STATE THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 78, 19 April 1937, Page 5

STATE THEATRE

"THE WHITE HUNTER" A man aad a woman trying to *:ate while fierce longing flames in their hearts is the thrilling theme of Twentieth Century-Eox's amazing drama of savage passions, "White Hunter," which screen to-night at the State Theatre. Warner Baxter and June Lang, who created such a sensation in "The^ Road tp Glory" are brilliantly cast ih a drama even stranger, a romance even greater, the most stirring adventure a man and woman ever shared. Baxter is seen as a colourful hunter who accepts a commission to guide a big game expedition through a strangely wild couutry. Included in the party are Wilfrid Lawson, a powerful munition maguate, Gail Patrick, his wayward wife, and lovely June Lang his daughter by a former marriage, Alison Skipworth, a shrewish llypochondriac and George Haswell hor I;ctipeeked spouso. Baxter , joins this group hundteds of miles away from civilisation and then discovers that the man he is to guide on the hunt is his hittercst enemy, Lawson, who years before had eaused his ruin in Eugland

and subsequent exilo. A tense, hateladon atmospliere oppresscs the culjre group as Lawson ahd Patriek roalise they aro within Baxter 's power. ' ••Under Two Flaea." That great story and equaliy yreai pieture, "Under Two Flags," returns to the State Theatre on Wednesday. The stars are Claudette Colhert, Ronaid Colman, Victor McLaglen and Rosalin-1 Russell.