STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 November 1941, Page 8

STATE THEATRE

EXCELLENT DOUBLE PROGRAMME

With a Western thriller at one end and an entertaining comedy at the other, the programme tonight at the State Theatre is well balanced. A story of two penniless producers attempting to get a play on the stage is contained in “Footlight Fever.” The two producers, Alan Mowbray and Donald Macßride, are suddenly left without a backer, and have to set about finding one quickly. The best hope is a wealthy but eccentric old lady who has lived as a recluse ever since her sailor sweetheart jilted her thirty years before. The. two producers assert to her that they are old shipmates of her lost love. They claim their play to be his own work and only surviving possession. Thus they get their backing, and the play is produced. There is a good deal of fun before all their worries are smoothed out. The associate feature, “Robbers of the Range,” is a story of the west and stars Tim Holt, who does some hard riding and some fast shooting in a picture that is full of action. Along with ether ranchers in the neighbourhood, young Drummond refuses to be bullied by the railroad agents, and after being framed for murder and working his way into the enemy camp as a hired gunman, he upsets their plans badly.