STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 July 1939, Page 2

STATE THEATRE

“SIXTY GLORIOUS YEARS.” The large audience at the State Theatre last night, were warm in their praise of that magnifificent picture. “Sixty Glorious Years.” Besides considerable historical matter the film provides an appealing romance. It is a picture, that calls for brilliant acting and the audience thrilled to the various scenes placed before them. “Sixty Glorious Years” is a film which no picture patron should miss seeing Anna Neagle and Anton Walbrook are teamed in “Sixty Glorious Years” which 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 16, 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 signifl- ’ cance?