"THE GOOD BAD GIRL."

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 296, 14 December 1931, Page 3

"THE GOOD BAD GIRL."

The difficulties that beset one who tries to leave the sordid path of crime and live a different life are dramatically shown in “The Good Bad Girl,” a Columbia picture, which opened at the Liberty on Saturday. This is a thrilling him of the American underworld. Gunmen stalk in the shadows; murders are committed; stern policemen wage their eternal war with crooks—through it all a girl fights for happiness and forgetfulness.

Marcia Cameron is a girl of the New York dives. She tells her lover, a graft k i n ?L that she is £° in S to leave his sort of life to marry into a respectable family. He threatens her, but she is adamant. She marries, and her sweetheart, Tyler the crook, is arrested for murder. At the trial, Marcia’s past is disclosed, and her husband’s relatives are horrified. She leaves her husband, and Tyler, escaped from gaol, comes seeking her with a gun. He wants vengeance, as he imagines Marcia gave the police the information that led to his arrest. He is seized by detectives in the nick of time. Marcia’s husband appears and claims her, and all the tangled skeins of the story are pleasingly straightened out. Mae Clarke, who takes the leading role in “The Good Bad Girl.” is a new star to New Zealand. Other members of a strong cast are James Hall, Marie Prevost and Robert Ellis.

The second picture in the double bill is “ Tol’able David,” a story of the Virmountains—packed full of thrills. The cast includes Noah Beery, Joan Peers and Richard Cromwell.