COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 April 1941, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

“SEVEN SINNERS.” The current programme at the Cosy Theatre headed by “Seven Sinners,” will be finally shown tonight. “DARK COMMAND.” The change of programme on Monday night will be headed by “Dark Command” and,“So You Won’t Talk.’ “Dark Command” is the story of William Cantrell, famous guerrilla chieftain, whose, band of cut-throats ravaged the border country of Kansas and Missouri in. a. savage preliminary tc the-jyar between the States. Starring Claire Trevor, John Wayne, and Walter Pidgeon, “Dark Command’s” romantic angle shows Miss Trevor torn between love for Wayne and the irresistible physical appeal of Pidgeon, who plays Cantrell. The problem of presenting a woman in love with two men faced writers of the Republic script. In W. R. Burnett’s fictionised story. “Dark Command.” Burnett pounds cut :in' black and white the fact that Cantrell appealed to the wild streak in Mary (Miss Trevor) which longed, for excitement and romantic adventure, while Seton (John Wayne), who represented serene comfort and stability, was also indispensable to her. Enhancing Burnett’s fictionised story are the indisputable facts of history— Cantrell was a ladies’ man; women were quickly attracted to him despite his brutal,, murderous nature.

Joe E. Brown plays the dual role of a timid book reviewer and a gang baron for whom he is mistaken because they look alike, in “So You Won’t Talk.” Brown’s first comedy since a serious automobile accident which put him into a hospital bed for foumonths, “So You Won’t Talk," leave; no doubt that he is fully recovered that his high comedy talents are unmarred, and his extraordinary ability as an athlete unimpaired.