COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 January 1940, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

TWO BIG ATTRACTIONS. A more than satisfied audience had an excellent programme presented to them at the Cosy Theatre last nignt. One of the boldest and most . prevalent crimes of the frontier West, stage coach and mail robbery, forms the background of Paramount’s latest “Hopalong Cassidy,” action drama. "Pride of the West.” A pair of criminals, who pose as respectable citizens of • the pioneer town in which the action of the story takes place, make their big mistake when they try to pin the blame for the robbery on “Hopp’s” two saddlemates, “Windy Halliday” and “Lucky Jenkins.” as this brings the Bar 20 foreman into the fray against them. With the help of a daring youngster and a beautiful girl, “Hopalong” catches the thieves red-handed with the gold and clears his friends of suspicion. A thrilling story of an escaped convict’s desperate effort to escape following a “break” out of Alcatraz, supposedly America’s most “unbreakable" prison, opens the story of Paramount’s new screen drama, “King of Alcatraz,” which is also included on the programme. With J. Carrol Naish cast as Public Enemy No. 1, “King of Alcatraz” shows what can happen when a prisoner breaks from Alcatraz and with his loyal henchmen tries to make off with an ocean-going steamer. Paramount’s newest star discovery, Robert Preston, and Lloyd Nolan, are the two radio operators who give Naish the battle of his life. A daring mid-ocean operation by an inexperienced nurse —suggested by recent “real-life” happenings—who receives radioed instructions how to proceect from a doctor hundreds of miles away, is one of the thrills of the picture.