STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 February 1939, Page 2

STATE THEATRE

"MY LUCKY STAR.” Sonja I-lenie will appear tonight and finally tomorrow night at the State Theatre in that startling, dazzling attraction, “My Lucky Star,” assisted by Richard Greene. Joan Davis, Cesar Romero and Buddy Ebsen. “I’LL GIVE A MILLION.” Orchids, yachts, mansions, after all, what do they mean? —if it’s only orchids, yachts and mansions the girls are after! So a debonair millionaire gives his million the air and goes looking for a girl who is looking only for love! In this vein, “I’ll Give a Million” becomes one of the gayest, most hilarious cinematic romances to come out of Hollywood in an age. At the State Theatre on Wednesday commencing at the matinee at 2.15 p.m., this 20th Century-Fox production will give the audience an array of star-talent that beggars all the upper-bracket adjectives. Romantic Warner Baxter; gorgeously glamorous Marjorie Weaver, at last in glittering raiment; Peter Lorre, in a riotously funny characterisation; Jean Hersholt in a part as charming as his famous Country Doctor; that master of facial facility, John Carradine; exciting Lynn Bari; Fritz Feld in the best thing he has done since the Pied Piper in Rheinhardt's “The Miracle.” That’s just a quick glimpse of the cast which adds up to hundreds, and introduces Shorty, a clever scene-stealing simian. Baxter jumps from his palatial yacht to save Peter Lorre from drowning. The vessel sails on and Warner changes clothes with the rescued tramp. Lorre sallies forth-the next day with his pockets full of French banknotes —and let’s slip the story of the millionaire-hobo. From this point on the solicitude for tramps becomes epidemic. Baxter of course finds his way to a circus where he meets Marjorie Weaver and a hectic romance reaches an astonishing conclusion.