STATE THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 58, 10 March 1938, Page 14

STATE THEATRE.

Espionage Drama.

The boldest venture a British secret agent ever laced, , impersonating an olticer in the German high command, lorced to gamble-on the love of a wo-, man whose business was betrayal, with' the opportunity to strike the deadliest blow of the great war if he lived, is the theme of "Lancer-Spy," Twentieth-Century-Fox picture featuring Dolores' del Rio, George Sanders and Peter Lorre, which commences tomorrow a'l the State Theatre. Revealing with jolting realism an untold chapter of the ■World War, "Lancer Spy" is brought' to vivid life by the acting discovery of, the year, George Sanders, whose genius i was first glimpsed in "Slave Ship" and "Lloyds of London." With a traitorous, woman in love with him, enemy spies watching his, every move, a.- millionmen awaiting the success of his mission," and the firing squad if he fails, Sanders; has1 thejeading romantic role in the ihrilhng drama. Virginia Field, Sig Rumann. Joseph Schildkraut, Maurice N Moscovich, Lionel Atwill, and LutherAdlcr are included in the cast. The fast-paced, thrill-packed- story of this most extraordinary exploit, adapted by, Philip Dunne from a novel by MarllieMcKenna. finds a strong dramatic trea.t--ment in the direction of .GregoryRatoff.. With one chance in a thousand that he will ever return; Sanders,', a British naval officer, impersonates a captured German officer whom he resembles, and crosses the lines on .a mission of espionage and counterespionage, cross and double-cross, with no rules except not to get caught'and no loyalties or loves unless they can serve a purpose.