AKAROA PICTURES.
"BABY, TAKE A BOW" PRESENTS, NEW STARLET. j Sihirley Temple Portrays Title Role With Dunn and Giaire Trevor. "Baby, Take a. 80w.," coming to the Akaroa Theatre on Saturday, introduces five-year<od Shirley Temple in her first title role. After her overnight success in "Stand Up and (Cheer! little Shirley has become one of the outstanding- personalities on the ;-.c: cen. She has an. important part in the pitture and is responsible for much of the comedy.
It's a sparkling - comedy-drama 'that gets underway in the first few scenes arc! maintains a rapid tempo to the rxciting finish. The story deals with the struggle for happiness and success c,f a young man just cut of prison a girl who man i.cs him because she believes in him, and the result of theii union, an adorable baby gi'rt who is the pride aixl joy of their hearts. Into the picttre enters an escaped convict and the .theft of some valuable pearls f rem tlie home of the boy s env ployer. Suspicion and the persecution by a self-styled detective cloud the happiness of the. little family. The drama becomes tense as the criminal, passing the little flat, gives .the baby the pearls to avoid being caught with the stolen property in his possession by pursuing officers.
The denouement grow more exciting :is the criminal returns -and ttakes J*jewels and (ho baby, to cover his es-
capc. After an exciting- sequence of events the i'-ems are recovered, the culprit capti'ircd and Shirley is the heroine of [he hour, with a goodly rewaid in j.)ro. L ",poct n.nd the removal of all suspicion from her dad.dy. A irre.it deal of comedy and human, interest has been injected into the scenes showiiig the camaradsiie and affec'tion between daddy and baby and the episode of 'the child s birthday pai'ly affords Shirley another oppoitunity to show her talents as a sinking and .dancing entertainer. Keen romantic interest te maintained also by James Dunn and Claire Trevov.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LVIII, Issue 6141, 27 September 1935, Page 2
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383AKAROA PICTURES. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LVIII, Issue 6141, 27 September 1935, Page 2
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