STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 May 1941, Page 2

STATE THEATRE

-THE GOLDWYN FOLLIES.” Presenting a dazzling array of stars and a variety of talent that staggers the imagination. "The Goldwyn Follies.” the glorious technicolour musical extravaganza which marks the first entertainment in Goldwyn’s 25 years of picture-making to carry the producer’s name, screens tonight at the State Theatre. The musical extravaganza, which also marks the producer's swing to the colour standard, has been produced on a scale more lavish, more opulent and more magnificent than anything the screen has ever shown. Goldwyn invaded every field of entertainment to find stars to augment the screen cast headed by suave Adolphe Menjou, the Ritz Brothers, and the beautiful rising young star, Andrea Leeds. From radio he took Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, the comedy sensation of the world; Kenny Baker, Jack Benny’s silver-voiced romanticist; irrepressible Phil Baker and his accordion; from grand opera, lovely Helen Jepson and the sensational newcomer Charles Kullman; from the world of the dance, the beautiful Zorina and George Balanchine’s American Ballet of the Metropolitan Opera; and from musical comedy goggle-eyed Bobby Clark to clown with petite Ella Logan. Then there are the hand-pick-ed gorgeous Goldwyn girls as well as Hollywood’s twelve loveliest and most talented tap dancers; Jerome Cowan, Nydia Westman, Frank Shields and a hundred more who fit into the pattern of one of Ben Hecht’s best stories—a comedy of Hollywood which casts Menjou as a film producer out of touch with his public, and Andrea Leeds as the typical American girl whom he hires as “Miss Humanity” to keep him posted on what the public wants. “The Goldwyn Follies” boasts the last and perhaps greatest score written by ( the late George Gershwin, ' studded with several song hits. “TIN PAN ALLEY.” 1

“Tin Pan Alley” is announced as the next attraction at the State Theatre tomorrow'.. It features Alice Faye, Betty Grable, Jack Oakie and John Payne.