COMING ATTRACTIONS
OCTAGON THEATRE
" The Kid from Brooklyn,” a new technicolor comedy, should provide a riot of fun and laughter at the Octagon Theatre to-morrow and afford the versatile comedy star, Danny Kaye, a golden opportunity in a highly spectacular and lavish production As Burleigh Sullivan, an inoffensive and inefficient milkman who wins a world’s boxing championship, Kaye gives of his best. Burleigh is accorded undeserved credit for knocking out the champion, Speed McFarlane, m a street brawl, and is signed up by Gabby Sloan, Speed’s manager, who plans to build up a series of “ phony ” knock-outs and then match him against Speed for the championship in which he will bet his whoie bankroll on the champion. H °w Burleigh upsets the plan and wins the fight foims the hilarious climax.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26473, 29 May 1947, Page 10
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131COMING ATTRACTIONS Otago Daily Times, Issue 26473, 29 May 1947, Page 10
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