“My Bill.” Drama of Family Life

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 174, 26 July 1939, Page 11

“My Bill.” Drama of Family Life

KAY FRANCIS HAS PART OF WIDOW’ (Meteor: Screening Tuesday next.) “My Bill,” lias Kay Francis, Bonita Granville, Anita Louise, Bobby Jordan and Dickie Moore heading the cast. Sacrificing that intangible asset generally termed glamour, which Jias heretofore been the bulwark of her career, Kay Francis lias taken the opportunity presented by this picture .o prove that she is, first and foremost, an accomplished actress. She has iared what few motion pictures actresses in her position would consent to do —that is, to play a woman who is older than her real self and is the mother of four children, of whom the eldest is supposed to be sixteen years of age. I In tho story Miss Francis is a widow, who has just finished running through the inheritance left by her socially prominent husband. In desperate straits, she borrows money from a banker who was her childhood sweetheart. This causes scandal, and her eldest throe children leave her and go to live with a wealthy aunt.

Only little Bill (Dickie Moore) remains with his mother, but, small as he is, ho proves to be a real bulwark in time of need. Then, it is the little fellow who reunites tho family as a Mother’s Day gift to Kay, and, as the story ends, not ouly is tho family reunited but tho town gossips 7 tongues are to be silenced by Kay’s- marriage to her childhood sweetheart.