MARTON
THE CIVIC THEATRE. “ALICE ADAMS.” A nagging wife and an ambitious daughter drive a distracted father into dishonour in ‘‘Alice Adams,” which stars Katharine Hepburn, and which will be screened at the Civic Theatre this evening and Wednesday afternoon and evening. The story is an unvarnished picture of the tragedy and suffering wrought by poverty and injustice in the family of a struggling clerk in a small mid-western town. Miss Hepburn plays a young girl driven to deceit and pretence as a mask for poverty and social obscurity. Her story is that of millions of girls in similar circumstances, who long to free themselves from the fetters forced upon them by caste and lack of money. Her final triumph teaches a story of the futility of pretence and the power of truth and honest. Fred Mac Murray, Fred Stone, and Evelyn Venable are in the fine supporting cast. Careful attention to production detail combine to make a flawless RKO Radio picture of “Alice Adams,” the Booth Tarkington prize story.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 59, 10 March 1936, Page 3
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170MARTON Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 59, 10 March 1936, Page 3
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