COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 April 1941, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

“DARK COMMAND." The programme tonight 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 to the .\yar between the States. Starring ' Claire Trevor, John Wayne, and Waller 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 out in black and white the fact that Cantrell appealed to the wile 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. 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 fur foul months, “So You Won’t Talk," leaves no doubt that he is fully recovered that his high comedy talents are unmarred. and his extraordinary ability as an athlete unimpaired.