STATE THEATRE
“THE MARSHAL OF MESA CITY.” “The Marshal of Mesa City,” George C’Brien’s latest outdoor drama, will be shown finally tonight, and provides additional proof why this virile veteran is considered the leading star of western screen dramas. Suspense. thrilling gun fights, hand-to-hand combats, comedy, tragedy and a tender romance are interwoven in the exciting saga of the courageous marshals of the early West, who ended that riotous and bloody rule ol frontier desperadoes. Seen in the title role, O’Brien’s portrayal of the marshal combines one of bravery without bravado, .self-assurance without vaunt, and a romance which brings tender love scenes to the screen. Virginia Vale makes most of her role as the school teacher. She is a clever actress. Leon Ames, a comparative newcomer to the screen, who is rapidly winning recognition for his character roles, is seen as the outlaw sheriff.
•THE HOUSEKEEPER’S DAUGHTER.’ Tomorrow evening's presentation of Hal Roach's ‘’The Housekeeper’s Daughter” at the State Theatre, will provide movie-goers with the thrills end laughter and excitement, important to first-rate motion picture entertainment. The new film production, a gay comedy romance based on the bestselling novel by Donald Henderson Clarke, stars brunette-tressed Joan Bennett as. the heroine of the story, with Adolphe Menjou and John Hubbard as her two heroes. “The Housekeeper’s Daughter" is a lively story of a young lady, who quits the underworld after being disillusioned with her boy friend, and happens to become involved in the lives of five other men'
—among them, the wealthy scion of a socially prominent family, two newspapermen, and an unorthodox gangster. Most of the story is unfolded in the town house of the Randalls, while they are summering at a fashionable summer resort, and most of the action concerns a baffling murder which is solved after some of the clues are brought to the fore, not to omit a fireworks display which pinch-hits for
an honest-to-goodness bombing. Top performances are contributed by the starring trie, and in the featured roles are such first-rate players as George E. Stone as the murderer, Peggy Wood as tile housekeeper, Donald Meek as an irate newspaper editor, William Gar-j gan as Menjou’s stooge, Marc Law-1 rence as the gangster, and Lilian Bond as the attractive Broadway butterfly. “The Housekeeper’s Daughter" is told on the screen with high comedy, moving drama and exciting suspense. The dialogue is splendid, the photography is beautiful and the entire production is lavishly mounted. “The Housekeeper’s Daughter," abounds in thrills and excitement, in laughter and fun, in romance and drama.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 March 1940, Page 2
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