STATE THEATRE
“MAJOR BARBARA.” “Major Barbara” will be finally shown tonight. There will be a late session tonight at 10 o’clock when “Hayfoot” and “Niagara Falls” will be shown. DOUBLE FEATURE PROGRAMME. A double-feature comedy programme of the best, with excellent supports, will be screened at the State Theatre tomorrow night. In “Hayfoot,” William Tracy, Joe Sawyer, James Gleason, and Noah Beery, Junr., combine in a deliriously impossible story of the army. Tracy, as Private Doubleday, shows just how many mistakes a man may make and still live, but the peppery Colonel is convinced there is something in him. There is, but it is merely a magnificent and colossal bluff that makes him accept long chances, some of which come off. There is a private grudge between the two best pistol shots and the Colonel’s pet, and this is not helped by the Colonel’s attractive daughter’s preference for the flashy Doubleday. Slim Summerville and Zazu Pitts, in “Niagara Falls” (the other brilliant feature) have a deferred honeymoon at that hostelry. The cream of humour is provided by a boy and girl whom a motor smash has brought to this place where everyone is supposed to be on honeymoon, and Slim spends his wedding night trying to keep these two Spitfire young strangers to each other penned in the bridal suite. There will be matinees on Saturday and Monday afternoons commencing at 2.15 p.m., the “Hayfoot” programme concluding on Tuesday night. There will be a matinee on Wednesday afternoon commencing at 2.15 p.m., when the spectacular “Thief of Baghdad,” will be shown, and a late session next Thursday night (New Year’s Eve) starting at 10 o’clock, at which the brilliant “Miss Annie Rooney” picture, featuring Shirley Temple, will be presented.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19421224.2.68
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 December 1942, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
289STATE THEATRE Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 December 1942, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.