COSY THEATRE “FORLORN RIVER.”

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 June 1939, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

“FORLORN RIVER.”

Some of the finest action pictures of wild horses in their native haunts ever caught by the motion picture camera form some of the high spots in Paramount’s “Forlorn River,” the actioncrammed story of the West which will be shown tonight. These scenes, of which there are many, are calculated to satisfy the most rabid horse lover and to more than please the casual film goer who is after novelty, action and a robust story. An excellent story, from the capable pen of Zane Grey, a competent cast of players headed by Larry Crabbe, June Martel, Syd Saylor and Harvey Stephens, round out an excellent evening’s entertainment for anybody’s money. Considerable comedy is supplied by Chester Conklin, who will be remembered by older film goers as the walrus moustachioed comedian who was Charlie Chaplin’s partner in many of the latter’s early pictures. The other feature, “Hollywood Boulevard,” is a dramatic picture of the comeback of a fallen screen idol. John Halliday has the featured role of an egotistic actor who agrees to sell the story of his love-life for another chance in a picture. When his estranged family appeals to him to stop the scandal, after the first chapters, he tries to but the fan magazine publisher will not permit it. Then he threatens to write of his affair with the publisher’s wife, and when she threatens him with a pistol, he, is shot. An unusual twist in the story smooths out the drama in a sensational climax. ,