COSY THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 62, 6 December 1937, Page 5

COSY THEATRE

"END OF THE ROAD" AND "OUTLAWS OF THE ORIENT." Starring Sir Harry Lauder, "The End of the Road" sereening at the Cosy tomorrow is packed with dramatic, human interest, beautiful scenery and photography, fine acting and, above all Sir Harry Lauder; and Sir Harry, appearing in the made-to-measure role of John MacGreggor, has never -shone brighter. The flim has plenty of "The Good Companions" type of appeal; a simple tale of friendly travelling entertainers, lieaded by veteran John MacGreggor, who faces life, with its pleasures and • licartacbes, as it comes, always with courage and a sinile for all. Uarefully woven in the story are Sir Harry's popular songs and patter. Here is an artist who will never age, and his numbers, which include "The End of the Road" and "If Ever I Marry Again1' seem more appealing. His acting performance, too, is optstandi: g and sincere. ' The exciting story of one man's battle to save the desert oil fields from the rampages of Tartar bordes in the pay of a rival company is unfoldcd in (Jolumbia's "Outlaws of the Orient," starring Jack Holt, Avhich is the second feature at the Cosy. Holt portrays a rugged American who, days before his approaching inarriage, niust rush back to China to save the fields from sabotage. Returning to the Gobi desert, be learns he must stay indefinitely, because his drinksodden brother, played by James Bush, has almost hopelessly muddled the situation.Holt immediately plunges into his job of ridding the oil fields of the harassments of the Tartar tribesmen. A special feature on the Cosy Thoitre programme will be the film of the Napier Inter-House girls sports, a magnilicent short 6ubject.