A Rival to Garbo

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18255, 25 November 1933, Page 10

A Rival to Garbo

1/ATIIAKiNK Hepburn, the American girl who was taken from a Broadway' play . to. give such memorable performances in “A Bill f»t Divorcement ” and Christopher Strong,” scores another triumph in “Morning (Ilory,” The Story (.(dearly, written mid faultlessly directed by Lowell Sherman) opens in a ,mood of pure, comedy. A small town girl comes to Broadway, ambitious to be an actress. To everybody who will' listen she’ confides, with a naivete at once touching and extraordinarily funny, her intention to become not merely a great actress, but the greatesi 1

.jut gradually you: feel that she .is right, that her childish st?ll'-ecmlkk'iico rs really the serenity, of. self-know-ledge; and it ks ,v pnook-of Miss. HopInirn’s quality that when, after disillusionment and heartbreak, she does win success,, she makes you believe it was inevitable and not merely a dramatist’s device. ,

“Miss Ilepbum is not beautiful; her vocal range is uneven, and 'sometimes harsh; but of all the young wonjon,of the screen she-is most likely to he' the Garbo of to-morrow, ” writes one London,lilni critic. *