COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 June 1940, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

“LITTLE ACCIDENT.” Hugh Herbert and baby Sandy share starring honours as a brand new comedy team in Universal’s zestful film, “Little Accident,” which will be shown tonight at the Cosy Theatre. Based on the famous stage hit of the same title, “Little Accident” is described as a whirlwind comedy-drama. The whimsical “woo-woo” man of the screen is lifted from obscurity to fame through the help of Sandy, who is abandoned at the newspaper office where Herbert is employed as baby editor. Said to be even more adorable and charming than she was as the “baby boy” in her first two pictures, Sandy appears on the screen for the first time as a girl. Featured players in the cast include Florence Rice and Richard Carlson in romantic portrayals, Joy Hodges as the society beauty seeking to capture Carlson as a husband, Peggy Moran, Anne Gwynne and Frances .Robinson as pretty models and Ernest Truex as Sandy’s ne’er-do-well father. The storygets off to a fast start when Herbert pretends that Sandy is his grand-daugh-ter and she is entered in a perfect baby contest. Miss Rice and Carlson are persuaded to pose as the child’s parents and hilarious complications set the whole town to talking. Seldom, if ever, has any motion picture production been received with such unanimous enthusiasm by the film critics as Monogram's “Streets of New York,” starring Jackie Cooper, the associate feature. Jackie Cooper’s positively sensational in this drama of a newsboy of a big town acting as guardian to a crippled youngster. With its simple, human story and a director like William Nigh, who knows life as it is lived by the under-privileged—a director who has a deep and warm sympathy for the “underdog”—and with a Spencer Tracy in embryo, as this kid Jackie Cooper really is, “Streets of New York” just can’t miss wherever there are audiences who respond to the human touch. It is a picture patrons will enjoy.