1939-06-02 — Page 17

MOPSY GLADY'S PARKER

RIDING LATELY, HOW MUCH ABOUT.

YOU'RE DOING A LOT OF

OH,

HALF/

TIME DO YOU

SPEND

IN THE

SADDLE

?

GLADYS PARKER

Cold black type alone cannot be- gin to describe the dramatic power of "Boys Town" Words alone can- not express its realistic humanism. That audiences and it should ap- of peal strongly to any kind audience-may appreciate its grip- ping entertainment merit, there should be an understanding of Boy's Town," an institution near Omaha, the priest who founded it, the boys who inhabit it and their spirit and ideals. But before that is entered into it should be known that the house isn't quite Priscilla Laue in picture "Boys Town" is not merely the same. Follow- "4 Daughters", a grouping of theatric fundamen- ing the composer is another new-tals, not a spectacle, not a lot of comer, a music arranger, a hard-heroics, but rather the saga of an bitten, taciturn, disillusioned old-idea and an ideal. Reverend Flana- young man from a big city's slums. gan, played by Spencer Tracy, hears

Far be it from me to tell

bitter story. you convict "Farrow's" what life does to the four girls, in With the willing but sometimes

A. J. Cronin's spite of all the protection of old skeptical moral and financial sup-

productions Professor Adam Lemp and shrewd port of pawnbroker "Dave Morris,”

new sea- TERS" will also be produced by Aunt Etta. Oddly enough, three he starts the first "Boys Town."

at RKO, will be THE real sisters-Priscilla, Rosemary, The film goes on to unreel how son and Lola Lane-play three of the Father Flanagan improves on his HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME, RKO under the title of VIGIL IN four Lemps, while Gale Page takes "Boys Town making it larger and THE STORY OF NURSE CAVELL, THE NIGHT. Carole Lombard and the part of the other sister.

TOUM. It is possible that these probably Ginger Rogers will have On day a thoroughly bad boy

the leading parts. comes

to "Boys Town" capably three will be made in technicolour. handled by Mickey Rooney and Father Flanagan sets out to prove that there is no such thing as a "bad boy" finally the "bad boy" Mickey Rooney becomes sident of Boys Town amidst the cheers of all his fellow chums.

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Maybe you will like Jeffrey Lynn as the whimsical composer who swings on garden gates. He is a sort of No. 2 Errol Flynn. But the picture is stolen-lock, stock and barrel by John Garfield 39 the fatalistic, bitter, cynical music ar-. ranger. Garfield won his spurs a year ago with New York's Group Theatre as Julės Garfield. It was. inevitable that the movies would

John Garfield in get him. The lad Daughters". will go far. About

better as it goes along.

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the pre-

HOLLYWOOD LODOWN Warner Bros. local office in Hong Kong have just received word from their General Manager in Shanghai that they have just had a “sneak”” preview of "Dark Victory" starring film for Bette Davis and were sure that this will be the new Academy Award picture for the

him there is a slumbering power, a coming year.

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