PICTURE FILMS.
ST. JAMES THEATRE. “Kings Row,” the brilliantly produced and acted film version of the Henry Bellamanu novel, has its last showing at the St. James Theatre tonight. Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Ronald' Reagan and Betty Field are starred, and the featured east is headed by Charles Coburn, Judith Anderson, Claude Rains, Nancy Coleman, Maria Ouspenskaya, Harry Davenport and Kaaren Verne. The apparently humdrum small city of the American midlands, wherein all human passions and prejudices are encompassed in small space, has not often been used by the novelists or the movie makers as the locale for their product. “Kings Row” dared to be different. It represents a frank unmasking of such a town, with the resultant high drama and the comedy, pathos and excitement that always are to be found there. This is the story of young people, struggling to find their happiness against the opposition of circumstance and misunderstanding. The background of the story is the seething undercurrent of small city life, the petty jealousies, tlie pathetic struggle for survival, the clash of ideas and ideals between individuals and generations.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 65, Issue 204, 11 June 1945, Page 5
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