COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 December 1940, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

“THE GANGS ALL HERE.” Tonight marks the final screening of the delightful comedy, “The Gangs All Here,” featuring Jack Buchanan and Edward Everett Horton. “LAW OF THE PAMPAS.” Gauchos, Boleadores, Pampas and Pomperos may all .be unfamiliar terms to followers of past “Hopalong Cassidy” outdoor action pictures, but they all figure importantly in the latest “Hoppy” adventure, “Law of the Pampas,” which opens tomorrow at the Cosy Theatre, with William Boyd in the top role. For “Law of the Pampas,” Paramount’s newest range drama, carries “Hoppy” far afield, to romantic, rugged Argentina—where the world’s greatest horsemen are known as “gauchos,” where the plains, are even wilder than those in the United States and are called “pampas,” where the "boleadores” —leaden balls attached to braided leather thongs—are a deadly substitute for a lasso, and where the “pompero” is a peppery native dance rhythm. “Hoppy,” in the person of Boyd, and his best pal “Lucky,” Russell Hayden, turn gaucho temporarily when they travel to faraway Argentina to deliver a herd of prize cattle to a wealthy rancher and find that members of the rancher’s family are being killed off one by one, for no apparent reason. Never one to sidestep adventure or the chance to help a pal out of difficulty, “Hopalong” prolongs his visit to see what he can do. The “Bar 20” foreman’s newest enemy is Sidney Blackmer, who is cast as the unfriendly son-in-law of the Argentine family. Suspecting him immediately, “Hoppy” soon learns that he and a pair of European gangsters are the men behind the killings. Blackmer’s motive, of course, is to get his hands on the vast ranphing lands of the family. In the absence of his loyal “Bar 20” boys, “Hopalong” enlists the aid of the daring gauchos and fights it out with Blackmer’s gang on the wild pampas. The ensuing fracas “out-fra-cases” anything previously experienced by “Cassidy” during his adventurous career on the home range. The associate feature, “The Fatal Hour,” is a thrilling further adventure in the career of “Mr Wong.” Boris Karloff, Grant Withers and Marjorie Reynolds head a great cast.