COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 September 1939, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

“MURDER WITH PICTURES.” . The current programme at the Cosy "Theatre, headed by “Murder with Pictures” and “Easy Living,” will be finally shown tonight. SPECIAL WEEKEND ATTRACTIONS The special weekend attractions at (the Cosy Theatre will include “Alladin and his Wonderful Lamp” (a techni- ' colour Popeye cartoon), a number of excellent short studies, and “Gangster’s Boy.” Jackie CoOper, who scored such world-wide success in “Boy of the Streets,” gives an even greater performance in Monogram’s “Gangster’s Boy.” A stirring, dramatic story of the high school generation, “Gangster’s Boy” is a vehicle perfectly suited to young Cooper’s extraordinary . talents, and it gives him opportunities he has never had before. The plot concerns Larry Kelly, high school hero, leader of his class in scholarship and on the athletic field, whose lifetime ambition is to go to West Point. Everything is set for Larry until his father, Tim Kelly, one-time racketeer, “retires” and comes to Millford to live with his wife and son. Larry does not know of his father's past, but he finds cut when the newspapers try to run Tim out of town. Larry’s school friends turn against him all except Julie Davis, his “girl friend,” and Bill Davis, her brother and Larry’s best friend. A dramatic climax ensues as Judge Davis, upholder of the law, and Tim Kelly, opponent of the law, face each other across a courtroom, with a boy’s honour at stake. Robert Warwick has the finest opportunity of his entire acting career as Tim Kelly, and he makes the most of it. Sympathy is divided between father and son all through the picture; A fourteen-year-old radio star, Lucy Gilman, is excellent as Julie, Jackie’s “girl friend.” This is her first picture, and from all indications she would go far. Others outstanding in the cast of “Gangster’s Boy” include Louise Lorimer, New York stage star, who plays Jackie’s mother; Tommy. Wonder as Bill; Selmer Jackson as the severe Judge Davis; and Huntley Gordon as the kindly school principal.