COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 February 1939, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

“PUBLIC WEDDING.” Jonah may have been-swallowed by a whale, but an even more spectacular affair was that of the movie players Jane Wyman and William Hooper—they were married in the mouth of a whale! That’s what you see in “Public Wedding,” the Warner Bros, comedy which has its first local showing tonight at the Cosy Theatre. And a public wedding it certainly is! Tickets are sold by the thousand, and anyone who has fifty cents is cordially invited to attend the nuptials of Jane and Bill. These two youngsters—together with James Robbins, Dick Purcell, Berton Churchill, Raymond Hatton, Marie Wilson, Veda Ann Borg and various others—were members of a carnival troupe that went broke when the public lost interest in their greatest asset —“.Moloch the Mighty Mastodon of the Deep,” a stuffed whale. In order to rekindle interest, the wedding was arranged. Heroism is the theme of Monogram’s thrilling "Telephone Operator,” the second attraction, for it concerns a switchboard operator who sticks at her dangerous post to save a whole community from destruction, and a telephone linesman who braves the fury of a flood to help her. The story tells of Shorty and Red, telephone linesmen, who are sent to install lines from Riverdale to a new dam that is being constructed. There they meet Helen Malloy, switchboard operator, and her pal; Dottie. Romantic.'- entanglements ensue, when Helen is forced to call on Red for help to save her friend Sylvia, the boss’s wife, from scandal. Torrential rains cause the half-finished dam to collapse, and Helen rushes to her switchboard post to warn the surrounding districts. She and Red save the town, and then depart for Niagara on a honeymoon, but not before Dottie and Shorty have joined them in a double wedding.