STATE THEATRE

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXII, Issue 4639, 13 May 1938, Page 4

STATE THEATRE

"ROSE MARIE." The gifted quartette who piloted "Naughty Marietta" to unprecedented success—Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, Director W. S. Van Dyke and Producer Hunt Stromberg—have again turned their talents to a, giant enterprise, the production for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer of the classic light opera, "Rose Marie," the film to be screened at the State Theatre on Saturday afternoon and evening, and on Monday and Tuesday. And now "Rose Marie" has; been made into a talking picture, one of the outstanding productions of the year. Furthermore, it was filmed almost entirely out-of-doors, in the gorgeous mountain-lake settings of the Sierra Nevadas. Such world-famed songs as, "The Indian Love Call," "Rose Marie, I Love You," "Song of the Mounties," "Pardon Me, Madame>" and others are sung by the romantic stellar 4 team against the majesty of glimmeringlakes, tall pines and superb mountain vistas. Briefly, "Rose Marie" is the story of an opera star who> travelling incognito through the North Woods in seareh of her brother, an outlaw, falls in love with the Northwest "Moiintie" whose inflexible job it is to capture the criminal. The climax of the story is as dramatic as the finish is romantic.

EMPRESS THEATRE.

Based on the ingenious premise of a wealthy young man, feigning amnesia to escape from his matrimonial troubles, RKO Radio's new laugh hit, "There Goes the Groom," co-stars Ann Sothern, Burgess Meredith and iMary Boland, and boasts a strong supporting cast. It forms the first unit at the Empress Theatre to-night and Saturday. ; ' The unusual situation of an author basing his novels on his own exploits as a gentleman crook entails dramatic complication in RKO Radio's "Double Danger,", the second unit, in-which Preston Foster and Whitney Bourne have the top roles. The exciting story revolves around the efforts of a police commissioner to capture a mysterious super-cracksman.