COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 March 1939, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

“IT HAPPENED OUT WEST.”

At the Cosy Theatre tonight “It Happened out West” will be finally shown. “TROPIC HOLIDAY.” A musical copedy set against the glamorous background of rural Mexico will have its opening tomorrow at the Cosy Theatre in “Tropic Holiday.” Ray Milland and Dorothy Lamour share romantic honours, while Bob Burns is a Senatorial Candidate from Oklahoma and Martha Raye is Milland’s secretary. A young writer goes to Mexico in search of romance and finds more of it than he expects in “Tropic Holiday.” Ray Milland is the adventure-seeking writer, while Dorothy Lamour is the girl who makes him forget that any part of the world still exists north of the Rio Grande. Six new songs have been written especially for the picture by Augustin Lara, the “Irving Berlin o» Mexico.” Among tnem are: “The Lamp on the Corner,” “Tropic Night,” “Tonight Will Live” and “My First Love.” Others in the cast arc Bmnie Barnes, the beautiful English star, and Tito Guizar, the romantic troubadour last seen in “Big Broadcast of 1938.” ’ A new side of prison life in America, that of the backward and inhuman prison camp, is revealed to the public for the first time by Paramount in its new screen drama, “Prison Farm,” which is the second attraction at the Cosy Theatre, features Shirley Ross and Lloyd Nolan at the head of a large cast of experienced players in a stirring story of an innocent girl who becomes entangled'in the worst aspects of the country’s penal system.