Barbara Stanwyck Will Appear in “Shopworn”

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7284, 11 October 1933, Page 5

Barbara Stanwyck Will Appear in “Shopworn”

TALKING SCREEN’S FAMOUS DRAMATIC STAR IS COMING

Barbara Stanwyck, ranking high among the dramatic actresses ot the screen, comes to the Kosy on Saturday with “Blonde Captive” in her newest drama, “Shopworn,” a Columbia picture, directed by Nicholas Grinde. '‘Shopworn” was written to exercise the particular emotional equipment of Miss Stanwyck.

Her sensational performance in “Ladies of Leisure” set a mark that she has equalled and frequently surpassed in subsequent pictures, and it is safe to say that “Kitty Lane,” heroine of “Shopworn,” will be one of her 'best-loved characterisations. It allows her to portray that interesting transition from a sweet young girl, with the aspirations of innocence, to a disillusioned woman who has put herself on the bargain counter because decency did not pay. Kitty Lane is good by instinct and by preference aspires to something finer than the cheapness of her suroundings. Her childhood was spent in construction camps among rough men she scorned. Then the death of her father transfers her to a cheap college eating house, where she has equal scorn for the college boys—that is, all except Dave Livingston.

The love of Kitty and Dave is a very beautiful thing ruthlessly interfered with by Dave’s selfish mother. She has not supervised every' breath Dave has drawn to stand quietly by and see him wreck his future by marrying a waitress! Every heart will be torn for Kitty when the older woman, proud* cold, hard, self-righteous, falsely brands Kitty as immoral and tries to buy her ofle. But Kitty refuses to be as cheap as they think her. “No matter how cheap I am, I’m not for sale,” she cries, flinging the money back. How Kitty, her values lost when she sees tho cheapness of people who call themselves decent, becomes famouseven notorious —and later reaches the haven of happiness long denied her, is dramatically told in “Shopworn.” Regis Toomey portrays Dave; Zasu Pitts and Lucien Littlefield provide comedy; Clara Blandick is the selfish mother, and other important roles are played by Oscar Apfel, Albert Conti, Robert Alden and Maude Turner Gordon. ■-*

Samuel Rork, tho film director, who brought Clara Bow Ixtck to the screen in “Call Her Savage,” ha 3 died at the age of £3 from a. hear* attacks "S.