"A Star is Born," now showing at Loew's State and Orpheum is a picture that, besides being filmed in color, is as nice a combination of the tragic and the comic as Hollywood has yet produced. Judging from the reaction of yesterday's audience. Producer Seiznick really has something this time, for the men chuckled heartily, the women wept gently, and everyone enjoyed the show.

Those who remember the Janet Gaynor of "Sunny Side Up" (1929), and have been disappointed in her later vehicles, will find their faith has not been misplaced. In "A Star Is Born," Miss Gaynor finds opportunity to display her wide range of acting ability to the utmost, and Technicolor is most becoming to her appearance on the screen. She plays the part of the small town girl who goes to the film colony to make good, finally landing a job and a husband when she meets the studio big shot, Fredric March.

Mr. March, a lovable, exasperating talented wastrel, depicts only too well the end to which celebrated actors have been known to fall. An habitual drunkard, he descends the ladder of fame as rapidly as Miss Gaynor climbs. Having reformed under his wife's influence, Mr. March has a bad time of it until he swims off into the Pacific, which one soon decides is the best place for him after all.

"A Star Is Born" is heartily recommended for your enjoyment. It is the first film in Technicolor where color does not have the leading role, (there is but one sunset scene, and that one is very effective); it is the first film in many years that Miss Gaynor has looked the age of the person she portrays; it should be the first film you see on your next visit to the Hub.