PARAMOUNT THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 15, 18 January 1940, Page 5

PARAMOUNT THEATRE.

Spencer Tracy—Loretta Young,

Without doubt the most poignant and moving love story ever brought to the screen. Columbia's "Man's Castle" opens tomorrow- at the Paramount Theatre. Spencer Tracy and Loretta Young are starred. Director Frank Borzage is largely responsible for the powerful appeal of a homely love story told amid tawdry, squalor-filled surroundings. Borzage's deft touches and the artistry with which the two players interpret their roles put into the production a pathos and moving force which sweep the spectator along in a flood of emotional appeal. Tracy is seen as a shiftless, homeless, vagrant, and Mis^ Young as a. hungry,' helpless waif whom he rescues from the streets and takes to his ramshackle tin shanty in the riverside "dumps." Footloose and irresponsible, he soon becomesrestless under the restraint of living so long in one place, and he' tells the girl he doesn't love her and plans to leave her. She, happy in the home she has, sees her world crumbling beneath her. The girl announces that she is soon to become a mother. But that means nothing to the vagrant, except that he must now provide the money to care for both before he can leave. To get money he attempts a robbery and fails. But the results of that failure straighten out the tangled romance of these Children of poverty. Exceptionally capable players support the stars. Marjorie Rambeau, Glenda Farrell, Walter Connolly, Arthur Hphl, and Dickie Moore are among the actors who add brilliant performances to a brilliant film.