STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 May 1941, Page 2

STATE THEATRE

“LITTLE MEN.” The brilliant drama, “Little Men,” will be finally shown tonight. TOMORROW— “KITTY FOYLE.” One of the most-discussed current novels will be brought to the screen at the State Theatre tomorrow night with brilliant realism with Ginger Rogers in the title-role of “Kitty Foyle,” Christopher Morley’s remarkable “natural history of a woman,” a compelling study of a spirited working girl and her colourful career. Covering a period of eleven years the story opens with Kitty as a Philadelphia girl, eager and fascinated by the doings of the socialite “Main Liners” of the city, despite her father’s gruff warnings. She gets a job in a small office working for one of the city’s elite, Wyn Strafford, and promptly falls in love with him, only to be disappointed. She runs off to New York and another job. But Wyn follows her, and after a hectic wooing they are married and return to Philadelphia, where Kitty soon sees the futility of marriage so far out of her class. She divorces him and returns to her job with a cosmetic company in New York, and to her friendship with Mark Eisen, a young doctor. Meanwhile Mark has urged Kitty to marry him, and she is on the point of doing so when Wyn comes to tell her he’s going to South America—will Kitty come with him? Her answer forms the dramatic conclusion of the film, which promises one of the season's most noteworthy offerings. The filmic story-telling is done in. a brand new manner, with the highlights of Kitty’s adventurous existence passing in review before her eyes as well as those of the audience.