STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 May 1939, Page 2

STATE THEATRE

“THE CHALLENGE.” “The Challenge” and the supportingprogramme will be finally shown tonight. “TRADE WINDS.” The new programme at the State Theatre tomorrow night will be headed by an outstanding attraction which has run for weeks at the chief centres in New Zealand—“ Trade Winds.” It is a drama far above the average, with quick moving scenes, the settings and the acting being exceptionally good. It is one of the most provocative and exciting motion pictures to reach the screen within recent years and has a capitally chosen cast headed by Fredric March and Joan Bennett. The picture is a fast-moving, romantic melodrama, smartly fashioned to contain all the elements of fine entertainment. Miss Bennett, portraying the role of Kay Kerrigan, flees San Francisco aftfr a murder of which she believes herself guilty. Dyeing her blonde hair black, as a disguise, the girl travels half-way around the world in her flight from the law. Her steps in and through the fascinating Orient are dogged by Fredric March, appearing as Sam Wye, a blase detective with a grand sense of humour Lnd an excellent appreciation of the beautiful female. Ralph Bellamy and Ann Sothern, teamed as the second romantic leads, contribute rich comedy 1 performances—he as a stolid, book-trained sleuth, she as a scatter-brained but stunningly garbed secretary. Among the varied and colourful backgrounds against which the action unfolds are included such countries as Hawaii, Japan, China, Indo-China, the Malay Peninsula Ceylon, India/and the little known Laccadive Islands. An excellent “March of Time” will also.be.shown.