COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 November 1939, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

“THE HIT PARADE.” “The Hit Parade” and “I Stole a Million” will be finally shown tonight. A BRILLIANT PROGRAMME. The “guest” season commencing tomorrow night is a brilliant combination of comedy and dramatic thrills. When Dad Jones turns stock salesman and America’s favourite folks dream of sudden wealth from a wildcat oilwell boom, there’s a gusher of laughter for Jones Family fans in the picture, “Big Business,” which opens tomorrow at the Cosy Theatre. In the face of the family’s get-rich-quick dream, the kids keep on dreaming of love and romance, and in the end it is the kids who save the family from losing all when the oil hoax is exposed. In their usual family roles, Shirley Deane, Spring Byington, Russel Gleason. Kenneth Howell, George Ernest. June Carlson, Florence Roberts and Billy Mahan succumb, with varying degrees of confidence, io the salesmanship of promoter Lane. Grandma Jones, however, is suspicious, and she delegates the two Jones boys and Russell Gleason to get the truth about the well. A thrill-packed melodrama of flying aces, foreign spies and modern romance, “Crack-Up," the Tweentieth Cen-tury-Fox picture is the associate feature, and is pulse-quickening entertainment with fast-action and suspense, right up to the exciting surprise climax. The story opens at the christening of a giant plane, designed to pioneer trans-Atlantic travel service. Ralph Morgan, builder of the plane; Brian Don levy, famous ace who is to fly it: Thomas Beck, his co-pilot; and Peter Lorre, half-mad cripple, mascot of the airport, are featured. Unquestionably one of the most thrilling dramas ever produced, it will hold interest from first to last.