Cosy Theatre, Woodville

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 173, 25 July 1939, Page 4

Cosy Theatre, Woodville

TONIGHT AND TOMORROW Acclaimed by Hollywood critics as one of the more hilarious mirth outbursts emanating from the film studios this year, "Peck’s Bad Boy With the Circus’’ comes to the Woodville Cosy Theatre screen as tho newest chronicle of Bill Peck’s lovable pranks and misadventures. Tommy Kelly, who played the top role in "Adventureß of Tom Sawyer," starred as Bill Peck in this, the first of a series based on the comical activities of this beloved light of literature. Ten-vear-old Ann Gillis, who also appeared in "Tom Sawyer," plays a juvenile circus bareback rider. Edgar Kennedy portrays a circus lion trainer, and other principal roles are enacted by such notables as Billy Gilbert, Benita Hume, Spanky MacFarland and Louioe Beavers, directed by Edward F. Cline. This time the colourful big top is the existing scene for Bill Peck’s trouble-making but laugh-provoking antics. Fleeced of his railroad faro to camp, Bill joins up with a travelling circus to obtain his transportationand revenge. His boyish feats —like feeding sleeping potions secreted in frankfurters to the man-eating lions —contribute to the generous hilarity of "Peck's Bad Boy With the Circus." The film is climaxed by a rousing crosscountry race in a Roman chariot to camp, where Bill wins a laugh and action laden obstacle race. The associate feature is Edgar Wallace's greatest mystery thriller, "The Frog," with Gordon Harker and Noah Beery starring. The picture bears the stamp of perfect entertainment. Harker has never appeared to better advantage nd is excrutiatingly funny. A good supporting cast contains Jack Hawkins, Vivian Gave and Carol Goodner.