Anthony Adverse (Warner). When Warner Brothers bought screen rights to Hervey Allen's 1,224-page best-seller of 1933 for about $35,000 readers wondered how those cinemen would succeed in putting the whole story into a single picture. As revealed last week, the answer is extremely simple. Warner Brothers do not succeed in anything of the sort because they do not try. Although the picture is twice as long (2 hr. 19 min.), as an average Hollywood production, it carries Author Allen's celebrated adventurer (Fredric March) through only about two-thirds of his career, leaves its climax...
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