STATE THEATRE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 3, 4 July 1939, Page 6

STATE THEATRE

A Dramatic Film

"There, but for the grace of God, go I" may be considered the true theme of Columbia's newest film which opens tomorrow at the State Theatre, with Maureen O'Sullivan, Henry Fonda, and Ralph Bellamy featured. True motion picture entertainment in its sheerest sense, "Let Us Live" deftly waves romance, murder, injustice, tragic error, fear and hope in brilliant fashion. It is no exaggeration to say of "Let Us Live" that it possesses an idea to which everybody will respond. The story of ordinary people, suddenly becomes the focus of a suspicous world, "Let Us Live" has to do with Brick Tennant, a taxi driver, and Mary Roberts, his sweetheart. Fate plucks them from their obscurity to change their pitiful dreams of a modest happmess-to-be into a terror-stricken reality. The boy and his friend are accused and convicted of murder by the mistaken testimony of eye-witnesses and by circumstantial evidence appalling in its incrimination. The girl refuses to quit her desperate struggle to convince a hostile world that her sweetheart is innocent. And from this emotion-packed drama, director John Brahm has made a motion picture breathless in its intensity, filled with suspense and with truth. Spectacular battle scenes in war-torn Orient, a full measure of comedy and romance, and tense, exciting glimpses of intrigue behind the lines are to be found in tlie new film, "North of Shanghai," the associate attraction. James Craig and Betty Furness, cofeatured in the film, are cast as two Americans trapped in the war zone. Miss Furness is well known to most fans, but Craig is a newcomer. Big, built in proportion, and with an expressive smile that suggests Clark Gable, he nevertheless has a handsome, dashing personality all his own. Playing Jed Howard, a carefree newsreel cameramen, Craig is a leading man who gives promise of ' going places, and in a hurry.