AMUSEMENTS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 45, 19 September 1930, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS

ASXA UIEISTIE. Greta Garbo makes her talking pietuvu debut :u 'Anna Christie," her new Metro-Goldwyn-'Mayer starring vehicle, which opens to-night at the King's Theatre In this picture -Miss Garbo scores the triimip > of he r career, her voice recording splendidly, adding power to her dramatic instiuct and bringing fascination in multiple qualities to her pr rsonality. Sharing honours with Garbo i'i "Anna Christie'' 13 Clarence Bv>wn, its director, whose sympathetic understanding of O'Neill's viewdpoint is conspicuous thic ojjfbout the picture. The set'.ljigs c<" the produc-i.-'(s:i are entk-'v ir keeping with tin. other high fciauderds, reproducing in all its quaintness a slict Of old New York . ith its cobblestoned streets, ;„us lights, h.?»sedrawn cars, family eutrances an<i 1. variety •of pic 4 •. details, the scene'-, of the L:a;ge ins* in tin fog are e: tremely effeoivo.