STATE THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 208, 18 September 1937, Page 19

STATE THEATRE

"SHALL WE DANOE" TO-NIGHT.

Singiugj daneing and romancing their way more securely into the heart* of millions of theatre4goers. the world 's daneing tavourxtes, Pred Astaire and Giuger Rogers, are co-starred once more m their gayest and most spectacular screen hit, "Shall We Dance," screening to-night at the State Theatre. The stars, who hold undisputed rank as the most popular teanx on the screen, are said to break. eompletely away from the type of charaeterisatioHs they have given in the past and to offer a brand new kind of musical film. No ioxiger portraying strugglifig aspirants for faxne, both appear as "tops", in their respective fields, Astaire as a famous ballet dancer, Miss Rogers as an equally famous revue artiste. Brought together under unusuai circumstances, they fiud the wiffd insists on believitxg them marrxed, which in turn compels them actually to get married in order to gain their freedom. The novelty that has always f eatured the stars ' vehicles again characterises the new oft'ering, with eight brilliantly conceived dance numbers. Dances by the two terpsichoxean luminaries and by Harriet Hoetor, America Js foremost ballerina, inelude remarkable solo novelties, ballet and modern daneing ensembles. These are presented in picturesque settings that range from a Parisian theatre to a New York roof garden and from a liner's sun deck to the whirling machinery of its engine-room, and they are hailed as the most entralling that have as yet been filmed.