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Show Racy Story of Old England Now at Centre Gay and sparkling as a glass of champagne, Paramount's "Kitty" now playing at the Centre Theater. The-ater. Scintallating with wit ond michevious merriment, "Kitty" has a script to match the brilliance brilli-ance of some of the most dazzling daz-zling sets and costumes, ever seen on the screen. This is ultra-modern comedy lush and racy told against the magnificent magnif-icent pageantry of Eighteenth Century London. , J Based on Rosamond Marsh all's popular novel, it co-stars Ray Milland with Paulette God-dard God-dard as the illiterate Cockney waif whose breath-taking beauty beau-ty takes her out of the filthy Houndsditch slums and into the royal palace. The cast also includes in-cludes Patricia Knowles, Reginald Regi-nald Owen, Cecil Kellaway, Constance Con-stance Collier and Sara Allgood-It Allgood-It all happens when Kitty, a wild unruly gamin makes her Way to fashionable London to see what she can steal. Spying a handsomt carriage with livery liv-ery she pounces on a well dregs- Oed man yanking the silver-buckled silver-buckled slippers off his feet as he attempts to alight. The man is Sir Thomas Gainsborough a celebrated artist (Cecil Kellaway) Kella-way) . Beneath the tousled hair and dirty rags Gainsborough glimpses remarkable latent beauty, beau-ty, Kitty becomes his model and the master's portrait of "An Ananoymous Lady" makes her famous overnight attracting the attention of the Duke of Malm-unster Malm-unster (Reginald Owen). In the meantime, Kitty has been adopted by an ingratiating but penniless scoundrel ,Ray Mil-land) Mil-land) . and his aunt (Constance Collier) who decide to transform her into a "grande dame" and sell her off to the highest bidder on the marriage market. Kitty's gaucheries are finally glossed pver and the young spitfire spit-fire proceeds to exploit her charms to the fullest. "Kitty" is sophisticated adult fare keen as a steel blade and gleefully .entertaining from start to finish. |