STATE THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 71, 25 March 1937, Page 6

STATE THEATRE.

"Kainbow on the River."

A young fifty's attempt, tp'-'egcage the luxurious but inhospitable''■■surroundihgs of a ViSfkee grandmotlier's .mansion in, New. York to returnHo a negro mammy's humble cabin ih;Ne\y: Orleans where he was reared, provides a situation of dramatic intensity in "Rainbow on the River," Bobby Breen's 'current musical vehicle, which opens at the State Theatre on Saturday. Cast as a golden-voiced orphan whose Southern parents were victims of the Civil War, the brilliant boy! lyric tenor has a role which offers him rare dramatic opportunities, as well as numerous occasions to display his amazing voice in Song selections ranging from negro spirituals and classical numbers to modern popular, music. May Rob'V son is seen as the austere, rebel'hating grandmother, while Louise Beavers is cast as a devoted, coloured slave whose sudden emancipation does hot alter her love for her young "white marster." Produced by Sol Lesser and directed by Kurt Neumann, "Rainbow on the River," an R.K.'OXRa'dio release, presents in .prominent featured roles Charles. Butterworth, Benita Hume, Alan Mowbray, Henry O'Neill, Marilyn Knowlderi, and the Hall, Johnson Choir, in addition to Miss Robsori and Miss Beavers. Nine beautiful musical numbers from the pens of the world's foremost composers of tb'day and yesterday, offer the boy tenor ample opportunity to demonstrate his pheriome-