BLITZ HAD “HUMAN INTEREST”

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 65, 11 December 1943, Page 5

BLITZ HAD “HUMAN INTEREST”

“Journey For Margaret”: Tale Of Orphans

(By

T.L.)

Once in a while, and out of the welter of musicals, “social documents and comedies that reach the screen tn full torrent, comes a little picture which, by its simplicity, is both naive and touchin". Such j film is “Jouritey fol Margaret” (Majestic). Its most important character is six-year-old Margaie O'Brien, a wide-eyed, brown-hatred mt ppet. who may begin again the child-lilm cycle which waned when Shirley Icmpjo grew out of her muslin dresses am. her golden ringlets. Not that the wo children can be compared. Little Jiiss O’Brien may be able to dance and sing aud cut comedy capers, but she is calico on to do none of these things in ’• "urnev for Margaret. She is the . little orphan of the Loudon blitz, pathetic, be* wildcred and without a sign of a smile. At times her performance is almost harrowing. , , The film comes from a neat story by W. L. White, whose father is the Grand Olil Man of American ■ journalism. It might even be White's own story—l don t know for I have not read the book. An American correspondent has seen the whole tragic business played out: on the European stage —Madrid, Munich, Marsaw, London. His stories-, from those