STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 January 1940, Page 2

STATE THEATRE

“FIFTH AVENUE GIRL.” 1 One of the season’s most delightful pictures is ‘-Fifth Avenue Girl,” Ginger Rogers’s new starring vehicle for RKO Radio, which will be shown tonight at the State Theatre. Very different from Miss Rogers's recent “Bachelor Mother” but even funnier at times, the new picture revolves around the hectic experiences of a working gin guest in a stately Fifth Avenue home. Sne is hired for the job by the discouraged head of the family, who despairs of ever persuading his wife and children to regard him as other than a walking bank account. The girl's advent, as expected, alters the situation considerably. The wife, thinking her husband intends to marry the girl as soon as she goes to Reno, changes her plans and decides to stick around. The son, who has been neglecting the family pump business for polo, starts to work again, and the daughter gives up her dizzy goldfish-gulping friends for a serious romance with the chauffeur. How the various tangled threads of the principal

characters’ careers are finally straightened out forms the hilarious climax to the offering, while the heroine adjusts her own problems as well. The part might have been made to order for Miss Rogers’ talents, and she gives a remarkable portrayal of the difficult role. Walter Connolly heads the featured cast as the harassed husband, and James Ellison plays the part of the chauffeur, with Verree Teasdale'as the mother, with Tim Holt and Kathryn Adams as the two children, and such well-known players at Franklin Pangborn, Ferike Boros and Louis Calhern in important roles. It is a picture of outstanding quality.

On the same high class programme is the important “March of Time” issue entitled “War, Peace and Propaganda”; also Walt Disney’s latest cartoon, “Donald’s Better Self”; Fox Aussie News, Pathe News, Sports Thrill and a travelogue; all contributing to make one of the finest programmes yet offered in Masterton.