“HAPPY-GO-LUCKY”

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 117, 12 February 1944, Page 5

“HAPPY-GO-LUCKY”

(Second week). —Not for one moment would I suspect that “Happy-Go-Lucky!’ (St. James) will w.n an Academy Award for possessing the most original screen story of the year., but if 1 was asked to write down the 11) most cheerful comedies I have seen in the last six months. I would easily find a place.for this bright Teclinlcolour show. It brings a new team to the screen, and, ns Is nearly always' the case with teams (remember Rogers aud Astaire. Hope and Crosbj). they are a group of people who are well known to film fans. No one would have het a sixpenny piece on tbe chances of Dick Powell making a comeback; nor Rudy Vallee. And Mary Martin had not been any great shakes tn films; nor Eddie Bracken. But here they are, all together at a luxury holiday resort in Trinidad, knocking out fun and wisecracks nnd songs in the best manner of Hone. Crosby and Lnmour. Mary Martin is s Texan who is busily posing aa an heiress and working on the old axiom that money attracts money. She finds'in millionaire, a trifle eccentric to be sure, but she also finds a crooner who has a little more than his voice—and not much of that. But it all works out happily and luckily.