STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 September 1938, Page 2

STATE THEATRE

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 attraction tonight, when “High Flyers,” latest RKO Radio comedy, co-starring the famous team, will open at the State Theatre. 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 £tory 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 Carson, as a crooked newspaper man, Paul Harvey, as the millionaire, Margaret Dumont, as the latter’s crystal-gazing wife, are excellent in their respective roles.