“NOTHING SACRED”

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 88, 14 April 1938, Page 3

“NOTHING SACRED”

COMEDY OF NEW YORK Hailed by the critics of America as the year’s oest comedy, “Nothing Sacred,” showing on Friday of next week at the Plaza Theatre, is a hilarious dramatisation of life in Ne\V York city. Carole Lombard, who ha.> a notable flair for comedy roles, is said to give the finest performance of her career, surpassing her achievement in “My Man Godfrey.” Fredric March is also starred, and provides much of the comedy as the cosmopolitan journalist who unwittingly perpetrates a costly hoax on the publisher and editor of his newspaper. Miss Lombard is seen as a small-tow.i girl with a yearning for New York. March, as the ace reporter of the New York Morning Star, of which Walter Connolly is managing editor, and Charles Winninger as a smalltown medico. To disclose the actual nature of the hoax which turns New York upside down and inside out would rob picture-lovers of pleasure when the film is released.

“No, No, Nanette” Revived. Last Saturday was the opening date of the J. C. Williamson, Ltd., production of “No, No, Nannette” at His Majesty’s Theatre, Melbourne. This theatrical event was looKed forward to with keen interest by playgoers, for it presented George Gee and other favourites of the Firm’s Musical Comedy Company in a musical play that is included amongst the stage’s greatest successes. The cast included Lois Green in the title role; Marie La Varre, who came back from London to take the role of Flora; Irene Vere. a character actress from London, as

Pauline, the cook; and Helen Bruce, who has played important roles in musical comedy in London, in the role of Lucille. George Gee has an ideal part as Jimmy Smith - one that he has always wanted to play, he says. “No, No, Nanette” is produced by S. Albert Locke.