STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 July 1940, Page 2

STATE THEATRE

“FROZEN LIMITS.” One of the most ambitious film sets ever built in a London studio was erected for the Crazy Gang’s third and j latest screen comedy, “Frozen Limits,”' to be shown tonight at the State Theatre. The set represented Red Gulch City, a mining town, ostensibly in Alaska, the place where, tradition has it, “men are really men.” In a very confined space at the studios a small army of carpenters, with only a blueprint plan to guide them, constructed a set that breathed the very spirit of the Yukon. All the edifices familiar to us from American “Westerns” were presented with just that vital “difference.” A long, narrow, winding street, with its rough and unprepared roadway, stretched as far as the eye could sec. The unkempt actual thoroughfare was accentuated by the tumbledown buildings on either side that represented the inevitable swing-doored saloon a la Mexico, the principal mining office and cheap, drab-looking hotel, on which a creaking sign declaimed the fact that you could enjoy a superlative bed and breakfast for just a few nickels a night. Outside each of the buildings was built a rough-and-ready horse-bar, to which here and there a horse was attached. Inside the saloon — Bill McGrew’s, to be exact —the atmosphere was entirely different from the rather placid air of the street outside. Groups of rowdy" hombres, prospectors all, stood round the bar idly drinking and chatting with disconcerting amiability in view of their tough exteriors. Each looked a master of his own little world, tall, domineering, square chinned, with sharp, steely-blue eyes, dressed in an Alaskan costume. The Crazy Gang, Nervo and Knox, Flanagan and Allen, Naughton and Gold, are supported in their latest jamboree by an impressive cast, which includes Moore Marriott. Bernard Lee, Eric Clavering. Eileen Bell and Anthony Hulme. In “What Would You Do Chums?’ Syd Walker unravels another human problem just as he did thousands of others over the 8.8. C., London. In the “Band Waggon” series every week for twelve months Walker received thousands of post cards in answer to his weekly appeal, “What Would You Do Chums?” and this friendly Cockney junk man with his tales of curious how-do-ye-do's comes to the screen again tonight at the State Theatre. He relates in a hospital the story of a five-year-old episode and the question is what would you do in such a case? The logical reasoning of this junk-man-philosopher proved correct for the central character of the narrative appears unexpectedly as a nurse on the scene of the tale-telling, and once more this fellow of the world rejoices in another deed of goodness. The supporting cast includes Cyril Chamberlain. Jack Barty, Wally Patch, Julian Vedey. Lenard Morris, Andrea Malandrinos, Peter Gawthorne, Gus McNaughton, Arthur Finn and George Street. The feminine lead is played by versatile Jean Gillie.