“BOY FROM BARNARDO’S"

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 45, 23 February 1939, Page 5

“BOY FROM BARNARDO’S"

FREDDIE, BARTHOLOMEW STARS The understanding manner in which waifs, orphans and homeless boys are fitted to take their place in life is feelingly portrayed in “The Boy From Barnardo’s,” which is showing on Saturday of next week al the Majestic Theatre. Freddie Bartholomew is cast as a priggish little snob who finally emerges as a likeable fellow after having his faults knocked out of him. Used as a dupe by a gang of jewel thieves, he is brought before a magistrate, who sends him to the home rather than Io a reform school. The boys are a decent crowd, but Freddy tries his sneaking tricks, and gets thoroughly disliked. Many adventures befall him before he is a sailor aboard the finest ship afloat. Mickey Rooney is cast as the good-hearted Irish friend of Bartholomew, and Herbert Mundin is

; excellent in the role of Mr. Jelks, one of the instructors. Among the supports is an excellent feature dealing with lhe history'and growth of Salt Lake City. Junior Farrell, boy pianist, plays artistically and skilfully from the stage, his numbers including one of his own compositions. “Trade Winds” Completed. Walter Wanger’s “Trade Winds,” co-starring Fredric March and Joan Bennett, has been completed, and is due for early release. Tay Garnett, directed the production, and the cast supporting the stars includes Ralph Bellamy, Ann Sothern, Robert Elliot, Gloria Youngblood, Sidney Blackmor, and Thomas Mitchell. The original story by Garnett was adapted for the screen hy Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell. The action of “Trade W’inds” takes place in seven countries of the Far East, material for these sequences having been photographed by Garnett, during a recent world cruise in his yacht.