STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 September 1938, Page 2

STATE THEATRE

“HAPPY LANDING.” So many superlatives have been used previously to describe the sheer artistry on ice of Sonja Henie that it is relatively difficult to describe afresh the poetry of motion of this twinkling star in “Happy Landing,” Which Will be finally shown at the State Theatre tonight. WHEELER AND WOOLSEY. Those past-masters in the fine, art of fun-making, Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, add to their long list of stellar box office attractions tomorrow, when “High Flyers,” latest RKO Radio comedy, co-starring the famous team, opens at the State Theatre tomorrow at 2.15 and 7.45 p.m. From smuggling jewels in a stolen police plane, to solving thefts in detective guise, and incidentally making hurricane love to provocative beauties, the erratic but resourceful partners in merry adventure set a record pace for hilarious antics that never slackens up to the film’s smashing climax. The story presents Wheeler as an aviator and Woolsey as a side-show barker who, together, unwittingly steal a police plane to do a bit of smuggling, and wind up posing as sleuths on the trail of a series of strange thefts at a palatial country estate. They suspect all the wrong persons while trying to keep out of the penitentiary themselves, and keep their host’s family in near hysterics. Jack Carspn, as a crooked newspaper man, Paul Harvey, as the millionaire, Margaret Dumont, as the latter’s crystal-gazing wife, are excellent in their respective foies.