STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 November 1941, Page 8

STATE THEATRE

“THE NAVY STEPS OUT.” Marking Harold Lloyd’s initial venture into the motion picture production field, R.K.0.-Radio’s “The Navy Steps Out,” which is to be shown tonight, employs modern comedy technique to depict a riotous romance between George Murphy, as a sailor, Lucille Ball, as a vivacious stenographer, and Edmund O’Brien, a newcomer to the screen, as her employer. The girl is the sanest member of an eccentric family and is engaged to an irrepressible sailor who, if he saves enough money from a number of doubtful financial schemes, will marry her. After a street brawl in which her rich employer is slightly injured, the girl takes him to her home, where he is introduced to her amazing family. As a staid business executive, he is at first astounded by their eccentric ways, but soon begins to take a different view of life and finally falls in love with the girl. Neither man is aware of the other’s romantic feelings, and how the trio work out their tangled destinies from one hilarious situation to another makes fine entertainment. In addition to the principals, Henry Travers, Franklin Pangborn, George Cleveland and Kathleen Howard have important roles.