STATE THEATRE

Southland Times, Issue 23228, 17 June 1937, Page 9

STATE THEATRE

“FOLLOW THE FLEET” Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers are seen at their greatest in “Follow The Fleet,” which, in conjunction with “Wild Brian Kent,” concludes a season at the State Theatre today. - The story tells of the excitement when the American fleet calls in at San Francisco. Fred Astaire and a mate (Randolph Scott) are some of the lucky ones to have shore leave. Soon, Ginger Rogers loses her job through Fred Astaire. The way to getting a new position is not easy, and the pair go through many scrapes before the final happy ending on an old merchant ship. The associate feature, “Wild Brian Kent,” is an exciting drama of the West from the pen of Harold Bell Wright, and stars Ralph Bellamy and Mae Clark. BEGINNING TOMORROW “THAT GIRL FROM PARIS” “That Girl From Paris,” which will begin a season at the State Theatre tomorrow, features, in vastly different roles, the Metropolitan grand opera star, Lily Pons, an exquisite singer and vivacious actress, Gene Raymond, the handsome Boy Blue of the stage, and that genial merryman, Jack Oakie, who grows more like the traditional brass Budda every day. The great charm of this extraordinarily amusing comedy is the contrast it embodies in the beautiful singing of the pocket edition prima donna, and the hilarious humour of Mr Oakie. Such are the situations created that one finds oneself enraptured with the flights of brilliant coloratura song while laughing at the foolery of Oakie and his jazz band friends. It happens in the story that Lily Pons is Niki, a young girl with the promise of a brilliant career, who is about to marry, but decides at the altar to say, “No, I don’t,” instead of “I do.” Having made a scene before Monsieur le Maire, she dashes into the country in pursuit of a handsome young American.