THE "COSY" THEATRE.

Otaki Mail, 3 July 1933, Page 2

THE "COSY" THEATRE.

TUESDAY. "LOVE ON WHEELS." Another "weather-beater"' from the Gainsborough studios! That is the claim the Cosy make.- for the nou .luck Hulbert picture, "Love on Wheels," to be shown by them to-morrow. "Love on Wheels" i- the nio-l technically perfect film yet made in a British studio. It is modern cinematography at its very best. In addition, ii .- excellent all-round entertainment, e n-al comic operetta, in which the cliui-'i-u-rs are interpreted witli artistry :■ ii-l charm. The -tory i- not, one '-around which the action revolves'' in oideilv fashion. There i- nothing itppio-n orderliness in thi- fantasy •>:' lo\emaking which began in a \'mj.-. continued and ended, after a lot oi .i.ixed up merriment, in Gallop's Store-. TliiGainsborough picture is altogether :i merry film, telling a store of the business live.- ol ordinary people wlio get a lot of fun as well a- a lot oi anxiety out of business life. llei' lie- tli. charm of it- appeal—"nil thi- ■nigh" happen to me," say- the young ; .. ' uie goer, and her oi his elde'r 1,em0„:,.- -Jo pas.-ing of the yea;- chen life wan Xui of possibilities. -Alter ''Su'ishim Susie" it is needless to v. rite !!,:■• .hud Hulbert is a great ,-cieen comedian. IP is in the picture all the rime. acl : ag fit-, stupid fool, singing-, dancing, vciy nop assisted by Gordon Jlnrl.er. LM:iiui:' G'.veiin aud Leonora Corbet I. cor-ioi Barker's idea oi a 'bue conductor is apparently, to take :-. kindly interest i: all. the <pas.-enger.> who regularly u.-,< the vehicle of which he has charge. H' find- Fred Hopkins (Jack Hulbert) , trifle slow in the uptake an-1 -■: <>u to assist him in the cu'stomaiy Lurke manner, with iuimen-c -ucce-.-. Thi scenes in Gallop'- »_•.;•.-». are iud.eious ly funny. Ldniund Gv.can proves to h< a dignified genera! manager, a cupabl* busiues- man quick to seize an oppor tunity. "(he exuberance o: Hopkins however, .sum-lie- up hi- reserve are adds to the gaiety. The actor gives ; fine performance in portraying a char acter demanding quality and experi euce. in the character of Jane Kussell Leonora Corbctt play- her first bij part, and possesses charm and ability She- is a decided asset to British film." WEDNESDAY. "BOCKABYE." A gamin oi the streets raised t 1 fame as an actress of sophisticate drawing-room comedies under the untir ing tutelage of a manager who adore, her; then a scandal that smeared he fame with notoriety.' Bur. under the glamor, romance, pubiieity and hullaba loo—beneath her tempers and smile—despite he.- moral- and quarrel.—>h< was just u woman with an unsatisfie< domestic complex—just a motherly sou longing with a great heartache to croor "Koekabye" over a sleeping child This fascinating character —part en ehantress, part homebody—is Judy Car roll, heroine of "Koekabye," tin R.K.O. radio picture starring Constancy Bennett and featuring Joel McCrea an.. Paul Lukas, coining to the Cosy thea tre. nest Wednesday. Ij is saa!| won der that Constance Bennett had \ cor; desire to piay *' Kockabye.-" Rich in emotion. temperament an-1 human desires, it is the <=ort of characterisation every dramatic aetrcstirays for and finds so seldom. Bv such roles talent is measured, end Mil's Bennett promises to «how her admirers a new power and glamor—a. new dramatic stature! Tie story of "JBockabye' •hows how Judy, frustrated by scandal when she tries to adapt a child, find* at la<*t a man whose children she wooM herself bear, only then to be driven, by her very love- for children, to give hirn up and be satisfied with a man who holds a lesser, but none the lev worthy piaee in her heart. Beaxtifci and more gorgeously gowned than ever. Miss Bennett move* against a background- of sophistication and elegance in "Boeksbye." which i« an adaptation ,-by Jane lliirSn and Ktrbec Glas mon of a piay by Lucia Bonder. George Cukor directed and Jbbyna HowJano, Clare Blandrek, Haze: Jones and J. 3L Kerrigan complete the cast.