“WHAT A WOMAN”

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 278, 21 August 1944, Page 3

“WHAT A WOMAN”

. z»rit!Cß hnve been induijj’ other r night 1 went along l°^ crc 'J h “U here’was the’filmLbut under a different n Rosalind Rusaell, whose figure; and !end her clothes an Prayer, H-res'a part that made for plays a part iiiai i, f ...rt-freo business the right kind of glamour boy bus eluded A-nnwom. has one of those rare nt the man who wrote the book tu out to bo an obscure unhtrsity proics sor—young, handsome and broai ot fahouder ’ But how he ever graduated from hi'’ii school, let alone have written a successful novel, is beyond th ®. au { l , lon i T?aU almost bevond Miss Russell. He I£> vain, petty, publicity-minded to the u-lh degree, aud wholly Impossible. ls Flittiug about in the ~l s Brian Aherne, east as a journalist. lie, of course,.is intelligent, amusing, and observing" Miss Russell for the purpose of. writiii'' a “profile" about, her; which means. 1 think, that he must have worked for "The New Yorker." “What a Woman” has Hues v ' it b a Broadway polish, clothes with n 1 Jiris air, unci sophistication of a London order. Rosalind llussell-HUe whom ‘here m none other on the screen—brings a nice Gertrude Lawrence touch ot comedy to the film: Brian Aherne maintains bis Irish easualness.