STATE THEATRE.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 April 1938, Page 2

STATE THEATRE.

— ■» THE POPULAR NIGHT. Tonight is popular night at the State with two big features and six excellent featurettes making 3J hours’ real entertainment. COMING TOMORROW. “NOTHING SACRED.” Not since the days when Tom Santschi and William Farnum clashed in a superhuman battle for “The Spoilers,” has the screen witnessed a struggle as great as the one between Carole Lombard and Fredric March in the technicolour production, “Nothing Sacred,” which comes to the State Theatre tomorrow at 2.15. Meeting in a hand-to-hand encounter in the first knockdown fight between a man and a women ever filmed, Miss Lombard and March kicked, punched, shoved and wrestled each other for an entire day, at Selznick International Studio. For three hours in the morning they rehearsed. Then for five hours, from different camera angles, they flew at each other, fists and feet flying, furniture, vases and bric-a-brac were smashed. In other scenes, Miss Lombard and March are sitting at ringside during a wrestling match. Another series of shots finds the stars swimming around in twelve feet of water, fully clothed. There was no fooling about these. Miss Lombard and March jumped in, and stayed wet during a day and a half shooting. Where “The Spoilers” left off, Carole Lombard and Fredric March carry on. And another legend of the screen is written into Hollywood’s annals. An excellent supporting programme includes a novelty item “This Badminton Racket.”