COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 November 1939, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

“ROMANCE OF THE REDWOODS." A love as untamed as the wilderness that gave it birth. A drama smashing with the fury of forests aflame is Jack London’s savage story of love and hate. Columbia’s “Romance of the Redwoods,” adapted to the screen from a Jack London story, tonight at the Cosy Theatre with Charles Bickford and Jean Parker featured. The new film is set amid the scenic grandeur of the Pacific North-West, and tells a story of simple, yet powerful emotion. A moving record of man’s conflict within himself, and of his battle with nature, "Romance of the Redwoods” has been hailed as a visual as well as a dramatic treat.

Blondie, Dagwood and Baby Dumpling return to the screen of the Cosy Theatre tomorrow in Columbia’s "Blondie Meets the Boss,” second picturisation of the adventures and misadventures of the Bumbstead clan, that lovable, irrepressible young family of the famous newspaper cartoon. The new film has been hailed as more lovable and funnier than its predecessor, “Blondie.” Penny Singleton is again 1o be seen in the role of Blondie. Arthur Lake, who made the perfect Dagwood, again plays the role of Blondie’s blundering husband, while Baby Dumpling is again played by little. Larry Simms. Also screening is the third chapter of the thrilling "Lone Ranger” serial.

Ottawa.—Canada is the world’s leading producer of asbestos and. notwithstanding the growth of the asbestos mining industry in Russia, Rhodesia, and the Union of South Africa, the Canadian industry continues to hold its own in the world markets, supplying more than GO per cent of the world’s production. During the first five months of 1939, asbestos production in Canada totalled 116,019 tons as compared with 106,952 tons in the corresponding period of 1938. Exports of asbestos in the first half of 1939 were valued at 5,951,484 dollars as compared with 5,619,462 dollars in the first six months of 1938.