ALREADY REVIEWED

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 25, 24 October 1942, Page 10

ALREADY REVIEWED

Majestic Theatre. —Rising to heights she has not attained since her memorable debut in “Good-bye, Mr. Chips,” Greer Garson gives the performance of her career in “Blossoms in the Dust,” which is doing the business it deserves at the Majestic. This faithful story of the life of Bdna ‘ Gladney, the woman who wiped the taint ot illegitimacy from the lives of thousands ot Texas children, is told with an economy of story and a beauty of ■ sentiment. It has other splendid points: the acting of Walter Pldgeon, the colour and the shots of small children, as lovely as anything froin a picture book. State Theatre—“Mexican Spitfire’s' Baby,” which heads the'State's bill, stare Dupe Velez and Leon Errol. The latter wants to adopt a war baby, a most-credit-able ambition. But he-gets his wars mixed and is presented - with one which arrived in this vale of tears about the.time the Kaiser fled to Doorn. The intervening years had treated the baby, well —her baby talk had given way to a French accent and her swaddling clothes replaced by something designed by Molyneux.. It’s comedy of the slap-happy kind. “Thundering . Hoofs” is also ou the programme.state Theatre, retene.—lf Robert Mont-, gomery remains at the American Embassy in London for the rest of his life—he is a naval attache there —he could have no finer swan song than “Here Comes- Mr. Jordan,’! the brave and brilliant comedy ,-which is at the Peton e State, this weekend; Claude Rains helps in a picture which, is as provocative and unusual . in. 1942 as “The Birth of a Nation” was m a9L>.