COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 December 1941, Page 8

COSY THEATRE

“HENRY GOES TO ARIZONA.” The double feature programme, “Henry Goes to Arizona” and “Broadway Melody” will be finally shown tonight. “THE DEVIL COMMANDS.” Boris Karloff, with his now familiar background of mysterious mechanical apparatus, retorts, electric currents and the like, will be seen tomorrow night in his latest film “The Devil Commands.” In this film he' takes the part of Dr. Julkm Blair, a kindly scientist who has theories about the power of the human brain. When his wife dies in a motor accident he almost loses his reason, and starts to conduct weird experiments which he calculates will not bring her back to life but which will at least enable him to communicate with her. By this he does not mean to resort to the occult, but to “pure science.” He is persuaded however to visit a famous medium, Mrs Walters, who he feels might help him in his research. She is persuaded to consent to help him and together they leave his comfortable home and migrate to a desolate home in a New England village. ‘The.villagers become fearful of the weird house and its weird occupants. Amanda Duff makes an appealing heroine, while Karloff is as usual convincing in a part which in other less practised hands might become melodramatic in the extreme.

The supporting feature is “Swing It Soldier,” a bright and merry musical comedy, featuring Ken Murray, Don Wilson and Francis Langford.