ST. JAMES THEATRE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25173, 13 March 1943, Page 2

ST. JAMES THEATRE

DRAMA OF THE WATERFRONT " Out of the Fog,” which commenced at the St. James Theatre yesterday, is a powerful and realistic drama of a dapper gangster and the girl who believes she loves him, enacted against the gloomy background of a fog-bound waterfront. Ida Lupino plays the part of the girl, who ekes out a miserable existence with her father, a gentle old tailor in a dismal community called Sheepshead, Bay. Tiring of her dull job as a switchboard operator in a telephone exchange, and desiring more from life than her boy friend (Eddie Albert) can give her, she is delighted when the young gangster (John Garfield) steps into her life. She little realises that this same man is extorting money from her father by forcing him to pay weekly " protection ” money for a small rowing boat which he and a friend (John Qualen) jointly own. The climax of the story comes when, learning that Mitchell, the girl’s father, and Qualen have saved a sum of money, the ruthless young rascal exercises his power over them in order to obtain the money. In desperation the two old men decide to kill Garfield, both to save their money and to rescue Mitchell’s daughter from his grasp. Box plans are at the theatre, Jacobs’s and the D.I.C.