COSY THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 75, 21 December 1937, Page 10

COSY THEATRE

"HIGH, WIDE AND HANDSOME. ' "High, Wide and Handsome" screens finally to-night at the Cosy Theatre. l'resentiug Irene Hervey as the vivacious girl manager of a millionaires j fishing club on a river iu the great north woods, Universal's (smasuing comedy hit, "The Lady Fights Back," comes'to the Cosy Theatre to-morrrw. OfE to a running start with the opening scene, the picture- olfers a merry. mad carnival of humour and nonsense, into which is blended a sizzling romance, with the boy and girl alternately malting love and fighting each other for control of the > river. Kent Taylor is east opposite Miss Hervey as the young engineer whom she meets when he mistakes her for a boy, as she bends over a baulky speed-boat motor, and gives her a swift kick in the seat of the pants. Owen Merrill (Kent Taylor), handsome young engineer, arrives on the Muskalaga river in the beautiful mountain country of the north to build a dam. For years the river has been the private fishing preserve of exclusive Maskalaga Salmon Club. Pretty Heather MeMale (Irene Hervey), manager of the club, meets Owen when he mistakes her for a boy and gives her a kick in tlie seat of the pants. Learning his mis'sion, she immediately plans to use every feminine tactie to outwit his projected dam. Through a trick. she delays Owen two days at the club-house. During lazy afternoons of fishing they grow honestly fond of each other. Stubbornly, though, each secretly schemes to outwit the other and win hbs objective. • On the stage the Cosy management presents lo-morrow Miss Faye Walker, winner of the New Zealand Deann.a Durbin contest. Miss Walker has an excellent singing voice and she will present several iselected solos.