| Show MOW COK TH ME IN AGE or CON NT I 1 COMING TO also wheeler and woolsey in the rollicking comedy hold em jail grandmothers moral code its pretty generally agreed by biow now is almost confined to illustrated cal enders the old third reader and tradition in contrast the problems the philosophies the pitfalls and the pleasures of modern modem youth are radically different just how different is dramatically emphasized in the new radio picture the age of consent which is coming to the cinema friday and saturday A boy and a girl on a college campus face the question of whether to marry or finish their education two teachers a man and a woman coun counsel ea against them throwing up their degrees but the youngsters see that in waiting this very couple has lost happiness love has passed them by while they waited college sheepskins sheep skins decorate their walls but no marriage license i the boy is impulsive the girl hesitant meanwhile both are caught up in the social swirl of the campus life A midnight drinking bout leads the boy into complications with another girl I 1 A stern stem parent declares it can only be straightened out by wedi j ding service and here the film raises a ques i tion of importance to parents and to philandering youth at the same time what should be the age of consent when does parental authority cease and the normal impulses of youth become their own responsibilities gregory la cava who directed the age of consent has handled this theme with great sympathy and great drama with a group of appealing youngsters as his materials te tc rials he has wrought a vivid romance of modern modem youth that theater goers of all ages will find convincing and in some cases startling dorothy wilson the little cinderella of the heads the large cast which includes richard cromwell eric linden arline judge aileen pringle john halll day and reginald barlow hold em jail come on you rooters the big game of the prison conference comes to the kindma sunday monday and tuesday where bert wheeler and robert woolsey are co starring in their comedy hold em jail with I 1 edna may oliver edgar kennedy arosco rosco stuttering ates and betty grable in the featured cast wheeler and woolsey are main stays of the Bi demore convict lineup miss oliver kennedy and miss I 1 grable cheer them on to victory jin in the stands also is ates cheated out of playing in the great game 9 ame by a governors pardon bands play and rooting sections cheer and sing their alma mater songs with all the dash and fire i of collegiate undergraduates while football such as has never been seen on a university gridiron is dished out on the field of battle the thought of a prison football team is funny enough to begin with but when it Is earned carried out to the extreme in absurd equations when the entire prison is given a collegiate atmosphere with bands cheering sections and an enthusiastic alumni with quaint and original methods of obtaining new gridiron talent the basic idea easily becomes a laugh riot among the pigskin gladiators who participate in the prison classic are such former college stars as all american ernie marshall duffield norman dunca jim musick and roy baker |
