STATE THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 137, 11 June 1936, Page 6

STATE THEATRE.

"It Had to Happen." With a new team of screen lovers, George Raft and Rosalind Russell, "It Had to Happen," a romance of two people who found the world well, lost tor Jove, comes to the State Theatre tomorrow. In its unconventional style, this picture throws the stars together as they are nearing New York on a ship. Miss Russell is a lovely heiress to many millions, and Raft is a poor immigrant lad" coming to the land of promise with his friend Leo Carillo; just about as far apart as any two people can be. From his first glimpse of this lovely vision, Raft- knows just- what it is America holds for him. So with courage and skill and honesty lie emerges in three years as the political lord of a big city. There have been a number of women who would have welcomed his love, but all the while he keeps the vision of the glamorous distant beauty. Then things play* into his hands. Miss Russell's husband, Alan Dinehart, is involved in a fraudulent deal in a big bank, now threatened with collapse. He offers Raft a bribe to get him o\it of the jam, but Raft refuses the money and forces Dinehart to make restitution• to. the bank. With an increasing distaste for the cowardly behaviour of Dinehart on the one hand, and a growing love foi: the tempestuous Raft on the other* Miss Russell wavers. And Carillo views the "Whole business with a humorous disbelief. But it is in the surprise climax, when Raft himself is threatened with destruction by his political enemies, that Miss Russell shows her true colours and comes through for the man who was masterful enough to win her heart. ■