COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 November 1939, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

“HERITAGE OF THE DESERT.” An unusually fine cast was assembled by Harry Sherman for the Paramount production of Zane Grey’s masterwork, “Heritage of the Desert,” which will be shown tonight al the Cosy Theatre. Donald Woods, Evelyn Venable, Russell Hayden. Robert Barrat and Sidney Toler make “Heritage of the Desert,” one of the best-cast, best-act-ed westerns of the season. The story relates the toughening experiences of a tenderfoot who finds love, life and hope in the land where men are men. Part of the toughening process consists of being the unwilling target of a gunman’s bullet. Love is personified by the Evelyn Venable. Toughness and tenderness are skilfully combined when Woods, given up for dead by his murderous assailant is rescued by Barral, who brings him home to be nursed back to health by Miss Venable. Fireworks really begin when she becomes the centre of two opposing forces. One of the most exciting episodes in the highly dramatic crime film, “Undercover Doctor,” the associate feature, is a sequence where Broderick Crawford, as public enemy number one, is fleeing from the police. The latter are certain of catching the criminal. Hoping to make a clean sweep, they trap Crawford into betraying the undercover doctor. It would be unfair to give the story away, but this much can be told: J. Carrol Naish is a brilliant but weak-willed surgeon who, because of drink and laziness, feels his ambitions thwarted. His nurse, played by the talented Janice Logan, leaves him, hoping that he will be brought to his senses. Also screening is the sth chapter of the thrilling serial, “The Lone Ranger.”