EARLY NEW YORK

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24431, 17 October 1940, Page 9

EARLY NEW YORK

SETTING FOR INVENTOR’S BIOGRAPHY The good old days when cows roamed Fifth avenue, New York, grog was a penny a glass, and the Astors and the Roosevelts were just starting on their way, return to the screen in the robust, romantic and entertaining drama at the State Theatre to-morrow, Darryl F. Zanuck’s production of “Little Old New York.” ‘ , The cast of this Twentieth CenturyFox picture features Alice Faye, Fred Mac Murray, Richard Greene and Brenda Joyce, Includes Andy Devine. Henry Stephenson and Fritz Feld.* The film Is replete with such fascinating elements as fist fights and weddings, ships set afire, cracked skulls, kissed girls, dancing and song. There is historical significance in it too. as the film shows the struggle of Robert Fulton (played by Richard Greene) to build and launch the world’s first steamboat, the famous Clermont, There is a love interest as well, when Alice Faye, as a barmaid of the waterfront, wins the heart and shares the glory of a man like Robert Fulton.