STATE THEATRE
comedy to-day. Klcking shin!3, hurling tomatoes, busting windows and xaising the roof in general, Jane Withers takes time out from her wild pranks to play a half: pint Robin Hood of lower New York in "Pepper," her new Twentieth Cen-tury-Fox picture which screens to-day at the State Theatre. With Irvin S. Cobb and Slim JSummerville as her hilarious henchmen, "Ginger" Jane goes on a riotous rampage in her new hit that promises to eclipse even . the merriest of the miachievous miss 's previous triumphs. The film opens in a wild rush of excitement and comedy as Jane leads her "gang" through the streets, celebrating the Fonrth of July by creating havoc in the neighbourhood. The f un ceases abrupt* ly when Jane comes upon a family being evicted from the tenement flat and she sends the other kids out to raise eleven dollars necessary to pay the Tent. When they fall ehort of their goal by five dollars, Jane decides to get the money from Irvin S. Cobb,. a dyspeptic millionaire. • Threatening Cobb with an over-ripe tomato, Jane blackmails him for the money.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 20, 8 February 1937, Page 3
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