STATE THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 83, 31 December 1937, Page 8

STATE THEATRE

"ANGELS HOLIDAY." "Angels Holiday" screens finally tonight at 8 o'clock at the State Theatre. Fun-making Eddie Cantor and hitmaking Twentieth Century-Fox have combined their talents for the first time and really go to town as the comedy king of screen and radio stars in the most hilarious entertainment either have ever made, "Ali Baba Goes to Town," featuring Tony Martin, Roland Young, June Lang, Louise Hovick and a tremendous cast, which opens tonight at 10.36 as a New Year's Eve attraction at the State Theatre. The creators of "You Can't Have Everything," "Thin Ice" and "Wake Up anu Live" set the sky as the limit to give Eddie Cantor the picture that tops anything he has ever done, and marks the beginning of a new and important ■phase in his brilliant career. "Ali Baba Goes to Town" is the most magnificant combination of colourfulextravaganza, sidesplitting comedy, song hits, beautiful girls, exotic dances, brilliant dialogue and lavish sets in the history of fun. Equally as important is a revolutionary new three-tone tinted process utilizing sepia and copper as the basic effects. A combination of blue and orange, mixed with copper is used for the night sequences, while sepia, amber and copper provide the special effect for the daytime episodes. The new, surpriseful Cantor film becomes a Bagdad of fun as Eddie turns Bagdad up to the date with a head-tax on harems, a tail-tax on camels, a harem-reduction programme, slips carpet tacks under the sit-day strikers, and snaps the Sultan into step with the march of time.