STATE THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 41, 4 March 1937, Page 13

STATE THEATRE

COMEDY AND DRAMA Hilarious laughter, together with a certain undertone of sympathy is the keynote of "The Affair of Suaan," tho Universal comedy depicting the funny yet tragic adventures of Zasu Pitts and Ilugh O'Connell, screening to-day at the State Theatre. In the production Miss Pitts and O'Connell are a couple of people who are absolutely alone in New York City but who •finally meet and then get separated at Coney Island during a holiday after falling in love. Miss Pitts plays the shy person who puts tails on candy Scotty dogs, while O'Connell is the man who boasts of his prowess with certain mythieal heireeses but who really puts tail lights on autotnobiles at an assembly plant. Both decide to go to the famous resort, and it .is here that they meet. An accident separates them, and Hugh, hitherto a mild-mannered man, suddenly breaks loos© as a veritable tiger, try-

ing to find her after ehe has been taken away in an ambul&nee, | A sympathetic romance, featnring two of the most capable dramatie players of the screen, Gertrude Michael and Walter" Abel, forms the basis of "Second Wife," the love story of a widower who seeks to make a new home for himself and his young boy, and of a girl who accepts him in preference to a younger and wealthier suitor. This story is told in a timely and sympav thetic fashion that malces the pieture of unusual interest to all women.