STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 February 1940, Page 2

STATE THEATRE

■QUICK MILLIONS” & “BOY FRIEND.”

It must be awful to be in love when you’re busy dodging bullets, but that’s the madcap Withers way! It makes for exciting, madcap entertainment in “Boy Friend.” Jane Withers’ newest 20th Century-Fox comedy, which screens at the State Theatre. The “Boy Friend” is what Jane’s latest is about. Tiie Hollywood hoyden has for her first love young George Ernest, erstwhile Roger of the Jones Family. As the sister of a two-fisted young police officer whose exploits lead to the smashing of one of New York’s most dangerous gangs, Jane not only discovers her first heart interest but also plunges into a series of dramatic situations that give her new opportunities to display her extraordinary acting ability. The map still shows plenty of spaces where the hand of the Jones Family has never set foot and as long as this is so, moviegoers can rely on excellent entertainment from this nomadic screen family. Their latest jaunt is fo the Grand Canyon, where they have inherited a gold mine, in their new 20th Century-Fox production, “Quick Millions.” which also screens tonight at the State Theatre. Good all around fun, the Joseph Hoffman-Stanley Rauh' screen play brings the Joneses back to Maryville from their recent trip to Hollywood only to send them packing again when they receive word of the inheritance. So it’s off to the West again, and what with. Injun ghosts, fake geologists, bullets, bandits and gunfights, they strike it rich in their richest vein of fun.