The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-28
ACADEMY AWARD
 WINNER AT STATE
Two-Tinle Recipient, Bette Davis Starred in Dark
 Victory"

The Warner Bros. State theater IS signally honored to be among the first to present the two time Academy Award winner, Bette Davis in what is called her greatest triumph Dark Victory" opening its engagement at that popular theater this afternoon.
 Advance notices on Miss Davis | performance in this production, prove that 1t is the greatest one of her career. winner of the Motion Picture Academy Award for her performance in Dangerous" and the recent "Jezebel" which won her the 1888 award, she is already being named the most likely pros pect to receive the coveted honor in 1930 for her work in Dark Victory" and forthcoming War ner Bros. product ion entitled "Juarez."
 As the heroine of Dark Victory" Miss Davis enacts what she herself considers the finest part she has ever portrayed in the course of the brilliant career that his establish ed her indubitably as the greatest actress on the screen today.
 The role is so unlike any that Bette has ever done before and the picture itself is so far from the beaten track of theatrical formula that is has created more comment and discussion than any production in many a day.
 It is a tender love story, one of the saddest and yet bravest tales ever told. On its face it is an up- to-the-minute story about hard and brittle modern people, but under that bright surface it is a narrative of elemental emotions as old as the world itself.
 Bette is presented as the gay and carefree young leader of a rich "horsy" set of society folk. There is nothing of the spoiled and petulant young heiress about her. She's a very modern young thing but a thoroughly nkeable miss. Then love and destiny enter her life and bring about complete change in her thoroughbred courage in facing a love that is greater than life itself.
 George Brent, starred in the .ro- mantle lead opposite Miss Davis for the seventh time, has a role of rare sympathy and charm which he plays with an honesty and re- strained intensity that makes the romantic scenes long to be remem- bered. Other luminaries in the cast include Humphrey Bogart, in sympathetic role altogether unlike any he has ever done on the screen before One of the important features of the production is the screen debut of Geraldine Fitzgerald, fascinating new discovery, in the second fem- mine lead. Miss Fitzgerald is re- garded as destined for certain starr dom.
 Other members of the truly i'm pressive cast include such players as Ronald Reagen, Henry Travers, Cora Witherspoon and Dorothy Peterson among others.
 And for your further enjoyment the management will present a hur- ricane of laughs and action, 'Torchy AsAAAo 1O4 &AoyO4, tAlC AdtCo1 VI CAlC famous Torchy Blanc series with Glenda Farrell ana Barton Mac Lane.
 Considerable interest is being shown by theatergoers in the long list of approximations coming soon to the state. Chief among these | Init" pictures are Confessions of | a Nazi Spy" which opens next | week with Edward c. Robinson in | the lead; "The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle" starring the dancing | team of Ginger Rogers and Fred | Astaire; John Garfield in Black wells Island; Gary Cooper and Ray Midland in Beau Geste" and among many others "Juarez-' with Bette Davis and Paul Muni in the CO., starring leads.