COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 April 1939, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

“THE DAREDEVIL RIDERS.” With Beverley Roberts once again enacting the part of the business woman—this time as head of a passenger bus company—a Warner Bros, melodrama, “The Daredevil Riders,” dealing with the warfare between her outfit and a rival concern, will bo the main feature at the Cosy Theatre’tonight. Cars are wrecked right and left in this movie, no less than 15 altogether, four buses, and 11 passenger cars are being sent to the junk heap as a result of the many crack-ups engineered by the villains of the piece. The speedy story tells of the rivalry between two bus companies. Many lives are endangered and some lost due to the underhand, ruthless tactics of one of the rivals, until an honest two-fist-ed racing driver enters the situation and helps to put an end to the foul play. Dick Purcell, handsome young leading man, carries the romantic interest with Miss Roberts. Other wellknown players in the cast are Gloria Biondell, Gordon Oliver, Charley Foy, Willard Parker, and Donald Briggs. A timely, , action-filled drama in which a special investigator uses motion pictures ‘to trap a gambling ring, Universal’s (‘Gambling Ship,” will be the associate attraction at the Cosy Theatre. Robert Wilcox, who plays an under-cover man posing as a gangster; Helen Mack, as a beautiful young gambling ship owner; Ed Brophy, as a comedy thug; Joseph Sawyer, as an ex-prize-fighter and loyal bodyguard, and Irving Pichel, as a scholarly gang leader, have leading roles. Action starts off when a speedboat explosion sets the stage for a gambling war that ends only after a series of mishaps and misunderstandings between a romantic pair, the investigator, and the girl who operates a floating casino in open defiance of a powerful mob. High-seas romance and an expose of red-handed racketeering in the gambling game provide dramatic high lights.