MAYFAIR

Evening Star, Issue 23354, 25 August 1939, Page 3

MAYFAIR

‘ Owd Bob,’ a story of the Scottish Highlands in which Will Fyffe, the famous comedian, is featured in a straight role, heads the programme to conclude to-night at the Mayfair. ‘ Owd Bob ’ is the grey sheep dog of Kenmuir which is owned by the crabbed and crochety old shepherd whose friends are few. The second picture is ‘ Cowboy From Brooklyn,’ featuring Dick Powell, Pat O’Brien, Priscilla Lane, and Dick Foran. Powell is seen as a down-and-out musician who, with two companions, is working his way to the west coast of the country. ROONEY AND BARTHOLOMEW. Another attractive double bill is booked for the Mayfair to-morrow. The juvenile principals of the memorable ‘ Captains Courageous,’ Freddie Bartholomew and Mickey Rooney, are together again in ‘ Boy From Barnardo’s,’ the main attraction. Both boys have progressed along the road to fame and fortune since their first association, especially young Rooney, and both are correspondingly more convincing in this than the earlier film. Master Bartholomew is cast as a conceited young rascal who is used by a gang to pose as a young nobleman and thereby aid them in their nefarious pursuits. When he is charged with implication in a jewel robbery he refuses to betray his associates. The judge takes pity on him, and instead of sentencing him to a reformatory, sends him to a Bamardo home for training as a cadet for the mercantile marine. His snobbishness and conceit soon make him unpopular at the institution. How he eventually gets some sense knocked into his young head makes the theme of an entertaining plot. Supporting will be the bright ‘ The Life of the Party.’