STATE THEATRE.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 June 1938, Page 2

STATE THEATRE.

“PARADISE FOR TWO.” One of the most brilliant musical comedies in years will be the main attraction at the State Theatre for two days, commencing tonight. It is entitled “Paradise for Two,” and coStars popular Jack Hulbert, with his inimitable funning, dancing and singing, and beautiful Patricia Ellis. The riotously funny story deals with a sanctimonious young millionaire who becomes innocently linked in romance with a chorus girl. Intrigued with the idea, he decides to play a game of his own and pretends to be a newspaper reporter covering the rumoured romance. He discovers that the girl is playing a hoax on the theatrical manager and proceeds without revealing his identity, to aid her in the deception. Three catchy new songs are featured by the principals and a number of colourful dancing sequences make it entertainment of outstanding merit. With “In Old Chicago” on Saturday, the State screen will unfold its mightiest panorama of struggle and triumph, in one of the world’s great metroplises. “IN OLD CHICAGO.” The story leading up to the burning of the city on the night of October 9, .1871, is lusty, powerful and authentic to an infinitesimal point of careful research and scenic detail. A book by Nevin Busch, the legend of Mrs O’Leary’s cow kicking over the barn lantern and an accurate, brawling, sprawling story of life in that era have been evolved by the ace screen adapters, Lamar Trotti and Sonyo Levien. No less brilliant has been the direction of Henry King who developed the personalities of the O’Learys. He keeps a lot of movement in the early sequences and steps up his tempo to move fluently into the terror, tragedy and flight of the fire. For the realism that wells up from the screen in these stirring, blazing scenes, Bruce Humberstone’s direction earns well-merited praise.