PLAZA THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 190, 13 August 1938, Page 11

PLAZA THEATRE

HAPPY LANDING” A whole new world of joy-laden wonder comes winging from the snowsilvered Norseland with the screen's newest and sweetest sweethea.t, Sonja Henie—radiant beyond imagining, in "Happy Landing,” the 20th. Century-Fox production with commenced yesterday at the Plaza Theatre. This lithe, ecstatically graceful Norse nymph, who came to motion picture fans only two pictures ago and astonished the entire world with her skill as a skater and an actress, is radiantly reunited with her “Girl in a Million” sweetheart, Don Ameche, in her third hit, "Happy Landing.” Surpassing the breathless sensations of “Thin Ice” with scintillating songs, the wonder girl, breathlessly in love, veritably brings happy tidings, thrilling as even she never thrilled before. Cesar Romero, cast, as an ego-centric 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 five 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-wor-ship 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 ot Romero's back in the States. The two fliers swing from Norway to Paris.. Miami and New York in the course of the story. How Romero finally !•: snagged by Ethel Merman —and how the “Girl in a Million” sweethearts, Sonja and Don, are reunited—is a silvery, sumptuous, superlative musical from Hit-Creator Darryl F. Zariuck. The songs will be on every one’s lips before many days have passed, and the thrilling scenic backgrounds to the production numbers will amaze the movie audiences with their shimmering splendour. “Happy Landing” truly gives you a Sonja more dazzling than sunshine on ice. Midweek Attractions For the grand three-hour midweek programme on Wednesday and Thursday next the Plaza Theatre will screen "Gun Law,” with George O’Brien starred, "Go Chase Yourself,” with Joe Penner featured, in addition to a Terrytoon cartoon, Pathe Pictorial and several topical gazettes and comedy shorts.