STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 December 1940, Page 2

STATE THEATRE

“SAPS AT SEA.” Uproarious fun and side-splitting laughter is provided in ‘Saps at Sea,” which stars Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy and which will be shown tonight at the State Theatre. In “Saps at Sea,” sad-faced Stan and rotund Ollie are presented as a pair of horn testers in a musical instrument factory. It is their-job to test D flat horns, but after a while the work gets on the nerves of Hardy. He proceeds to go berserk. Stan a medico and a sea voyage is prescribed plus a diet of goat’s milk. The comics engage a boat that is destined to sink if it goes out to sea —so they decide to remain in port. Then the wild fun begins. If patrons want to be entertained by a story that moves with lightning speed and evokes mirth and gaiety, they should sec “Saps at Sea.” It’s a laugh riot from beginning to end.

With Virginia Vale again playing opposite him, George O’Brien enacts the part of a shrewd Government agent on the frontier of the Old West in his “Stage to Chino,” the second feature. The noted outdoor star is cast as a postal inspector checking or the activities of the stagecoach line that carry the mail to the more remote Western towns.

“London Can Take It” is an appropriately named picture and is one of the most inspiring documentary films ever produced. It shows in a graphic way how London meets the brutal tactics of Hitler’s airmen. The picture will be shown tomorrow night. The opening of the film discloses the preparations that are taken for the nightly air-raid vigil. The arrival of the raiders, followed by searchlights sweeping the sky and the subsequent anti-aircraft barrage and the explosion of bombs, is vividly portrayed.

Another feature on the programme is a “March of Time.” relating to America and Japan and the crisis in the Pacific.