COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 September 1940, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

“BLONDIE ON A BUDGET.” “Blondie on a Budget,” the newest and best of the richly human domestic comedies based upon Chic Young's popular comic strip, will be finally shown tonight at the Cosy Theatre with Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake again portraying Blondie and Dagwood respectively. The Columbia film, in which Rita Hayworth is prominently cast, relates the hectic misadventures of the Bumsteads when an old flame returns to singe Dagwood, while Blondie “burns.” Others in the cast are Larry Simms, as Baby Dumpling. Don Beddoe and Danny Mummert, and Thurston Hall.

Starring George Raft, Jane Bryan and William Holden, “Invisible Stripes” is the associate feature. The story is of a man just released from Sing Sing who is determined to lead an honest life, but the obstacles he encounters as a parolee make it next to impossible. George Raft plays the title role. TWO GRAND COMEDIES. Hilarious comedy in the approved Marx Brothers’ style is the keynote of "A Night at the Opera." which will be one of the double features at the Cosy Theatre tomorrow night. Glorious singing by Allan Jones, Walter King and Kitty Carlisle is an added attraction in this merry comedy. The story tells how the threes Marxes take under their control the fortunes of a young tenor who needs only a chance to prove his real worth. In hilarious sequences the Marxes stow away on a trans-Atlantic steamer and arrive more or less safely in America, where the “night at the opera” becomes laughterfilled reality. Some of the brightest sequences are those in which the brothers, bearded and utterly transformed, masquerade as Greeks, and world-fa-mous aviators.

On the same programme is the Laurel and Hardy comedy, "The Bohemian Girl.” Based on the famous opera, the story blends with its hearty comedy not a little music. Thelma Todd is the “girl” of the title, who. stolen by gipsies in her childhood, lives an eccentric, wandering life in their company. Laurel and Hardy, self appointed guardians of the supposed "gipsy” girl, see to her upbringing in their own inimitable fashion. A surprise climax blends comedy, drama and music in entertaining fashion. Other artists in the picture are Jacqueline Wells, Antonio Moreno and Mae Busch.