STATE THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 20, 16 October 1937, Page 14

STATE THEATRE

GAFE METROFOLE. ' ' Thp eereen's mpsfc ©xciting sweetr hearts — ^lovely Lpretta Young ajid the romantically handsome Tyrone Power — play loye's most exciting game while M'sieur Adolph Menjou throws away the rule book, in "Cafe Metropole," whicb screenp at the State Theatre to-night. Continental Tomance pf the gayest and lightest sort — luxurious orchdds on erminp, smart as the Rue de la Paix. merry as the third gfass of champagne, romantic as moonlight on the Seine — "Cafe Metropole" winds its amusing way against tbe background of gay Paree and tbe Continent's most luxurious rendezvpus, with Gregory Ratoff, Charles Winninger, and Helen Westley joining the three stprs in th© excitement, The Jively course of "Cafe Metropole" begrns, properly enough, in the swank spot pf that iiame, whesre "MmiWi mm wa' wM&i*

cated, presides deftly over thp affairs of the restaurant and wonders how hp can restore 9, borfowed 480,000 francs before the auditorp prriye. jOne solution, baccqrat, is removed when the young map frpm whom he wins fhe necessary pum, Tyrone Power, confesses that he really hasn't any money at all. Menjou, whp is expech ing the arrivai from America "pt a rich ,pai#on, Gliarles Winninger, his siBter, Helen Westley, and his daughter, Lo-rett-a Young, forces the handsome youth, under t-hreat of exposure tp the policp, to masquprade as a Rugsian Prince, in the hope of winning Lpretr ta's hand and her father's marriqge pettlement.