"HAPPY LANDING"

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 26 November 1938, Page 6

"HAPPY LANDING "

SONJA HENIE'S RADIANT MUSICAL

“Happy Landing,” 20th Century-Fox l musical comes from Darryl F. Zanuck and stars Sonja Henie with her “One In A Million” sweetheart, Don Ameche. It tells the story of a song-writing band leader (Cesar Romero) who flies across the Atlantic for a publicity stunt and comes down in a Norwegian fogbank—almost in the middle of a folk festival known as a “Bride's Fair.” The custom which starts the trouble is a

rule that if a young man dances twice with the same girl at the party, he has proposed. The band leader, a little bit amused because one lovelorn little girl is giving him plenty of his favourite food—hero worship—dances twice with Sonja Henie. That starts the silvery show on its way. Don Ameche, the flying batonwielder’s companion, knows there is little Or no sincere interest in Romero’s attentions, inasmuch as he is

: i very much engaged to an American : girl played by Ethel Merman. • A Sonja breathlessly in love, breath- . taking on the ice, thrills as she never 5 thrilled before! > There are the colourful American t winter carnivals, the glittering gaieties ■ j of Paris and Miami, the breathless ice : ballets of New York roof-gardens. ? The songs by Pokrass and Yellen t 1 include "Hot and Happy,” "A Gypsy

! Told Me,” “You Are the Music to the : Words of My Heart,” and “Yonny and His Oompah.” Walter Bullock and l Harold Spina, who wrote most of the ■ hit tunes for “Love and Hisses,” con- - tributed “You Appeal to Me,” to the i score of “Hot and Happy.” ' This astonishing girl, who captured the hearts of outdoors-loving America • with her witchery on the ice and who i overnight became the dramatic find of i moviedom, is more dazzling than sun- » shine on ice.