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“ANNA CHRISTIE” Greta Garbo’s great talkie drama, “Anna Christie,” lias been transferred to the National Theatre and will be shown there today. Anna Christie, daughter of a wastrel barge captain, comes to New York to join her father after spending her girlhood on a farm in Minnesota. Determined to make up for his misdeeds as a father, the old captain decides to take her aboard his barge, warning her particularly against followers of tlie sea who make poor husbands and fathers “like I was.” Anna is a morose, despondent young woman, embittered against her fate, and so accepts her life on the barge without enthusiasm. In a storm, her father rescues some sailors, among them the big Irishman, Matt, who promptly falls in love with Anna. Her father, blaming “the ole davil sea” for bringing a sailor into her life, tries to kill Matt, rather than see his daughter married to him. There is a bitter row between the three in the cabin of tlie barge. Frenzied, Anna tells her father and Matt what she has been before she came to the barge. The old captain Is heartbroken, cursing himself for his neglect of his girl. Matt, infuriated by this sensational disclosure, hurls Anna from him, profanely berating her for winning his love with a black past in her heart. New talkie shorts will complete the new programme.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1044, 7 August 1930, Page 14
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229NATIONAL Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1044, 7 August 1930, Page 14
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