THE PLAZA REOPENING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23227, 22 December 1938, Page 17

THE PLAZA REOPENING

"MY LUCKY STAR" FILM To mark the reopening of the Plaza Theatre after several months of reconstruction and refurnishing, the brilliant 2Utli Century-Fox film "My Lucky Star," in which tlio Olympic skating 'champion, Sonja Henie appears, will be presented to-morrow night.' A feature of this production is a spectacular skating ballet, "Alice in Wonderland." This scene is made all the more effective by the delicate sepia- toning. All Lewis Carroll's famous characters are brought to the screen —the white rabbit, the walrus, the king and queen, and the knave of hearts—with Miss Henie, as Alice, darting in and out among them with surprising speed, and finally disappearance "Through the Looking Glass," where the others cannot follow. The story, too, is entertaining. .Miss Henie appears as a shop i assistant in a New York store. She I innocently becomes involved in a divorce case between her employer's son and a society girl, and is sent to a college, presumably as a student, but really as an advertisement for the shop's line of smart clothes. Her attractive dresses at first create jealousy with the other students, but she wins popularity after revealing her grace as a skater at a college carnival. She falls in love with another student, portrayed bv llichnrcL Greene, and, after she has cleared her / name in the divorce proceedings, the I picture is brought to a satisfactory eon-1 elusion. Other players include Joan i Davis, Cesar Romero, Buddy Ebsen and Arthur Treacher. j