COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 July 1940, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

“KNIGHTS OF THE RANGE.’’ That high-powered outdoor action romance, Zane Grey’s “Knights of the Range,” will be shown tonight at the Cosy Theatre. The fast-paced thread of the story winds into an impressive skein of exciting events as Miss Parker, daughter of a rancher, falls in love with a gambler, Victor Jory, then deserts him after her father is killed by a rustler. Shortly after taking over the ranch, she falls in with Russell Hayden, a rustler, and sets about converting him to the side of the law. Her efforts to reform him and Hayden’s encounters with Jory who is determined to win Miss Parker, even if he has to resort to unscrupulous means, leads the story to a tense, taut denouement.

No less than thirty actresses, including Ellen Drew, Fay Helm, Virginia Dabney and Kitty Kelly, were forced to remove a standard feminine badge—their nail polish—before they were permitted to work in a scene in “Women Without Names,” the associate film. They were all enacting roles of long termers in a prison sequence and Director Robert Florey, a stickler for realism, insisted that they remove the colouring from their fingers. Also featured in the cast of the picture, which deals with the false conviction of a newly married couple for murder, are Judith Barrett, Robert Paige, Louise Beavers and John Milpan. Also showing is the ninth chapter of “The Lone Ranger Rides Again,” and chapter two of “The Oregon Trail.”