STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 May 1940, Page 2

STATE THEATRE

“THE CISCO KID & THE LADY.” [ One of the most colourful characters of the Old South-west, beloved by Americans for more than three decades in fiction and on the screen, swaggers back into romantic life again in "The Cisco Kid and the Lady.” This 20th Century-Fox picture opens tonight at the State Theatre. The famous O. Henry created the original Cisco a smiling, daring, lovemaking desperado whose hairbreadth escapes and reckless courage have won him undying admiration from all adventure-lov-ers. “The Cisco Kid and the Lady” brings a new Cisco in the person of Cesar Romero and he proves to be the greatest caballero of them all! He offers pulse-pounding adventure, roar-, ing action, gay romance, two-fisted fights and thrilling entertainment that make Cisco unforgettable. Defiant, swaggering, gay, romantic —the" Cisco Kid has the perfect portrayer in Cesar Romero. The film also features in the cast Marjorie Weaver, Chris-Pin Martin, George Montgomery, Robert Barrat, Virginia Field and Harry Green. I The screen play opens in typical fashion; Cisco, accompanied by his faithful, comic Gordito, encounters a new adventure in the desert when they are ambushed by a local villain in his attempt to secure two-thirds of a gold mine map owned by them. The bargain made by Cisco to obtain his part of the map was to care for the dying map-maker's infant son and there are • many delightful sequences of the des- , pera'do’s efforts at maternal solicitude, i Also screening will be the Twentieth- , Century Fox hit. “Heaven With a Barbed Wire Fence,” a delightful picture which stars Jean Rogers and Glen Ford as a “hitch-hike” girl and boy who roam the road together. There will also be shown the latest pictures of the Australian and New Zealand troops in Egypi. -THE RAINS CAME." That great picture. “The Rains Came," starring Myrna Loy, Tyrone i Power, George Brent and Brenda Joyce, will open its Masterton season on Fi'i day.