COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 August 1939, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

“LEAGUE OF FRIGHTENED MEN.” “The League of Frightened Men” will be finally shown tonight at the Cosy Theatre as well as the supporting feature, "Let’s Get Married.” “THE KID COMES BACK.” Tomorrow night there will be shown Wayne Morris’s new picture, “The Kid Comes Back,” which brings to the screen something new in the way of prize fight pictures. "The Kid Comes Back”* is a new kind of fight picture. For once the hero doesn’t win the championship. And what’s more he is knocked colder than an iceberg by his biggest rival. This would seem to be variation enough from the accepted rules of picture making, but "The Kid Comes Back,” employs a few other revolutionary changes of procedure. One is the grade of actual boxing which is shown on the screen. The villain of the picture is portrayed by Maxie Rosenbloom, ex-light heavyweight champion of the world. In most cases it would not be possible to film the hero in actual combat with such an experienced fighter, but with Morris it was different. He had been in the boxing team in college and had done considerable amateur work since then. When he heard that he was to be cast in "The Kid Comes Back” he redoubled his fistic efforts. Others in the cast are June Travis and Barton Mac Lane. Gangsters whose crimes lead to international wholesale murder are exposed in the other feature, a new thrill drama, “Homicide Bureau,” with Bruce Cabot and Rita Hayworth featured. Said to be one of the most action-filled melodramas ever produced by Columbia, “Homicide Bureau” presents Cabot as a police lieutenant assigned to the “murder detail,” which is under heavy fire for its inability to solve a series of baffling crimes.