PICTURE FILMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 63, Issue 309, 9 October 1943, Page 5

PICTURE FILMS.

ST. JAMES THEATRE. Sci’eening to-night at the St. James at 8 p.m., for a season of three days, a pictxxre you will carry in your heart, “The Vanishing Virgixxian,” starring Frank Morgan and the goldeix-voiced Kathryn Grayson. Excellent supports include a special fear turette, “Heroes of the Atlantic.” There Is the flavour of American, 1 tradition and a war atmosphere of family life in “The Vanishing Virginian.” The story is without artificiality in plot or treatment. It is merely the account of Cap’n Bob Yancey, for many years the State’s Attorney for the City of Lynchburg, and his remarkable family. The love of home and the lofty ideals fixed by him light the picture as they did the hook. The two older daughters enter into their romances with his blessing and he faces triumph and defeat alike with courage and foi’titude, but always amusingly. Morgan plays Cap'n Bob to the life, blustering and lovable at the same time. Spring Byington is, completely endearing as his absentminded jealous wife, and Kathryn Grayson scores an outstanding success as Rebecca Yancey, the daughter who wants to he a musician but who is forced to study painting because of family tradition. Other excellent portrayals are offered by Natalia Thompson as the daughter who wants to become a woman lawyei', Douglas Newland and Mark Daniels as the respective swains, to the two gi’owii-up daughters, and by Juanita Quigley, Scotty Beckett and Dickie Jones as the youngsters in the family.