COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 December 1939, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

“SECRET VALLEY.” At the Cosy Theatre tonight (guest season) there will be presented two splendid offerings combining comedy and rousing romance. A new and most interesting comedy partnership is introduced to the screen in “Two’s Company,” at the Cosy Theatre tonight. Ned Sparks, one of Hollywood’s leading comedians, is co-starred with that inimitable Cockney humorist, Gordon Harker, and the result is one of the funniest comedies turned out of Elstree for a Jong- long lime. The story opens in New York. B. G. Madison, a wealthy business man, is reluctantly persuaded by his wife and daughter, and his lawyer (Ned Sparks), to take a health trip to England. On board the liner they meet Muggridge (Gordon Harker), valet to the Earl of Warke. Muggridge is travelling back to England in charge of his master’s champion dog. Of course the Americans mistake Muggridge for the Earl. Madison’s daughter, Julia (Mary Brian), makes a hit with the Earl’s son, Jerry (Patrie Knowles), and fun begins when the Earl (an ardent butterfly collector) gets into holts with the. fiery Madison. Muggridge and the lawyer take up the cudgels, and it isn’t until the lovers, Jerry and Julia, are in need of support, that the two get together and smooth matters out to an uproarious climax. A. production crew of more than 200 actors and film workers, augmented by a hundred cowboys, was required to make Harold Bell Wright’s, new outdoor action drama, “Secret Valley,” starring Richard Arlen, which is the other feature. The company was on location for several weeks in the colourful cattle country near Lone Pine, California, where the exciting and dramatic outdoor sequences were filmed. Virginia Grey has the feminine lead opposite Arlen and the supporting cast includes Jack Mulhall, Norman Willis, Sid Saylor, Russell Hicks, Willie Fung and Maude Allen.