THE STATE THEATRE

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 4834, 16 April 1936, Page 4

THE STATE THEATRE

“STOLEN HARMONY." Ben Bernie, cigar, fiddle, salutation and all together with his übiquitous lads returns to the films 'to share starring honours with George Raft in Paramount’s “Stolen Harmony,” at the State Theatre to-night (guest night) and Friday. In the picture Bernie acts a character much like himself in real life. He is a band leader, who takes his lads and lassies on a show tour of the country in a large and commodious bus. George Raft, ,an ex-convict who is trying to go straight via a saxophone and dancing turn, is in his company. Money is stolen during the tour and all evidence points to Raft as the guilty party. But Raft ignores their suspicions because he has fallen in love with his dancing partner, Grace Bradley, and is determined to see it through for her sake. EMPRESS THEATRE. When a rich man’s son sets out to prove that he is the match of his father, things are bound to happen, and they do in the thrilling George O’Brien picture, “Whispering Smith Speaks,”’ screening at the Empress Theatre on Friday and Saturday. A red-blooded, action-filled story of railroading, “Whispering Smith Speaks,” stars O’Brien, with Frank Sheridan as his father, Irene Ware as his romantic leading lady, and Kenneth Thomson as his rival. A romantic comedy of the old South in the days of crinolines, “Mississippi” is the second unit, and stars Bing Crosby, W. C. Fields and Joan Bennett. “Mississippi’s” music features a novelty arrangement of that old favourite, “Swanee,” as well as four new tunes by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. Crosby sings them all, including “Soon,” “Down by the River,” and “It’s Easy to Remember,”