STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 May 1942, Page 6

STATE THEATRE

“THE LITTLE FOXES.”

“The Little Foxes,” which will be shown tonight, is splendidly, produced, and magnificently actea. Bette Davis plays the leading part m a film that is an unfinished symphony in prose and picture, a film that tells enough to provoke, but not enough to let the audience forget it for days to come. No one is likely to forget the terrible scene where her husband, stricken with a heart attack, calls for relief while his wife sits, mute as stone, watching a falling, fainting shadow feel its way up the stairway wall; or the final moment when her daughter walk out into the night with the man s loves. “The Little Foxes’ is apt to sound penny noveletteish. It is no - ing of the sort. It is sound beauti-fully-constructed drama with Bene Davis and Herbert Marshall playing the roles of their careers. That such a woman as Regina, the unscrupulous woman played by Bette Davis or the almost equally u nsc ™P members of the unhappy Hubbard family, should have lived is made <• probability through the skilful ha ling of the principal parts. The Litt Foxes” is a tale of man’s and womans greed for money and power.