STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 June 1940, Page 2

STATE THEATRE

“A WINDOW IN LONDON.” Tonight’s programme at the State Theatre is headed by that outstanding attraction, “A Window in London.” The chief role is enacted by the brilliant artist Michael Redgrave, who scores heavily in a most unusual mystery drama, which is charged with novel surprises in every scene. It blazes a new trail in pictures. Enacted within the sight of St. Paul’s and within the sound of Bow Bells, much of its action has for its background the building of the New Waterloo Bridge. The story will keep the audience tensely interested and thrilling scenes are witnessed at almost every turn. A distinguished supporting cast is headed by Sally Gray, Paul Lukas and Patricia Roc. For originality of story and of treatment, “A Window in London” is a picture which deserves to be remembered. It is, indeed, a most unusual film, brimful of true entertainment qualities and calculated to suit the tastes of an exceedingly wide audience. It starts dramatically, and it maintains that same dramatic tempo to th f e last foot. Its story opens with a young married couple—married but living virtually apart, he working all day, she working all night as a telephone operator. The husband, travelling by train to work in the morning, sees from the carriage an extraordinary scene at the window of a block of flats. A man is stabbing a woman. He leaves the train, finds a policeman, and searches the building until he comes across the couple who have caught his attention. But it so happens that they are two theatrical figures and that the stabbing was a rehearsal. The news reaches the papers, however, and the dramatic interest in the incident gives unexpected publicity to the theatrical couple, an illusionist and his wife-as-sistant. They secure an engagement, after two years of idleness and poverty, and seem to be settled again on the road to fame. But the young intruder, who thought he had seen a murder, finds himself hopelessly compromised. Enough has already happened to make one exciting film; the truth is that it is only the beginning, no more than the preparation for the rest of an exciting story that is unfolded with a wealth of dramatic interest. Also to be shown will be the latest “March of Time” entitled “Uncle Sam, the Farmer,” covering a subject of great interest and importance in the present war atmosphere.