STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 August 1938, Page 2

STATE THEATRE

“FIT FOR A KING” AND “RAWHIDE.” Joe E. Brown and Paul Kelly appear as rival newshawks in “Fit For a King” the comedian’s latest mirth vehicle produced by David L. Loew for RKO Radio release, which will open tonight, with a matinee tomorrow. In a side-splitting story which tells of deep dark plots in a mythical European kingdom, Brown and Kelly battle each other and mutual enemies for the news and facilities for putting their stories on the wires. A large cast of favourites is seen in support, with lovely Helen Mack appearing as the feminine lead. Oihers are Harry Davenport, Halliwell Hobbes, John Qualen, Donald Briggs, Frank Reicher, Russell Hicks and Charles Trowbridge. Your favourite' singing cowboy, with sixguns ablazing, and baseball’s greatest hero, with fists a’swinging, moves in on the screen of the State Theatre tonight in “Rawhide,” to drive the rustlers off the range and to run the racketeers out of the West! “Rawhide,” stars Lou Gehrig in his first movie appearance, with beautiful blonde Evalyn Knapp. Co-star Smith Ballew, lanky cowboy singer, has a law office in town, and when Gehrig refuses to join the cattlemen’s “protective” association —run by a group of big-town racketeers — Gehrig, Ballew and the girl band together to battle it out in the most exciting game ever played.