STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 November 1940, Page 2

STATE THEATRE

“THE WESTERNER.” Against the colourful and adventurefilled background of the Old West, in the days when justice was administered at the point of a gun and roistering Judge Roy Bean loomed as the “Law West of the Pecos,” “The Westerner,” with Gary Cooper in the title role, will be finally shown tonight at the State Theatre. “The Westerner” features in the cast which supports Cooper such notable players as Walter Brennan, Fred Stone, Doris Davenport, Lilian Bond, Forrest Tucker and Paul Hurst. The setting of the story is Vinegarroon, Texas, when there raged a bitter and long protracted battle between the cattlemen and the homesteaders. Just when this battle is reaching a peak, the Westerner, a roving cowboy named Cole Harden, drifts into town and finds himself entangled in the vicious “Law West of the Pecos.” The story reaches a climax in the scene where the cattlemen and Bean’s henchmen set fire to the hundreds of homesteads and farms throughout the area. Cole follows the weatherbeaten, grimy old man to .Fort Davis where Lily Langtry is to make her long-promised visit. How Cole waylays the Judge as the gorgeous actress is about to- step before the footlights and what happens when guns are fired provides the story with a swift, action-filled ending. “BROWN ON RESOLUTION.” The change of programme tomorrow night will be headed by “Brown on Resolution,” an outstanding story of British heroism with John Mills and Betty Balfour in the leading roles. Cesar Romero will be seen in a dashing performance in the brilliant drama, "Luck, Cisco Kid.”