COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 January 1940, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

“BIG CITY.” The stars of “The Good Earth” and “Captains Courageous,” respectively, are united in the new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture, “Big City,” which will

be shown tonight at the Cosy Theatre with Luise Rainer and Spencer Tracy I co-starred for the first time. The new. I picture, presenting a cross-section of I American metropolitan life, with Tracy I as a New York taxi-cab driver who becomes involved in a war between rival taxi-cab companies, and Miss Rainer as his immigrant wife whom he barely saves from deportation, is from the pen of Norman Krasna, the brilliant young playwright whose “Fury” was considered one of the outstanding photoplays of last year. Also of interest is the appearance in a realistic free-for-all street battle sequences of the story of such noted names of the sports world

as Jack. Dempsey, James J. Jeffries, Jimmy McLarnin, Maxie Rosenbloom, Jim Thorpe, Frank Wykoff, Jackie Fields, Man Mountain Dean, Bull Montana and other athletes. One of the picture’s scenes is laid in Jack Dempsey’s Restaurant, the famous gathering place of sports celebrities having been copied to the last detail. Also screened will be the delightful comedy* romance, “Navy Blue and Gold,” which has its setting and story in America’s

great Naval College Annapoles. A splendid cast includes Lionel Barrymore, Robert Young, James Slewart, Florence Rice and others. Full of gay, bright and witty dialogue, it is undoubtedly one of the best shows ever screened.