STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 June 1940, Page 2

STATE THEATRE

“ISLE OF DESTINY.” Airplanes falling and crashing, ravenous jungle crocodiles, poison darts shot from blow-guns and marines rushing by air and by sea to the rescue of a girl flier embroiled in the intrigue of a daring international gunrunner, provide spectacular and suspenseful thrills for “Isle of Destiny,” , which is featuring William Gargan, Wallace Ford. June Lang, Gilbert Roland and Katherine DeMille at the State Theatre tonight. The action all takes place in the South Pacific, where William Gargan and Wallace Ford portray two Marines, Thornton and Barnes respectively, attached to the newly established emergency air base. These lads joined the Marines to see some excitement, but until the arrival of Virginia Allerton in her around-the-world plane, the Lady Bird, they have found life devoid of adventure. The two friends promptly fall for Virginia who, though she knows her own mind about them, exercises her feminine prerogative of keeping them guessing. Virginia is at the Marine Base as a stop-over guest on her around-the-world test flight. Her brother, George, is the Commanding Officer, and when he says good-bye to her as she starts out for Guam on the next leg of her journey home he has no warning that in twenty-four hours he is going to be rescuing her from the plot of an unscrupulous but charming rogue who has seen an opportunity to use Virginia as a cover to getting his stolen shipment of ammunitions loaded on the gun-runner. “Isle of Destiny” moves swiftly, the tension being relieved occasionally by the amusing wooing of Virginia by the two Marines. Even in the midst of the greatest danger Cosmocolor gives great beauty to the scene.