COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 October 1940, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

“THE LONE WOLF MEETS A LADY” The final screening of this great thriller will take place this evening. “SPAWN OF THE NORTH.” George Raft, Henra Fonda and Dorothy Lamour form Hollywood’s newest trio as the cast leaders in “Spawn of the North,” Paramount’s sensational drama of Alaska, which will have its first showing tomorrow at the Cosy Theatre. Raft, who won applause for his performance in “Souls at Sea,” has a similar role in the new picture. He plays a robust and devil-may-care Arctic fisherman, whose disregard for law and danger is in sharp contrast to his devotion to the highest ideals of loyalty and friendship. Fonda, who now plays Raft’s life-long friend and final reluctant enemy, comes to the screen from his triumphs in “Jezebel” and “Blockade.” Miss Lamour, cast as a frontier Alaskan woman who loves Raft, has a distinctive role. It marks the bigest dramatic role in her spectacular motion picture career. Prominent in supporting roles are John Barrymore, Akim Tamiroff, Lynne Overman, and Hollywood’s newest star discovery, pretty Louise Platt. Based on the well known novel by Barrett Willoughby, “Spawn of the North” tells a sweeping story of two lifelong friends caught in the cross-currents of a war for fishing rights off the Alaskan coast.

Romance and adventure ride the range with John Wayne in Zane Grey’s latest action picture, Paramount’s “Born to the West,” the associate feature. The story tells of a cowhand, played by Wayne, whose philosophy is to keep moving.