ST. JAMES

Evening Star, Issue 23500, 14 February 1940, Page 5

ST. JAMES

Ruth Hussey, New York stage star, lias the leading role in ‘ Within the Law,’ the dramatic story of a woman’s revenge, which is being screened at the St. James. She takes the part of a young girl who pays the penalty for a crime she did not commit, and when she is released from gaol she swears to have revenge on the man who was responsible for her term in prison. She vises the man’s son as the weapon with which to strike, but complications occur when she falls in love with him. The second film is ‘ Topper.’ that delightful story from the pen of Thoruo Smith. •GOODBYE, MR CHIPS’ AGAIN. As produced by Victor Saville (who also made ‘ The CitadeJ ’) ‘ Goodbye, Mr Chips,’ which is to return on Friday to the St. James, truly reveals what lies behind that often derided tradition “ the old school tie,” something at which no one will want to smile again after having been introduced to “ Old Chipping,” as Mr Chips was known to his elders until the girl he met in the Tyrol came back with him to college as his wife, thus inspiring confidence in the once shy and diffident, but now supremely happy man. These Tyrol sequences are among the finest in the film.