The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-08-29
-Four Daughters'' Is Given Praise
 As Splendid Film
Always in Trouble" Is An. other Release Just Out
 from Hollywood
By ROBBIN COONS

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 29.-It's an other Family Week in pictures and what family we have in Four Daughters"
 It's a good honest picture, with some of the best acting seen in the past few hundred reels. I'm afraid it's also an artistic triumph, but don't let that scare you.
 Claude Rains is the music-teacher father of four girls-Priscilla, Rose mary and Lola Lane, and Gale Page. Priscilla's the youngest. She can't imagine ever getting married. Lola's the eldest-she wants to mar ry money and have things. Rose mary is the girl who can't be bothered much, either with beauX or with her singing. Gale Page is the sister who dreams of knight in shining armor" but has for her steady the bumbling Dick Foran from the florists shop.
 May Robson, as Aunt Etta, is all the rest of the family-until Jeffrey Lynn comes to town and, what with his winning ways, moves right in. All the girls, even Lola who has her rich and bumbling Frank McHugh, fall for Jeffrey.
 Then one day Priscilla announces that she and Jeff are going to be married. Three things happen: Lola says she's going to marry her Frank right now; Rosemary an- nounces she's going away to study voice seriously after all; and Gale Page just weeps.
 Into the story now breezes or maybe strikes like lightning would be better-John Garfield. He's the lad the fates always drowned on, kicked around. He's cynical sar- donic, crude but Priscilla gets under his skin. And just before Priscilla and Jeff are getting mar ried, Priscilla learns how Gale Page wept. and so-
 It's belieyable, human movie, loaded with human touches, some humorous, some pathetic. It's from Fannie Hurstss Sister Act" and Michael Curtiz directed it with sympathetic touch you scarcely ex- pect from a fellow who's done Charge of the Light Brigade" and Robin Hood" and other bloody, sWashbuckling tales.
 Three discoveries to list are Gar field, lad who knows acting; Lynn, a pleasant leading man, and Pris- cilla Lane. who surprised every body with a convincing job against some formidable competitions Gale Page is splendid too, and Rains and Robson deliver as usual. You won't be disappointed in -Four Daughters.
 You won't mind Always in Trouble" either, if you're a Jane Withers fan. It's like most of the other Withers films that have put her among the first ten stars at the box-office. It isn't good, and it's not as bad as it might be.
 James family in this one is a newly rich gang. Ambitious mother (Nina Bryant), with heiress daugh- ter (Jean Rogers) and doWntrodden papa (Andrew TombesJ. Mamma wants papa to stop working and join her in climbing the social lad der Little Jane (who as usual sees all and knows alb knows that papa has to keep on working to be happy.
 She rings in one of papa's clerks Robert Kellard) and before her plot is done they're all, except papa, shipwrecked on an island and threatened with Kidnapping by gang sters. Jane. as usual, thinks up ways to get them out. Eddie Collins, the funny little fellow, helps along with his old-tim vaudeville "mugging" I'm afraid, fond as I am of Jane, that she muggs more than usual