STATE THEATRE
“TO BE OR NOT TO BE.” Carole Lombard and Jack Benny, both adept in comedy, are teamed in Ernst Lubitsch’s latest film to be released here, “To Be or Not to Be,’ which will be shown at the State Theatre tonight. It may be _ described as a Shakespeare play as it might have been revised by Noel Coward. Just for general alignment, it may be said that the film begins in pre-war Warsaw, and is played out there after the Nazi conquest of Poland, and that in it “Hamlet,” the Gestapo, a light attachment between a beautiful Polish actress and a flyer with the R.A.F., Hitler, the theatre, and a great deal of excitement and comedy are mingled. The Lubitsch touch is all over this movie, and the sure strokes with which he gains his effects are there. The supporting cast includes Sig Rumann, at his best as a Gestapo chief. This was the last picture Carole Lombard appeared in prior to her death in an airsnip crash. There ,is a strong supporting programme.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 October 1942, Page 4
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176STATE THEATRE Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 October 1942, Page 4
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