STATE THEATRE

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 4957, 18 February 1937, Page 4

STATE THEATRE

"SWEET ALOES.'*

"Sweet Aloes,'' a dynamic drama revealing the human emotions of love, passion, hate and sacrifice, comes to the State Theatre to-night and Friday, with Kay Francis in the stellar role. -" :•'- -:■.-'. The picture is based on the , smashing stage hit, "Sweet Aloes/' by Jay Mallory. The plot of the play is ultra-modern and startlingly daring, and although frank in treatment, is handled with the utmost good taste. The story concerns the romance of a young English girl with a nobleman who is married to • a semi-invalid wife. Their child is taken into the nobleman's family by the grandfather, who longs for an heir ' his son's wife cannot give him. - The girl seeks forgetfulness in America, marries a fine business man whom she respects, but does not love. Torn with mother love and the loss of her child, she seeks to drown her > anguish in social gatherings. A friend arranges a meeting. of i the two couples, unknown to either. This creates a situation so intense both parties are on the breaking point, but through the bigness of the nobleman's wife, matters are finally smoothed out in one of the most tremendous climaxes ever filmed.

THE EMPRESS

A Western picture, with Tim McCoy in the principal role, "Revenge Rider," is to be screened at the Empress Theatre on Friday and Saturday. Even his enemies admired McCoy as in this picture he cheated to catch a cheat who had never been caught. J ; Inheriting a large newspaper may seem to be a great deal of good fortune, but it has its drawbacks, "The Girl on the Front Page" discovers, in the Universal picture of that title, which is the second unit. A blackmail ring tries to set its claws on her and her wealth, threatening her happiness and reputation. Another tribulation of the front page lady is her hard-boiled managing editor, with whom she is always squabbling. The editor is portrayed by Edmund Lowe and the society heiress Iby Gloria Stuart.