STATE THEATRE
“GATEWAY.”
A throbbing drama of world-famous Ellis Island is “Gateway,” starring Don Ameche and Arleen Whelan. The production, which comes to the State Theatre tonight, is tense with violent emotions and keyed-up suspense; bright with the lightness of hearts buoyed up ” with hope, and colourful with its people from all lands. Don Ameche and Arleen Whelan are thrilling with the strong, young romance of two who feared they had met too late. Their support is a cast of actors and actresses worthy of such a stirring story in the most dramatic place in the world. Don Ameche is a homecoming newspaper correspondent. Arleen Whelan is a young lass in the second cabin, who is to meet her fiance in America. Her beauty has attracted not only the newspaperman but a gangster (Gilbert Roland) and a politically-minded mayor (Raymond Walburn). A famous divorcee (Binnie Barnes) has aided the romance between Don Ameche and Arleen Whelan. Below decks are the political fugitives and expatriates of many lands who now seek refuge at America’s “Gateway.” Tense, human drama rises to compelling heights in the babel of tongues and the terror of people in an unknown land. Here Gregory Ratoff, John Carradine, Maurice Moscovich, Harry Carey, Marjorie Gateson, Lyle Talbot and many others provide a story which directly influences the romance between Don Ameche and Arleen Whelan. What appears at times to be inevitable destiny, is touched here and there with brilliant humour and sheer thrill.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 February 1939, Page 2
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244STATE THEATRE Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 February 1939, Page 2
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