COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 January 1941, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

"WOLF CALL." Jack London comes again to the screen, this limo set to music, in Monogram's "Wolf Call." which will be shown tonight at the Cosy Theatre. London stories have always been popular as pictures. They are full of red-blooded action played against a background of gorgeous scenery. “Wolf Call" is the story of a playboy who finds love and peace in the mighty mountains of the great north-west. Outstanding in the cast are John Carroll, as the playboy: Movita. as Towanah the Indian maid who helped him find himself; Guy Usher. Peter Lynn. Wheeler Oakman, and the dog star. Grav Shadow.

The associate feature is cast in the same mould as the earlier "Doctor X" without being in the nature of a sequel to it. Wayne Morris is the reporter who starts out to conduct a harmless and not particularly interesting interview with Angela Merrova (Lya Lys). a Continental stage star who is finding success in New York. But he runs into a first class news sensation when he arrives at the actress's apartment to find her lying on the floor with a stab wound in her chest. A good citizen but still a better newspaperman, he ’phones his paper and merely leaves it to the police to read about the crime. They do. The minions of the law arrive at the flat to be confronted with Wayne, who tells them that he will be only too pleased to show them the body. To his dismay the corpse has vanished and as it is pretty difficult to presume murder without a body the police conclude that it is just another newspaper hoax. So docs Wayne's editor—especially when a living and. animated Angela Merrova shows up at the newspaper office next day threatening a libel action. Wayne gets fired. He institutes an investigation of his own, assisted by a young doctor friend, played by Dennis Morgan.