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Show 'Pride and Prejudice', Famous Romantic Classic To Open At Gaiety Another famous romantic classic has been brought to the screen in "Pride and Prejudice", pic-turization pic-turization of Jane Austen's gay comedy, starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier, which comes Saturday to the Gaiety Theatre for an engagement of three days. Teaming two Academy Award nominees of last year, the amusing amus-ing story deals with the romance of Elizabeth Bennet, eldest of five unwedded daughters living in a small provincial English town, and Darcy, handsome, wealthy young aristocrat, who comes to town as a visitor. Mrs. Bennet, the girls' fluttery mother, has her cap set for any eligible bachelor who comes within her vision. Darcy falls in love with Elizabeth but can't stand her family. But Darcy finds that family pride is not nearly so strong as love and in the end comes to the rescue when Elizabeth's Eliza-beth's sister, Lydia, runs away with an adventurer, Wickham. This brings Elizabeth and Darcy together again. One of the season's most notable not-able supporting casts is featured in the film, headed by Edmund Gwenn and Mary Boland as Mr. and Mrs. Bennet, Edna May Oliver as the crochety Lady Catherine de Bourgh and Melville Cooper as her stuffy librarian, all highlight comedy roles. The sisters sis-ters of Elizabeth are charming Maureen O'Sullivan as Jane, Ann Rutherford, as Lydia, Marsha Hunt as Mary and Heather Angel as Kitty. Others in the cast include in-clude Bruce Lester as Mr. Bing-ley, Bing-ley, Frieda Inescourt as Miss Bingley, Edward Ashley as Wickham, Wick-ham, Karen Morley as Charlotte |