OPERA HOUSE

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 138, 7 March 1942, Page 10

OPERA HOUSE

Not so long ago a soldier wrote from the Middle East that his girl in New Zealand had sent him a small “good luck charm. A little thing, but it meant a great deal. Why? They had both seen “Waterloo Bridge —she in Wellington, he in Cairo, a few days before the charm arrived. The story of “Waterloo Bridge” and the little charm is undoubtedly well known to most picture-goers. in fact the film has already been shown so many times in Wellington that there can be few who have not seen it at least once, yet a packed house at the Opera House last night testified to the deep impression that this film made on audiences during its previous showings. As Myra, the ballet dancer whose chance meeting will) an officer in an airraid shelter altered the whole course ot her life. Vivien Leigh gives a performance to match her Scarlett in “Gone With the Wind." Robert Taylor is the officer. and plays his part with conviction —but then there is not a poor performance in the whole picture. It would he an impossible task to exceed tlic praise that this film has already received. One can only say that those who have not already seen "Waterloo Bridge” should not miss this opportunity of doing so, those who have—well, it is one of those rare pictures that is really worth seeing a second time.