COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 September 1939, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS. The special attractions at the Cosy Theatre tonight will include “Alladin and his Wonderful Lamp” (a technicolour 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 schdlarship and on the athletic field, whose lifetime ambition is to go to West Point. 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 i 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 Jtilie, Jackie’s “girl friend.” This is her first picture, and from all indications she will go far. . L_i__ '■