STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 July 1941, Page 8

STATE THEATRE

“THE FARGO KID.” The double programme at the State Theatre, “The Fargo Kid” and “Let’s Make Music,” will be finally shown tonight. “MR & MRS SMITH.” Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, who has to his credit such successful films as “Rebecca,” “The Lady Vanishes” and “Foreign Correspondent,” -R.K.O. Radio’s entertaining domestic comedy “Mr and Mrs Smith” will be shown tomorrow night at the State Theatre. Mr and Mrs Smith are a young couple whose married life is a round of quarrels and reconciliations. They make a gentleman’s agreement that, if a quarrel occurs, neither is to leave the room until the affair has been smoothed out. As a result, Mr Smith is absent from his office as long as a waek. Their domestic life is further complicated by the discovery that, owing to a technical error in the boundary of the State, their marriage is null and void. In one of the most entertaining sequences of the production, Mr Smith, anxious to escape from an uncongenial party, surreptitiously punches himself on the nose so that he can use its bleeding as an excuse to leave. Carole Lombard, last seen with Charles Laughton in “They Knew What They Wanted,” and Robert Montgom-ery,-who scored recently in “Busman’s Honeymoon,” as Mr and Mrs Smith, are teamed for the first time. Supporting players include Gene Raymond, who excels himself in a drunken scene, Jack Carson, Philip Merivale and Lucile Watson.