COSY THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 4, 28 September 1937, Page 10

COSY THEATRE

THREE BIG FEATURES. A grand programme will be preeented at the Cosy Theatre this evomng. Literally a whole speedway full of championship raeing drivers appear with Charles Quigley, Dorothy Wilson, Eddie Nugent, and Patricia Farr In Columbia 's new drama, "Speed to Spare." "Midnight Court" is a Warner Bros, melodrama starring Ann Dvorak. Miss Dvorak plays the part of a court stenographer who, one evening is horrified to see in the line-up the brilliant lawyer who was once her husband— but now a confirmed drunkard. The thenio of the picture is her rehabilitation of him and the means by which. they expose a gang of automobile thieves. patrons .of the screen, Lionel Barrymore is rccognisable only by his inimitable artistTy, in Metro-Goldwyn-May-er 's "The Devil Doll," which screens at the Cosy Theatre to-morrow. Barrymore lmpersonates an ancient woman. In wig and skirts and petti-. coats, the veteran master af charactcrisation achieves something that he has never attempted before. His change from the heavy-browed, shaggy-haired man he is, to the character of a benign old woman is a miracle of tho screen. The story concerns the career of a hall'mad scientist who conceives a formula that reduces animals and human beings to a sith of their natural size but leaves them hopeless lnorons, subject to tho will of their insano master. The laboratory, with its macabre scenes of tiny humans and the gloating genius plotting his revenge on eruei enemies, ia one of the tremendously startiing spectacles in v\ hich Barrymore has ever participated.