STATE THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 76, 22 December 1937, Page 13

STATE THEATRE

"THE LADY ESCAPES" AND "SHE SHALL HAVE MUSIC." Running away from love is «G1 right if you're sure that you're being followed, and Gloria Stuart acts upons this sage adviee as the lovely fugitive in "The Lady Escapes," Twentieth Century Fox romantic comedy screening tonight at the State Theatre, with Michael Whalen in what he thinks is th'e role of pursuer. When their marital life turne out to be a martial life, with the husband holding the wife in his arms only to prevent her from socking him, the charming couple agree to disagree, but soon find they can't escape from lo.ve. Besides, the vase-throwing spouse finds that she hae a naturally affectionate and gregarious disposition, aua refuses to release her husband-target until he finds a second husband for her. An insanely joyous eearch for a substitute ensues both in America and abroad, so that international complications of a hilarious nature, which involve George Sanders, Cora Witherspoon and Gerald Oliver-Smith, work up to a hair-trigger climax amidst a Gallic frenzy on the French Riviera. Second feature at the State Theatre is "She Shall Have Mueic," with June Clyde and Jack Hylton and his bandt* A non-stop revue show, "She Shall Have Music," is liberaUy interspeTsed with catchy song numbers, delicious comedy and an entertaining story. The tunee include "She Shall Have Music" "My First Thrill," "May All Your Troubles Be Little Ones," and "Sailing Along on a Carpet of Song."