COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 July 1939, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

“SWING YOUR LADY.” 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 tonight. 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 fof a match between her and Nat — they fall in love! And they won’t wrestle! There’s plenty of music in “Swing Your Lady,” four songs and several dances staged by Bobby Connolly. One dance, especially, is picturesque. It is 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, the- gripping “King of the Newsboys,” the second attraction, is a powerful drama. 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.