TTVOLI THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 102, 27 October 1938, Page 15

TTVOLI THEATRE.

A Powerful Drama.

"Big City," an original story written and produced by Norman Krasna, brilliant young New York playwright, commences tomorrow at the Tivoli Theatre, with Luise Rainer and Spencer Tracy co-starred. Here is no crude attempt to reveal the 'machinery of a metropolis as a whole. On the contrary, it is a cunning unique story of a single slice of life in a great city and the adventures of a taxidriver in a struggle to survive. Tracy, the good priest in "San Francisco," and later the Portuguese fisherman in "Captains Courageous," becomes the husky-voiced cynical hackman, bold to the point of dare-deviltry, fair and square and a hard man in a battle. Miss Rainer, Academy Award winner as Anna Held in "The Great Ziegfeld,'' and as O-Lan, the Chinese farm wife in "The Good Earth," Is an immigrant girl who is his wife and soon to be the mother of his child. The story is powerful and the acting is equal to It. An excellent supporting cast includes Charley Grapewm, Janet Beecher, Eddie Quillan, Victor Varconi, Oscar O'Shea. Helen Troy, William Demarest, John Arledge, Irving Bacon, Guinn Williams, and Regis Toomcj'. Some of the scenes were filmed in Jack Dempsey's famous restaurant opposite Madison Square Garden In New York, with many notables of the sporting fraternity facing the cameras. The mystery drama, "Thank You, Mr. Moto," starring Peter Xorre, is the associate film.