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La IS IPLS. Las. S. A a Every Tfediseeday OLDS TYNE 748 to 11.111, 31. NEXT WEEK'S FILMS AND SHOWS.

Bing's Fifth Is hole Bing Crosby describes nineyear-old Christian Fourcade, who portrays Bing's missing son In Paramount's Little Lost Boy." The youna actor was discovered by Bing In Parts, where the film was partly Produced. Quo Vadis M.G.M. Studio's explanation of this film is that it is the of an ambition. An ambition born 12 years ago to create a film which, with all the technical improvements and resources of modern cinema making, would carry a message of beauty and Inspiration to the people of the earth." And they state that they offer it as a tribute to the finest ideals of the human spirit. It amounts to a gigantic cast.

32.000 costumes. 20.000 yards of fabric. 83 lions, 450 Christians being eaten by lions and burnt on stakes. men fighting with bulls and wrestling to the death, and a grand climax of Rome burning as merrily as 4.000 gallons of fuel oil. 2,000 gallons of gasoline, 3,000 gallons of alcoholic mixture and more than a ton of napthalene can ensure In unlimited, and it is all in glori)us Technicolor.

Red Beret Posing as a Canadian. an American recruit Joins a British parachute unit. He impresses his seniors and is offered a commission, which he refuses owing to a guilt complex born when he was an officer in the American Army. Eventually he makes Around this central character. played by Alan Ladd.

is woven the story of the unit's activities in the last war. and it is here that the film scores. There are some effective battle scenes, and the final mission. a raid on an airfield in North Africa. provides some gripping moments.

The Man with My Face The story of a clever plot celved by a criminal to push his crimes on to his double, a simple, straighforward man who bewildered by the turn of events. Anything Can Happen Two immigrants from Georgiaone an exuberant In the U.S.A. They find work. romance and eventually a brokendown orange farm, which they set about reviving. Lorna Doone Fbrbira Hale rd Greene in a Technicolor version of the "dreadful doings" of the outlaw family in the time of Charles the Second.

Al Jennings of Oklahoma After a brawl Al Jennings and his three brothers leave Kansas and turn to a life of crime. Thus the last of the West's great outlaws starts his unlawful career. Wagon Team Special investigator Gene Autry has himself jailed so that he can work on the conscience of a young linen suspected of the theft of an Army payroll. The suspect escapes, however. and Autry and his wonder horse find themselves on the trail again.

Anna I Italian film about a cabaret artiste who becomes a nun. Silvana Mangano and Vittorio Gassman head the cast. The film is "dubbed" in English. Deborah Korn play int the Chrsstlan st ai s. yldli.

awaits death at the stake In one of the breath-takini magenta ai Quo is I Technleolor story of Ms birth of Christianity In a PliOn world. UPR. NORWOOD LIV 2244 'SOUTH PACIFIC' AT STREATHAM HILL Streatham Hill Theatre has been packed this week. "South Pacific." following its successful West End run. is attracting large audiences and continues at Streatham next week.

Patricia Hartley plays the part of Ensign Nellie Forbush, created by Mary Martin and Nevil Whiting. who appeared in "Carousel." plays Emil. de Becque. The story, fast moving and colourful. is the romance of the young American nurse with a middle-aged Frenchman who has Uved on this' South Pacific island for many years.

The music and words of Rodgers and Hammerstein II are lively as well as romantic on the one side. I'm Gonna Wash that Guy Right Out of My on the other. Some Enchanted Evening." There is humour, too, particularly from the Marines troop show. Helen Landis takes the part of Bloody Mary. the Tonkinese dealer: Eddie Leslie Is Luther Billie.

a Marine: Liat, the native girl, Is taken by Chin Yu and the object of Lint's affections, Lieutenant Joseph Cable. 4 layed by David Williams. The mented orchestra is Charles W. Prentice. musicafeirectorat Drury Lane from 1932 until the outbreak of war.

It 'A NEST FOR HER EGG' AT THE GRAND Stuart Ready, the local dramatist, has had man of his Plays presented in the roydon district by both professional and amateur groups, and his "one-act plays" have also been broadcast. The Croydon Repertory Players gave the first showing in this area of his drama "Manhandled" some months ago and it washweicomed by patrons with a taste for strong situations. They now have an opportunity to see the playwrights work in an entirely different field. "A Nest For Her Eggs" is merely a light-hearted frolic and in every way makes a complete contrast to his other play. "Celia" is an enterprising young woman with lots of debts and plenty of ingenuity.

