COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 March 1939, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

“THE GREAT GAMBINI.” “The Great Gaipbini,” which features Akini Tamiroff in the title role, and which will be shown at the Cosy Theatre tonight, is primarily a thrillpacked mystery. Tamiroff is the star attraction at a swanky night club, where he and his beautiful, blindfolded assistant “read” sealed messages sent him by the audience. When Tamiroff prophesies that Marian Marsh, planning to be married the next day, will not marry her fiance, it is first considered merely a bad joke, but when the fiance is found murdered the next morning, the case takes op. a m°re serious aspect. ■ Everybody in the film is under suspicion—Tamiroff, Miss Marsh, her disappointed suitor, John Trent; her father, Reginald Denny; and her stepmother, Genevieve Tobin. Tamiroff calmly takes delight in pointing out clues to a pair. of goofy detectives, William Demarest and Edward Brophy, and then, just as they are about to arrest the whole party, he shows, just as calmly, and just as conclusively, that nobody there could possibly have committed the ’crime. The picture reaches its climax with one of the. most novel twists ever brought to the screen, in which the murderer is revealed, and the romance between Miss Marsh and Trent is brought to a happy end. In the second attraction Larry Crabbe rides, shoots, and swims his way through a thrill-packed yarn of cattle-thieving and adventure in the Zane Grey film,’ “The Arizona Raiders.” Crabhe is teamed with Marsha Hunt and aided by a cast of top-notch-ers, including Raymond Hatton, Johnny Downs, Jane Rhodes and others. Unique in a number of ways, “Arizona Raiders” presents its thrills in double-barrelled doses. There are two romances; two near-lynchings and two stampedes worked into'the plot, each as exciting as the other. In addition, a novel twist is given the story by a sequence in which Miss Hunt, as a ranch owner, is forced to “steal” her own herd of horses to save them.