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husband and is scared out of her? "China," Paramount picture 'China' Good War Film On Paramount Screen directed by John Farrow from story by Archibald Forbes. Presented at the Paramount Theatre. Running time 1 hour, 19 minutes. THE OAST: Carolyn Brent Loretta Yonn -I Walked With a Zombie." RKO Radio picture directed by Jacques Tourneur. Screen play by Curt Siodmak and Ardel Wray from story by Inez Wallace.

Presented at the Rialto Theatre. Running time: 1 hour, 9 minutes. THE CAST: Wesley Rand James Ellison Mr. Junta Alan Lao Johnny Slarruw 1.111 I lio- William Bemlix Philiu Ahn Richard I.oo Sen Yuilff ft comi Brother Lin Wei Kwan Su Wonir Krain-es Iee Wnnn ene so wits by weird things that go on in and around her new home. And she becomes involved in a family feud, the continual quarrelling between the husband of the mentally sick woman and his younger brother, who loves his brother's wife and accuses him of having driven her crazy.

A happy ending is arranged for the nurse and the long-suffering husband. It's unbelievable, but a common way of ending things to suit the public. And it keeps "I Walked With a Zombie" from being a first-class horror film. But it's good enough for the attention of horror film lovers. Assisting Miss Dee, Ellison and Conway are Edith Barrett, James Paul Holland-Mrs.

Rand Dr. Maxwell Jessica Tan Yin Donald t'hanu- Tell Tai Shen Ti -Chine Wall lee Soo onx Tom Conway Edith James Bell Christine Gordon Theresa Harris Sir I.aiiie!ot Darby Jones Jetti Ietion -Barbara Jean Wonar Alma rM.vpsn Sinter- Carre Four Da ncer Pi p- u. ways of living on a sugar plantation in the West Indies, where she cares for the owner's insane wife. There, she is enchanted by the beauty of the island, charmed by the natives religious ceremonies, succumbs to the charm of her charge's Bell, Christine Gord on, Teresa Harris, Sir Lancelot, Darby Jones and Jeni LeGon. Jaques Tourneui directed it from Inez Williams book by the same title.

zr. RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL Showoloca of tha Nation Rockefeller Center HELD OlPP WnnrJ Woolr William Bendix. Alan Ladd and Loretta Young in a tense scene from the dramatic film of China's guerrilla warriors successful commando attacks against the Japanese army of occupation in "China" at the Paramount Theatre. Bv WANDA HALE "THRILLING" New. "EXCITING" Mirror "HANDSOME" Journal American "China" is the Chinese "For Whom the Bell Tolls." No it's a junior model of the Hemingway masterpiece.

Here, at the Paramount Theatre, with Alan Ladd as the hero and Harry James" orchestra to back it up, it will do big business, but I don't predict that it will be a box office competitor of "For Whom the Bell Tolls" over the country. ft. Featuring- Loretta Youne, Alan SUSPENSEFUL" -M I should see it to see Japanese bru Ladd and William Bendix, this tality for a change from Nazi viciousness. Besides Miss Young, Ladd and William Bendix, the cast is made up of Chinese players, all of whom give the picture an authentic air. John Farrow's direction keeps "China" moving along without faltering.

Considering that the story, by Archibald Forbes, is not powerfully dramatic. Farrow has done a superb job. But he had no trouble with Miss Young, Ladd and Bendix, all of whom do their best. Of course, Harry James and his music makers are playing no small part in drawing in the record crowds at the Paramount. Featured with this popular band are Helen Forrest, Buddy Moreno, Corky Corcoran, Johnny McAfee, Dave Barry, Evelyn Farney and the Golden Gate Quartet.

drama, telling of the roles an American school teacher and an American oil salesman play in the war between China and Japan" before Pearl Harbor, is an absorbing picture but not poitrnant because the dramatic highlights are a little hard to believe. Miss Young, as Carolyn Brent, head of a Chinese girls' school, is a little too enthusiastic about saving China and Alan Ladd, as Mr. Jones, is too bard to convince that he is doing the wrong thing by selling oil to the Japs. 'China" movs along slowly, yet evenly, depicting the horrors cf war and the brutality of the invader, as it shows the conflict between the school teacher and the mercenary Mr. Jones.

After he is converted, the picture resembles the Hemingway story of the Spanish Revolution. It falls to Mr. Jones to blow up a bridge so that an enemy invasion will be checked long enough for Chinese troops to meet them. And though there are no sleeping bag sequences, Carolyn and Mr. Jones confess their love for each other lying side by side on the ground the night they're waiting for the enemy.

It's strange that Paramount would make "China" and exhibit it before "For Whom the Bell Tolls," this company's most ambitious production of '43, is released to the ROSALIND RUSSELL FRED MacMDRRAY WHh HERBERT MARSHALL cnwifin CUIMELU WilTER IIIBSF0H1I Short Specialty ar An RKO-Rodio Picture FALA Tha President' Dog i "I Walked With a Zombie," spine-chilling horror film, is perfectly at home on the Rialto Theatre's screen. It's good "escape" stuff, this RKO Radio production. Frances Dee, James Ellison and Tom Conway carry the important roles. A most dramatic beginning is offset by the confusion in the ending, but it will still give you the creeps, pretty nearly all the way through. Miss Dee plays a trained nurse who leaves her peaceful Canadian surroundings to encounter strange THE MUSIC HALL'S GALA EASTER STA6E SHOW beloved annual on exquisitely beautiful and impres general public.

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