COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 September 1940, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

“STANLEY AND LIVINGSTONE.” Tonight at the Cosy Theatre will be shown the finest double feature programme in the history of the theatre. “Stanley and Livingstone,” featuring Spencer Tracey, Nancy Kelly, Richard Greene, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Henry Hull, and Walter Brennan, is the greatest true adventure known to man. For such a picture a great actor was needed.' Twentieth Century-Fox Corporation found its star in Spencer Tracey, twice winner of the coveted academy award. Having found him, they then assembled a splendid cast. The film is the story of Stanley, of how he was assigned to “find Livingstone,” of how he found him, of how he returned to civilisation offering proof that Livingstone was still alive; of how the Royal Geographical Society dismissed his reports as the work of a mountebank and an impostor; of how, in the great moment of his bitter humiliation, news came from Zanzibar that Livingstone was indeed dead but had, before he died, set down a record of how Stanley had found him; and finally of how, on Livingstone's death, Stanley went back to carry on his work and to become himself one of the greatest of all explorers. The other feature, “Everybody’s Baby,” is a Jones Family picture, starring Jed Prouty, Spring Byington, Shirley Deane, Russell Gleason, Florence Roberts, and Reginald Denny. America’s favourite folks celebrate a blessed event as only they can—with one riot, two false-alarms and a free-for-all of fun! But first the baby—you can tell it’s a Jones by all the fun and excitement it starts —must be named. However, while it is finally decided by the rest of the family to call the infant Louise, it is still “Pete” to Bobby. There is a great deal of fun in this 20th Century-Fox glm.