COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 July 1939, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

“KING OF GAMBLERS.” The programme tonight at the Cosy Theatre is headed by “King of Gamblers.” A daring story of an underworld czar who knew all the answers when it came to men and crime but who was tricked and trapped by the girl he loved, brings Claire Trevor, Lloyd Nolan and Akim Tamiroff to the screen in Paramount’s “King of Gamblers.” Steve Kalkas, ruthless underworld czar, maintains his control over the crooked slot machine racket in a large city by murdering his opponents and bombing stores which refuse to accept his machines. He is in love with Dixie, a night-club entertainer, but she does not love him. She becomes interested in Jim Adams, a newspaper man who is assigned to crack the slot machine racket wide open. Neither knows that Kalkas is the power behind the racket.

The trouble one man's bonus got him into is hilariously portrayed in Paramount’s “Let's Make a Million,” a gay comedy with Edward Everett Horton, which is the second feature. Horton, wanted to use the money to marry his secretary, played by charming Charlotte Wynters. But his two maiden aunts, played by the new screen comedy pair, “the Pixilated Sisters,” Margaret Seddon and Margaret MeWade. have notions of their own as to how the money is to be spent, and when the two opinions clash, the fun begins. There is also a phoney stock deal, engineered by Porter Hall, one of the screen’s deepest-dyed villains.