AMUSEMENTS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20122, 16 December 1939, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

MAJESTIC THEATRE ‘ OUR LEADING CITIZEN” AND IN “OH, SUSANNA.” Bub Burns, who has endeared himself to the hearts of filmgoers with his portrayals in recent pictures of the “Arkansas Traveller,” and a Missouri “mule-trader,” has the best role of his career in “Oar Leading Citizen.’’ This time Bob Burns is starred as a lawyer, a mellow philosophical fellow who believes that any problem can be settled by both sides sitting down at a conference table and discussing it, each side giving a little. Burns has ample chance to prove his contention when the leading industrialist of the thriving city in which he practices law proceeds to make a 10 per cent pay cut at his mill, arousing the workers to strike. Despite the pressure of outside influences, despite all kinds of trouble, Burns settles the trouble in his city in his own good old way—by saiie judgment, by holding to the “middle of the road." By the same method, Burns also succeeds in fostering a iove affair involving his daughter, Susan Hayward, and Joseph Allen, jun., his junior partner. The associate feature is a thrilling action picture, 'On, Susanna,” starring the popular, singing cowboy, Gene Autry. An added attraction is a fuither chapter of “The Oregon Trail.”