STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 February 1939, Page 2

STATE THEATRE

‘■SNOW WHITE.” “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” will be finally shown tonight at the State Theatre, after a most succesful season.

“ALF’S BUTTON AFLOAT.” > A lot of people questioned the possibility of transferring the Crazy Gang to the screen. They said that the boys’ spontaneous humour could never get over. Individually, of course, they have appeared in several pictures. But it is as a collective body that they reach the heights of craziness, and as such that their popularity has increased tremendously. Now their second collective effort, “All’s Button AfloaJ,” will be shown tomorrow night at the state Theatre. “Alfs Button Afloat” is one of the funniest pictures ever brought to the screen. It tells how six brothers, street musicians by honourable profession, who have an intense disliking of anything that savours of work, follow a naval band and collect money by reason of the passers-by thinking that it is their gutter concert that they hear. Actually, it is the music of the sailors’ band. By a stroke of misfortune, due principally to the cunning of a Marine sergeant, they suddenly discover themselves serving in the corps with other sea-faring lads. It is not until they are on the high seas that Alf, one of the musicians, discovers that he has a magic button. He rubs it and from out of nowhere appears the Genii of the Button, who tells him that he is at his command. “Strike me pink!” says Alf and the Genii, misconstruing the demand, stripes him pink, with the result that the fleet’s manoeuvres are delayed to inspect what is thought to be the breaking out of a serious disease among the marines. The fun becomes more and more furious as Alf and his five friends realise the illimitable possibilities of the button. Excitement descends on the ship with breath-tak-ing suddenness; an officious sergeant is put in his place once and for all; a popular lieutenant’s romance with the Captain’s lovely young daughter is aided and abetted in the most amusing manner, and finally, ■ when they have made the ship too hot to hold them, the six men are whisked away to a vast country mansion where the Gennii surrounds them with every oriental luxury.