STATE THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 72, 17 December 1937, Page 10

STATE THEATRE

"MTDNIOHT TAXI" AND "TQAST OF NEW YORK." ' ' Midniglit Taxi" ^ "Tpaat of New York,? screen finally to-night at tbe State Theatre. Victp? McLaglea aa a ekief bo 'sun 's fflata in thp Coast Qmard, aad Progton . I'oster, as Ijis rival, score a bull 's eye in atellar entertainmant i.n EKO Badio 's stirring drama, {Sea Devila, 1 ' pcreening at the State Theatre to-morrow. Ida Iiupino with DotfaJd Woods headg the aupporting cast. Seamap Foster, an adventurer, no sopner joins the crew pf MpEaglen 's ship than trpublp starts between the two. Boasting pf hi.5 p?oweps vfith the ^eahpp pex, Fostep bpgins cpurting McBaglen'a ^aughtpF, Ida Bupinp, Foster is about the laat man in the service ^IcLaglen yrould choose as a son-indaw, but it happens that hia daughter has a piind of her om, ao MeLaglen initiatea a bitter feud with the sailQF, Tersific corpbats between this pair of Titene yie with thFiliiag resouei from stotm-battered shipa as dramatic highlights of this action-e?aTnTned phoioplay, XTguing the Bnited States Coast Gnard cuttep Tahoe and its crew, a perilous rescue of passengens from a Burning vessel is effected, and later other lives .fre saved from a hurricane gronnded boat in which full beaeh equipment is broijght into play in a revealing demqnstration of life-saving techniqrae.