Show Its A Wonderful Life Proves That Small Towns Can Have E Excitement m Jt Too roq I No one pan Can ask aak for more heartwarming heartwarming heart- heart warming entertainment than that af afforded afforded afforded af- af forded by Liberty Films Films' drama comedy-drama Its ns A Wonderful Life which opens Sunday at the Egyptian Theatre James Stewart and Donna Reed are starred Inthis In Inthis this Radio release and Lionel Barrymore Thomas Mitchell and Henry Travers are top featured In the large supporting cast I The story tory embraces the life lire of George Bailey Batley from adolescence to manhood ina In Ina Ina a small email town In upstate New York York York- and his frustrated efforts to get away from It Chief obstacle to his desire Is the building and loan company founded by his father and later carried on by his bis bumbling kind hearted Uncle Billy Dilly This concern Is the only thing In town not controlled by bitter old Henry Potter Potter Potter Pot Pot- ter the town banker and slum Four times does the building and loan company some same between George and his departure one occasion being the day he be married Mary Hatch and has to prop the company with his honeymoon money George obliged to take over the company company company com com- pany to balk old Potter has haa to resign himself to life In the small town He lie and Mary have four children and are happy if not prosperous Their world nearly comes to an end when Uncle Billy mislays the day the examiner comes to check the books and George cries that he wishes he had never been born It is then that Clarence a heavenly heaven heaven- ly messenger appears and shows him tho the town as aa it would appear appeal If George had never been born Ills III brother has haa died as aa a child chUd the people are all living In Potters Potter's alums slums his mother Is 18 running run ron ning a cheap boarding house and Mary Is a soured spinster George begs to be bo returned to life Immediately and his wish Is granted The community comes to his hill rescue and ho finally learns his fathers father's credo credo credo- that a mans man's wealth Is measured by the people he can call his hia friends Stewart gives what Is perhaps the finest performance of his career and Donna Reed In her first starring role makes Mary a gallant and devoted fig fig- ure Barrymore is la old Potter Mitchell is Uncle Billy llly and Travers tl the e a heavenly heaven ly messenger Others prominent In the fine cast Include Beulah Deulah Bondi Ward I Bond Dond Frank Faylen Gloria Grahame It if B B. B Warner Samuel 8 S. S Hinds Frank Albertson Virginia Patton Fatton and Todd I Karns Producer-Director Producer Frank Capra has haa given us another notable piece of joyous entertainment Its A Wonderful Life 18 Is a picture to be seen and recalled through the years as aa a pleasant mem- mem j lory ory |