STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 December 1940, Page 2

STATE THEATRE

“JOHNNY APOLLO." The brilliant dramatic picture. “Johnny Apollo,” starring Tyrone Power, Dorothy Lamour and Lloyd Nolan, will be finally shown tonight. “ONE CROWDED NIGHT.”

’ The change of programme tomorrow ' night will be headed by that outstanding mystery drama, “One Crowded Night.” “One Crowded Night,” deals with the happenings at a roadside lunch bar and tourist cabin rendezvous which stands on one of the trans-Ame-rican bus routes. The proprietors of the hostelry are the members of a respectable small-town family who have more or less run away from their home to escape from the wagging tongues of their neighbours. A son of the family has been imprisoned for a crime he did not commit, and rather than face the whisperings which followed his arest the whole of the Mathews family migrated and are now trying to make a decent living out of catering for the tourists who pass by. There are several stories tied up in the main theme and each one is interesting and individual. There is Billie, who has left a questionable past to make good as the assistant at the lunch bar; there is Anne, who has hopes of the gay life, and who finds happiness in quite a different sphere; there are ma and pa, bravely trying not to regret their quiet existence of former years; there is the pretty passenger in the through bus who is overtaken by illness and has to be cared foi' by the family. And, above all, there is Brother Joseph, the Mahatma medicine man. The whole story works up to an exciting climax when guns play a prominent part. J. M. Kerrigan, as Brother Joseph, “the last of the individualists,” steals most of the scenes, but he is ably supported by- Billie Seward, Gale Storm, Dick Hogan and many others. 1