STATE THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 113, 29 May 1937, Page 9

STATE THEATRE

"CAN THIS BE DIXIE" I^aughs from the land of ootton, 80ngi, with Southern charm apd Hailem pep and romance under the moonlight ' and inagnolias liighlig^it Jane Withers' hilarious and tunelul new Twentieth Century-Fox triumph, "Can This Be ©ixief" pereening ta-day at the State Theatre, With tlie irrepressible, peppery and ever dynamic Jane dexnonstratmg her versatility and winning new laurels in a picture that sui'passes even the best of her past hits, tbe filin is a qouibination of hilarioxis fuu, lilting mupic, fast-moving dances and rolliQking eomedy and. the fun really shine's all the time. Slini Summerville heads the putstanding cast which supports "Ginger" Jane, ifaeluding Helen Wqod, Thoinas Bfeck, Sara Hauen, Claude Gillingwater and Donald Oook. The picture opens with Slim. and his niece, Jane, putting on a -medicine show for the darkies on Claude GillingWaten's run-down plantation. They are selling a bair-strajghtener which goes over big, but the darkies have no mocuey with which *to purchase it, Gillingwater. "saves Slim and Jane from the sheriff and they, in tum, save hira frottti Donald Cook,. wlhQ holds a mortga:ge on the plantation which he threatens to foreeios'e' qnless Helen Wood, , Gillingwater' s grand-daughter, marrjes him. "Can This Be Dixie," is a hilarious riot of fun, musiQ and romance, and the story is a gentle travesty of all the dramas of the fascinating Southland. In no picture hat she has ever made has "Ginger" Jane Withers displayed greater versatility than here. She sings — she dances — she emotes — in fact she is, iu every sense of the word, the fiuished trouper. Throughout the picture there runp the melqdy of swingy tunes and songs written by that talented. pair, Sidney Clare aud Harry Akst, and intriguing dftnce numbers stagied by gammy Lee, Also scTeening ip the newsreel Coronation fllm. .