AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 19 January 1932, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

COSY THEATRE. “A HOLY TERROR” FINALLY TO-NIGHT. The lively and amusing picture, ‘' A Holy Terror,” is to be shown finally at the Cosy Theatre, this evening. Reserves at Vare’s, ’phone liid.j. COMING TO-MORROW. “EX BAD BOY.” “Ex Bad Boy” is the title of an amusing broad comedy of American rustic life which opens a season at the Cosy Theatre to-morrow evening. It is the comic effort of a gay old man to prevent his beautiful daughter from marrying a gigolo, or dancing partner. The girl is attracted to this “lounge lizard,” on account of his many affairs in the past, tlie old man invents a past for the son-in-law of his choice, by the use of a photograph of a movie star on which he writes a lurid description, and makes the timid young man live up to it. going well until the movie star makes The trick works wonders, and all is a personal appearance in support of one of her own pictures. Then things become mixed and muddled, and the fun fast and furious, but it all works out to the happy ending. Seats may bo reserved at Vare’s, ’phone 1333. THE REG-ENT. “A FREE SOTJL” FINALLY TO-DAY. The dramatic picture of San Francisco life, “A Free .Soul” is to be shown finally at the Regent Theatre this evening. Reserves at Vare’s, or ring Theatre, ’phone 2303.

DOMING TO-MORROW.

“THE DEVIL TO PAY.”

As tlio star in Frederick Lonsdale’s sophisticated smart comedy-drama, '‘The Devil To Pay,” which comes to the Kegent Theatre to-morrow, when it will bo shown at matinee and evening performances, Konald Colman appears in a role that will delight his millions of admirers, and amaze them with the versatility of his genius. To his repressed characterisation of the sightless hero in “The Dark Angel,” the grim courage of his ‘‘Bulldog Drummond,” the artful resourcefulness of his ‘‘Raffles,” and the many romantic parts that have made him the best loved lover on the screen, Ronald Colman adds a far different role. Here he plays a happy-go-lucky prodigal son who, after a year or two in Africa, where his father has sent him to “make something of himself,” lie hungers for the lights and delights of London, and returns —broke, but undaunted. The disgusted parent threatens him with disinheritance. Never having been in love, the audacious hero decides to marry for mnoey. His recklessness; his headlong love-making (when ho meets The Girl); an already accepted rival, and the ambitions of two purseproud fathers, are spicy ingredients in a- swiftly moving pilot, told in witty dialogue. Brisk, smart and sophisticated, in settings that are as rich as the high society locale, “The Devil To Pay” presents a new Ronald Column in entrancing entertainment. Seats may be reserved at Vare’s, or ring Theatre, ’phone 2.‘!o;>.