COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 December 1938, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

“CASE OF THE VELVET CLAWS.

The current programme at the Cosy Theatre will be finally shown tonight.

BULLDOG DRUMMOND PICTURE.

Man’s age-old search for synthetic diamonds forms the plot background of the latest H. C. (Sapper) McNeile adventure story to be brought to the screen by Paramount, “Bulldog Drummond’s Peril,” which will be seen starting tomorrow at the Cosy Theatre. When a great English chemist discovers a way to manufacture perfect diamonds in his laboratory, the world’s largest diamond trust makes desperate and criminal efforts to save its skin. The trust’s henchmen kidnap the chemist and try to pry his secret from him, but their plans are foiled when one of the professor’s close friends enters the case. In a series of exciting adventures, during which both he and his beautiful fiancee are captured by the gang, Drummond, aided by Colonel Nielson of Scotland Yard, tracks down the criminals and prevents their campaign of intrigue and murder from spreading. Seasoned players of previous “Bulldog Drummond” stories. John Howard, John Barrymore, Louise Campbell. Reginald Denny, Nydia Westman and E. E.E Clive, head the cast, while newcomers include Porter Hal], Elizabeth Patterson and Michael Brooke.

The Paramount musical comedy, “College Swing,” opens tomorrow at the Cosy Theatre. Gracie Allen is cast as the “All-American nitwit” who inherits the college which has been trying to cast her out and revamps it in her own image. Edward Everett Horton plays the role of a South American multi-millionaire whose lifelong hatred of the opposite sex ends when Gracie Allen shows him what real love can do. A dozen famous comic players round out the cast, including George Burns, Martha Raye, Bob Hope, Florence George and Ben Blue.