STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 June 1941, Page 8

STATE THEATRE

“KITTY FOYLE.” One of the most-discussed current novels will be brought to the screen at the State Theatre tonight 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 supports include an outstanding newsreel, “The Inspiration of Anzac,” which included scenes of New Zealand and Australian troops in Greece, the Middle East and elsewhere, and an interesting commentary on the Great War and the present hostilities as far as the Anzac troops are concerned.