STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 July 1941, Page 8

STATE THEATRE

NEW ZEALANDERS IN GREECE. One of the best programmes ever seen at the State Theatre was presented to a large attendance on Saturday night when outstanding pictures ol a patriotic character were shown. The. chief attraction was the great drama “Scotland Yard.” The programme will be finally shown tonight. “STRANGER ON THE THIRD FLOOR.” A highly-imaginative conception of the possibilities for injustice in trial by jury upon circumstantial evidence will be presented, tomorrow night in “Stranger on the Third Floor.” The stranger is Peter Lorre, and the chief witness is John McGuire, whose fiancee, Margaret Tallichet, is so upset by the convicted prisoner's protests of innocence that she decides the wedding must be off. Worried, the witness has a nightmare —after chasing a mysterious stranger fruitlessly downstairs —in which he links a series of actual happenings at his lodgings within the past few days into a circumstantial chain which would hang him, provided that his heated remarks to a detested snoring fellow-lodger were recollected, and that the lodger had been murdered. Waking, he listens for the hated snore next door, and when all is silence, ho is driven to go in and make sure that all is well. Far from it. the lodger lies murdered. His nightmare would have come true, except for some very strange happenings. “Wildcat Bus." the associate film is°a talc of crooks who try to wreck the reputation of a popular line o< buses by arranging smash-ups with regularity.