STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 July 1939, Page 2

STATE THEATRE

A MAGNIFICENT PICTURE. The State Theatre presented to a large audience on Saturday night a picture that immediately made an appeal to those who appreciate historic romance at its best. Presented in beautiful colours, “Sixty Glorious Years” is a brilliant picture full of romance and sensations and providing a theme that was appreciated by loyal Britishers. Rarely on the screen is to be seen such magnificent beauty, outstanding acting and historical romance as is packed into “Sixty Glorious Years.” Never before has a picture made such a patriotic appeal and never before has history been so faithfully portrayed on the silver sheet. Those who appreciate romance, humour, beautiful colouring and majestic scenes and who are endowed with the true British patriotic spirit cannot afford to miss seeing such a brilliant picture as “Sixty Glorious Years.” 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 16,1 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. Tomorrow’s attraction will be “the picture of the hour,” “The International Settlement,” which has attracted crowded houses wherever shown.