STATE THEATRE
' 'PIGSGm FAEADE" TO-NIGHT Swinging merrily along to the tune of the best songs ever written by the greatest writer of songs in the world, "On the Avenue," opening to-morrow at the State Theatre, repreSents Irving Berlin at his melodions best, in a musical that is full of pep and lilting good spirits. "With Dick Powell and Madeleine Carroll making a new and romantic twosome of musical comedy, the lively Twentieth Century-Fox musical present a real-life romance of NCw "York, in a show that's as big as the town. Alice Faye, The Eitz Brothers and George Barbier add both melody and mirth to the. production. Madeleine Carroll, noted hitherto for straight dramatic roles, makes a charmihg sweetHeart for Dick Powell. The beginning of "On the Avenue" findp her, as a wealthy debutante, entering a- theatre with her father, George Barbier, and an explorer, Alan Mowbfay, at the moment that Dick JPowell, Alice Faye and the Eitz Brothers are engaged dn a hilarious take-off on the home life of "the richest girl in thp world." "Pigskin Para.de " screens finally tofiight,
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 153, 16 July 1937, Page 12
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180STATE THEATRE Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 153, 16 July 1937, Page 12
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