COSY THEATRE.

Wairarapa Age, 31 August 1933, Page 2

COSY THEATRE.

“TWENTY THOUSAND YEARS IN SING SING.” Actual prison life is unfolded with a thrill and surprise in the First National picture, “Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing,” now showing at Cosy Theatre. The picture really starts where most pictures dealing with lawless men leave off. The story, taken from the sensational book of Lewis E. Lawes, Warden of Sing Sing Prison at Ossining, New York, gives an accurate picture of that institution, of the human side of convict life, with its humour, its tragedies,. its pathos and touching loyalty of a thousand men without women and a thousand women without, who wait for their men to come out. Despite privileges and conveniences enjoyed at no other jail, the prison houses men desperately hungry for the outside, for their wives and sweethearts, men who are willing to risk their lives, though they haven’t a chance in a million to be successful, to escape. The warden sits on a volcano of human passions, ready for such an outbreak that takes place in the picture. The characters in the pieture are portrayed by an exceptional cast which includes Spencer Tracy, Bette Davis, Arthur Byron, Lyle Talbot and others. Some of the scenes were actually taken at Sing Sing and others in a replica of the prison at the Warner Bros. First National Hollywood studios. Seats may be reserved at Perry’s, ’phone 2496.