Freddie Bartholomew’s New Film

Northern Advocate, 30 January 1939, Page 2

Freddie Bartholomew’s New Film

Freddie Bartholomew’s new screen role see* him es a juvenile confidence man. It is au oUch that he appears in the first sequences of “The Boy from Barnardo’s,” ,a drama, of childhood regeneration and the Barnardos Homes, institutions for the reclamation of Youth. * " Freddie plays a boy posing as a little English. lord, but really an accomplice Of two older crooks. Arrested and sent to the Barnardo Home, he finds his regeneration and place in life. .The picture deals in detail with life at thfe nautical training institution in the group .which includes 112 district homes, providing training of all kinds in England. ' ,

The homes were founded by Dn Thomas John Bardardo, a physician Who, practising in the East Side of London, saw and pitied the hundreds of homeless waifs rapidly approaching lives of crime. Believing that proper training and care would transform them into useful citizens he founded his first home in 1867. The idea was successful. .Public support was given the idea and the authorities co-opera-ted.

At the time Dr. Barnardo died in 1905, more than 60,000 boys had been cared for in the homes, with only 2 jaer cent, of failures to rehabilitate. Since then the total has grown to 112,000. The homes are now operated by a national association, but still are known by the name of their founder.

' Eight hundred different planes will be seen in “Tost Pilot,” Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer’s pretentious aviation picture. One hundred are seen in mass flight, while the others are shown at the Cleveland races, at Army Posts and civilian- airports. They include every type of modern land piano, from racing ships to pleasure craft. One qf the sequences shows the latest type of United States Army bombers in flight. These include the gigantic “flying fortresses,” said to be the most efficient war planes yet designed. Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy and Lionel Barrymore are starred in this air epic.

Remember the charming home which formed the main setting for the comedy “Bringing Up Baby?” Dick Powell and his wife, Joan Blondell, were so attracted by it they have captured the plans of this house R.K.O. built for the Hepburn picture, and are going to build it for* themselves.