STATE THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 61, 4 December 1937, Page 11

STATE THEATRE

"STEP LIVELY, JEEVES." Jeeves, so sad-eyed, so gentle, so utterly, utterly proper, thought gangland to be a bit of all right. They could swindle him, bamboozle him and bufEet him about, but he insists on proper manners, and so the underworld is in a deuce of a dither when the famed "gentleman's gentleman" goes berserk for a delightful period cf gleeful buffoonery in the second saga of his misadventures, "Step Lively, Jeeves!" featuring Arthur Treacher in .the title role which screens at the State Theatre to-night. ■' i ' Eun and excitement no end attach to the earnest soeial-climbing efforts of Helen Flint, wife of a retired gangster, when she snaffles for his society splurge the heir to the millions of Sir Franois Drake, the suddenly prominent EaTl of Bedford," which is the bogus title the two "con" men have bestowed upon their unsuspeeting friend. The story gets more and more hilariously involved as the swindlers, realising they are trying to mulct a former public enemy and his cohorts, attempt to scramble out of their deal, failing because they had sold their victim too thoroughly. When Jeeves' true identity is discovered there breaks loose fireworks of an unsafe and insane Fourth-of-July nature, the hilarity of which is further heightened by Jeeves'. typical sober and sensible way out of all difficulties.