The story tells of her endeavour to make a prosperous marriage: and the "man-trouble" she encounters when, instead of securing one elusive bridegroom. she finds herself faced with three and possibly more. Why the young Canadian didn't want to marry her, although attracted: why the second Canadian couldn't if be wanted to. and whether the retired Brigadier won her heart, are among the questions raised and humourously answered in next week's presentation at the rend Theatre. "A Nest For Her South Pacific at Sim Hill Winds' Off-stage homicide and murderous intentions on stage keep this latest Phoenix Theatre production tense.

A neurotic, pistol-armed doctor arrives at the lonely moorland cottage-cum-cafe where the play has its setting. MI intention is to shoot the man of the house. Meantime he does his best to terrorise Betty Ann Davis. Betty. as the faithful wife bar loving but unfaithful husband, an amoral, tent-loving batebelor and his lady.

keep the plot boiling both fore and after the arrival of murder-investigating detective. He has four suspects from which to choose the murderer. Little Boy Lost A radio correspondent becomes separated from his wife in Paris during the war. Later. he learns that she has been shot for working for the Resistance Movement; of their young son there is no news After the war the correspondent returns to France to search for his son.

Bing Crosby, as the correspondent, and Christian Fourcade as the small boy, bring pathos to their parts in this sad little story based on a novel by Marghanita Laski. To-day and to-morrow Odeon. Astoria, Streatham: I Balham, Penge, South Norwood, Elmers End: "Call Me Madam "I and "The Bosun's Mate." A.B.C.s.—Regal, Streatham Rex. Norbury Mayfair, Upper Tooting Regal, Beckenham "Moulin Rouge" and "The Stranger Left No Card." Hall. Penge; West Wickham.

Balham Affair with a Stranger and "Forbidden." West Norwood. Clapham: Call Me Madam and Where No Man is a Stranger." armadas. Upper Norwood: "Moulin Rouge and "The Stranger Left No Card." Tooting. Thornton Heath. Affair with a Stranger" and "Forbidden." Century.

Upper Norwood. "Affair with a Stranger" and "Forbidden." Essoldo, Astoria. Tooting "Call Me Madam" and "North of Border." Classic, The Light, Touch" and "Ruins of Vogue, The Hunchback of Notre Dame" and "The Leopard Man." Pavilion, Hurricane Island" and "For Men Only." Majestic, Mitcham. Moulin Rouge' and The Stranger Left No Card." Gagman; Rose Affah with a Stranger and bidden." (THEATRES Streatham South Pacific." Grand, The Wise Child." Empress, Wimbledon. "The Crooked Finger." THE NITWITS AT THE EMPRESS The sensational, Radio Bandmake a welcome re-appearance at the Empress, Brixton, next week.

They did not copy "Spike Jones and his City Slickers," but were. in fact, in existence before this wonderful American act famous, having entertained our troops only twenty-seven days after the landing on D-Day. They featured in that well-known radio Ignorance is Bliss." Supporting them is another insanely funny Stennet, direct from his sensational success at the London Paladium, where he literally stole the show from the big visiting American stars. Also included in this bill are the two craziest Irishmen ever to be admitted to this country, Syd and Max Harrison. Their timing and skill are perfect.

They both possess excellent voices and contort themselves with comedy movements and expressions that can only be described as "Just Nuts." Lilian Brown brings musicin her own refreshing style. The Curzon Trio are comedy acrobatic cyclists. The Two Tracey, present sophisticated rhythm. All Ashore Three American sailors' adventures on Catalina fabulous playground of the Plciflcprovides an excuse for a song. dance and moonlight romance" type of musical.

The sailors are played by Mickey Rooney. Dick Haymes and Ray McDonald. Mantrap A private detective undertakes to find an artist, judged guilty of murder but insane, who has escaped from prison. He reaches him before the police and discovers that he has a mission, one in which the detective joins him GRANADA NOW I JOSE MOIR MOULIN ROUGH IA) 3.16, C.I. LII Fighting Men of the Plains Adventure of the American Civil War period, starring Randolph Scott and Bill Williams Wozzeck A German film concerning an inhuman doctor who uses a poverty-stricken army private in an experiment to prove certain theories on madness.

The result is inevitably a tragic one. My Six Convicts A young doctor's attemptsdramatic and establist psychology as a permanent part of prison medical service. Heeding the cast are Millard Mitchell and Gilbert Roland. Birth of the Blues Bing Crosby and Mary Martin in a story of the days of jazz. Also in the cast are Brian Donlevy and I.

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