COSY THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 20, 16 October 1937, Page 14

COSY THEATRE

"STOLEN HOLIDAY." Moments pf sheer beauty contrast vividly with moments of the tensest sort of dramatic suspense in ' 1 Stolen Holiday," istarring Kay Fraucis., which sereens 'at the Cosy Theatre to -night. This time Miss Francis appears first as an obscure little mannequln in a tiny Parisian modipte shop, with ambitions to becoma t^o greatest coutpuriere in i the world. We see her progress from better to better things, until finally ishe has reached her goal. She dictatos modes for all the world. She wears, of course, the most gorgeous of creatious, which had thp women in recent pudienees gasping in admiration. What Kay herself doesn't wear is worn by sixtyodd mannequins, all tall and slender aud profesBional, who furnished a treat for maseuline as well as femininp eyes, But thp Parisian girl's progress has not been easy. It hfis bepii aided lprgely through a rascally financier, Claude Rains, whose scheines finally tumble p,bout his shoulders and cause political scandals iu France aud eveu street 'riots iu Farie, such as. WP have' read' about recently, The fomantic interest in "Stolen Holiday" is proved by Iau Hunter," the handsome young British actor who. played in "The White Angel" with Miss Francis. He portrays a young English diplomat with wkom thp glamorous Kay falls'in love. "Thief Meets'Thief " sereens finally to-night. '