COSY THEATRE
1WO TOP-NOIOHEBS. Jean Arthur and Joel McCrea, as ..andsome a scfeen team as ever charmjd an audience, rocnp gaily through the season's most diverting comedy-ro- . manee, "AdVenture in Manhattan," which opens to-morrow at the Cosy , Theatre. ' "Adventure in Manhattan" [ concerns the efforts of a former newspaperman turned crime novelist to solve a series of robberies engineered uy a cnaster crook. As the aetresB friend of McCrea, .Tean Arthur delivers , a topnotch portrayal. McCrea enacts ids role as the newspaperman with liuesse and conviction and brilliantly shaded humour, while Reginald Owen makes of his eharacter. the suavely com tinentaL. criminal genius, one of the most interesting screen characters of the year. Crammed with thrilis and replete with romance and sprakling cocnedy, Oolumbia 's "Blackmailer,". also at the Cosy, rates a generous assortment of stars as one Of the most exciting mystery dramas of the current season. William Gargan and Florence Rice are featured in this thriiling photoplay, which cnoves with breath-taking speed f rom one dynamic situation to another, effectively interpolated with comedy moments and sparkling dialogue. Other important roles are well played by H. B. Warner, Nana Bryant and George McKay. concluding To-night "Ehythm on the Range," the Bing Crosby musieal, and "A Bon Com.es Home," a drama starring Mary Boland and Julie Haydon, conclude at the Cosy to-night»
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 30, 19 February 1937, Page 13
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