COST THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 March 1939, Page 2

COST THEATRE

“WIDOW FROM MONTE CARLO.”

“The Widow from Monte Carlo,” Warner Bros.’ rollicking comedy romance, based on the gay romance, by lan Hay and A. E. W. Mason, is scheduled as the feature attraction at the Cosy Theatre tonight. The story centres about the unusual adventures of a debonair major and a South American beauty who is the widow of an English Duke. Through the importunities of her former husband’s relatives, she becomes engaged to a stuffed shirt diplomat who is about as romantic as an iceberg. Terribly bored, the young lady slips out one night to the Casino. There she meets the irrepressible major who takes her in his arms without even knowing her, and kisses her. The major finds out who she is and demands a meeting with such persistence that she finally yields. There follows a series of exciting and. amusing episodes that ends in the smashing of her engagement to the diplomat, and her betrothal to the major whom she really loves. Warren William has the role of Major Chepstow. The part of the Duchess, known as the widow from Monte Carlo, is played by the Dolores Del Rio. Louise Fazenda has the part of the wife of a marmalade king, who is trying to crash society. The role of her husband is taken by Herbert Mundin. Colin Clive has the role of a stuffed shirt diplomat. Warren Hymer will be seen in the role of an American crook.

One of the most dynamic and colour-' ful dramas of the year, “Frisco Kid,” will be shown on the screen of the Cosy Theatre tomorrow for the first time locally with James Cagney head-, ing the all star cast. Warner Bros, have produced a number of pictures with historical backgrounds and authentic as -well as outstanding characters, such as “Silver Dollar,” “I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang,” “Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing,” and others, but none surpassses “Frisco Kid,” in the intensity of its action, in exciting episodes, in its flaming colour and picturesqueness.