STATE THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 63, 1 April 1937, Page 15

STATE THEATRE

"WANTED— JANE TURNER." A thrill-crammed story of an ace postal inspector's confiiet with a desperate gang of mail bandits brings to the screen Lee Tracy and Gloria Stuart in the new action drama, " Wanted, Jane Turner," which screens at the State Theatre to-day. The story goes behind the orderly xoutine of the post office department revealing the constant vigilance of its ageuts against mail thieves and other types of criminals. When the driver of a mail truck is murdered duriug a bold rpbbery, Tracy and his secretary, Gloria Stuart, ' are dispatched to bring the bandits to justiee. Trailing the culprits, Tracy and his lovely ' aid " encounter danger at every turn, eventually facing the chief desperado- iu ? pulse-quickeniug gun-and-fist duel. "BANJQ ON MY KNEE." One of the outstanding features of the Twentietk Century-Fox picture, "Bahjo on My Knee," at the State Theatre on SatufFay, is the very unusual imusic patterned after the type of melodies which are almost the folksongs of the skanty-boaters about whom. the story yevolves. Darryl F. Zanuek engaged the services of the famous Hall Johnson' Choir, unquestionaMy the finest in America. "Banjo on My Knee" co -stars Barbara Stanwyck and oel McCrea, and was directed by John Cromwell. ,