STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 January 1940, Page 2

STATE THEATRE

“FIFTH AVENUE GIRL.”

The State Theatre was crowded on Saturday night to witness ‘‘Fifth Avenue Girl.” It is an excellent picture in every way, with Ginger Rogers at her best.

“Fifth Avenue Girl” is one of the best possible cures for an attack of the blues. The story revolves around the hectic experiences of a working girl guest in a stately Fifth Avenue home. She 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. Walter Connolly heads the featured cast as the harassed husband, and James Ellison plays the part of the chauffeur, with Verree Teasdale as the and Tim Holt and Kathryn Adams as the two children.

The supporting programme is one of the best seen for some considerable time and is headed by an outstanding “March of Time,” entitled “War, Peace and Propaganda,” which is exceedingly appropriate at the present moment.