COSY THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 72, 17 December 1937, Page 10

COSY THEATRE

"FARBWBU, AOAIN," 4 'Farewell Again ' ' and "Walt Disney Eevue" screen finally to-night. If it ig action you like, with a dash of rpmance and exeitement and humonr^ "High, Wide and Ha^dsQple,,' whieh commenees at the Cosy Theatre to-jriorrQw, is jnst that Mnd of pniter' tainment, It has every element that malces a pictare — good story, gopd acting, good singing, goo^l comedy and the most exciting of "scraps." Irene Dunne and Randolph Scott have the leads— but do not picture them as a "Roberta" team. They are as charmingly romantic, but it is a role that holds something entirely new for Irene Dunne. The scene is laid in America in the days when oil was just entering the boom stage. Scott' is cast as a young farjner with novel ijdeas on the subject. He pursues them and his energies are rewarded when oil is stmck in a "gusher" on his property. There are amazing scenes as the oil rush sets in. Then the railway direetors decided that the industry needed " organising. ' ' Freight rates were raispd tQ such a height that it was impossible for thd farmers-cum-oil drillers to get their product to thp refine?ies. Led by Septt, the farmers set ont on the trempndous task of laying a pipeline acrosg a long stretch Qf pountry that wpuld carry the oil direct to the reflnery without the need to depend on the railway, They were lawless 4aya and the pipe-layers were constantly beset by gangs of "toughs," engaged by thp railway to spoil the onterprise. Irene Dunne, da'ughter of a travelling ghowman, becomps the wifp of Scptt^ and it is through her help that (suc'cess eyentually comes to thp farmefS'Of-oib Through it all there are t]io musie and the songs of Jerome 3?ern and Oscar Hammerstein II., and a wide variety of side interests, inclhding the aetivitips of a circus. It is thoroughly good entertainment.