STATE THEATRE
"CAN THIS BE DIXIE" Laughs from the land of cotton, songs, with Southern charm and Harlem pep and romance under the moonlight and magnolias Ipghligiit Jane Withers' hilarious and tuneful new Twentieth Century-Fox triumph, "Can This Be Dixie?" screening to-day at the State Theatre. With the irrepressible, peppery and ever dynamio Jane demonstrating" her j versatility and winning new laurels in ! a picture that surpasses even the best i of her past hits, the film is a com- ! bination of hilarious fun, Hlting music, • fast-moving dances and rollicking comedy and the fun really shines all the time. "Can This Be Dixie," is a hilarious riot of fun, music and romance, and the story is a gentle travesty of all the dramas of the fascinating South- I land. In no picture hat she has ever I made has "Ginger" Jane Withers dis- I played greater versatility than here. I She sings — she dancds — ehe emotes — in I fact she is, in every sense of the word, | the finished trouper. Throughout the picture there runs ^ the melody of swingy tunes and songs j written by that talented pair, Sidney Clare and Harry Akst, and intriguing dance numbers staged by Sammy Lee. Also screening is the newsreel Coronation film.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 115, 1 June 1937, Page 11
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