COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 March 1940, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

“GOING PLACES.” “Going Places,” the Warner Bros.’ picture which opens tonight at the Cosy Theatre, with Dick Powell and Anita Louise heading the cast, is a hilarious farce whose action is interspersed with some highly original and tuneful song numbers. In this production, Powell is given another fine chance to demonstrate the talents as a comedian which he revealed to such good effect in “Cowboy From Brooklyn,” and the supporting cast is largely made up of actors whose fame as funny-men has long been well established. notably Allen Jenkins, Walter Catlett, Harold Huber and Thurston Hall. Playing slightly more sedate roles are Ronald Reagan, Minna Gombell and Larry Williams, while the musical burden is shared with Powell by those two great coloured stars, Louis Armstrong, the world’s premier hot trumpeter, and Maxine Sullivan —making her debut in motion pictures —who is the reigning sensation among swingy singers. Latest mystery drama from the studio that has produced an outstanding share of Hollywood’s super-shock-ers, Universal’s “The House of Fear,” is. the companion picture. William Gargan, Irene Hervey, Alan Dinehart, Walter Woolf King, Dorothy Arnold and El Brendel head the cast of the film. It is the newest chiller from the studio that made the Lon Chaney pictures, “Dracula,” “The Invisible Man,” the three “Frankenstein” thrillers and others.