COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 April 1940, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

■■23.'. HOURS LEAVE” AND BABY CONTEST. The final screening of this delightful j comedy which with its companion | feature. 'Newsboys’ Home," forms | such a splendid combination will take I place this evening. The Baby Contest is arousing real interest and voting is keen. "DINNER AT THE RITZ.” As befits an international star of her fame, Annabella is starred opposite three leading men in her latest film, "Dinner at. the Ritz.” New World picture released by Twentieth CenturyFox, opening tomorrow at the Cosy Theatre. Paul Lukas, David Niven and Romney Brent are featured in important roles. Lukas and Niven play romantic parts and Brent a wisecracking American reporter-detective. Each of the three has reached the top of film prominence; together they make the picture as tensely exciting as its star is excitingly lovely. A famous Paris banker is mysteriously killed. the police term it suicide and his bank fails. As a result Paul Lukas breaks his engagement with the banker’s daughter, Annabella, who is determined to track down her father's murderers. From Paris to Monte Carlo she plays the game of a gay adventuress, in the most dangerous intrigue that ever involved a woman in love.

In the accompanying picture "Always Goodbye," patrons are promised some surprising features. First, the picture co-stars those ever-and-increa-singly popular experts of the deeper tones of screen dramatics—Barbara Stanwyck and Herbert Marshall. Then, lan Hunter heads the featured cast. Long a film favourite, the actor's last 20th Century-Fox film was the memorable "To Mary—With Love.” Next, it offers the debut of little Johnnie Russell, the five-year-old Brooklyn tot who, reports have it, plays the focal role of the story around which all the grown-up Jives weave their destinies. Following this, the motion picture audience will meet again the newest of the “exponents of the lighter vein,”! Cesar Romero, who in one amazing role with Sonja Henie several months ago. took the audiences by storm. And what is claimed to be a record event is the introduction into the dramatic story of Hollywood's most pretentious fashion show. The Baby Contest filming will continue all week.