COSY THEATRE
"EBADY, -WILLING AND ABLE.'* * "Ready, WiUing and Able," a comfldy with music made by Warner'Bros. f roin the Richard Macanlay story of fcho'same name will bo prescnted as tho f ea ture attraetion of the Cosy Theatro to-night. Co-starred are the twinldingtoe/1 JRuby Keeler, and the famous young eccentric daneer Lee Dixon. The songs are by Johnny Mercer and EieUird Whiting. The delightful Louise Fazenda has an eccentric joie well fitted to her talents as a comedienne and torch singer, Winifred Sliaw is cast as a British musical comedy star. Otlier uotables in the cast are Allen Jenklds, ' Uarol Hughet-, Hugh O'Connell, Teddy Jdart, Addisou Eiehards, -Ross Alexander, 8»haw aud Lee, the "piano-mov-ers" from vaudeville, E. E. Clive and Jane.Wyman. , Something altogether new in tlie way of a "number" is a typewriter 3u feet high, on the . lteys of which dancing girls spell out a lovoietter dictated to them by Alexander, j The story part of the picture was guided bv Ray Enright. "Ready, Willing and Able" is said to have a much more substantial and colierent story than most musical films have. It was adapted for the screen by Jerry Wald, Sig Herzig and Warren Duff, and is one of the Warner's most pretentious qfferings for 193 7^
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 8, 2 October 1937, Page 12
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