STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 June 1939, Page 2

STATE THEATRE

“GUNGA DIN.” The sensational picture, “Gunga Din,” will be finally shown tonight at the State Theatre. Kipling’s dusky character, “Gunga Din,” has already made himself a familiar figure wherever elocutionists face the public. The R.K.0.-Radio studios have surrounded him with light-hearted characters: They have set him marching through magnificent scenery; and finally, in one grandiose stroke of drama, they have caused him to save from destruction the flower of the British Army. This has been set forth in the most lavish manner. Infantry and cavalry go sweeping across the screen in thousands. Sergeants Cutter, McChesney and Ballantine —Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen and young Doug. Fairbanks respectively—are inseparables and born soldiers. There is a splendid supporting programme. “PECK’S BAD BOY.” Inspired by George W. Peck’s everpopular character, “Peck’s Bad Boy With the Circus,” comes to the State Theatre tomorrow night with Tommy kelly, hero of “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” in the starring lead. This version of the adventures of one of America’s most celebrated fiction heroes has Ann Gillis (Becky Thatcher in “Tom Sawyer”) featured as a circus bareback rider and Edgar Kennedy as a lion tamer. RKO Radio releases “Peck’s Bad Boy With the Circus,” the first of a new series. The picture is one that will make a strong appeal to the picture patron. It provides a delightful array of exciting fun-pro-ducing antics under a big circus tent. In a three-ring arena there is featured the Escalante troupe of high wire performers, the great Liberty Horse Act, as well as seventy performing animals. Tommy Kelly, Ann Gillis and Spanky McFarlane provide all the “fun of the circus” in this great drama of the circus. There are thrills, humour and tense drama throughout the picture, making in all a film that is outstanding in its class. Those who appreciate a really’ good picture of circus life together with a strong human appeal should not miss "Peck’s Bad Boy With the Circus.”