OCTAGON

Evening Star, Issue 23783, 14 January 1941, Page 2

OCTAGON

The first and greatest, of America's clamour girls is brought, to t he screen by Alice Fav" in ‘ Lillian Russell,’ now at the Octagon.' The lives aiul loves of the actress” are revived in all their splendour and magnificence with the sparkling, dashing days of America's most, fabulous era backgrounud in this epic of the screen, which has Don Ameche and Henry Fonda chief rivals for the attentions of the star. A TIMELY THEME. Marked bv powerful simplicity, the Twentieth Century-Fox drama ‘Four Sons’will tm the next film to be shown at the Octagon. In this realistic and powerful picture, which previewers have labelled a ‘ groat and timely picture the American public must sec,” Producer Darryl I. Zannck drafted ibo talents of many outstanding players, including Don Ameche, Eugenie LeOntovicb, Marv Roth Hughes, Alan Curtis, George Ernest, Robert Lowery, and others equally famous. Archie Mayo directed the powerful ‘Four Sons’ from an original screen play bv .lohn Howard Lawson winch was suggested by a story by I. A. R. Wylie.