KING'S THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 132, 1 December 1938, Page 15

KING'S THEATRE.

"My Lucky Star."

When a personality such as Sonja Henie achieves overnight stardom with one picture—as she did less than two years ago with "One in a Million"— the temptation is strong on the part of Hollywood's movie makers to be satisfied with merely repeating the picture formula which won such sensational acclaim. This probably would have worked out all right in Sonja's case —except for Sonja herself. Far from being satisfied with that first brilliant success, the miraculous skating star set about to surpass it in every way _and did—with "Thin Ice" and ''Happy Landing." And so it is easy to understand the enthusiastic advance reports concerning Sonja's newest 20th Century-Fox triumph, "My Lucky Star," which opens tomorrow at the King's Theatre. For one thing, "My Lucky Star presents Sonja in an entirely new setting, far removed from Switzerland's alpine peaks and Norway's remote peasant villages. She is a radiant modern girl, having a modern good time on a co-ed campus. Sharing star honours with her is Richard Green, handsome young British actor who gave such a splendid account of himself in "Four Men and a Prayer." The story opens with Sonja enrolling as a student at Plymouth College, where she is to model the smart sports clothes of Cesar Romero's (or rather, his father's) Fifth Avenue store. In the school's annual ice carnival Sonja is so sensational that a picture magazine publishes her photograph on its cover. Romero's alimony minded wife uses this to create a newspaper scandal between her husband and Sonja, forcing Sonja's resignation from school. To clear her own name so that she will be free to continue her romance with Richard, and to help Romero raise the money to settle with his wife. Sonja agrees to stage her ice carnival in the Fifth Avenue store. It is here that Sonja performs her magnificent "Alice in Wonderland" ice ballet, one of the six big skating ensembles in the picture.