The Happy Years
At Watts Theatre
“The Happy Years. new M-G
M attraction at the Watts Thea
trc, Sunday and Monday, is i
picture which every member o
the family, from Grandpa dowt
t-o Jittlc Junior, can enjoy to hi:
heart's content.
Based on the American boy
hood stories about Lawrencevilk
Academy, made famous severa.
decade; a.ao by Owen Johnson
the Technicolor photoplay is filled
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with delightful humor, tende
touches and heartwarming cha
raeterizalions.
It is the story of the incor
rigible young Dink Stover, whose
penchant for getting into mis
chief gets him expelled from
several schools and finally lands
him at Lawrenceville Academy.
Here he immediately becomes the
most unpopular boy on the cam
pus because of his refusal to con
form to Lawrenceville traditions.
Vii-ttmked, duped and ostracized
b\ his classmates and made the
| chief butt of the sarcasm of his
Latin teacher, the formidable Old
Roman, who is also football coach.
Dink is ready to call it quits when
Ins first term ends But when his
family are read' to concede that
Dink can't "take it," he returns
to Lawrenceville to show his met
tle not only in battling his stu
dent adversaries but as a football
hero And in the story's final se
quences, when he refuses to take
advantage of an opportunity to
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[James Craig Plays
First 'Heavy' Role
It's a startling “about face for
James Craig in his new role as
the ex con-man in M-G-M-’s ex
citing drama, "Side Street," show
ing Tuesday and Wednesday at
the Watts Theatre, with Farley
Granger and Cathy O'Donnell co
starred.
In his latest film characteriza
i tion, Craig, heretofore seen in
i sympathetic roles, turns killer in
I one of the most savage portrayals
written for a photoplay. Four vic
tims, two of them women, met
' violent ends at his hands,
j Craig is the second M-G-M star
to shift from hero to villain, the
cheat in an examination, he
proves himself once and for all
the stuff that Lawrenceville boys
; arc made of.
A large cast of Hollywood's vet
jeran juvenile actors are seen in
‘The Happy Years,” with the role
[of Dink played by Dean Stock
jwell, perfectly cast as a typical
American boy of the period.
[Other topnotch portrayals are
j contributed by Darryl Hickman
j as Tough McCarty, Scotty Beck
[ett as Tennesse Shad, Donn Gift,
I who wins the nickname of Hung
ry Smeed after devouring
I forty-nine pancakes, breaking all
records, and Claudia Barrett as
[the girl who first intersts Dink
in romance. Leo G. Carroll is
I both funny and sympathetic as
!the sardonic Old Roman, with
|other adult roles filled by Leon
Ames as Dink's father and Mar
igalo Gillmorc as his harassed
mother.
William A. Wellman, who
achieved great success with his
direction of the soldiers in “Bat
tleground,” proves himself equal
i ly adroit with the almost as tough
I youngsters in “The Happy Years,”
j and has given his story a delight
ful human quality. As in “Battle
ground,” he has also assured com
plete authenticity of local color
by filming much of his new pic
ture directly on the Lawrence
ville Academy campus. The result
is a picture which stands out as
one of the screen’s rewarding ef
forts. Everyone, young and not so
young, will capture its infectious
spirit.
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"Den I took my rusty rifle and I shot him. Dat's how I got my rug.”
Jimmy Durante becomes a raconteur for Terry Moore and Queenie
Smith in the above scene from George Pal’s comedy, ‘‘THE GREAT
RUPERT,” which shows Tuesday and Wednesday at the Marco
Theatre. Tom Drake is also starred in the film which is being re
leased. by Eagle Lion Films.
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first being Ann Sothern, who
played'her first “heavy” in
“Death in the Doll’s House,” in
which she tried to put a small
child- witness to murder out of
the way.
Craig, a product of Nashville,
Tenn.,' began his film career in
’ Westerns and won his first im
portant “break” opposite Ginger
’ Rogers in “Kitty Foyle.” He has
won. popularity in a long string
of pictures among them, “Mar
’ riage Is a Private Affair,” "The
( Human Comedy,” "Little Mister
Jim" and "Our Vines Have Ten
der Grapes."
Filmed largely in New York
City ,w'ith its characters repre
senting a cross-section of the var
ied types, rich and poor, which
make this metropolis one of the
most colorful cities in the world,
M-G-M's “Side Street," offers a
compelling dramatic story , ac
tion-packed, fast-moving and
marked by some of the season's
most persuasive screen perform
ances.
Told through the eyes of Paul
j Kelly, cast as a New YorK horn’- .
I cide squad captain, the story cen- j
i ters on the plight of a work-a- !
, day young couple, Cathy O'Don-1
1 nell, young expectant mother, and
Farley Granger, her ill-paid hus- j
band who in economic despera
! tion resorts to robbery. When he
1 subsequently tries to return the
; money it is too late and he finds
himself hopelessly caught in a
t mesh which involves a shady
lawyer and his sadistic ex-con
pal, a black-mailing adventuress
and a duwn-at-the-heel Green
wich Village night club singer.:
There is enough action for sever- i
al pictures in the terror-ridden
man-hunt and the excitement- i
pitched chase through the streets
of lower New York in which the ■
police finally catch up with a
vicious murderer.
. Farley Granger gives an out
standing performance as the hus
band unable to resist the temp
tation of sudden wealth, and Ca
thy O’Donnell is poignantly mov
ing as the young wife. James j
Craig, unexpectedly east as a,
"heavy," is the sinister con-man, j
Jean Hagen scores as the night 1
club singer and other expert
character work is contributed by
Paul Harvey, Edrmrn Ryrn and
Charles McCraw, The realistic
and taut direction of Anthony
Mann also aids in making “Side
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