STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 September 1938, Page 2

STATE THEATRE

“VIVACIOUS LADY.” With its delightful theme based on the conflict between old-fashioned theories and modern actualities in wedlock “Vivacious Lady” comes to the State Theatre tonight with Ginger Rogers and James Stewart co-starred. It is a picture far above the ordinary and has drawn crowded houses everywhere. Miss Rogers depicts a Broadway night club entertainer, whom Stewart, a botany professor from a little up-stage college, woos and wins in a hectic courtship. When he brings his bride home to the dignified college town and contemplates breaking the news to his stern college president father, he loses courage and remains silent. Out of this silence grow the many hilarious situations that follow. Stewart’s mother, a hypochondriac, has “heart trouble” whenever an argument starts between her husband and her tall young son; a local girl, who thinks she is engaged to Stewart, begins laying embarrassing plans for their coming marriage, and Stewart’s playboy cousin, the only one who knows their secret, manages to tangle things up in trying to straighten out the affair. These various threads are. woven into a hectic plot which marches on to a clever climax and solves the problem in entertaining fashion. An outstanding supporting programme includes “March of Time,” 1938 series No. 7; “Pluto’s Quintuplets,” a Walt Disney cartoon; Skyline Review, a musicale; Pathe Parade No. 6; latest Fox- Australian News and the latest Pathe News.