STATE THEATRE
"WEE WILLIE WTNKIE." Adventure as only Rudyard Kipling. oould write lt blazes frofn the screea in the Twehtioth Century-Fox pictilrisation of hiS "Wee Willie Winkie," Whieh screens at the State Theatre With .Shirley Temple and Victor MoLaglen in the starring roles to-night, When the bonnie plaid df Sfiotiafli hashes on India's saffron hills, and warmad tribesmen strike from .Khyber Pass, when the rifles crack and the Pathaiis raid, when the bagpipes. skirl and the rOgimenfc chargeS— you.'ll kiiow J that you're seeing one of blie greatest pietures ever lnade, with a Shirley Tehiple Whose power ti stir your embtions wili be tiie wonder -of your life. Life qt m £ rontier army post in India is not too' happy for Shirley and Ler widowed mother June Lang, for tcr grandfather, C. Aubi'ey Smith, is a gruS old diseiplinarian. The youngsler decldes that the only way to win the Colonel's approvai is to becOhie a suldier herselfjj and her.friend, Michael Whalen, a. young lieuteuant, turns her over for ttaining to the burly sefgeant Victor McLaglen, who dubs her JWee i Willie' Winkle" because of the quamfc I way she has oi- sorewing up her eyes ! when she asks questions. : Shirley gets into plenty of trouble at the post. but Wins the gratithda of au imf)risoned chieftaifl, Ehoda Khan, when she returns liis lOst ainuiet. Iii a surprise raid on the post, the proud chieftain is freed, and the bofder is immediately ablaze with crimson warfhre, with McLaglen 's life being one of those Iost. iik
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 50, 22 November 1937, Page 4
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