STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 January 1940, Page 2

STATE THEATRE

"CLIMBING HIGH." “Climbing High,’’ the latest big G.B.D. success, will be screened tonight at the State Theatre. It is a fast-moving romantic farce, featuring Jessie Matthews, one of the most popular stars on the British screen, with Michael Redgrave, the young West End stage actor, who made so promising a debut in "The Lady Vanishes.” "Climbing High” was made for laughter purposes only, and the impressive cast contains, in addition to the two stars. Noel Madison, Alastair Sim, Margaret Vyner, Mary Clare, Francis L. Sullivan, Enid Stamp-Taylor, Torin Thatcher, Tucker McGuire, Basil Radford, A thole Stewart and many others. The main theme of the picture is the romance between Jessie Matthews as a girl earning her own living and Michael Redgrave as a wealthy young man about town, who finds himself in the toils of a designing society girl and her equally designing mother. True love, of course, triumphs in the end and the man marries the girl who works for her living rather, than the girl who lives only for her selfish ends. But before this happens there are hilarious complications and misunderstandings, among them being the sequences where both Jessie and Michael are drawn into an advertising agency run on ultramodern lines by Noel Madison, where Alastair Sim has to pose, much to his shame and disgust, as an awful example of not taking a patent medicine; where an idyllic picnic of the two lovers is interrupted by an escaped lunatic who insists on operatic trios with dance accompaniment; an hilarious sequence where a wind machine in the advertising agency goes berserk and gives a very creditable imitation of a typhoon to the detriment of everyone and everything within reach, and thrilling scenes set among the beauties of the Alps where Jessie Mathews follows Michael Redgrace to save him from the revengeful but mistaken intentions of her own brother. “FIFTH AVENUE GIRL.” Tomorrow’s attraction is “Fifth Av- 1 enue Girl.” featuring Ginger Rogers and j Walter Connolly.