The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-07
Ann Harding
 in East Lynne
Give Brook and Conrad Nagel Support Her in
 Palace Presentation

Ann Harding in East Lynne" at
 the Fox-Poli Palace Starting Sum- day. Ann Harding, gracious, beau tifu1 star of the talking screen, who reflects every woman's joys and heartaches, in her newest Movietone drama, East Lynne" comes to the Fox-Poli Palace theater on Sunday for a limited engagement of positive ly four days only. East Lynne" is the best picture Ann Harding has appeared in to date. No woman can resist it's drama. It is the story Of motherhood crucified by idle gossip. East Lynne" is the heart cry of q million married women. worshipped,
 courted, won,-and then taken Tor granted. But still longing for the glamour, of courtship days. Dream ing dangerous dreams that only need the right men to make them come true. Fox has assembled a perfect cast to support Ann Hard ing in East Lynne" Olive Brook, Conrad Nagel, Beryle Mercer, O. F.. Heggie, Cissie Loftus are among the players, and Frank Lloyd directed.
 Josef Urban, the famous Viennese artist, designed the gorgeous set- tings. Never has the sweet woman Illness of Ann Harding appeared to better advantage than in East Lynne." It is the story of what might happen in any woman's life. Love-starved by her husband, torn between duty and desire, between an
 all-enveloping mother love and a mad hunger for the glamourous TO-
 nance of her girlhood days. Ann Harding rises to new dramatic
 heights. ''East Lynne" is the drama
 of a romance that could happen to any woman. Tempted by a man
 more charming than sincere, offered
 escape from the dull duties of an uncompromising marriage, prom ised the carefree life of Paris and Vienna, instead of the dreary shab-
 biness and drabness she could no longer endure, who could condemn
 her if she yielded. The cast as-
 semb1ed by Fox to support Ann Harding in this picture includes two leading men, the one playing the husband, Conrad Nagel; the other playing the lover, Give Brook. "East Lynne" is the story of broken VOW, ter-loving Ann Harding driven from
 happiness and home by scandal
 monging idle gossip, into a false life of scarlet gayety. Beautifully played by one of the best casts seen in any
 single picture made this year, super
 bly, directed by the man who made
 '.The Sea Hawk and other sensa-
 tional hits, mounted by the exquisite taste and brush of Josef Urban, de-
 signer of a frozen Ziegfeld Follies and now an art director for Fox Pictures, it merits the proud honor l of ''the perfect cast supporting the perfect star in the perfect love
 story" If you are wife or mother.
 or sweetheart, if you have ever
 loved, then you must not miss the one love story for all lovers,-Ann
 Harding in East Lynne" Ann Hard-
 ing in East Lynne is the first of a
 series of great talking pictures. the very pick of the cream of the years
 production from Fox. Metro-Gold- wyn-Mayer and Paramount-Publiz Studios, to be shown at the Fox Poli Palace theater during the next few months. Among the great talk ing pictures to be seen at the Palace
 very shortly are Norma Shearer ir her very latest and best Metro
 Goldwyn- Mayer picture, Strangers
 May Kiss; Frederic March. Claudette
 Colbert and Charles Ruggles in theil
 latest Paramount picture, Honor Among Lovers: "Rango," Para. mounts sensational new jungle pic. ture with hundreds of wild anima