"AH! WILDERNESS”
WALLACE BEERY FILM Teaming two of the greatest figures on the screen to-day in a story that is literally a great drama and a crossI section of average life in a nation, •“Ah! Wilderness!” Eugene O’Neill’s great drama of family life, adolescent love, and the march of the years comes to the Majestic Theatre next Wednesi day. Wallace Beery, fresh from triumphs in “China Seas,’* “O’ShaughI nes'.v’s Boy. ” and other hits, stars as : Unde bid, the loveable, ineffectual inebriate, one of O'Neill’s most human ! <-haracters, with Lionel Barrymore as [rhe father, Nat Miller. The story deals with an American family in a small New England town in 1906. Barry- , m<>re plays the father. His son, gradulating from high school, and in the throes of his first love affair, goes ’through the transports and despair that ’ L-m h boy lives, through, and there is a I parallel in the romance of middle life between Beery, the shiftless reporter, and Aline McMahon, the maiden aunt, love never ripened into mar--1 r’rge hevausc of the ineffiiicncy of her iover ami his taste for drink.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 102, 1 May 1936, Page 10
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