STATE

Evening Star, Issue 23498, 12 February 1940, Page 12

STATE

Comedy in the Continental manner, smart and sophisticated, is presented in Columbia’s ‘Good Girls Go To Paris,’ which is at the State. It costars Melvyn Douglas and Joan Blundell, the brilliant principals of the sensational ‘ There’s Always a Woman.’ Alexander Hall, who directed ‘ There’s Always a AVoman,’ is also responsible for ‘Good'Girls Go To Paris.’ Under his smooth, swift-paced guidance an assortment of completely dissimilar characters move through a pleasing narrative. ‘ Good Girls Go To Paris ’ finds its major entertainment values in the affairs of a young Englishman professor of Greek at a mid-western university, who finds in the iEsop fables the answers to the many perplexities he encounters in American life; and in the escapades of a pert, blonde waitress who has every intention of going to Paris, but whose conscience prevents her from going via the “ golddigger ” route. ‘ Good Girls Go To Paris ’ is the story of a crotchetty multi-millionaire whose hypochondriac tendencies are vanquished when the waitress comes to the rescue with a flannel stocking; it is the story of a spoiled young woman, the Englishman’s fiancee, who loves tho butler’s son. It is the story of a spoiled young man, and of a gigolo, and of a gangster.