COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 September 1941, Page 8

COSY THEATRE

“THE WILD MAN OF BORNEO.” With Frank Morgan in the starring role as an old-time medicine show spieler, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s comedy of theatrical life in the 1905 era, “The Wild Man of Borneo” will be shown tonight at the Cosy Theatre. Based on. a stage laugh hit, the picture is laid in New York and presents Morgan as a man who attempts to swindle a family estate to which his long-lost daughter is the only heir. He pretends to be a financier, but upon discovering the estate is bankrupt, he is obliged to take his poverty-stricken daughter to New York and there keep up his pretence of wealth. Mary Howard plays the daughter, and Billie Burke is cast as the manager of the boarding house in which father and daughter live. The associate feature, “Judge Hardy and Son,” brings Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney and the rest of the entertaining Hardy Family in the eighth allnew adventures of the famous family. In the new story Mickey turns detective to help his father fight a foreclosure case; gets involved with three pretty girls with consequent trouble with his “regular” sweetheart, Ann Rutherford; turns hero to ferry Cecilia Parker across a raging flood to reach her sick mother’s bedside; and inspires his father to new courage in an hour of tragedy.