Double-Feature Programme For Plaza

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23052, 21 June 1940, Page 5

Double-Feature Programme For Plaza

With Humphrey Bogart in the starring role, “You Can’t Get Away With Murder,” a powerful drama of racketeering and gangsterdom, opens at the Plaza Theatre next Friday. The picture was adapted from a play by Lewis E. Lawes and Jonathan Finn, in collaboration. The famous Sing Sing prison warden has drawn largely from his personal experiences to_ present as strong and authentic a story as has yet reached the screen. The plot of the new Warner Bros.’ picture was first devised by Warden Lawes, and in collaboration with Jonathan Finn he wrote it as a stage play, which was produced in New York two years ago. Playing probably the most ruthless character of his career of sinister roles, Bogart is the actual perpetrator of the murder for which another man is sent to Sing Sing death house. The murder was witnessed by a 19-year-old youth, who is Bogart’s accomplice. Subsequently Bogart and the youth are arrested for another of their many crimes and also sent to Sing Sing. Here Bogart begins to fear that the boy will tell the true story of the murder, for the man who has been condemned to death for it * is the fiance of the boy’s sister. There are many adventures before the end of the exciting film. Gale Page and' John Litel are also featured in the cast. Something absolutely new in the line of comedies about, the prize ring is “Kid Nightingale,” Warner Bros.’ motion picture, featuring John Payne and Jane Wyman, which is the associate feature in this programme. At the outset of the story, John Payne is a singing waiter, and a fight manager recognises his fistic -talents when he takes the manager’s part in a brawl at the restaurant where he is employed. Since Payne is thrown out of the restaurant along with the manager,' he is out of a job, and listens with interest when the manager

offers to make him a champion fighter. He is won over completely whep the manager promises to train him for grand opera at the same time as he is training for the prize ring. The comedy then begins. The famous Hall Johnson Choir is featured in 20th Century-Fox s “Swanee River,” the story of Stephen C. Foster, the great American troubadour, starring Don Ameche, Andrea. Leeds, and A 1 Jolson. The choir sings many of Foster’s most famous songs, including “Old Black Joe,” in this technicolour film. Hall Johnson himself wrote the arrangements for the songs sung by the choir.