AMUSEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 December 1940, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

EVERYBODY’S PICTURES.

NOW SHOWING

“BAD LITTLE ANGEL.”

“Bad Little Angel,” poigant romance of childhood, brings two of Hollywood’s outstanding child players to the Princess Theatre, in the persons of Virginia Woidlcr of “The Woinne” and “Out West with tile Haidys,’’ and Gene Reynolds of “Hoys Town” and “They Shall Have Music.” The picture, hailed as tlie emotional successor of “Boys Town,” tells the story of a little orphanage waif wlifc has been taught implicit faith in the Bible. She runs away from the. orphanage to a small New Jersey village where a kind newspaper editor plans to adopt her. He loses bis job. The father of a boy who befriends her is the town drunkard. How the child, with her faith and courage, so changes the lives of the different characters that their problems are" solved is the crux of the plot. Comedy, pathos, inspiration and dramatic thrills are all in the story, based on a novel by Margaret Turnbull. Players include Lois Wilson,, as Miss Weidler footer, mother, lan Hunter, as her foster father, Guy Kibbee as the harsh (ownTiifHionaire, Henry Hull as the town drunkard-’ who reforms under the child’s influence, Elizabeth Patterson and Reginald Owen. Excitement includes the’ rescue of Hunter from a blazing tlim;-storey factory, a dramatic encounter in a newspaper office, a trip in a quaint old train iof 1885

FRIDAY—SATUJRDAY, MATINEE AND NIGHT. THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER

Ernst Lubitsch .has come up with another and; most agreeable surprise. For the dirceroi- who made Greta Gar bp and the nation"laugh- with “Ninotcbka’ has brought Margaret Sullivan and James Stewart to the screen in a motion picture as humanly realistic and ■charmingly amusing as the daily doings at the neighbourhood grocery store. Tf is “The Shop Around the Corner” which opens on Friday. The cast includes Frank Morgan, Joseph Scliildkraut. Sara Haden,