"NOTHING SACRED"

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22981, 8 March 1938, Page 15

"NOTHING SACRED"

BRILLIANT COMEDY FOR CIVIC Considered by many overseas critics to be one of the outstanding comedies of a'year which has been unusually rich in good humour, "Nothing Sacred" is scheduled to open a season at the Civic Theatre on Friday. The wellknown producer David O. Selzuick was responsible for the making of this film, which dramatises the life of New York, just as "A Star is Born," another of Selznick's films, dramatised the life of Hollywood. The brilliant photography which Selznick incorporates in his work, exemplified recently in "The Prisoner of Zenda," reaches even Sreater heights in this his latest proaction. The cast in "Nothing Sacred" W, of an exceptionally high standard, tbfKprincipal players being Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger and Walter Connolly. March is seen as a journalist, Carole Lombard as a small town girl who comes to New York, Charles Winninger as a, doctor in the same town, and Walter Connolly as managing editor of the New York Morning Star, the reporter, Wallace Cook, unwittingly perpetrates a costlv hoax on the editor and publisher of his paper. The film then shows f with ironic humour how, .together with the apents of the deception, he leads astray the gullible public of New 'York. Told in rollicking fashion, the storv rises gradually to a crescendo of wit, which gains greatly in appeal from its air of spontaneity. The entire film i* made in teclinicolour. There nre many beautiful scenes with New York city backgrounds that show the infinite potentiality of the colour camera and its to screen the mood and speed up action, and also to add to the reahsip of the setting and plot. _ The script of "Nothing Sacred" was written by. Ben Heeht. Nvho is said to know Wore about the city of New York and its foibles than any man in Manhattan. TBe original story was written by James H. Street, and the film is beinsi released in New Zealand by United Artists.