STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 October 1939, Page 2

STATE THEATRE

PYGMALION" FINALLY TONIGHT.

The Bernard Shaw masterpiece, "Pygmalion," will be finally shown tonight.

'ROSE OF WASHINGTON SQUARE.

The romantic stars of “Alexander’s Ragtime Band,” Tyrone Power and Alice Faye, are joined by Al Jolson, the star who sings back the past everyone wants to remember, in “Rose of Washington Square,” which will be shown at the State Theatre tomorrow night. Featuring, as did “Alexander’s Ragtime Band,” the heart songs and hit songs of today and yesterday, the 20th Century-Fox film opens the gates of memory, rich with the emotion of years of beloved melody, and tells the stirring dramatic romance of Rose, a girl who respected love, no matter how it tricked her. These milestones of melody fill the film: “My Man,” "Toot Toot Tootsie, Goodbye,” “I’m Sorry I Made You Cry,” “Ja-Da,” “The Vamp,” “The Curse of an Aching Heart,” “April Showers,” “Mammy," "Rose of Washington Square,” by James Hanley and Ballard Macdonald “I’m Always Chasing Rainbows,” “I’m Just Wild About Harry,” “California Here I Come,” and “Avalon.” In addition there is Gordon and Revel’s latest hit, “I Never Knew Heaven Could Speak.” “Rose of Washington Square” opens at the close of the World War with Jolson as Ted Cotter, a singing candy seller in a New York theatre, who has big stage ideas. He loves Rose Sargent (Alice Faye) and dreams of taking her with him up the ladder to fame. But Rose falls for Bart Clinton, a charming but wayward fellow, played by Tyrone Power. The film traces Ted’s rise to the dizzy heights of stardom at the famous Winter Garden and gives Jolson an opportunity to sing again the hit songs he made famous. Rose, meanwhile, becomes a star of the Follies. At the height of her fame, Bart brings disgrace upon her, but her love for him never wavers. William Frawley, Joyce Compton and Hobart Cavanaugh also score in the film. In “Rose of Washington Square,” Rice and Cady, the famous old-time comedians, do a comedy routine of songs and patter that was part of their original stage act.