COSY THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 211, 22 September 1937, Page 15

COSY THEATRE

"A PAMILT ATPAIR" TO-NIGHT. Lionel Barrymore, always Jfiaster of the character anaiysia in a screen portrayal, again touches the heart in his latest role as a fearless old country judge in "A Family Aftair." This is th«> picture which opened at the Cosy Theatre to-day with a strong supporting cast. Cecilia Parker and iCric Linden provide the young romanee. Others in the cast are Julie Haydon, Mickey Kooney, Spring Byington, Charley Grapewin, and Sara Haden. Georgo Seitz was the director. "A Family Affair" is the graphio story of any smali American town -with its lovos and its hatreds, its bittcr aniniosities and strong friendships, All the characters and circumstanees aTe there. Barrymore, as the judge with a large family, enacts the familiar role of a mau beloved in his community. An older marricd daughter gets into a scandal at about the same time that tho judge is accused of blocking the progress of the town with a decision against a pubiic project in which the people are vitally concerned. Bad luck always .comes in pairs, or worse, in life as in fiction. A younger daughter and her fiance quarrel. The family is disrupted, shamed in the eyes of the people with whom it has always been associated and the judge is to blame. He then proceeds to straighten things out in his own characteristic manner.