GRAND THEATRE
Jack Oakie's film career includes no "opposition." "The World's JoyFriend" has r isen to , stardom without ever- having played opposite a single feminine stpr. This, in itself, is unique in mpving pipture pircles. Oakie plays his f ourth starring.Pa,ramount role in "The Gang Buster," the Grand Theatre feature for to-night. "The Gang Buster" is one of Oakie's funniest pietures, And the most exeiting, too. For comedy, broad ahd hilarious, works hand in hand . with action that's spiced with susperise and countless thrills. Through it all, the freckled, smiling Jack Oakie does his stuff in the hest approved manner, risking his neck without knowirig it, more .tixnes than you'd. think possible. But, as usual with him, Oakie's dumb cockiriess is his.chief. weapon in attaining success, and winnirig the girl his heart piries for. The girl to whom the incamparable Jack Oakie, loses his heart,. is played hy that soft spoken, talented young actress, Jean ..Arthur, who disports hersejf.wtih charm. and graee. . And the wide assortment of hardL-boiled characters portrayed by William Boyd, Francis MacDonald, Tom Kennedy and Harry Stubbs. And what a group of gangsters they make !
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 40, 9 October 1931, Page 5
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