AMUSEMENTS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 24 August 1936, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

COSY THEATRE. "THE LAW IN HER HANDS.” "The Law in Her Hands,” a First National comedy drama, combining hilarious laughter and dramatic thrills, shows again to-night at the Cosy. There is a talented cast, headed by Margaret Lindsay, Glenda Farrell, Warren Hull and Lyle Talbot. The plot is said to move with rapid fire action from the first sequence, when a bomb is dropped in a restaurant by a racketeer to the denouement in which a boss gangster is convicted of poisoning milk for babies and killing witnesses to cover up his tracks. The final court trial is amazingly sensational, a woman lawyer turning her own racketeering client over to justice after he had kidnapped her and forced her to defend him by threats against her life. Other court trials are decidedly humorous. Glenda Farrell aids and abets Miss Lindsay in her nefarious though hilarious tricks to free their racketeering clients. Chief of the gangsters is Lyle Talbot. Reserves at Perry’s, ’phone 2496. THE REGENT. TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE. The first natural-colour picture of the outdoors, Walter Wanger’s production for Paramount of "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine” will be shown again at the Regent to-night, with Sylvia Sidney, Fred Mac Murray and Henry Fonda in the starring roles. "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine,” based on the famous novel of the same title by John Fox, jun., was filmed on a location almost exactly like the Cumberland Mountain country in which the Fox novel was set. Under direction of Henry Hathaway, who also directed "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer,” it was filmed entirely in the new threecolour tcchnicolour process. The picture follows the Fox novel closely. Miss Sidney and Fonda are members of the Tolliver clan, continually at feud with their neighbours, the Falins. Their first contact with the civilisation of the outside world comes when Mac Murray, a young engineer, arrives to build a railroad line through their hills. Miss Sidney is immediately fascinated by the stranger, and Fonda, who has always loved her, is aroused to jealousy that knows but one law—to fight and kill for the things he holds dear. But as he sets out to follow his code the Falins set out after him. The climax that follows brings the film to a stirring conclusion. Reserves at Perry’s, ’phone 2496.

STATE THEATRE. “SHE MARRIED HER BOSS.” “She Married Her Boss,” to be shown again at the State Theatre tonight, at 7.45 o’clock, is said to be the best film in which Caludette Colbert has taken the leading role since the now immortal “It Happened One Night.” It gives her every opportunity to display the piquant charm that has so endeared her to the movie-going public. The film is, in essence, a comedy, but enough of the dramatic runs through it to give it backbone. Headed by Melvyn Douglas and Michael Bartlett, Miss Colbert’s two leading men, “She Married Her Boss” boasts also of the services of such sterling players as Raymond Walburn, Jean Dixon, Katherine Alexander, Edith Fellows, a child star who is delightful as any juvenile, and Clara Kimball Young, who comes out of retirement to do very well in a small part. Reserves at F. J. Adcock’s, ’phone 1275.