REGENT THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 36, 26 February 1937, Page 15

REGENT THEATRE

SCREENINC TO-MORROW Freddie Barthblomew, ttie boy who gave us. such/ a. vivid portrayal of "David Copperfield," and "Little Lbrd Fauntlefoy,," now appears as a modern urchin of New York 's lower Easf 'Side in . " The Devil is a- Sissy," which opens to-morrow at the Begent Theatre. * Freddie • co-stars with Jackie Cooper, and Mickey Booney. Jan Hunter, and Peggy Conklin provide fhe romantic inter^st in a touching love story. that ©ntars into the adventuroug narrative of the boys. Tho boys .unite' in a determined of--fort to buy a tombstone for the father of one who had, reccntly died in the electric chair at Sing Sing. That is the- 'environment in wMch they livo. In aequiring the money for the land* able purpoae, ithey xun foul of the police and wiud up in the juvenile court. Freddie eyentually proteots them and ' also 'emerges to' be. instrumenfSl in the capture of a.baud pf city killers. No little credit for the dramatic intensity, polgnanit sympathy and delightf ul hum,onr , of .tne various episodes of the pibture is. du'e to its discerning director, W. S. Van Dvke. ' Finally To-night . . The flnal iscreening takes place tonight of "My American Wife," a romantic -comedy starring Francis Tederer and Ann Sothern,