STATE THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 69, 8 April 1937, Page 12

STATE THEATRE

"BANJO ON MY KNEE." Fighting and singing, laughing and loving, tempestuously living their own lives in their shanty-boat colony in the lower Mississippi River, the primitive and picturesque characters in the Tweniieth Century- Fox drama with music, "Banjo On My Knee," at the State to-day, enact a story that provides distinctly different fare, which will be enthusiastically approved by every type ef audience. Distinguished t)y its fine production qualities, a new trend in song and melody, this picture which combines the locale of "Tobacco Road" with the atmosphere of "Steamboat 'Round 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 talented and popular players as Helen Westley, Buddy Ebsen, Walter Brennan, Walter Catlett, Anthony Martin and Katherine de Mille. Coming Saturday. Charlie Chan's latest detective suecess, "Oharlie Chan at the Opera/' comes to the State Theatrd on Saturday. While Chan is every bit as good as in f'ormer efforts, he has the support of Boris Karloff, which raises the standard of the whole production to a great lovel.