"WEE WILLIE WINKIE."

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 49, 20 November 1937, Page 12

"WEE WILLIE WINKIE."

Adventure as only Budyard Kipling «ould write lt blazes from the screen in the Twentieth Century-Fox picturisation of his "Wee Willie Winkie," which screens at the State Theatre with Shirley Teinple and Vietor MoLaglen in the starring roles to-night. When the bonnie plaid of Scotlan* flashes oh India's saffron hills, and warmad tribesmen strike from Khyber Pass, when the riiiej crack and the Pathans raid, wlien the bagpipes skirl and the regiment charges — you '11 know that you're Seeing one of the greatest pictures ever made, with a Shirley Temple whose power ti stir your emotions will be the wonder of yoUr life. Life at a frontier army post in India is not too happy for Shirley and ber widowed mother Juue Lang, for ter grandfather, C. Aubrey Smith, is a grufi old diseiplinarian. Tlie youngster decides that the only way to fvin the Colonel 's approval is to become a soldier herself, and her friend, Micliael Whalen, a yoang lieutenant, turns her over for training to the burly seTgeant Victor McLaglen, who dubs her " Wee Willie Winkie" bfccause of the quamt way she has of screwing up her ayes when she asks questions. Shirley gets into plenty of trouble at the post, but wins the gratitude of au imprisoned ' chieftain, Khoda Khan, when she returns his lost amulet. in a s'urprise raid on the post> the proud chieftain is i'reed, and the border is imniediately ablazO with crimson warfare, with McLaglen 's life being one of those lost.