STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 January 1939, Page 2

STATE THEATRE

“HAVING WONDERFUL TIME.” RKO Radio’s film version of Arthur Kober’s Broadway stage hit, “Having Wonderful Time,” will be presented at the State Theatre tonight, and brings Ginger Rogers and Douglas Fairbanks Junr., in a triumphant, costarring drama with comedy. The story is a simple but human chronicle of two young people frantically trying to grasp a few hours of blissful romance in a vacation camp. Ginger Rogers is ideally cast as a stenographer weary of a nagging family and a sanctimonious fiancee. She meets Fairbanks, an impoverished law student working as a waiter. The nerve-wracked secretary and the young man immediately clash, but their petty feuding soon turns into mutual respect and genuine love. It is the rocky progress of their romance against various obstacles, in-

cluding the fact that the student cannot afford to finance a matrimonial venture, that forms the central theme of this fast-paced screen attraction. Ginger Rogers's role offers her dramatic as well as comedy opportunities, and in this respect it parallels her fine performance in “Stage Door.” Fairbanks’s characterisation is a fitting sequel to his recent successes in “The Prisoner of Zenda” and “Joy of Living.” More than fifty speaking roles are ably portrayed by Peggy Conklin, Richard “Red” Skelton, Lucille Ball, Lee Bowman, Ann Miller, Donald Meek and many others. An outstanding supporting programme includes “March of Time” 1938 series No. 11, featuring “The Truth About Your Doctor,” an excellent authentic featurette, another inimitable Walt Disney classic featuring Donald Duck in “Fox Hunt,” a Pathe Parade No. 7, showing “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” in the making, “Hunting Trouble,” a comedy, “When De We Eat,” a travelogue, and the latest Fox Australian and overseas news.