COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 July 1939, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

FINALLY TONIGHT. “King of Gamblers” and “Let’s Make a Million,” will be shown finally at the Cosy Theatre tonight. TOMORROW’S ATTRACTIONS. Hillbilly hilarity is the .dominant note of “Swing Your Lady,” a gay speedy comedy from the Warner Bros, studios, which will be one of the two attractions at the Cosy Theatre tomorrow night. There’s a smart New York wrestling manager (Humphrey Bogart) who is conducting one of his boys (Nat Pendleton) on. a tour of the country to pick up loose change. They hit a hamlet in the hills and encounter an Amazonian female blacksmith (Louise Fazenda) who is willing to wrestle any of the champions. But when all is set for a match between her and Nat they fall in love! And they won’t wrestle! So the lovely blacksmith s home town suitor ■ (Dan’l Boone Savage, the burly, bewhiskered professional of the mat), substitutes for her, and he and Pendleton go to it, with the lady as the prize. It’s a wild, furious show the boys put on. There’s plenty of music in “Swing Your Lady,” four songs written by the clever team of Jerome and Scholl, and several dances staged by Bobby Connolly, who was once Ziegfield’s terpsichorean maestro. One dance, especially, is picturesque. It’s called “The Mountain Swingaroo.” With Lew Ayres as an indifferent, care-free youth whose dreams of wealth and power materialise when he finally controls a newspaper distribution in New York. Republic’s gripping “King of the Newsboys,” the second attraction, is powerful drama realistically ripped from the throbbing tenement turmoil of a great city. Jerry Flynn (Lew Ayres) is a “Death Avenue Cowboy” who rides a horse in front of trains running through Eleventh Avenue. He is in love with Mary Ellen (Helen Mack) but both, wanting to rise above their sordid existence, evade marriage. "Wire Arnold (Victor Varconi), a ruthless racketeer who operates a race dope-sheet, attracts Mary Ellen, who sees in him an opportunity to get away from her present environment. She goes off with him, leaving Jerry disillusioned.