CIVIC THEATRE
TO -NIGHT— "LADY IN THE DARK" Whatever *youJve heard .abouL.it, it "is no' exaggeration. "Lady in Ihe ,Dar,k." is definitely. otie .of the hnbst ■p'iecps of motion pictufq ' entertainmeht ever produced. " it has everjything imaginable to give ( film , fains the time' of their lives — top stars ; a "different" ' "stbry, breathtakingly beautiful technicolour, ga^y and. haunting music', stppnirigfLashidh'$; and high co'hledy. That just about takes in everything. in tha .way; ,of entertaiinmBofr-; elemfehts,^ bht thai's exactly what audiences at' the lCivic Theatre-wilLdiscover to-night.j Costarring Ginger Rogers, Ray- Mil, land, Warner Baxter and Jon Hall, "Lady in the Dark" is the pictiire verSion of- the celebrated Moss. Hart play that ran 'for . three years ; on 'Broadway and played 'iri- ' ccmntiess cities around the countryf.'/JTbh pllay, with Gertrude L'akvrence hi-?hp title role, -w(as- a sensgtipn. Thg pictiife 'gbes eveh Tufther thah" ' the play because, naturally, the screen olfers wider scope for imaginative technical tricks than the stage, and Leisen has taken advantage of that fact.
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Chronicle (Levin), 1 April 1946, Page 2
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