COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 July 1939, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

“THE MAGNIFICENT BRUTE.” The current programme headed by “The Magnificent Brute,” will be finally shown tonight at the Cosy Theatre. “THE FRONTIERSMEN.” With his six-guns blazing justice and revenge, “Hopalong Cassidy,” the screen's favourite action hero, will appear in a new and exciting range drama, “The Frontiersmen,” at the Cosy Theatre tomorrow night. Based on an original Clarence E. Mulford prairie yarn, “The Frontiersmen" shows the struggle of ranchers to keep the village school on the straight-and-narrow in opposition to a crooked mayor, who uses his high office to cover his activities as a cattle rustler and attempts to win over the school-kids to further his aim. William Boyd, who rides again as “Hoppy,” has with him his two loyal saddlemates, George Hayes and Russell Hayden, while the romantic interest is supplied by lovely Evelyn Venable, cast as the desert school teacher. Photographed against the gorgeous scenic background of the San Jacinto Mountains, “The Frontiersmen,” boasts both a setting and story unsurpassed by any of the previous “Hoppys.” The plot deals with the attempts of New Mexico rustlers to set the clock back in the untamed country and to use the local school as a foil in carrying out their plans. Determined to take the situation in hand and make the region a fit place for youngsters to grow up in, “Hoppy” and his hard-shooting saddlemates fling down a challenge to the local mayor, who is New Mexico's leading rustler-king in disguise. Some of Mark Twain’s most lovable characters —“Tom Sawyer.” "Huckleberry Finn,” “Jeff Rutledge.” “Aunt Sally,” “Uncle Silas,” “Sheriff Slocum” and a dozen others —live again on the screen in the comedy-drama, “Tom Sawyer, Detective,” the other attraction. "Tom Sawyer, Detective,” deals with the efforts of “Tom" and “Huck” to save “Uncle Silas” from being hanged for a murder he did not commit. Two of Paramount's boy actors, Billy Cook and Donald O’Connor, are cast as "Tom” and “Huck,” respectively, while some of the famous grown-up characters of the story are played by Phillip Warren, Janet Waldo, Elizabeth Risdon and Porter Hall.