NEWS FROM MARTON

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 33, 8 February 1941, Page 3

NEWS FROM MARTON

ST. JOHN AMBULANCE. MARTON NURSING DIVISION. Members and intending members are advised that first aid classes will commence in the Parish Hall. Marton. on Monday. February 9. at 7.30 p.m. AT THE CIVIC THEATRE. SPENCER TRACEY IN “EDISON THE MAN" Marked by another sterling performance on the part of Spencer Tracy, who again demonstrates the fact that he is Hollywood's leading actor. "Edison, the Man,” opens this afternoon and evening in the Civic Theatre. As Thomas Edison. Tracy’ has a role that fits him like a glove. This is becoming a trite but true description of Tracy's screen work, for it is difficult to remember a role that Tracy hasn't made fit him. The story itself is so filled with real drama that it is almost unbelievable that all of it actually could have happened in the life of one man. Truth, it is proved again, is really much stranger than fiction. Although Americans remember the beloved Edison as he was in later years, this story is of the inventor as a young man—a man who is a youthful genius because he was only thirty when he invented the phonograph and thirty-two when he achieved the electric light. Tracy does a few brief scenes as Edison as we remember him —at eighty-two — but the body of the story is of a young man's career. Supporting Tracy is a cost of fine performers, with outstanding portrayals turned in by Rita Johnson. >. o certainly will go places after this one. Lynne Overman, Charles Coburn. Gene Lockhart, Henry Travers. Felix Bressart and dozens of others. »