STATE THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 51, 23 November 1937, Page 13

STATE THEATRE

1'WEE WILLIE WtNKIE." Adventure as only Rudyard Kipling iould write it blazes from the screen in the Twentieth Century-Fox picturisation of hiB "Wee Willie Winkie," which screens at the State Theatre with Shirley Temple and Victor McLaglen in the starring roles to-night. When the bonnie plaid of Seotlan^ flashes on India's saffron hills, and warmad tribesmen strike from Khyber Pass, when the rifles crack and the Pathans raid, when the bagpipes skirl and the regiment charges— you '11 know that you're seeing one of tihe greatest pietures ever made, with a Shirley Temple whose power tt 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 June Lang, for ier grandfather, C. Aubrey Smith, ia a gruff old disciplinarian. The youngster decides that the only way to win the Colonel's apprbval is to become a soldier herself, and her friend, Michael Whalen, a young lieutenant, turns her over for training to the burly sergeant Victor McLaglen, who dubs her "Wee Willie Winkie,, because of the quaint way she has of screwing up her eyes when she asks questions. ' Shirley gets into plenty of trouhle at ithe post, but wins the gratitude of an imprisoned chieftain, Khoda Khan, when she returns his lost amulet. In a surprise raid on the post^ the proud chieftain is freed, and the border is immediately ablaze with crimson warfare, with McLaglen Js life being one of those lost.