COSY THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 23, 20 October 1937, Page 10

COSY THEATRE

"THtE ACCtTSING FINGER" AND "HEE HUSBAND LlES." Considerable food for tkought to those who hold opinions on capital punishment as an institution as well as those who feel that circuntstantial evidence should be entireiy rilled out in capital cases is contamed in Paramount's "The Accusing Finger," a new drama featuring Marsha Hunt, Robert Cdmmings, Padl Kelly, Kent Taylor, Harry Carey and Bernadeno Hayes, which screens tonight at the Coey Theatre. "The Accusing Finger" tells of Kelly, a district attorney with a perfect recOfd for conVictions. who is hhnself enmeshed in a series of circumstances Which result in his being sentenced to die in the electric chair. All evidence is against hiin and it iB a perfect case. It is known that he is iri love with MiSs Hnnt «jnd not with his Wife, Miss Ha.ves. whom he was over * heard threatening when she created a scene in a publio restaurant. It is also kndWn thta he Was arguing with her oiily sevefal moments before her bndy - was foilnd in her bedroom. Paramount's "Her Husband Lies." a drama of a lie that had to" be told with Gail Patrick and Ricardo Cortez is the second featxire. The story concefns Cortez, a big-time gambler Whose wife, Miss Patrick, gives him the alternative of giving up gambling or losing lier. Re gives her his Word tbat Ife is througti with cards, and tbe climax arriveg ■ wlien ho is forced to go back on his word in order to save liis yOtinger brotber and square himself with his erstwhile associates,