QUEEN'S THEATRE.
A story' of the New York underworld, with no unusual twist is told in "Me, Gangster," which hcadsHhc new bill at the Queen's Theatre. June Collyer' plays the lead in tho part of a laundry girl with high ideals, and her efforts to reform a budding gangster are the basis of an absorbing aim. Danny, the son of a stevedore, is hemmed in by the environment of the river dock - district, and with little incentive to keep him straight, lie so6n drifts into the easy way of crime. A greater crlmo than usual puts him behind, the prlsou bars, where he is visited by Mary I Regan, the laundry girl, who endeavours to make him disclose the ■ hidingplace of tho stolen money. When he refuses to toll, his fellow-gangsters make a desperate attempt to reach liim. Tho arrival of tho police and their fight with the.crooks make a thrilling climax. "For Once and Forever," tho second attraction, is a war film, In which Pafsy Ruth Miller is starred. Tho Queen's Orchestra plays appropriate music.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 22, 26 January 1929, Page 7
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176QUEEN'S THEATRE. Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 22, 26 January 1929, Page 7
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