COSY THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 June 1941, Page 8

COSY THEATRE

“DAD RUDD, M.P.” Tonight marks the final screening of the brilliant comedy, “Dad Rudd, M.P.” “MELODY & MOONLIGHT.” “Melody and Moonlight,” surely the prime ingredients of romance, are admirably incorporated in Republic’s merry, modern musical of that title which comes to the Cosy Theatre tomorrow. Johnny Downs, always a favourite with screen audiences, is right at home in his role as the pool’ but ambitious dancer who dreams of seeing his tame in electric lights while he plugs away at the mundane task of earning his living by working as bellboy in a large metropolitan hotel. Jane Frazee, celebrated radio and night club star, is t charming as the bored debutante. Little Mary Lee wins many new friends through her sympathetic role of Johnny’s younger sister. Modern comedy against a background of staid family tradition is contained in the associate feature, “Private Affairs,” a new film starring Nancy Kelly, Robert Cummings, Hugh Herbert and Roland Young. Young plays the role of a Bostonian who has preferred to remain the “black sheep” of his Back Bay family for twenty years rather' than submit to their dictates in his choice of a wife. Nancy Kelly appears as his daughter, a young woman faced by the same romantic quandary her father had faced twenty years earlier. The supporting cast includes such well-known players as Robert Cummings, Hugh Herbert, Montague Love, G. P. Huntley Junr., Dick Purcell. Jonathan Hale. Mary Forbes and Granville Bates.