STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 October 1939, Page 2

STATE THEATRE

-- "THE SAINT IN LONDON.”

Recounting in a vivid manner the further adventures of that arch-enemy of crime, Simon Templar, “The Saint In London,” will be the attraction at the State Theatre tonight. Familiar to the detective fiction enthusiasts of two continents through the widely read novels of Leslie Charteris and to moviegoers through two recently successful films, “The Saint” returns to the screen again in the person of George Sanders, suave British actor, with attractive Sally Gray as his romantic foil. Filmed in England against the authentic background of Great Britain’s capital, the picture is said to be the most exciting of the R.K.O. Radio “Saint” series. Fresh from his audacious exploits in America, “The Saint” visits London at the suggestion of the British Secret Service, to become embroiled with a criminal gang intent upon defrauding a foreign government. His unusual activities arouse the suspicions of Scotland Yard, and his struggles are further complicated when a young and beautiful girl decides to align herself with him in his life-and-death fight to assert justice. Cleverly extricating himself from a false charge of murder. "The Saint” slowly amasses the evidence to indict his enemies. The worries of a father-to-be awaiting the arrival of his first-born are amazingly depicted in Walt Disney's “The Ugly Duckling,” Silly Symphony Technicolour version of the Andersen fairy tale. A worried father drake is stalking up and down before his nesting wife, awaiting the arrival of the break out of their eggs. Suddenly, one egg, unhatched, begins to show signs of life, and into the world bobs a larger and exceedingly homely young; fowl —the Ugly Duckling.