“Happy Landing” Show Aglow With Joy

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 175, 27 July 1938, Page 11

“Happy Landing” Show Aglow With Joy

SONJA lIENIE AND DON AMECHE UNITED (State: Screening Friday week.) A whole new .world of joy-laden wonder comes winging from the snow-silvered Norseland with America’s newest and sweetest sweetheart, Sonja Heme—radiant beyond imagining, in “Happy Landing.’* This lithe, ecstatically graceful Norse nymph, who came to American motion picture fans only two pictures ago and astonished tho entire world with her skill as a skater and an actress, is radiantly re-united with her 41 Girl In A Million” sweetheart, Don Aineclie, in her third hit, “Happy Landing.” Cesar Romero, cast as an egocentric orchestra leader who, with his companion, Don Ameche, flies across the Atlantic, starts this musical of superlative splendour on a fast moving pace. An ocean fog puts the fliers off their course and they land in Norway where Jean Hersholt s live daughters (one of them Sonja) are happily engaged in a “Brides’ Fair” festival. The local custom that a young man who dances twice with a girl is proposing to her gets Romero involved in a love affair which is all hero-worship on the part of a lovelorn Sonja, and all basking in the ever-satisfying warmth of egotism by Romero. Don Ameche, sincere in his interest, tries to keep things on an even keel, but there is the matter of another girl of Romero’s back in the States. The two fliers swing from Norway to Paris, Miami and New York in the course of tho story. Romero finally is snagged by Ethel Merman —and how the ‘‘One In A Million” sweethearts, Sonja and Don, arc reunited.