COSY THEATRE
"THE DEVIL DOLL'' TO-17IGHT. Familiar and beloved though he is to patrons of the screen, . Lionel Barrymere is recognisable only by his inimitable artistry, in Metro-Goldwyn-May-er's . The. Devii Doll," which screens at the Cosy Theatre to-night. Barrymore lmpersonates an ancient woman. In'wig'and skirts and petticoats, the veteran master af characterisation achieves " something that he has never ' attempted befbre. His change from the heavy-browed, shaggy-haired man he is, to the character of n benign old woman is a miracle of the screen. The story concerns the careeT of a halfmad scientist who1 conceives a formuia that reduces animals and human beings to a sixthof their natural size but leaves them hopeleas morons, subject to the wxll of their msane master. 'The laboratory, with its macabre scenes of tiny humans and the gloating geuius plotting his revenge on cruel onemios, ia one of the tremendously startling spectacles in which Barrymore has evef participated. ' • ' • A double-longth film of the third Test match between the Springboks and All Blacks will be the feature of the first half of the programme.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 6, 30 September 1937, Page 8
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178COSY THEATRE Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 6, 30 September 1937, Page 8
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