COSY THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 54, 19 March 1937, Page 15

COSY THEATRE

"OLD HUTOH" Pilmed entirely ia the colourful farm couxitry of Santa Cruz, "Old Hutch,,, ■which opens at the Cosy Theatre tomorrow, deals with a xnan who hasn't worked fpr twenty years because oi "back trouble.,, While fishing one day he accidentally stumbles upon a box of hidden loot, £35,000. in all. "Old Hufch" is portrayed by the inimitable Wallace Beery apd his performance has delighted capacBy audiencea ovorywhere. Bepause he hasn't worked in years and is known to he withou^ a cent., he. realises that it would he impossibie for him to cash, any of the £1,000 bilis. Hutch gets a job" running a farm in order to save enough money to start using the (stolen bills without arousjng suspieiop, There ia more than mere w.ealth ofi humour jn this new charaeter who comets in the person ofi Wallace Beery, He is the essence of rich good homour, but beyond that he symboiipep the eaJsy tolerance, the quiet acceptance oi late, and in the last analysis, the ifiery individual who, when driven to fight, does it wifh his whole soul, his strong hody and two good fists. Erie Linden and Ceciliar Parker, are teamed in the romantic leads, The supporting caJlst includes Robert MeWade, Caroline Perkina and Eiisabeth Patterson, "New Moon" To-night To-night the final screening takes 1 place of "New Moon," starring Lawrence Tibbett and Grace Moore.