STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 September 1938, Page 2

STATE THEATRE

WHEELER AND WOOLSEY. Those past-masters in the fine art of fun-making, Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, will appear finally at the State Theatre tonight in “High Flyers.” 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 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.

“BRINGING UP BABY.”

Tomorrow night there will be screened one of the year’s greatest comedies, “Bringing Up Baby,” in which Cary Grant, Kathleen Hepburn, Charlie Ruggles and May Robson will appear. “Wynken, Blynken and Nod,” Walt Disney’s latest Technicolour Silly Symphony for RKO Radio release will also come to the State Theatre tomorrow. A feature of the short is the simplicity of its theme which serves to increase its beauty and strange novelty.