COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 February 1939, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

“YOURS FOR THE ASKING.”

New honours are won by both George Raft and Dolores Costello Barrymore, co-stars in the Paramount comedyromance, “Yours for the Asking,” which will be shown at the Cosy Theatre tonight. Raft appears as a gambling house proprietor seeking to start the social climb; to exchange his “lough guy” mannerisms for the manners of the drawing room.. It is a part suited perfectly to his tastes, and one similar to roles in which the steel-eyed star has won his greatest fame. Miss Barrymore is a society girl, daughter of a banker who has died and left his mansion groaning under the weight of mortgages. She leaves the place to the gambler, then helps him set up a swank gambling club in it. Gradually she realises that she is falling in love with Raft, but he remains blind to her feeling. “Yours for the Asking” is a balanced combination of romance and comedy, blended skilfully into a fastmoving, air-tight plot without loose ends. Perfectly suited to the best abilities of its principals and rounded out by smooth acting on the part of its excellent supporting cast, it provides summer entertainment of a high order.

The othei’ feature is “Straight from the Shoulder,” which is a fast-paced story of a girl and a man, and a youngster who proves himself the squarest little shooter who ever came down the pike. The romance is furnished, in liberal doses, by Katherine Locke, late of the legitimate stage, making her screen debut in the film, and Ralph Bellamy, long one of the favourite “he-men.”