KOSY THEATRE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 176, 25 June 1935, Page 3

KOSY THEATRE.

“THE LEMON DROP KID” AND “WHARF ANGEL.” The final screening of “The Lemon Drop Kid” and “Wharf Angel,” will bo inado at the ICosy Theatre to-night. “WHITE COCKATOO.” A melodramatic murder mystery thriller guaranteed to send chills croeping up and down the spine comes to the Kosy Theatre to-morrow under the title of “The White Cockatoo.” This new Warner Bjos. drama, unliko most mystery plays, accentuates the romance angle very strongly. The attempts of two bands of criminals to steal a young American girl’s fortune, lead to three murders, the kidnapping of tho heiress and an attempt on the lives of several others. An American engineer, aided by a cockatoo, finally solves tho killings and other mysterious happenings in the spooky French hotel. Jean Muir has tho role of tho heiress whose past is wrapped in mystery, and who has a habit of appearing in two places at the same time, a coincidence which is not explained until the end of tho story. Ricardo Cortoz pays the part of the engineer lover. Comedy relief is injected into the intense and thrilling action by Ruth Donnelly, in the role of an eccentric American school teacher who manages to get herself mixed up in tho mystery through her habit of snooping about. There is a large and talented supporting cast which includes John Eldrcdge, Gordon Westcott, Addi■son Richards, Paulino Garon, Armand do Bordcs Bentley Hewlett, Andre l, heron and Georges Rennvent, Tho picture is based on tho thrilling novel ,bv Mignon G. Eberhart which is dramatised for the screen by Ben Markson and Lillie Hayward. Alan C'rosland directed.