PLAZA THEATRE

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 242, 9 July 1938, Page 16

PLAZA THEATRE

“Happy Landing” “Happy Landing,’’ a show aglow with wonder, winging from Norwegian festivals to New York wintertime spectacles, is now in its second week at the Plaza Theatre. This 20th Century-Fox musical stars Sonja Heuie with her “Girl In A Million" sweetheart, Don Ameche. It tells the story of a songwriting band leader (Cesar Romero) who tlie.s across the Atlantic for a publicity stunt and comes down in a Norwegian fog-bank:—almost in the middle of a folk festival known as a “Bride's Fair." The custom which starts the trouble is a rule that if a young man dances twice with the same girl at the party, he has proposed. The baud leader, a little bit amused because one lovelorn little girl is giving him plenty of hiss favourite food—hero worship—dances twice with Sonja Heuie. That starts the show on its way. Don Ameche, the flying baton-wielder’s. companion, knows there is little or no sincere interest in Romero's attentions, as he is very much engaged to an American girl played by Ethel Merman. Front this point on a new world opens for film enthusiasts. Sonja in love, breath-taking on the ice, thrills as she has’ never thrilled before. There are the colourful American winter carnivals, the glittering gaieties of Paris and Miami, the breathless ice ballets of New York roof-gardens, and a wealth of songs.