Chinese films show

famed circus artists

ee short movies (totalling

minutes) from New
ie are the feature movie
fare this week:

Variety Show: produced by
China’s Central Newsreel and
Documentary Film Studio.

Acrobatic Show on _ the
Square: produced by the
Shanghai Studios.

Variety Show presents in-
door, Acrobatic Show, outdoor
acrobats and circus’ turns.
Juggling with bowls of water,
torches, daggers; stunts on a
10-foot high single wheeled
bicycle and other incredible
balancing feats; Kuan Yo-ho,
‘The Rubber Man,” China’s
oldest acrobatic performer;
8ymnastic exhibitions; make
up a program that will both
astonish and amuse the whole
family. Chinese circus per-
formers are world renowned.
* Both films will be shown
Thursday, Friday and Satur-
day evenings this week at Has-
tings Theatre. On the same
bill is a Hollywood production
filmed on location in Africa,
Beyond Mombasa.

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“The Gold of Naples (at
Studio Theatre) was directed
by Vittorio De Sica, whose
Masterpieces include Shoe

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Shine and The Bicycle Thief.
Its four short plays attempt to
summarize Neopolitan life.

The Racketeer features Toto,
billed as “Italy’s Chaplin.” An
effusive compliment, needless
to say, Toto nevertheless has
no small powers of mime and
humor. Pizza On Credit, with
ches y Sophia Loren, has a
slender plot but much local
color and character.

The third story, The Gambler
is delightful. It features De
Sica himself in an exquisite
characterization of an invet-
erate gambler who, his funds
cut off, is reduced to gambling
with a six-year-old boy — who
always wins.

The concluding sequence
Theresa, recounts a pathetic
tale of a prostitute who meets
greater degradation among the
socially “correct”? than in her
former milieu.

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Don’t forget the union film,
The Garment Jungle. It is
something of a cross between
Salt of the Earth and On the
Waterfront—but with the hon-
esty (if not the warmth) of the
former

On the same bill as The —
ment Jungle (at three thea-
ters) is War Drums, the only
Hollywood film about the In-
dian Wars yet encountered
which makes its central point
the historical fact that the In-
dians were the victims of

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This is another instalment to
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mainly upon a new council
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Perhaps to get the most out
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~ With considerable skill, Lind-
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