STATE THEATRE.
A special feature embodying a pageant of history of the Royal Family for several generations, under the title "Crown and Glory," is included in the State Theatre's new programme which will open. today. To many people a film envisaging some great engineering feat, involving man's dare to nature, bringing into being something vitally serviceable to the world, gives more pleasure than the ordinary theatrical picture. That point of view is expressed in the picture "The Great Bar-' rier," the main feature on the State programme. "The Great Barrier" is really, the romance of the Canadian Pacific Railway, a mighty achievement which linked the two greatest oceans together oh British territory. That is ■ the main point made—that this gigantic engineering achievement should have cleft a pathway of steel from Vancouver Sound to the Atlantic on British ground. The film was acted by Richard Arlen, Barry Mackay, Antoinette' Cellier, Lilli Palmer, and J. Farrell McDonald, and a cast of hundreds on the Canadian picture railway route with an amazingly beautiful background showing the kaleidoscopic ever-changing scenery of the Rocky Mountains. •'
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 113, 14 May 1937, Page 6
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180STATE THEATRE. Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 113, 14 May 1937, Page 6
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