STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 December 1939, Page 2

STATE THEATRE

“SECOND FIDDLE.’-’ Irving Berlin’s new songs, Sonja Henie’s sunny brilliance, Tyrone Power’s gay romancing, Rudy Vallee’s singing and Edna May Oliver’s fun — one of the greatest combinations of talent ever gathered for one show is making Irving Berlin’s “Second- Fiddle” the sensation of the preview critics who have lavished on the 20th Cen-tury-Fox film a chorus of praise. It is something new in screen entertainment. This film which will be finally shown at the State tonight, is filled with romance, dazzling spectacle, fresh comedy, six new Berlin songs and surprises galore, including sensational tangos on ice, snow rhumbas, ice ballets, and the new ballroom dance craze, the “Back to Back.” Bearing evidences throughout of the magic touch of Darryl F. Zanuck, 20th Century-Fox production chief, the screen play by Harry Tugend is a highly realistic story of filmdom’s long search for a girl to play the heroine of a best-sell-ing novel and what happens when she is found. “Second Fiddle” introduces new-star Mary Healy, lovely young actress whose first screen appearance finds her in a romantic role opposite Rudy Vallee. The producers expect great work from this newcomer and her performance is hailed as fulfilling every expectation. Included with her in the cast are Lyle Talbot and Alan Dinehart. For the first time on the screen Sonja Henie has a skating partner on the ice, young Stewart Reburn. The handsome Canadian athlete appeared with the ice star during her triumphant personal-appearance tour of the country last winter. Wednesday’s programme will be headed by the noted Will Hay comedy. "Ask a Policeman.” It is one of the most amusing commedies ever brought to the screen. The associate picture will be that thrilling drama, “The Return of the Frog,” based on Edgar Wallace’s story, "The India Rubber Man.”