STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 July 1939, Page 2

STATE THEATRE

“THE DUKE OF WEST POINT.” “The Duke of West Point” will be shown finally at the State Theatre tonight. “SIXTY GLORIOUS YEARS.” The premiere in Masterton of “Sixty Glorious Years” is looked forward to eagerly not only by those film patrons who enjoy the glamour of the past, but those who love an appealing romance will have their interest gratified in this brilliant successor to “Victoria the Great.” This new international attraction, produced entirely in Technicolour, will be shown at the State Theatre tomorrow at 2.45 and 7.45 p.m. Anna Neagle and Anton Walbrook are teamed. “Sixty Glorious Years” has been produced on. a scale in keeping with its striking' personal value. Out of the annals of Queen Victoria’s there surges a current of swiftly moving intimate events. The romance of Victoria’s love match and marriage, the alternately tragic and triumphant political affairs which darkened and brightened her reign, her fortitude under distressing conditions, are all enacted in dramatic detail. But above all else the picture offers the dominating human note of a domestic life. The average person watching the largest sympathetic impersonation of England’s great sovereign and her consort will be enabled to relive the sorrows) and joys of Royal wife and husband. Pomp and magnificence mark the drama’s opening, with the slim figure of the girlish sovereign delivering an address to Parliament on January IG, 1840. The Duke of Wellington, national military idol, played by C. Aubrey Smith, is seen commenting in undertones to his friend and political ally, Sir Robert Peel. Besides the nobles of the period, the commoners muster in force to hail the ushering in of a new era in old England. As the reels unfold one senses the feeling of criticism and doubt with which the public approach the coming nuptials of the Queen and Prince Albert of SaxeCoburg. A foreigner, would this prince ever develop into a true-blood-ed Englishman? Or, would he neglect Great Britain’s interests, while craftily weaving his young wife’s views into a political pattern of sinister significance.?