STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 January 1939, Page 2

STATE THEATRE

“VARIETY HOUR.”

“The Variety Hour” and “Kate Plus Ten” will be shown tonight at 8 o'clock at the State Theatre.

"STRANGE BOARDERS.”

Tom Walls, after many exciting adventures which take him from a Bayswater boardinghouse to a notorious night club; from the Air Ministry to an art photographer’s shop and back again to the boarding-house, there to unearth a clue which eventually solves the riddle, appears in a most unusual role. Gone is the philanderer whose charms no wife can withstand —the bibulous old gentleman' with an eye for pretty girls, and in their stead is the debonair detective ready to brave death in order to fulfil his mission of national importance. The story of “Strange Boarders” has been adapted from a mystery thriller by E. Phillips Oppenheim. “The Strange Boarders of Palace Crescent.” This outstanding film, will open tomorrow for a two-day season at the State Theatre. “SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS.” ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” opens a five-day engagement at the State Theatre commencing on Monday next. This is the first Walt Disney animated film produced in featurelength technicolour, which has been declared by newspaper critics to be the season's bigest sensation. It is unique in more ways than one, combining as it does the pleasures and lure of fantasy with excellent drama and highpressure comedy. The plot is derived from the best-known storj' in Grimms' Bock of Folk Tales, and this factor alone will attract patrons. The young folks will be impatient to see their favourite Princess, “Snow White," in all her loveliness on the screen, alive, as they have often seen her in imagination, as well Jis the wicked Queen, the evil Witch, the funny Little Men, anc all the other inhabitants of the mystic folk country. The older movie fans will be equally glad to renew their acquaintance with the fiction friends of their childhood.