STATE THEATRE.

Wairarapa Age, 6 July 1936, Page 2

STATE THEATRE.

“STORMY WEATHER. ” “Stormy Weather,” the GaumontBritish comedy to be shown at the State Theatre to-day at 2.15 and 7.45 p.m., is one of those hilarious farces for which Ben Travers has become famous. The comically absurd story and its bizarre Chinese underworld settings and atmosphere are a departure from the situations usually expected in a Travers farce. Tom Walls and Yvonne Arnaud provide amusing interludes of affectionate indifference to each other. Ralph Lynn puts over his own inimitable type of polite and worried ineptitude, and Robertson Hare contributes onp of his customary studies, a little more henpecked than usual. Backgrounds of unusual interest are a feature of “The Invisible Ray,” a thrilling drama of mystery, science and adventure, which is also showing, with Karloff and Bela Lugosi in the starring roles. Many of the scenes are laid in the jungles of Africa. The most picturesque setting in this location is an enormous pit, overgrown with tangled tropical vegetation and created by the fall of a giant meteor impregnated with what is named Radium X, a hitherto unknown element a thousand times more powerful than radium. Reserves at F. J. Adcock’s, ’phone 1275.