictures more economically in that in this

pictures,

Intimate their active pleasure Cesar Romero, Rex Harrison in what the cinema-owners. (who churches to the square mile. They are "Pericles, Prince of

one Mr Miniver "The Long Dark Hall" and

are not always right) bellevo Within its boundaries are a fine Tyre" and "The Taming of the Britain and that they appreciat Noman cathedral and 34 medle- Strew," The

being able to use some of dies, thereby preventing further

Mason in her James

"Del Palmn"——

to be ta merits at the box- aclors will, a3

two,

by the

office. val churches, each of them with they have done for the last 30 her enviable supply of acting sequels, and one suggested that the last-named

in the romelling distinctive to enjoy. years, remain anonymous.

talent, especially in character the cause of her

demise, not way, being interested Many of the city's great func- There will be a Alm festival, and supporting parts, which specified in the film, was surely producing side of these pictures tions are held in what is known too, and a succession, of con- they could not conveniently as St. Andrew's Hall which, corts Including the Norwich transport 6000 miles ccafuries ago, was the nave of Triennial musical festival which home studies, the church of the Dominicans. has been an event for The church of 51. Peter Jun- than 100 years. The Royal Nor- PROMISING

On the River

Yaro

more

boredom.

to their

kvel

113

to the extent of taking no re- muneration until the profits begin to flow.

INTERESTING ·

When

Among the factual fims seen recently at the Edinburgh Flm Festival were one or two which I

-made

study

of mengurlag.

The

But hopes are high for some

would advise anybody with a of the Anglo-American pictures

real interest in world cinema to come. First in that category

to look out for. Two short nate, built in 1400, and now re- folk Agricultural Show will be

is "The Mudlark" for which the

British subjects of distinction dundant, has been turned into held during the period,

and cif nod

majority of

others are

are The Story of Time" and the im-

added to un erelesiastical museum. Many King George VI, whose country

The

popular

"Looking at Sculpture." list such

Michaelt in of

or Irene the ancient churchyarda have erlate. Sandringham, is in

made parlant

ሰ። pictures the

made her first that

is a beautifully coloured, been laid out as gardens to pro- county, will be exhibiting.

planned under this part-forced,

Itedgrave starring in the film first working trip vide oases of colour and quiet-

Britain to

to play version of Terence Anglo-Amerlenn

Rattigan's ingeniously. rican Queen Victoria. That she which part-willing ess in the grey, winding streets carries the city's seaborne traffe set-up have not yet been seen supported by Alec Guinness in The Browning Version" Ray ethods

down the DgCo Circle," and Milland in “Pull of the city.

down through the port of Great even by the critics. Some of them another big attraction,

for in

playing

the Yarmouth there will be a car has to be acknowledged that

look extremely promising, but stage reputation fon Broadway Robert Newton

of Rugby nival. And in the streets of

in London) and for famous headmauster in the recent his extraordinary tour de

In "Tom Brown's Schooldays", the city, by night, there will be at least three

force I imagine that at some time dancing while the ghosts of the past have not lived up to their of playing eight roles in "Kind the gallery becomes glittering novelty. the city rat Is sat down and past look down on ย. scene Implicit promise.

Hearts and Coronets" Guinness indeed. Hook stock D. the position. They which will be "Merrie England" There was Twentieth-Century now stunds, I would estimate, Of all the productions

Probably said: "Well, here are all over again.

Fox's first essay, "Britannia second only to Sir Laurence coing on in England, however, we will some of the finest hth- torical buildings in Britain. How

Strangers' Hall

cre we to use them to the hert advantage?" They made a deci-

tion, and the results QUESTION OF A

pre SC

as well na

BAN

Batisfying that one wonders why other cities have not fol- lowed suit. Nowhere is this

NEW YORK. the body really needs when the policy seen belter expressed UESTION for America's palate craves alcohol; thin in the

Qhighest court to mrver. named quaintly "Sirangers' Hall," the mansion

of a medieval merchant which it unconstitutional to has been transformed Into have Bible readings in folk muscutn. Once you cross school?" the litle Bagged courtyard and

now

By C. V. R. THOMPSON

Ruling from New York oh- They must all pass a loyalty cials: There is no danger. Pro- fest, swearing that they never

belonged to

175 any of the groups called subversive.

