ST. JAMES

Evening Star, Issue 23492, 5 February 1940, Page 10

ST. JAMES

With Wayne Morris and Priscilla Lane as its stars. ‘ Brother Rat ’ is showing at the St. James. It is a play about college life, but it is not that sort of college play where, the lads and the co-eds team up and break into choruses and dances every so often, generally without any excuse whatever. ‘Brother Rat ’ is laid in and about the Virginia Military Institute, which is by no means co-educational, and the photoplay .has not a song nor a tap-step in it. It deals with the difficulties into which one of the cadets gets himself by entering upon a secret marriage, against all rules and regulations. Not only that, but he faces parenthood—and instant dismissal if the authorities get wise to him. The indiscreet cadet is played by Eddie Albert, who carried the role in the original Broadway company. Little Jano Bryan is the bride who has to be hidden away. “ Rat ” is the name for a freshman "at the institute, and “ Brother Rats ”, are classmen wdio go together . through the four-year course. The thrills, romances, sorrows, and joys of those intrepid girls who have made aviation their career are related in ‘ Women in the Wind,’ the Warner Bros, picture featuring Kay Francis and William Gargan, which is in support. The story is concerned with the winning of a transcontinental air derhy for women by Kay Francis, portraying a girl who had retired from flying in

order to devote her life to the care of her crippled brother.