NEW OPERA HOUSE

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

NEW OPERA HOUSE

“Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife”

Sophisticated comedies have of late Imeome very popular, and Lluebeaid s Ei'dilh Wife." which is now at the New Oiiera House, is a splendid example of this tvpe of Him. Gary <'ooper ami < laud- I ette Colbert, who possess I lull delightful knack of making the most of subtle situations, team brilliantly. Gary, a young American millionaire who has been married seven times, is taking a holiday on the French Jtivi-ra when he meets Nicole de Loiselle H’lamh'tle Colbert i and d’cities that she shall be iiis eighth wife. A marriage to Gary is purely a business agreement to lie dissolved by a generous Settlement ami forgotten, t laudet to has other ideas, however, and the film mainly centres on Her efforts to convert her husband (which is no easy matter) and the complications this involves. STATE THEATRE, PETONE For the third time in her short career Deanna Durbin triumphs. Tn “Mad About Music,” which begins to-day at the State Theatre. I’etone, she proves beitond doubt that she is a genuine star. “Mad About Music" is a delightful picture. It presents Deanna in a different’ characterisation from those of her previous pictures, and in a mood and tempo entirely different. “Mad About Music” is a comedy-drama. Only a lew tears - and those in the most effective manner — intrude into (he story of the little girl with the make-believe father whose