COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 May 1940, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

“SAN FRANCISCO.” Tonight's programme will be headed by that outstanding picture “San Francisco,” starring Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy and Clark Gable. These three stars are to be seen in never-to-be-forgotten roles. Jeanette will be heard in the following songs:—“San Francisco,” “Would You,” “Ave Maria,” “Nearer My God To Thee,” and “My Heart Is Free. In ‘San Francisco” patrons will see Clark Gable as Blackie Norton, the roughest, toughest dive owner on the old Barbary Coast when that colourful street was the toughest thoroughfare from Singapore to Paris. Jeanette MacDonald will be seen as Mary Blake, the modest small town girl who became an opera star and then went into Blackie’s Paradise Dance Hall and sang to the denizens of that smoke-filled palace because she loved her man. Miss MacDonald will sing as she never sang before, beautiful operatic arias, ragtime tunes, and even the most beautiful religious hymns. Spencer Tracy will be seen in the most amazing role of his career, as a priest conducting a little mission on. the world’s wickedest street. Patrons will also see the most thrilling and breath-taking disaster scenes ever filmed before in this new production.. This return season is the result of hundreds of requests and no one should miss the opportunity of seeing a picture which is numbered amongst the greatest of all time. A newsreel and an all-colour cartoon complete the programme.