AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 253, 1 November 1939, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS

‘COWBOY PROM BROOKLYN” i “Cowboy From Brooklyn,” with Dick Powell, Pat O’Brien-, and Priscilla Lane in the leading roles has been bookedl for screening on Thursday and Friday at the Regent Theatre.. it’s* the story of hilarious adventures —and misadventures—of y. Brooklyn. New funk, crooner wh 0 goes West in order to make good in the East. Blended with the amusing -story are charming melodic interludes in which Rowell, Aliss Lane and several other mom hers of the large and talented cast sing the five new songs written for this production as well as some famous old-time cowboy ballads. v Despite the fact that “Cowboy from Brooklyn” opens in a .western locale, it is distinctly not a “western” picture. It is, in fact, the direct antitheses of all westerns, for it takes nothing seriously. Headed by Johnnie Davis, Dick Koran, Ann Sheridan, and Ronald Reagan, is one of the largest supporting casts of featured players ever to appear in a Warner Bros, picture. - v '. The screen play was Written by Karl Baldwin and wag. 'based on the stage play, “Howdy Stranger,” which was written by Robert Sloanc and Louise Pelletier, jnr. At tho directional helm wa*i Lloyd Bacon, Warners’ top-notch comedy director,