TUDOR THEATRE

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3549, 4 May 1939, Page 5

TUDOR THEATRE

“LIVE, LOVE AND LEARN” “BOY OF THE COMING Tonight at the Tudor Theatre will be the final screening of “Live, Love and Learn,” a humorous picture featuring Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell and Robert Benchley. From out of the depth of the tenements of a great city rises a stirring, triumphant story of youth and honour and of a boy’s fight to find himself in. “Boy of the Streets,” which comes to the Tudor Theatre tomorrow evening. Its star is Jackie Cooper, whose moving characterisation of Chuck, the tenement “big shot,” definitely tstablishes him as an adult star. “Boy of the Streets” is a story of the children who grow up in the sombre shadows of the tenements. The camera focuses on Chuck, leader of a gang of young hoodlums, catching him at the sensitive adolescent age when he is first forced to decide what is right and what is wrong.

Four star performances characterise this picure. Jackie Cooper, as Chuck, proves his artistry in an unforgettable, finely-shaded portrait of the sensitive lad who conquers his evil environment; and Marjorie Main, New York star, wins spontaneous applause as Chuck’s mother. Guy Usher is a pathetic “Fog Horn” Brennan, and George Cleveland wins comedy honors as

“Time Farley,” political stooge. Kathleen Burke and Gordon Elliot supply the love interest, and Maureen O’Connor, radio’s Baby Star o $ 1937, makes her debut in this picture, co-starring with Cooper as the little Irish lass who stands beside him in his fight to conquer his environment. She sings beautifully, and is a grand little actress.