STATE THEATRE
"Rainbow on the River."
Replete with pathos, comeay, drama, .arid spectacle,."Rainbow on the River," the new singing film starring young Bobby Bfeen, comes to the State Theatre on Saturday, next. Songs designed to appeal to every type of music: lover are rendered b~y the nine-year-old lyric tenor in a heart-touching manner, while the story, offers the young star an opportunity to. go through the, entire gamut of, emotions. Set in the reconstruction period following the Civil, War, the story graces the early experiences of a young waif in New Orleans, where a \ devoted negro,. servant; . of his ~dead _ parents strives' to bring up the ,lad in ignorance of his family' name. Through the intervention of. the kindly pastor of a parish church where Bobby sings in the choir, Yankee relatives in New York are traced and they send for the orphan in an endeavour'to confirm his kinship^ As a striking contrast to the simple life he enjoyed in his native Southland, Bobby finds himself a virtual prisoner, in the frigid mansion of an unsympathetic grandmother.-"It is here that he undergoes heart-breaking experiences,. struggling 'against. the scheming of an aunt and uncle who resent his. presence. How . the lad upsets their plans and at the same time Wins the love of his austere grandparent are. events leading to the happy climax.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 70, 24 March 1937, Page 6
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222STATE THEATRE Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 70, 24 March 1937, Page 6
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