test overruled.

of man's

time... With models, som? very effective three- dimensional effects are obtained and the little film is altogether મા clever fand worth-while

Ini

SATISFYING

"Looking at Sculp- ture". Alox Shaw, who produced the brilliant "Instru-

ments of the Orchestra", simply takes his camera Into the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and examines with more knowledge and perception Цен the averago visilor PORTERIES, a number of the exhibits. It is instructive and FACTORIES in America havo | very satisfying. never produced as much as they

of work, AFTER MONTHS

LAWSUIT the Atomic Energy Commission

of the year: has produced a 400-pare civil Michael O'Malley, a masonry defence manual intended as a contrator, sued a Chicago ten- blue-print for every American cent store for selling him a ld in this year's second quar- step into the banqueting hall Mrs Anna Klein. a Jewess, mayor.

But Colonel Paul Bet- tape measure that, he said, was ter you can see, in room after room, has filed suit to prevent New ter

tera,

of secretary

the U.S. too

The figure was running at an long. He claimed 20,000 how the English-and notably Jersey schools from doing so. Mayors' Association, is sending dollars (£7,140) damages be annual rate of nearly £10,000 the Norfolk folk-have lived

than £1,000 Her case: "If religious exer- mayors a copy of Britain's 60- cause built six gorses and million-more through the centuries.

There are the beds they slept purpose be permitted in schools, sted.

elsen no matter how lofty their puge booklet on the subject in- one house a foot too high and million above the 1048 record.

"It's got just as much too wide," in, the chairs they sat in, the parents will be compelled to useful information," he says. games they played, the clothes they wore, the dishes they used, trines which they consider con- expose their children to doc.

WHO WAS WORRYING the kitchen utensils, the linen trary to their conscience."

FROTESTS are coming from about a food shortage? The "Non-

skyscraper potuto crop is so good that the Tudor Roorn has its stone door sectarian recognition of God by headquarters in New York may Government will pay New strewn with rusher and looks the State is not prohibited by be filled with gas. Secretary Jersey farmers if they destroy probably much as it did when

General the Constitution."

Trygve Lie wants 40 percent. one Nicholas Sotherton, Mayor

something done about the tall chimneys of a power station

presses, the bed warmers. The

of Norwich. lived in the house

The other side's case:

UNO that its new

·

de

for

in 1639. One of the many NEED A DRINK of Scoten? right next door. Ho says his THERE WILL BE some curious collections in the house Try a little salt and water. That, building's air-conditioning sy lay before the 22,000 volunteers is 00 or .70 earthenware and according to the researches of tem will suck in the fumes and New York has recruited china drinking mugs made to two New York doctors, is what harm his staff.

civil defence go to work.

NANCY

Flatter Batter

AUNT FRITZ)-- THESE

BUT I LIKE

-ERNIE

BUSHMILLET

PANCAKES ARE

At 2.30, 5.30.

BIG

TOO SMALL

„Air Conditioned

LIBERTY

7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

The Most Startling Air Combat Ever Filmed!!

"THUNDERBOLT"

In Technicolor

DON'T BE SILLY

ONES

By Erale Bushmiller

builders

The International aspect of the Festival was stressed by the characteristically national flavour of such items" as the French "Transport Urbain" (a charp satire on a certain, platitudinous

of typo

documentary) an BACK TO NEW YORK the American craft-study "Ship other day come Florence Clad-| Dhul

of Essex" wick, the typist who broke most attractively that the Gertrude Ederle's 1020 record for land of the assembly Kine swimming the Channel.

and high-pressure production still has a shipbuilding trudo in No parades, un crowds, which men work lovingly and tlcker inpe, and 10 mayoral close to nature, and a very short receptions greeted her.

United States cartoon

which Just ono mau comprised the showed, in relation to jet air- ofcial welcoming party: the craft, how a safety lesson can aviation assistant of the Com- be put over with maximump missioner of Marine and Avia- entertainment. You Laugh--but

you remember,

tion.

no

bif

INSECT SPRAY

WITH DOT

When there's bif Ineedn't use my fist!

SURE KILL

TOLE AGENTS. NAN KANG CO. SA INREIZE

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