STATE THEATRE.
"Wee Willie Winkle." Adventure as only Rudyard Kipling could write it blazes from the screen in the Twentieth Century-Fox picturisation of his "Wee Willie Winkie" which opens on Friday at the State Theatre, with Shirley Temple and Victor McLaglen in the starring roles. "Wee Willie Winkie" starts off colourfully and excitingly in the railroad station at Rajpore, India, where Shirley and her widowed mother, June Lang, have arrived to take up residence at an army frontier post commanded by her grandfather, stern old C. Aubrey Smith. Before their eyes, Khoda Khan, a fierce native chieftain, is caught in a gun-smuggling attempt and arrested, losing from around his neck in the scuffle a treasured amulet, which is picked up by Shirley. Unhappy at the post under the gruff discipline of the colonel, Shirley decides to win his affection by becoming a soldier, and Michael Whalen, a young lieutenant, who has taken a fancy both to her and her mother, puts her under the care of the burly sergeant, Victor McLaglen. The latter dubs her "Wee Willie Winkie," because of the quaint way she has of screwing up her eyes when she asks questions. Shirley's attempts to impress her grandfather only land Jier in more trouble, but she wins the gratitude of the imprisoned Khoda Khan when she returns his amulet. The proud chieftain is freed in a surprise raid by the Pathans, and the border blazes in crimson warfare, which ! costs McLaglen's life, among others. Because she feels that both Khoda Khan and her grandfather would remain at peace if they could, Shirley takes a desperate step to end the bloodshed, and sets out at night for the Khyber Pass look-out of the tribesmen. When they discover her loss, the Highlanders set out grimly for the Khyber Pass, determined to rescue her or die in the attempt. With the lives of those she loves at stake, Shirley makes one last desperate gesture to save them and bring pe a c e , in a remarkable sequence which brings the picture to a thrilling
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 96, 20 October 1937, Page 5
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343STATE THEATRE. Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 96, 20 October 1937, Page 5
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