Thriller and Romance at Liberty

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23130, 20 September 1940, Page 5

Thriller and Romance at Liberty

Alice Faye. Fred Mac Murray, Richard Greene and Brenda Joyce share top billing in Darryl F. Zanuck’s production of “Little Old New York,” the 20lh Century-Fox film, which opens at the Liberty to-day. A spectacular entertainment of the boisterous days, when the whole brawling town cheered the barmaid belle of the waterfront in her fight for the love of handsome Robert Fulton, the film also features , Andy Devine, Henry Stephenson and Fritz Feld, under the direction of Henry King. In “Little Old New York” Stephenson plays Robert H. Livingston. New York’s first chancellor. The film lolls the story of the first steamboat and of the love of young people whoso names became famous. The lives of eight people are changed for ever because they spend eight un-

forgettable hours behind a pair of bolted bronze doors in “City of Chance.” the 20th Century-Fox drama, which features Lynn Bari. C. Aubrey Smith. Donald Woods, and Amanda Duff at the Liberty. The bronze doors are those of an exclusive gambling club. Lynn Bari, as a daring girl reporter, finds herself, like the seven others, trapped by a Fate that will change her life.

Dixie Lee. wife of Bing Crosby and a “golf widow,” has taken up golf, and is now in the championship class.

Rita Hayworth has an excellent role as Douglas Fairbanks, jun.'s leading lady in "Until I Die.”