QUEEN'S THEATRE.
A. story of the New York underworld with an unusual twist, is told in "Me, Gangster,", which heads the new bill at tho Queen's Theatre. Juno Collycr plays the lead In the part of a laundry girl with high ideals, and her efforts to reform a budding gangster arc the basis of an absorbing film. 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, he soon drifts into.the easy way of crime. A greater crime than usual puts him behind the prison bars, where he is visited by Mary Began, the laundry girl, who endeavours to. make him disclose the hidingplace of the stolen money. When he refuses to tell, his fellow-gangsters make a desperate attempt to reach him. The arrival of the police and their fight with the crooks make a thrilling climax. "For Once and Forever," the second attraction, is a war Him, in which Patsy Ruth Miller is starred. The Queen's Orchestra plays .appropriate music.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 22, 28 January 1929, Page 5
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176QUEEN'S THEATRE. Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 22, 28 January 1929, Page 5
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