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...Anne of Green Gables (RKO) is a dramatization of the Lucy Maud Montgomery novel, published a quarter of a century ago, whose heroine Mark Twain called "the dearest and most moving and delightful child of fiction since the immortal Alice." An orphan from the orphanage, Anne Shirley finds herself unwanted when she turns up at the farm of Matthew (0. P. Heggie) and Marilla (Helen Westley), who had expected to adopt a boy. Her ready smile and winning impudence soon earn her the affection of her foster-parents and all goes well until she falls in love with Gilbert...
Wednesday's Child (RKO). Bobby Phillips (Frankie Thomas), like the heroine of Little Friend (TIME. Oct. 29), is "full of woe" as a result of his parents' matrimonial troubles. His playmates tease him about the man seen kissing his mother (Karen Morley) in a parked car. Dreaming wretchedly of their taunts, he wakes to hear his father (Edward Arnold) slapping his mother. After protesting that she regrets having borne a son, she leaves the house for good...
...Divorcee (RKO). In adapting the successful musicomedy which kept Dancer Fred Astaire busy for a year in Manhattan and London, RKO's most apparent change was to insert an accent and an extra e in the last word of the title. This should cause no greater harm than mispronunciation among cinemaddicts. For the rest, the picture sticks to the pattern of its footlight original, with satisfactory results. Fred Astaire is still the centre of whatever plot there is. A dancer on a European holiday, he pursues a young lady (Ginger Rogers) who is seeking divorce from an absurd geologist...
...RKO Boston: "Wake Up and Dream"--Russ Columbo, June Knight, and Roger Pryer are featured in this new musical film. These three take the parts of a vaudeville trio who act in the small towns. On the stage will appear Ranny Weeks and his orchestra, besides a stage show and several other acts...
...RKO Kelths: "Count of Monte Cristo"--This picture has been held over for another week because of its surprising popularity. Robert Donat has the role of Dantes in this famous story of Du mas. Elissa Landi plays Mercedes, the heroine. Sidney Blackmer, O. P. Heggie, and Louis Calhern are included in the cast...