COSY THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 76, 22 December 1937, Page 13

COSY THEATRE

"THE LADY FIGHTS BAOK" Presenting Irene Herv.ey as the vivacious girl manager of a millionaires fishing club on a river in the great north woods, Universal's Bmashing comedy hit, "The Lady Fights Back," screens at the Gosy Theatre to-night. OfE to a running start with the opening scene, the picture offera a merry, mad carnival of humour and nonsense, into which is blended a sizzling romance, with the boy and girl alternately making love and fighting each other for eontrol of the river. Kent Taylor is cast 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 pf 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 McMale (Irene Hervey), manager of the club, meets Owen when he mistakes her for a boy and gives her a kick in the seat of the pant3. Learning his mission, she immediately plans to use every feminine tactic to outwit his projected dam. Through a trieko she delays Owen two days at the club-house. During lazy afternoons of fishing they grow honestly fond of each other. Stubbornly, fchough, each secretly schemes to outwit the other and win his objective. On the stage the Cosy management presents to-night Miss Faye Walker winner of the New Zealand Deanna Durbin contest. Miss Walker has an excellent singing voice and she will present several selected solos.