STATE THEATRE.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 June 1938, Page 2

STATE THEATRE.

“RADIO CITY REVELS.” The programme at the State Theatre tonight will be headed by that outstanding picture “Radio City Revels,” while a clever coloured cartoon, “Lonesome Ghosts” will also be shown. A JANE WITHERS MASTERPIECE. “Forty-Five Fathers,” claimed by the producers as the funniest picture ever filmed, starring Jane Withers, and featuring Thomas Beck, Louise Hemjy and the inimitable Hartmans, eccentric ventriloquists and Broadway satirists of the dance, will open on Saturday at 2.15 p.m. at the State Theatre. A group of millionaires draws lots to determine “which lucky man is going to have his life brightened by this sweet little girl?” and then shout for help as Jane starts throwing things around and the ventriloquizing Hartmans start throwing their dancing, voices and discretion to the winds in the funniest picture Jane ever made. The highly amusing screen play by Frances Hyland and Albert Ray based on a story by Mary Bickel, first finds Jane with the Hartmans, aboard a vessel bound for New York where she is to be adopted by the members of a millionaire explorer’s club of which her father was a member. A series of hilarious situations get under way when the inseparable trio, after arriving in New York, find their way to the club where the solemn members are thrown into an uproar as Jane goes on a riotous rampage. Fast, furious, and frolicsome entertainment is interspersed with tenderness and romance.