GRAND

Evening Star, Issue 23382, 27 September 1939, Page 2

GRAND

When a society woman goes gunning for gangsters she cannot bo too particular about the kind of automobile in which she travels. And so Columbia Pictures had to build a special automobile for Fay Bainter in ‘ The Lady and the Mob,’ the now attraction at the Grand, in which Miss Bainter and Ida Lupino are featured. ‘ The Lady and the Mob ’ is the story of an autocratic society matron who refuses to pay tribute to racketeers, and refuses to permit her community’s tradesmen to do so cither. She employs gangster methods to wipe out gangsters. Miss Bainter’s custom-built automobile is equipped with six machine guns and “ The Mob,” played by Warren Hymer, Joseph Sawyer, Tom Dugan, and Harold Huber. The “ artillery ” and the “mob” are the least of the Bainter automobile’s accessories. The car was made of armour-plate. In 1 Romance of the Redwoods,’ the Columbia feature in support, with Charles Bickford and Jean Parker, Mr Bickford thought his role of a likeable, two-fisted lumberjack a reasonably difficult one. It required several rough-and-tumble fights; a certain amount of wrestling with logs five and six times his weight and size; and a desperate struggle against a blazing forest fire.