“ALWAYS GOOD-BYE”

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 3, 5 January 1939, Page 3

“ALWAYS GOOD-BYE”

BEAUTY OF THEME BARBARA STANWYCK AT PLAZA Beauty is the immediate and all-inclusive definition for “Always Good-bye,” one of the finest in the chain of excellent 20th Century-Fox productions, . which is showing at the Plaza Theatre to-morrow. In the capable hands of the stars, Barbara Stanwyck and Herbert Marshall, and under the fine touch of Sidney Lanfield’s direction, “Always Good-bye” acquires the beauty of sheer simplicity in a story that is—on several occasions—conducive to a lump in the throat. Barbara Stanwyck, in love, waits for her eager young man who is speeding to City Hall to marry her. He is killed as his car crashes into a trolley. Stunned at the tragedy, she wanders towards the river, where Herbert Marshall, a derelict physician, talks her out of a suicide attempt. She faints, and the physician sees that she is taken to a hospital . . . where her son is born. Marshall’s sincere 'love for the brave girl; her love for her child (Johnnie Russell); the love of foster parents who adopt the youngster; the temperamental Parisian ardour of Cesar Romero, and the ultimate love which brings the story to a suspenseful conclusion, create a beautiful saga with a message for to-day’s womanhood. lan Hunter heads the featured cast, which includes Cesar Romero, Lynn Bari, Binnie Barnes,, and John Russell. Philadelphia University has started a “course in motion picture appreciation.” It comes under the heading of "hobby courses.”