COSY THEATRE
W. C. FIELDS IN "POPPY" Strifle up the band, folks. Here he ctmes — tho screen's greatest crooner, lover, villain, comedian — all in one and cne in all! America's grand old troulier in his grandest merry-go-round of laugha, laughs and love! Such is W. C. I'ields in "Poppy," which commences at the Cosy Theatre to-morrow. Fields appears as a patent-medicine man aud tent show follower, who is the guardian of an eightecn-year-old girl, Rv.oh.elle Hudson. The girl has never known any otlier life. When the two are operafing a concession in a smalj town, Ronchelle meets and falls ih love with Richard Cromwell, son of the town's mayor. Fields, meanwliile, has concocted a scheme to have his ward identified as a missing Leire&s so she can take over an unclaimed fortune in the town. The scheme works for a time and then is exposed. Bochelle, heiress for a day, is faced with the breaking up of her love affair and reliquishing of her new home. Then a- sudden turn of the plot brings a happy onding. "Pennies From H'eaven" and "Find the Witness," sereens finally to-night.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 109, 25 May 1937, Page 5
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