STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 January 1939, Page 2

STATE THEATRE

“THE GOLDWYN FOLLIES.” The outstanding picture of its class, according to many competent judges, “The Goldwyn Follies,” will be presented at the State Theatre tonight. The picture has had an exceptionally enthusiastic reception wherever it has been shown in New Zealand, record business being established and seasons having to be extended. “The Goldwyn Follies” has caught the public taste everywhere for its brilliance and the collection of exceptionally high class artists who appear iA it. Beautifully coloured, it is something that the public will greatly appreciate for its photography also the mounting,, dressing and scenery being on a most lavish scale. “The Goldwyn Follies” presents a remarkable variety of talent. The musical, which also marks the producers’ swing to the colour standard, has been lavishly produced. Goldwyn invaded every field of entertainment to find stars to augment the screen cast, headed by suave Adolphe Menjou, the Ritz Brothers, and the beautiful rising young star Andrea Leeds. From radio he took Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Kenny Baker, Jack Benny’s silvervoiced romanticist; irrepressible Phil Baker and his accordion; from grand opera, Helen Jepson and the sensational newcomer Charles Kullman; from the world of dance, the beautiful Zorina and George Balanchine’s American Ballet of the Metropolitan Opera; and from musical comedy Bobby Clark, to clown with petite Ella Logan. Then there are the Goldwyn Girls, as well as 12 talented tapdancers; Jerome Cowan, Nydia Westman, Frank Shieds, and many more who fit into the pattern of one of Ben Hecht’s stories —a comedy of Hollywood which casts Menjou ps a film producer out of touch with his public, and Andrea Leeds as the typical American girl whom he hires as “Miss Humanity” to keep him posted on what the public wants.