CIVIC THEATRE

Chronicle (Levin), 17 September 1946, Page 2

CIVIC THEATRE

TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY Climaxcd by Ihe most thrilling lorse-racing scquences ever caught y Hoilywood cameras, Metro- ; jldwyn-Mayer's "National Veljt,'' which opens 011 Tuesday at le Civic Tlieatre, provides excitlg and i'ascinating entertainment hui bcginning to end. The story, ased 011 Snid Bagnold's best-seller ovel about a girl who rides to ctory in the celebrated Grand Tational at Aintree, Engiancl, mergos as a heart-warming, movig dociuncnt which wiil be enjoyd by the entire family. Mickey looncy. who stars in' the film. ,ay- Mi Taylor, an ex-Jockey who xanders the countryside until he . .nds a home with the Browns, as •lightfuily human a family as you ili fincl aaiywheie. Present are kinaki Cri.sp and Anne Rever e?"A 1 Mr. and Mrs. Brown; Elizabeth aylor, as a 12-ycar-old whose pas.on is horses; Jackie Jenkins, the mous tot of "The Human Com- 1 ly," who colleets insects, and ngela Lansbury, who scored as the laid in "Gaslight," as a love- 1 mitten adolescent. When Elizabeth wins an unwant- j d horse in a local raffle, she and t liekcy, aided by Mrs. Brown, mbark on a seemingly futile ream ; the winning of the Grand T •> ti- With The Pie, as the horse 3 named.