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 highligkt Jane Withers' hilarious and tuneful new Twentieth Century-Fos: triumph, "Can This Be Dixie?" screening to-day at th© State Theatre. With the irrepressible, peppery and ever dynamic Jane demonstrating her versatility and winning new laurels in • a picture that suipasses even the best of her past hits, tlie filni is a cotnbination of liilimous futf, lilting music, fast-moving dances and rollicking comedy and the fun really shines all the tiine. "Can This Be Dixie," is a hilarious riob of fun, niusie and romance, and the story is a gentle travesty of all the dramas of the fascinating Southland. In no picture liat she has ever made has "Ginger" Jane Withers displayed great-er versatility than here. She sings — she dances — ehe emotes — in facfc she is, in every sense of the word, the finished trouper. Throughout the picture there runs the melody of swingy tunes and songs written by that talented pair, Sidney Clare and Harry Akst, and intriguing dance numbers staged by Sammy Lee. Also screening is the newsreel Coronation iilm.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 116, 2 June 1937, Page 10
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197STATE THEATRE Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 116, 2 June 1937, Page 10
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