COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 July 1939, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

“KING OF THE ROYAL MOUNTED.” The current programme at the Cosy Theatre headed by “King of the Royal Mounted,” will be finally shown tonight. “PATIENT IN ROOM 18.” “The Patient in Room 18,” a mys-tery-melodrama with almost all of its action taking place within the walls of a hospital, has been scheduled to be the feature attraction at the Cosy Theatre tomorrow night. This thriller is altogether novel, because the detective here involved is able to solve several interdependent crimes while confined in hospital himself, as a patient. Patrie Knowles, young British leading man who was imported by Warners for "The Charge of the Light Brigade," plays the part of this sleuth. With a hospital as a background, it is only natural that the heroine should be a nurse. She is Ann Sheridan. There are not only two mysterious murders in "The Patient in Room 18," but there is also the theft of £20.000 worth of radium.

The other attraction is “Gold Diggers in Paris.” Especially notable because it brings Rudy Vallee back to the screen after an absence of three years, “Gold Diggers in Paris,” has a poke full of nuggets in the form oi laughs, catchy tunes, spectacular dancing numbers and, of course, pretty girls. Almost rivalling in importance the return of America’s prince charming of the air lanes is the film debut of Freddie Pusher’s Schnickelfritz Band, a sextet of the maddest musicians that ever succeeded in wedding hilarious comedy to infectious music. The comedians are Hugh "Wu Wu” Herbert. Allen Jenkins. Mabel Todd, Fritz Feld, Curt Bois, Ed. Brophy and Melville Cooper.