PLAZA THEATRE,

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 21, 25 January 1940, Page 7

PLAZA THEATRE,

"Hotel for Women."

More fun than any party Elsa Maxwell ever gave is her first movie, Elsa Maxwell's "Hotel For Women," which opens tomorrow at the Plaza Theatre. Elsa says: "Take the light things seri-r ously and the serious things lightly." The production is packed with girls and glamour; office girls in love with their bosses, girls on the make for fame, girls looking for life in a penthouse, girls longing for live in a cottage, girls who want a good address and a liberal education—it is a world of girls on their own, with Elsa to guide them. In the cast are Ann Sothern, Linda Darnell, James Ellison, Jean Rogers, Lynn Bari, June Gale,' Joyce Compton, Elsa herself, John Halliday,- Katharine Aldridge, Alan Dinehart, and Sidney Blackmer. The film is as wise and witty as it is glamorous. Elsa inimitably comes across with such wisecracks »as: "You can't get.to the top without men—the dogs! —I don't care what you say!" "Cocktail parties are only given for people not good enough to be asked for dinner." "When a girl wears five different fur pieces in two weeks, you can't be blamed for suspecting that she traps her own animals!" The screen play by Kathryn Scola and Darrell Ware, based on a story > written by Elsa and Miss Scola, takes the audience to New York's smartest places, reveals the inside story of how a model makes good and includes an appealing romance. An additional high light of. the film is Elsa's own popular song composition, "Whistle a Little Old Melody," which she sings to her own accompaniment as a feature of the typical MaxwelJ party she gives in the picture.