ENTERTAINMENTS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 41, 28 November 1940, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS.

ST. JAMES THEATRE. A strong and well-balanced, doublefeature bill will be shown to-night and Friday with “The Return of the Cisco Kid” and “Hell’s Kitchen.” In “The return of the Cisco Kid” Warner Baxter brings back to life 0. Henry’s lovable outlaw*, who inspired the greatest legends of the colourful West, meets his most thrilling adventures — and his most beautiful senoritas —as he rides back over the border in.his most exciting and most romantic film. Hell’s Kitchen,” with the “Dead End” kids, Margaret Lindsay, Ronald Reagan and Stanley Fields is an intensely human drama of the regeneration of kids with' a will to help themselves. The story is fnl of action -and moving drama and is high-lighted by some strong touches of comedy at which the “Dead End” kids are so adept. Many have never heard of “Hell’s Kitchen.” It was a very definite and tough neighbourhood .in New York and it is on record that policemen were afraid to walk ' their beats in that neighbourhood except in pairs, so tough were the inhabitants This gives an insight into the environment that the “Hell’s Kitchen.” finds were reared in/ but the story of their regeneration is all the more telling because of that same background.