ENTERTAINMENTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 29 July 1933, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS

“STATE FAIL”, MAJESTIC, TtLNIGHT Eight stars, each playing the type of role in which he or she has won the greatest success, bring Phil Slong’s I popular novel, “State Fair,” to the! screen of tlie Majestic Theatre tonight. Janet Gaynor, Will Eogers, Lew Ayres, Sally Filers. Norman Foster, Louise Dresser, Frank Craven, and j Victor Jory are the stars ot the Fox production. Miss Gaynor and Ayres are the lovers of a romance between a little farm girl and a dashing newspaper reporter, and Miss Filers and Foster are the principals of another affair, said to he as intense as it is unconventional. Rogers has what is reported as the greatest comedy role of his career, that of a Mid-west farmer whose great ambition is to land a grand championship for his prize hog, Blue Boy. Miss Dresser takes the part of Rogers’ wife, Craven appears as a country storekeeper and Jory portrays a carnival stand barker. The action locales are Rogers’ farm home and the grounds of a big state fair. “CHRISTOPHER STRONG,” REGENT, TO-NIGHT A combination of freckles, sex appeal, showmanship and diffidence should he an incongruity, but in Katharine Hepburn, it is not. ‘The vivacious featured player in RKO-Radio Pictures’ “Christopher Strong,” coming to the Regent Theatre to-night with Colin Clive, Billie Burke. Helen Chandler and Ralph horhos in support, thrives on contacts. Katharine Hepburn's appeal is courage. While other children grew up gracefully without attracting undue attention, Katharine, because she wits' sensitive and shy, forced herself into a spotlight. It was an instinct for self-preservation which led her to demand attention, even though she dreaded it, and got it in her success. Iler quick and dazzling stage career is well known. And now, in “Christopher Strong.” Katharine Hepburn plays her second screen role, and has already the leading featured part.