STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 November 1938, Page 2

STATE THEATRE

“CAREFREE" FINALLY TONIGHT. The present programme at the State Theatre will be shown finally tonight when Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire will appear in “Carefree,” which has drawn crowded houses each night. The supports assist in making the programme one of outstanding merit. “SKY GIANT.” A gripping drama of modern aviation and a timely glimpse behind the scenes of the training that today’s fliers must undergo, are both presented in RKO Radio’s “Sky Giant,” which will open at the State Theatre tomorrow at 8 p.m. Richard Dix, co-star-red with Joan Fontaine and Chester Morris, plays a noted pilot transferred to managing a big aviation school under the strict discipline of its superintendent, Harry Carey. Carey’s son, Morris, enrolls in the school without his father’s knowledge, and the conflict begins, with Dix in continual hot water trying to keep matters smoothed out between father and son. The romantic element is introduced when both men fall in love with Miss Fontaine. Drama results through a quarrel between Morris and Miss Fontaine. Dix marries the girl himself just before setting out with Morris and another pilot, Paul Guilfoyle, on a dangerous flight, intended to map out an air route to Europe via Alaska and Siberia. All come to grief iff a lonely Alaskan wilderness. The three airmen, one of them badly hurt, set out for the coast and safety, but Morris’s jealousy endangers the lives of al. three. With its realistic background of aviation training and its gripping story, “Sky Giant,” is a notable piece of screen entertainment. Dix has an ideal role as the easy-going pilot, while the performances of Morris, Miss Fontaine, Carey and Guilfoyle are brilliantly turned. Lew Landers has directed the production by Robert Sisk with distinction, and the story by Lionel Houser rounds out a genuinely absorbing film.