Simone Simon Brilliant New Screen Star

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 45, 23 February 1938, Page 11

Simone Simon Brilliant New Screen Star

MADE HER DEBUT IN “GIRLS*

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A brilliant new screen star —talented, glamorous, beautiful—is revealed in “Girls’ Dormitory,” Twentieth Century-Fox picture. Hailed as the most important screen discovery in years, Simone Simon (pronounced See-Moan SeeMoan) made her debut in a stirring and enthralling film that stands as one of Hollywood’s outstanding achievements.

Herbert Marshall and Ruth Chatterton are starred in the production and their inspired performances aid in making “Girls’ Dormitory" what it is—the most human, realistic and revealing story of rapturous first love ever brought to the screen. Darryl F. Zanuek especially selected this film to introduce Simone Simon to the American screen, and the chieftain of . the Twentieth Century-Fox studio also surrounded the famous Continental star with an impressive cast which, in addition to Marshall and Miss Cliatterton, features Constance Collier, J. Edward Bromberg, Dixie Dunbar, John Qualen and Shirley Deane. The story of a young girl knowing the tumult of love for the first time, “Girls’ Dormitory" opens in an exclusive finishing school where the daughters of the very wealthy are sent to complete their education. Herbert Marshall is director of the school, and it is with him that Simone, a pupil, falls in love. Ruth Chatterton, a member of the faculty, also loves Marshall but conceals her affection behind a mask of friendliness and admiration.

Like a school girl, Simone at first whispers her love to her heart but then t like a woman, she fights for the happiness that only love can bring. In the lightning flash of a summer storm, Marshall and Simone kiss and she confesses her love.

Happy in her new-found happiness, Simone’s ecstacy is shattered Avheu* she discovers that Marshall and Miss Chatterton are really in love. In a brilliant scene, Simon brings their tangled affairs to a climax—a climax that reveals the newcomer one of tho most inspired actresses ever to grace the screen.