The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-03-19
SCENE" WILL SHOW AT CAPITOL SUNDAY
Estelle Taylor Stars in Film Version of Prize
 Stage Play

It was merely on accident of birth that made the great city of New York the locale of Street Scene" which comes to the Capitol theatre tomorrow, the first presen- tatino being at the afternoon mat nee Had the author of this prize drama, Elmer Rice, been born and drawn his characters from the life of any other American city, large or small, his characters would have been the same flesh and blood.
 For Street Scene" is the story of the conflict and emotions, the fleeting joys and longer heart-aches of human characters in an enYir- onment which is the same in every city.
 "A eross-section of New York life it was called when it was pre- sented as stage play. i
 Cross Section of World
 In bringing it to the larger pam orama of the screen with King Vidor directing and Sylvia Sidney, William Collier, J., and Estelle Tay- Tor in the leading roles, Samuel Goldwyn Is presenting it as a cross section of the entire world.
 New York may have taller build ings, more money, noise and crowds than other cities, but, says MT. ! Goldwyn, the lives of its people are inherently the same, I A boy and girl in love feel the same hope and despair in any other city. Joy. and hate and passion the anxieties of their parents, the tongues of gossip and scandal. all the emotions of humanity are alike.
 Dramatic Panorama
 Street Scene" is dramatic panorama of any city of any, city in the world. It speaks the language of the heart, and knows no differ ence in race, color or creed. The Pulitzer prize, bestowed upon Elmer Rice's play as the best stage drama of its year, specifically provides that the award shall be for the best drama written by an American author and based on the American scene.
 Anyone who sees the screen yer sion, which is declared by all the magazines to be a four-star pro drIction, will recognize the roles of Rose Maurrant and Max Kaplan, portrayed respectively by Silvia Sidney and William Collier, Jr.. as the boy and the girl down the l street.
 Typical Neighborhood Gossip :.
 Beulah Bondi as Mrs. Jones is the neigrborhood gossip, who has all the scandal of the street at the tip of her tongue, and reliShes ey- cry morsel of it.
 David Landau, as Mir Maurrant, is an American father not the ideal American father, of course = but a type who is all too common as product of poverty He is a symbol. rather than an individual, ] a symbol of the tragedy which re- suits from narrowness and intol- erance.
 Pitf1ess Story Pitifully Told Beulah Bondi as Mrs. Jones. is is another symbol Of the darker side of Iife--a woman driven to despair through lack Of affection. A de- voted mother, the years of fruitless yeafning for tenderness and warmth drive her to rebellion. And Elmer Rice, the dramatist, has had the courage to raise the question as to Whether she was not as much sin ned against as shining, whether she was not a victim of the gossip mongers even while her conduct was providing them with the mate rial for their gossip.
 Elmer Rice. the playwright, has told a pitiless story, but has used infinite pity in the telling. ] All Speeches Retained l All of the ringing, smashing speeches which Rice put into the mouth of the stage players have been retained. Where originally all the action took place before the doorway of single house, Goldwyn has confined the action to a single street. So that Street Scene the 1 United Artists release. in it's screen 1 version, remains what its author intended 1t to be stirring indict- ment of the hypocrispy and false standards of life In any city in the world.