“TOO MANY CROOKS.”

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 3 December 1927, Page 15

“TOO MANY CROOKS.”

STARTING ON SATURDAY AT COSY DE LUXE.

She was rich, but honest. That was all right. But she wanted to write a play. That was awful. They decided to cure her, and, as America is a most wonderful place (not an advertisement), where you can buy perfectly good five-cent cigars, read ‘‘Elmer Gantry” in the original and throw- a stone at a policeman right in New York City without tear of any consequences, all they had to do was to engage some professional criminals (the locale of the story is doubtless Chicago) and give them carte blanche with the house. But amongst the criminals was a man of surpassing beauty, of wittv speech and excellently tailored clothes, just the sort you read of in the advertisements. He was one crook too many, and the amazing heroine decided to reform him as well as write a play. So “Too Many Crooks” came into being, and this uproariously amusing comedymystery drama will head Saturday’s programme at the Cosy de Luxe Theatre. For all its pleasant humour, and eerie thrills and ingenious mysteries, it is the prominent newness of -‘Too Many Crooks” that captures the attention first, and it is that which stamps a picture as above average these days. Mildred Davis and George Bancroft support Lloyd Hughes. William V. Mong, Cleve Moore and John St. Polis are some of the engaging ‘‘crooks.”

“WINCS OF THE STORM.”

STARTING AT THE COSY DE LUXE SATURDAY.

‘‘Wings of the storm” was picturised in the vicinity of Mount Rainier.

It was Maeterlinck who said that in all the immense crucible of nature there is not another living being that has shown the same suppleness ol form or plasticity of spirit as that which one soon discovers in a dog. In a feature photodrama coming to the Cosy de Luxe Theatre, “Wings of the Storm,” there is depicted a remarkable story of a dog’s triumph over nature. It is, in a sense, a jncturisation of the thought expressed by the noted Belgian author and play wright. In the role of the dog who is a weakling at birth, the runt of the litter of thoroughbred police dog puppies, and whose development is directly dependent upon his environment and treatment, Thunder, a beau tiful police dog, gives a clean-cut, vividly impressive performance. It is a Fox Films production, directed by J. G. Blystone. to whom unstinted praise is due for the fine spiritual quality , and scenic beauty of the cinema. Exteriors for the film were made in the picturesque region centreing about Mount Rainier in Washington. Virginia Brown Faire, Reed Howes and William Russell appear in the human drama that is the background, for Thunder's activities.

■ MICHAEL STROGOFF.”

STARTING AT THE MUNICIPAL THEATRE ON WEDNESDAY. It’s Colossal, spectacular and perfection of Colour Photography. The Ujiiversal-Film de France production presented by Carl Laemmle, the first picturisation of Jules Verne’s famous hook and play “Michael Strogoff.” From the opening scenes when the “Czar of All Russia” entrusts to the hero, liis “secret courier,” a message to the Czar’s brother, the Grand Duke, beleagured at the head of the army in Siberia, ft,DOO miles away, to the very end of that perilous journey in a rousing climax, .the audiemco is deeply engrossed in the mishaps