“TUGBOAT ANNIE.”
“ Bureau of Missing Persons ’’ will be presented finally to-morrow night at the Grand Theatre. “ Tugboat Annie,” which will begin a return season at the Grand Theatre on Saturday, is a gloriously amusing film. In her previous screen plays the late Marie Dressier proved herself, again nd again, to be a brilliant actress: but her powers, whether in comedy or in more serious vein, have never been more finely displayed than in “Tugboat Annie.” Tugboat Annie is a many-sided old creature, gaunt, ugly, sentimental, humorous and formidable. Sometimes these qualities find separate emphasis: and sometimes they overlap in a richly human wav which only Marie Dressier could have made completely convincing. Wallace Beery also scores one of the greatest successes of his long career as Annie's inebriated husband. Box plans at the D.I.C. '
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20456, 8 November 1934, Page 3
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