COSY THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 212, 23 September 1937, Page 8

COSY THEATRE

WA FAMILY AFFAIR" TO-NIGHT. Lionel Barrymore, always master of the character analysis in a screen por- , trayal, again touches the heart in his -ilatest role as a fearless old country jtidge in "A Family Aiiair,'.' This is tln' picture which is screening at the Cosy Theatre with a strong supporting cast. (Mcilia Parker and Frio Liuden provide "the young romance. Others in tlie cast afro Julie Haydon, Mickey ilooiLey, Spr/ng Byingtoju, Charley Grapewin, and- Sara Haden. George Seitz was the cjirector. "A Family Alfair" js the graphic story of any small American town with its loves and its hatreds, its bitter animosities and strong iriendships. All tlie characters and circumstanceS' are there. Barrymore, as the judge with a large family, enacts the familiar role of a man-be-lov'ed in his community. An older married daughter gets into a scandal at about the same time that the judge is accused of blocking the progsress of the town with a deeision against, a public project in which the people are vitally concerned. Bad luek always cpmes in pairs, or worse, in life as in fiction. A younger daughter and her fiance quarrel. The family is disrupted, sharped in the eyes of the people with whom it has always been associated and ; the judge is to blame. He theu proceeds to , straighten things out in his own characteristie manner.