STATE THEATRE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25214, 1 May 1943, Page 2

STATE THEATRE

DOUBLE COMEDY BILL Two Hal Roach comedies are featured at the State Theatre this week, the chief attraction being "About Face,” an amusing successor to “ Tanks a Million,” with William Tracy, Joe Sawyer, Marjorie Lord, and Margaret Dumont. The story is of the slapstick variety, and centres around army life, with Tracy involving himself in numerous escapades, the most prominent of which is the mass wrecking of a number of cars, in which all the services take a hand. The supporting film is ” Brooklyn Orchid,” the story of

two uneducated New York taxi drivers, who unexpectedly become rich. Their wives have social aspirations, as well as an intense jealousy of each other, and the results of their attempts to join the ranks of society cause many comic complications. William Bendix and Joe Sawyer are seen as the two taxi men, and Grace Bradley and Florine McKinney as their two wives. Marjorie Woodworth plays the part of a girl who complicates matters when she is rescued by the two men, and thereafter maintains that she owes them a debt of gratitude. Box plans are at the theatre and Begg’s.