STATE THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 62, 6 December 1937, Page 5

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 buffet 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 tf 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. Fun and excitement no end attach to the earnest social-climbing efforts of Helen Flint, wife of a retired gangster, when she snaffles for his society splurge the heir tq the millions of Sir Francis Drake, the suddenly prominent "Earl of Bedford," which is the bogus title the two "con" men have bestowed upon their unsuspecting friend. The story gets more and more hilariously involved as the swindlers, realising they a$e trying to mulct a formei: 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 hcightened by Jeeves' typical sober and sensible way out of all difficulties.