COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 September 1940, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

“THE LONE WOLF STRIKES.” Warren William is the daring and debonair master-thief who laughs at the police and outwits the underworld in Columbia’s “The Lone Wolf Strikes,” which will be shown tonight at the Cosy Theatre. Joan Perry plays opposite William in the daring and reckless romantic drama which concerns itself with a fabulous string of pearls and the machinations of rival bands of thieves as they try in vain to outmanoeuvre the Lone Wolf. Eric Blore, Astrid/ Allwin, Alan Baxter, Montagu Love and Robert Wilcox are seen in the production,' which was directed by Sidney Salkow. Something absolutely new in the line of comedies about the prize-ring is “Kid Nightingale,” the associate feature, featuring John Payne and Jane Wyman. At the outset of the story,' John Payne is a singing waiter, and a fight manager recognises his fistic talents when he takes the manager’s part in a brawl at the restaurant where he is employed. Going to New York, he is taken to a gymnasium, where he wanders by mistake into a stout women’s reducing class. The women are doing reducing exercises which include an aesthetic dance to “Hark, hark, the Meadow Lark,” as played on the piano by Jane Wyman. He and Jane fall for each other, and the entire class for him. They are all on hand to urge for him when he engages in his first professional fight, which he wins by a knockout. The story develops on entertaining lines.