STATE THEATRE
“FANTASIA.”
“Fantasia” will be finally shown tonight.
“ROXIE HART.” As a gum-chewing publicity-wise but small-time dancer of the roaring days of 1927, Ginger Rogers in the title role of “Roxie Hart,” which will be shown at the State Theatre tomorrow night, outshines anything she has previously done. The story tells now Roxie takes a murder rap in order to get on to the front pages and over the air and the tremendous build-up she gets could happen only in Chicago in 1927. With Adolphe Menjou as a slick lawyer, she dramatises her trial in one of the most hilarious sequences of the screen. It is a classic piece of comedy with flashlight photographers clicking every highlight (the judge makes sure he gets into all the pictures), a play-by-play radio broadcast from the courtroom, and a jury fascinated by Roxie’s knees. It is great entertainment, if a little unorthodox, and is certainly a picture which should not be missed. The supports are good.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 May 1943, Page 6
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164STATE THEATRE Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 May 1943, Page 6
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