COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 February 1941, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

“DEAD END KIDS.” The “Dead End Kids on Dress Parade." a Warner Bros.’ picture starring the Dead End Kids, will open tonight at the Cosy Theatre. In this picture, the famous bunch of screen toughs do a complete turnabout and become model youths in a modern American military academy. Still the scrap-happy hooligans, however. Leo Gorccy leads the Kids, this time as a city slicker who comes to military school to show the cadets a thing or two. How Gorcey gets a little discipline by the other Dead Enders. Billy Halop. Gabriel Dell. Hunt?. Hall. Bobby Jordan, and Bernard Punsiey, forms the basis of this lively film of life in a boys’ military academy. Those who have seen the Kids trade-marked in their previous successes. like “Angels With Dirty Faces” and •’Dead End.” will find the, new departure a welcome one. for the talents of these youths, while slightly on the rough side, are none the less ap-. preciated.

The second big feature is a new mystery drama. “International Crime.” which combines to an unusual degree, the less serious treatment of detectives’ work which has been prevalent on the screen and in the newer stories, with a basic background as live as the current headlines. With Rod La Rocque starred as a crime columnist and radio commentator it presents a fast moving tale of a man who is dragged into an international intrigue through the actions of his “girl Friday" and has to solve a perfect crime or see an entire nation crash. Opposing his efforts are the international conspirators—the police. who regard him as an interloper —and the well meaning, but poorly planned attempts of his assistant to help. In addition to Rod La Rocque the east includes Astrid Alhvyn as the charming young assistant, Thomas Jackson as the Police Commissioner. William Pawley. Oscar O'Shea. Walter Bonn. Lou Hearn and Jack Baxley.