STATE THEATRE

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 4953, 9 February 1937, Page 4

STATE THEATRE

“WHERE THERE’S A WILL” There is roistering, rollicking humour in “Where There’s a Will,” the State Theatre’s attraction to-night and Wednesday. If you can imagine a gang of American crooks let loose in London with designs on a bank which is below a solicitor’s office and when the solicitor is Will Hay, who becomes the catspaw to the robbery, then there’s no knowing what will happen. And in this uproarious comedy you never do know what’s coming until it shoots across the screen.

Will Hay with his droll humour and dead-earnest expression meanders through the plot, thrust here, thrust there, but triumphant in the end! At a fancy dress ball in the country with Will Hay attired as Julius Caesar one minute and Santa Claus the next, with the crooks holding up the guests and Will scuttling over the roof-tops and down the chimneys, here is a finale which is one of the funniest ever screened. Gina Malo is the little lady in the case, and Hartley Power the wicked villain.