AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 229, 4 September 1939, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

“THE: BOY FROM BARNARDQ’S” The sun never sets on English soil, British ships. Accordingly,/to outfit a‘ British Merchant Marine .vessel- is a\s simple in San Pedro as in Liverpool. y ""'" " * This was discovered by the Metro-Goldwyn-Maver property department when British nautical instruments, ship’s wheels, lamps, signal and sounding devices and other accessories of” navigation were needed to reproduce the classroom for “The Boy From Barnardos,” drama of Merchant Marine training which opens Tuesday at the Regent Theatre'. Jack Hinds, commissioned to locate the apparatus, made a single trip to 'San Pedro and brought back every article required. Freddie Bartholomew and Mickey Rooney play the principal juvenile roles in the picture, which deals with t-ln- training of young Britishers at tiie school' a division of the Barnardo Homes, famous institution for the care and education of orphaned boys in England. There are 121 of the homes, teaching various trades and callings. They were founded in the- seventies by ■Dr. Thomas John Barnardo, and today are operated by an association of which the King and Queen are Boys on graduation; are placed in pc- ' sit-ions on ships in Canada, Australia or other Dominions. Sam Wood was director of the picture in which Freddie, as the tool of adventurers, is taken from his guardians and placed in the nautical training home where he finds regeneration and a new life. 1 Players include "Charles Coburn, Herbert Alundin, Gale Sondergaard, Terry Kilburn and; Peter ' LawTord. i