PLAZA THEATRE

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 95, 16 January 1943, Page 8

PLAZA THEATRE

If you can overcome a natural refusal to believe that a famous New York stage star would leap out of a taxi, Pick a strav baby from the sidewalk and then proceed to shower embarrassing adoration upon it, you will see nothing improbable in the Plot of "The Lady Is Willing,” a the Plaza. Perhaps the producer did not Intend to give the film any close relation to life. If this was so he has succeeded admirably. . Marlene Dietrich brings tins bonny, chortling baby home and completely upsets her extravagant household, bbe regards with becoming seriousness the motherhood she has thrust upon herself and proceeds to call a doctor (Fred MncMurrav). De: "There is nothing wrong with the infant.” She: “Don’t call her an Infant, it sounds so Impersonal. Lail her Joanna.” He; "I'm sorry to disappoint von, but .loanna is a boy.” She: "But she he—can’t be. Everyone knows that boys are always dressed in blue and baby girls in pink.” He: “I'm sorry, my dear lady, but medical science has evolved a much more reliable method of determining the Se That is a sample of the dialogue in a film that is mainly concerned with the not-new theme of a marriage that takes place merely to preserve the guardianship of a baby. ’ But it is all good fun Slickly directed, and with Marlene Dietrich displaying an unsuspected gift for modern coniedv. To quote a last wisecrack: She. “Are voti English?” He: "No. Born in Nebraska. IVhy?” She: "Your habit of understatement."