STATE THEATRE
VON. THE AVENUE." Swinging merrily along to ihe tune or the best songs ever written by the greatest .writer of songs in the world, "On the Avenue.V sereening to-night at the State Theatre, represents Irving Berlin at liis melodious best, in a mosical that is full of pep and lilting good spirits. With Pick Powell and Madeleinf (Jarroll making a new and romuntse twosome of musical comedy, the lively Twentieth Century-Fox musical present a real-life romance of New York, in a show that's as big as the town. Alice Faye, Tha' Ritz Brothers and George Barbier add both melody and mirth to the production. Madeleiue Carroll, noted hitherto for straight dramatic roles, makes a' charming swcetheart for Dick Powell. The beginning of "On the Avenue" finds her, as a wealthy debutnnte, entermg u theatre with 'her fatlier, George Barbier, and an explox*er, Alan Mowbray, " at the moment that' Pick Powell, Alice Faye and the Ritz Brothers are engaged m a hilarious take-olf on the home iil'e of "the richest girl in the world."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 156, 20 July 1937, Page 14
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175STATE THEATRE Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 156, 20 July 1937, Page 14
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