STATE THEATRE
"RAINBOW ON THE RIVER" A young boy's attempt to escape the luxurious but inbospitable surroundings of a Yankee grandmother's mansion in New York to return to a negro mammy's humble cabiu in New Orleans where he was reared, provides a situation of dramatic intensity in ' Rainbow on the liiver," Booby Breen's current musical vehicle which continues at the State to-night. The boy melody marvel heads a stellar group that includes May Robson,« grand old lady of the theatre; Charles Butterworth, popular deadpan comedian ; Louise Beavers, noted coloured actress ; Benita Hume, beautiffil English.stage and screen star; Alan Mowbray, polished Knglish actor; Henry O' Neill, Marilyn Knowlden and Lillian Yarbo. Also featured i>xoininently is the Hall Johnson Ghoir.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 91, 4 May 1937, Page 5
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118STATE THEATRE Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 91, 4 May 1937, Page 5
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