STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 July 1939, Page 2

STATE THEATRE

"SUBMARINE PATROL.’ - The current programme headed by •‘Submarine Patrol,” at the State Theatre, which drew a crowded house of well-satisfied patrons on Saturday night, will be finally shown tonight. -THE DUKE OF WEST POINT.” With Joan Fontaine portraying the leading lady, and with Louis Hayward. Richard Carlson, Tom Brown and Alan Curtis appearing as the four important males in the story, the thrilling adventures and romances of plebes enrolled at the United States Military Academy are humorously and dramatically unfolded in Edward Small's "The Duke of West Point,” which will be shown tomorrow night at the State Theatre. As the story opens, Steve Early arrives from England, where he has been spectacularly successful on the Cambridge Varsity Rugby team, to start life as a West Point Cadet. Accustomed to a goodly amount of pampering by his wealthy parents and society friends. Steve is “meat” for the yearling corporals who proceed to make his life thoroughly miserable and to take him down several pegs. How Steve, along with the other plebes, go from one misadventure to another,l weathering storms and heartbreak until the thrilling climax, when West Point plays its annual ice hockey game with the Royal Military College of Canada, is told in a series of fast-mov-ing, poignant scenes. Among the outstanding sequences which appear in the film are included the famous Flirtation Walk of West Point, the Administration building, the “beast barracks,” the Cadet Chapel, Trophy Point. Sally Port, the Post Office, Grant -Hall, the Mess Hall, Cullum Hall and the cadet store—all famous landmarks in the life of every plebe. The supports include the famous Jones family in their greatest scream —“Everybody’s Baby.”