THRILLING STORY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 107, 28 December 1931, Page 2

THRILLING STORY

ACTION IN "YOUNG DONOVAN'S KID" OPENING AT MAJESTIC The judge sat with eyes half-closed, listening to the testimony. The court room was jattnned with gang "muggs," children, society officers, a priest and a handful of thrillseekers. On the stand was a little waif, Midgie, telling the court what a he-man, tough-hombre, gat-drawin' fellow Jim Donovan, his guardian, could be. The court listened for the honourahle qualities that Jim might possess — instead Midgie gave the judge the worshipful ehild's impression of a gang-leader hero. There sat Donovan, gone "straight" for Midgie's sake. His eyes, steel-grey when action sizzled in his soul and his hands itched for the feel of "iron," melted into the softness of fear, of pitiful compassion, of tearful spite and then flaming anger when he saw that the court would take his Midgie away from him. Then the court pronounced sentence. This tlirill-packed story will open at the Majestic Theatre to-day. It is only a small part of the action which roars across the screen when Richard Dix, the Jim Donovan in Radio Pictures' stirring drama, "Young Donovan's Kid", faces the court and faces, he knows in his heart, the death of life, hope, companionship. No longer the steel-hearted gangster — he becomes, of a sudden, the father of the world crying for his progeny, shaking his fist at a social system which has room only for the aristocracy of wealth. With Dix in "Young Donovan's Kid," is a famous featured cast headed hy such sterling players as Marion Shilling, Jackie Cooper, sensational star of "Skippy," and Frank Sheridan. Fred Niblo directed the picture from J. Walter Ruben's adaptation of Rex Beach's blazing novel, "Big Brother." Louis Sarecky, associate producer of the epochal "Cimarron," supervised the production. >