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7 ne _ frekbly seem and handled and 66 movie. But why are the Hubbards peleome to the screen, bth KEET™t aT life’ he Tittle Foxe ke & > ne as mong m amy of e Hub- series of dum-dum bullets tearing seems dwarfed aim ct ‘a heen the sensitivity of its sudience. If. cance. And it is in the relations of these fwo opposing groups that the movie js weak. Both come upon the: it is melodramatic, so 14 much of real life, What it can be criticized for is that if never makes quite + this way scene already good or bed, and the clear just why people tk ee. end finds them only more so. The “These ate whe fects record. says the conflict is not between these, but avior; . among the Hubbards. It leaves the so hungry for money? way open for people to take the The movie does not limit itself Hubtards as did the critics of the to the Hubbards, but it is not in original play, aa proof of “the age- the others that fou find the an- old Wuth that some people, regard- swer. There is Regina’s husband iess of their position in the social who made his ‘pile as a banker put | scale, their race or creed, or of their whose sickness gives him a chance |: place anywhere in the world, at any ,to sicken of the dollat too. “You'll ; period,jare born plain greedy and wreck this town and this country | that’s that.” They'te terrible be- your way.” he tells his wife, and his cause it’s in their nature. If “The refusal to help her push low-paid Little Foxes” had bee " factory workers down deeper sends more un . him to his grave. Ee er eee _susiem.— far. And there is his and Regina’s tHe dog-eat-dog of peonle out in _ daughter, soft and obedient st the niake bood “by _ this same soclety’s. . standards, it would have_reached.. Rler stature beginning, ripe for the same kind of life until a young newspaperman even greater sta . who has returned from the North ut it is hard to’complain about #0 rare an achievement. For the “talking of peoples’ rights and de- imaginative execution of this film, | cency” helps her escape from the , family trap. |for thelr évident care and sincerity | | Around the house there are the and vital purpose, Miss Hellman, of “| Negro servants of « temper and in- seourse, director William Wyler: telligence Hollywood has almost cameraman, Gregg Toland and the never been willing to recognize as ‘entire cast deservea the best au- common to the Negro people. “The ~diences can give them. Bette Davis rich have got mighty well off ts starred in the lead role of cheatin’ the poor and the colored Regina, but the quality of her work folks,” says Regina's woman ser- | ‘is equalled down to the least Of the vant. And she says it in front of players. “The Little Foxes” is a pic- half the family. (ture worthy of great audiences. pA EE | Imaginative . I, Film Treatment . eee These are the positive characters, |: