STATE THEATRE

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 4811, 20 February 1936, Page 4

STATE THEATRE

“GAMBLING LADY.” Barbara Stanwyck has been given an entirely different role from any which she has portrayed, in “Gambling Lady,” which comes to the State Theatre to-night, guest night, and Friday afternoon and evening. In “Gambling Lady” she is a gambler, but the squarest, straightestshooting poker player that ever shuffled the pasteboards. Not only is she on the level in cards, but in the game of love and life. She can take it on the chin, and does, by sacrificing her love for her husband in order to save him from the charge of murder when he gets into a mess with another woman. Miss Stanwyck is supported by two leading men, Joel McCrea in the role of a society man, and Pat O’Brien as a race horse gambler, both of whom are in love with her. Claire Dodd is the other woman, a homewrecker who makes a play for Barbara’s husband. THE EMPRESS. “Storm,” which is the first unit at the Empress Theatre on Friday and Saturday, with Noah Beery, Jr., and Jean Rogers in the leading roles, was filmed in its entirety on the Painted Desert and in other remote and beautiful Arizona spots. Directed by Louis Friedlander, it is the picturisation of the popular novel by Cherry Wilson. Several weeks were required by 75 Navajo Indians to round up more than 1500 head of wild horses which appear in the sensational stampede that is a feature of this stirring and lovely idyll of the outdoor West of to-day. Hilarious comedy, thrilling suspense and tense drama are expertly combined in “Hot Tip,” the second unit, which features Zasu Pitts and James Gleason. With Gleason and Miss Pitts playing the roles of husband and wife, the plot centres upon a race track where Gleason is risking the family fortune in an effort to regain a sum lost in betting another man’s money. The other man in the picture is his son-in-law, who risks his savings in order to have enough money to win Gleason’s wife’s consent to his marriage of her daughter.