PICTURE FILMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 63, Issue 310, 11 October 1943, Page 5

PICTURE FILMS.

ST. JAMES THEATRE. Screening to-night at 8 p.m. and to-morrow at two sessions at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.,' a picture you will carry in your heart, “The Vanishing Virginia?!,” starring Frank Morgan and the golden-voiced Kathryn Grayson. Excellent supports include a special featurette, “Heroes of the Atlantic. There is the flavour of American tradition and a war atmosphere of family life in “The Vanishing Virginian.” The story is i without artificiality in plot or treatment. It is merely the account of Cap’n Boh 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 book. The two older daughters enter into their romances with his blessing and he faces triumph and defeat alike, with courage and fortitude, but always amusingly. Morgan plays Cap’n Bob to tlie life, blustering and lovable at the same time. Spring Byington is completely endearing as bis 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 lawyer, Douglas New rland and Mark Daniels as the respective swains to the two grown-up daughters, and by Juanita Quigley, Scotty Beckett and Dickie Jones as the youngsters in the family.