Cosy Theatre, Woodville

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 142, 17 June 1941, Page 2

Cosy Theatre, Woodville

“BROTHER. RAT’* With Wayne Morris and Priscilla Lane as its stars, “Brother Rat,” which is proclaimed as the best comedy ever made, screens at the Cosy Theatre to-night and to-morrow. This is the Warner Bros, picturisation of the famed stage comedy that took Broadway by storm and ran for two years there with three road-show companies touring the U.S.A. It’s a play about college life, yes —but it isn’t that sort of college play where the lads and co-eds team up and break into choruses ; andy dances ever so often, generally j without any excuse whatever. As a ' matter of fact, “Brother Rat” is laid; in and about the Virginia Military Institute, which is by no means co-educa-tional, and the photoplay has nary a, song nor a tap-step in it. It deals withj the difficulties into which one of the; cadets gets himself by entering upon a j secret marriage, a business distinctly) against all rules and regulations. Not only that, but he faces parenthood —and instant dismissal if the authorities get wise to him.