COSY THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 73, 18 December 1937, Page 13

COSY THEATRE

"HIGH, WIDE AND HANDSOME." If if is action you like, with a dash of romance and excitement and humour. "High, Wide and Handsome," which screens at the Cosy Theatre to-night, is just that kind of entertainment. It has every element that makes a picfcure — good story, good acting, good singing, good comedy and the most exciting of ' ' scraps. ' ' Irene Dunne and Randolph Scott have the leads. The scene is laid in America in the days when oil was just entering the boom stage. Scott is cast as a young farmer with novel ideas on the subject. He pursues them and his energies are rewarded when oil is struck in a "gusher" on his property. There are amazing scenes as the oil rush sets in. Led by Scott, the farmers set out on the tremendous task of laying a pipeline acrosg a long stretch of country that would carry the oil direct to the refinery without the need to depend on the railway. They were lawless days and the pipe-layers weie constantly beset by gangs of "toughs," engaged by the railway to spoil the enterprise. Irene Dunne,' daughter of a travelling showman, becomes the wife of Scott. and it is through her help that success eventually comes to the farmers-of-oil. Through it all there are the music and the songs of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II., and a wide variety of side interests, including the activities of a circus. It is thoroughly good entertainment.