COSY THEATRE.

Wairarapa Age, 7 May 1934, Page 2

COSY THEATRE.

TWO FEATURE PICTURES.

Of the two features which are included in the new programme to be shown again at the Cosy Theatre to-night, I “The World, the Flesh and the Devil, ” is a crime story told with clear narrative skill, capably characterised and realistically presented in unusual dockside settings, the film gaining its title from a Thames waterside publichouse' known as “The World, the Flesh and the Devil.’ Nicholas Brophy, a’ crooked lawyer, learns from his dying mother that he is the illegitimate son of Sir James Hall. He contrives to cheat the baronet’s rightful hair, Robert, by faking evidence to prove that he and Robert were exchanged at birth. The only person who can disprove his claim is Mrs. Stanger, a typical dockland innkeeper. Brophy effectively silences the old lady by strangling her, but Nemesis in the shape of the dead woman’s son tracks Brophy down, and eventually beards him in his late mother’s dockside pub, “The World, the Flesh and the Devil.” Harold Huth is exceedingly good as the unscrupulous Brophy. 8. Victor Stanley is amusing in the Cockney role of young Stanger, and Isla Bevan makes an heroine. The second attraction, “The Cheyenne Kid,” is a story of the spirited modern West of America, with a background of thrills suggesting the ’49 days when six-shoot-ers and cottonwoods hemp-hung with outlaws prevailed. Tom Keene is starred, with Mary Mason as heroine and Roscoe Ates in support. Reserves at Perry’s, ’phone 2496.