COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 February 1939, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

“COLLEGE HOLIDAY.” Laughter, gaiety and music are mixed in liberal proportions in “College Holiday,” Paramount’s newest all-star comedy, which will be shown tonight at the Cosy Theatre. Jack Benny heads the list of radio and screen comics assembled for this latest, mirthquake. He is aided by George Burns and Gradie Allen, Mary Boland and Martha Raye, while Marsha Hunt, Lief Erikson, Eleanore Whitney, Johnny Downs, Olympe Bradna, Louis DaPron and Ben Blue are on hand to supply the love interest. “College Holiday” is an original screenplay by J. P. McEvoy which in lighthearted vein tells the story of a group of scatterbrained cultists who take over a hotel to test their theories and scientific mating. Miss Boland and Etienne Girardot, affecting Roman costumes, are the cultists. Fleeing from the hotel in. a sheet after having been stripped of his clothing by the sheriff, is Benny. He is mistaken for a fellow cultist. When he hears the scheme, he figures he can put the hotel back on its feet by importing a crew of collegians—ostensibly to serve the cult, but actually to ra(ly paying guests. He brings them —and the fun begins. The other feature is “The Crime Nobody Saw,” an unusual mystery story with a comic twist, with Lew Ayres, Ruth Coleman, Eugene Pallette and Benny Baker in the leading roles. It is a thrilling story which moves at a rapid pace and it has everything it takes to make first class motion picture entertainment. The story is unusual in that it is a mystery in which there are no master mind detectives, or police officers. It is solved by three authors who are in quest of a plot for a play which they must deliver within twenty-four hours.