GRAND THEATRE

Evening Star, Issue 23382, 27 September 1939, Page 6

GRAND THEATRE

TWO ADVENTURE FILMS Fay Bainter, who won a recent motion picture academy award for her work in ‘ Jezebel.’ which opened to-day at the Grand Theatre in Columbia’s ‘ The Lady and the Mob.’ Ida Lupino, Lee Bowman, Warren Hymer, and Henry Armetta are featured with the actress. In ‘ The Lady and the Mob ’ Miss Bainter is said to possess a role offering her unique opportunity for a memorable characterisation. She is seen as Mrs Leonard, wealthy, autocratic ruler of her community. When racketeers invade her city, she goes to the police and then to the mayor. Both prove powerless against the insidious menace, and Mrs Leonard decides to take the law into her own hands. Up until now her whimsicalities had taken such a form as having the elm trees that line her driveway moved hack a few’ inches. But now’, as she embarks on a double holiday of selfindulgence, with no one to say nay, she buys a bullet-proof limousine. She “gets helself ” a “mob.” Seated in her armoured car, backed up by machine guns, she proceeds to proscribe for the undenvorkl its owm medicine. A film set against the backdrop of Nature, in the ' Pacific North-west, 'Columbia's ‘ Romance of the Redk w’oods ’ is the supporting picture. Charles Bickford and Jean Parker are featured. ‘ Romance of the Redwoods ’ is based upon a Jack London narrative, and is concerned with the dual conflicts of man against himself and man against Nature, all for the love of a woman.