STATE THEATRE.

Wairarapa Age, 17 June 1936, Page 2

STATE THEATRE.

‘‘THE TUNNEL.’’

The cast of . “The Tunnel,” which will be shown at the State Theatre to-day at 2.15 and 7.45 is one of the features of the picture. Three visitors from Hollywood give the Gau-mont-British production a truly AngloAmerican flavour, in Richard Dix, Madge Evans and C. Aubrey Smith. Helen Vinson, another American, can claim, however, English naturalisation, for she is married to the tennis ace, Fred Perry, and has, moreover, made several pictures for Gaumont-British. George' Arliss also appears. Richard Dix plays the part of the engineer responsible for the- design and construction of the Tunnel, whose enthusiasm and obsession for his great work estranges him from his wife. Madge Evans. Aubrey Smith plays a crotchety but good-hearted fil Juicier whose enthusiasm for Anglo-American co-op-eration and friendship makes the financing of the tunnel possible. In view of the fact that Mr. Aubrey Smith is in real life a Briton who has lived many years in the United States of America the casting is singularly appropriate. The filming of the Senate and House of Commons scenes in this picture brings out one of those carious geographical anomalies only to be seen in a film studio. The Washington seat of government and that of Westminster, England, wore situated within a few yards of each other of Shepherd’s Bush. Reserves at F. J. Adcock’s, ’phone 1275.