COSY THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 51, 16 March 1937, Page 14

COSY THEATRE

TO-MOEEOW'S OHANGE. Two of the world 7s greateet yoietie and two of the screen 's most vivid pera sonalities are seen in "New Moon," Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's transcription' of the stage hit, co-starring Lawrenc® Tibbett and Grace Moore, and playing to-morrow at the Cosy Theatre. In picture forcn it is far difforent froai the original stage version' although preserving all its salient parts aud it® most popular songs. The story deal® with a Eussian princess who plays with fire in the person of an impassionsd lieutenant only to find that she ha® burned hereself in the intrigue and dan« gerous circumstances which follow! upon her fiance 's discovery of the "af-» fair." The charming music of thsi stage success, including th« never-to* be-forgotten "Lover Come Back t®l Me," "Wanting You," "One Kiss" and "Stouthearted Men" is augmente^ with two outstanding songs, "Wiat I® Your Price Madarne?" and 7"Th€i "Farmer's Daughter." Both Tibbett and Miss Moore giv® flawless performances exclusive of thei® brilliant singing.- Adolphe Menjou i® - excellent as the suave but siniste® superior officer; Eoland Young is araujw ing as the whimsical connt; Gus Shy, the faithful sergeant, Potkin gives ^ characterisation in which comedy an3 pathos are blended, and Emily Fitzroy as the countess gives her usual finishei portrayaL Ooncluding To-night. "The Man I Marry" and '^Mooa* light on the Prairie" conclude at thei Cosy Theatre to-night. The first is a« amusing comedy starring Doris Nolau, and the latter a Western-musical with Dick Foran in the lead,