STATE THEATRE

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 160, 1 April 1939, Page 16

STATE THEATRE

Little Adventuress” And “Flight To Fame” Tlie screen's present preoccupation with childhood is revealed by a glance at the titles, of some recent films—" Little Miss Thoroughbred,” “Little Miss Broadway,” “Little Milss Roughneck,” “Little Orphan Annie" and "Little Tough Guy.” The latest addition to this "little” cycle is "The Little Adventuress,” a Columbia picture which heads tlie new programme at the State Theatre. It is> a modest production patterned along the familiar lines of the horse that saves the day for the line people in the story by winning a big race just before the curtain falls. This horse belongs to Edith Fellows, a youngster with considerable acting talent, who inherits the horse, ttr.d nothing much else, when her parents are killed in a trapeze act til a vaudeville show. She is supposed to take herself to tin- protection of a disagreeable aunt. but. not relishing the prospect, puts herself instead in the ctite of a coll.-in ( Richard Fiske), who trains and races horses—not very sticcessI'tilly. In fact, the day she arrives, he It.-ts just sold bis stable to pay his debts. The rest of the story is devoted to rhe process whereby tin- “Little Adventuress's” despised horse becomes the inevitable winner of tlie inevitable big race. Cliff Edwards. who was once a very popular comedian. is in the cast; and so is Jacqueline Wells, who looks after the slender romantic interest of tin- film. It is always slightly disconcerting when a player appears in two pictures- on the stum- programme. This happens in the '•use nf Miss Wells, who is heroine to t’htirles Farri-ll in the second feature, "Flight tn F.-tnie.” ,-t mi'lodraina concerning a di-.-itli ray. murders and plane crashes in the Atm-riemt Air Force.