COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 March 1939, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

TONIGHT'S ATTRACTIONS. A powerful story of circumstantial evidence, in which a district attorney is himself, caught, in a web of circumstances which almost send him to the electric chair, is dramatically portrayed in Paramount’s “The Accusing Finger,” a gripping story of the law courts which opens at the Cosy Theatre this evening. With a cast made up of Marsha Hunt, Robert Cummings, Paul Kelly, Kent Taylor, Harry Carey and Bernadene Hayes, “The Accusing Finger” presents Kelly as a hard-boiled district attorney with a perfect record for convictions, who does not hesitate to send men to their deaths on the flimsiest evidence. He is in love with Marsha Hunt, his secretary, but cannot marry her because his wife, Miss Hayes, refuses to give him a divorce. The wife is found murdered after Kelly has been overheard threatening her, and so perfect a case do the witnesses against him make out that he is sentenced to die. The only ones who do believe him innocent are Miss Hunt and Taylor, an investigator in his office, who is also in love with the girl. Taylor begins a thorough search for the real criminal whom he succeeds in producing just as Kelly is being led to the chair.

The second picture, with Jack Benny in the stellar role, “The Big Broadcast of 1937,” includes George Burns and Grade Allen, Bob Burns, Martha Raye, Bennv Goodman and his Orchestra, Shirley Ross, Ray Milland, Frank Forest, Benny Fields, Leopold Stokowski and his Symphony Orchestra, and a host of others, all of whom blend perfectly into a delightful melange of music, beauty and wit.