COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 November 1940, Page 2

COSY THEATRE

“PRIDE OF THE BLUEGRASS.” Elmer Gantry, blind horse who jumps hurdles with all the ...courage and sureness o£ a well-trained and sure-sighted hunter, is the chief actor in "Pride of the Bluegrass,” the Warner Bros, racing picture which will be shown tonight at the Cosy Theatre. There is also a fine cast of performers, headed by Edith Fellows, James McCallion, Granville Bates, De Wolf Hopper and Frankie Burke. The picture is not based upon the life of Gantry, but it is about a fictional horse a great deal like the noted blind jumper. In real life, Gantry exhibits his talents mainly at fairs and horse shows. In the picture he is a race horse, first a flat racer and then a steeplechaser, who is stricken blind and yet learns to respond so bravely and confidently to the voiced commands of his rider that he wins the world’s greatest < steeplechase, the Grand National at Aintree, England. Interwoven with the story of the horse, there is also a moving tale about the people whose lives touch his, particularly the story of the kid jockey and trainer, played by young McCallion. Riding Gantry in the Kentucky Derby as the horse goes blind, Jimmy is banned from racing.

Gripping, scenes of peril and adventure, set among a vast expanse of range land and mountains in the West, alternate with an intriguing romance in Buck Jones’s new Universal release, “Boss of Lonely Valley,” the associate feature. With Buck Jones and Muriel Evans in the principal roles, and supported by a splendid cast, this epic of the West tells the story of a band of forgers in the town of Ardmore, who, by means of forged deeds, notes and other documents are obtaining control of a vast section of the country.