COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 January 1939, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

“PERSONAL SECRETARY.”

“Personal Secretary” will be presented finally at the Cosy Theatre tonight.

“PRIVATE MEMBER."’

What chance has love between a millionaire’s son and a personal maid? That’s the romantic question propounded in the Fox hit, “Private Number,” opening at the Cosy Theatre tomorow night with Robert Taylor and Loretta Young starred together for the first time as a screen love-team. Filled with youthful love-making, gay. romancing and vivid drama highlighted with hilarious comedy by the irrepressible Patsy Kelly, “Private Number” is said to be the year’s outstanding romantic hit. Robert Taylor, only son of the wealthy Winfield family, returns home from college and mistakes Loreta Young, his mother’s maid, for a house guest. He refuses to permit her to explain her situation and this first chance meeting is the keystone of a romance which culminates when the family go to Maine for the summer. One moonlit night while riding in Taylor’s motor boat they decide to get married. The household is presided over by the butler, Basil Rathbone, who rules as a virtual dictator. Rath bone is infatuated with Miss Young and is determined to make her accede tc. his wishes. He is furious when he discovers that she is married. But Rathbone is not yet finished in his attempt to wreck the two lives—-he intercepts all messages to and from the house and each of the . lovers mistakenly feels that the other has ceased to care. There is a romantic climax. The other attraction is “The Border Patrolman.” George O’Brien appears as a member of the hard-riding, hardfighting organisation of the government force that guards the international boundary between the United States and Mexico. Polly Ann Young, Roy Mason, Mary Doran and Smiley Burnette are included in the cast of the film.