STATE THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 64, 2 April 1937, Page 10

STATE THEATRE

4 'BANJO ON MY KNEE.' ' Fighting and singing, laughing and loving, tempestuously living their own iivea in their shanty-boat colony in the lower Mississippi Eiver, the primitive and picturesque characters in the Twendeth Century- Fox drama with music, "Banjo On My Knee," at the State fo-morrow, enact a story that provides distinctly different fare, whi,ch will be enthusiasticaJly approved by every type of audience. Distinguished by its fine production qualities, a new trend in song and melody, this picture which combines the locale of "Tobacco Eoad" with the atmosphere of "Steamboat 'Eound the Bend, ' ' has also been ideally cast with Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea co-starred in the leading roles, and with the very important supporting characterisations entrusted to such calented and popular players as Helen Westley, Buddy Ebsen, Walter Brennan, Walter Catlett, Anthony Martin and Katherine de Mille. Commenting on the picture Zanuck, the producer, 3aid that he believed that it would not only provide excellent and distinctly different entertainment for picture devotees, but would also preserve for history a uhique cross-seetion of American life. Incidpntally he feelsr that a new tsource of screen story material has been discovered .and predicts that there will be many more pictures based on the lives of the river-folk. "Wanted — Jane Turner.' ' A thrill-erammed story of an ace postal inspeetor's conflict 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 routine of the post office department revealing the const'ant vigilance of its agents against mail thieves and other types of criminals.