STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 January 1939, Page 2

STATE THEATRE

“SNOW WHITE.” Romance, high comedy, pathos, exI citement, colour of breath-taking I beauty and tuneful music! Mix them well and you have “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” Walt Disney’s first | step into the feature-length production 1 field, which opened at the State Theatre last night to a packed house for a season of five nights, with matinees on Wednesday and Friday. Disney and his staff of artists have created a beautiful heroine in Snow White herself, "whose skin was white as snow, lips red as a rose and hair black as ebony." Into the seven little dwarfs, they have instilled all of the personality and comic little quirks so definitely associated with Disney characters. Instead of treating them as a unit, as they were in the original story, the studio staff gave them names and made each of them a distinct person. In fact, Doc, Sneezy, Dopey, Sleepy, Grumpy, Happy and Bashful are due to take the screen world by storm. Snow White’s beautiful but vain persecutor, the Queen, is the viUainess of the piece, and the eerie scene where she changes herself into an old witch-like hag in order to give unsuspecting Snow White a poisoned apple is one of the high lights of excitement in the picture. Snow White’s Prince Charming is as handsome as any leading man in Hollywood and sings love songs to her in a mag-

nificent tenor voice. The music throughout the picture is excellent. Snow White, the Prince, the Queen, and the Queen’s Huntsman are all figures entirely devoid of caricature, and are the first characters developed by Disney tc have all the physical attributes of normal human beings. The picture is exquisite entertainment for adult and young alike, and marks a new milestone in film features.