Cosy Theatre, Woodville

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 303, 23 December 1939, Page 4

Cosy Theatre, Woodville

“ROSE OF WASHINGTON SQUARE” Tho romantic stars of “ Alexander’s Ragtime Band, ’ 3 Tyrone Power und Alice Faye, are joined by A 1 Jolson, the star who sings back the past everyone wants *to remombor, in “Rose of Washington Squire,’ 1 hailed by critics as the entertainment highlight of 1939. Featuring, as did “Alexander’s Ragtime Band,” the heart songs and hit songs of to-day and yesterday, the 20th. Century-Fox film opens the gates of memory, rich with the emotion of years of beloved melody, and tells the stirring dramatic romance of Rose, a girl on the level about love, no matter how it tricked her. These melody milestones fill the film: “My Man,” “Toot Toot Tootsie, Goodbye,’’ “I’m Sorry I Made You Cry,’’ “Ja-Da, ” i ‘The Vamp,” “The Curse of an Aching Heart,' “April Showers,’’ “Mammy,’’ “Rose of Washington Square,” by James Hanley and Ballard Macdonald, “I’m Always Chasing Rainbows,” “I’m Just Wild About Harry,” “California Here I Como” and * * Avalon. ” In addition there is Gordon and Revel’s latest hit, “I Never Knew Heaven Could Speak. ’' The screen play by Nunnally Johnson, who also served as associatae producer, opens in a popular burlesque house on Fourteenth Street in New York, just after the war. A 1 Jolson is a candy seller in tho theatre, but ho has greal ambitions for tho stage. The film traces his ascent, as well as the climb to fame of Alice Faye, a Binger who wins an amateur night performance at the start of the story. It tells also the tender, heart-breaking romance between Alice and Tyrone Power, a handsome young man who unfortunately prefers to live by his wits. “Rose of Washington Square” screens to-day and to-night at the Cosy Theatre. William Frawley, Joyce Compton and Hobart Cavanagh are featured in the cast. The Christmas Day and Boxing Day attraction is “The Goldwyn Follies,” a dazzling musical comedy in technicolour.