PLAZA THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 3, 5 January 1939, Page 9

PLAZA THEATRE

“THE GOLDWYN FOLLIES" “The Goldwyn Follies,” which will conclude to-day at the Plaza Theatre, is another great Samuel Goldwyn production in wonderful colour. Nothing will prevent the ordinary spectator who pays his good money to see this film from enjoying every inch of it. The film combines everything from opera to jazz, from Helen Jepson, golden soprano, and Adolphe Menjou to Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen and the Ritz Brothers. There is singing of all kinds, but all good, and dancing, tap and classic ballets, and solos, lovely "turns,” such as when Zorina rises Aphordite-like from the water —Vera Zorina, premiere dansenuse, making her film debut in a ballet, of nymphs with translucent colours. “Always Good-bye” Beauty is the immediate and all-in-clusive definition for “Always Goodbye,” one of the finest in the chain of excellent 20th Century-Fox productions, which opens to-morrow at the Plaza Theatre. In the capable hands of the stars, Barbara Stanwyck and Herbert Marshall, and under the fine touch of Sidney Lanfield's direction, “Always Good-bye” acquires the beauty of sheer simplicity in a story that is—on several occasions—conducive to a lump in the throat. Setting a beautiful tale of modern mother love before a kaleidoscopic background of occasional grimness, sporadic sorrow and vivacious, resplendent gowns on Fifth Avenue and in Paris, the film scintillates with the many facets of love that comes to its characters. Barbara Stanwyck, in love, waits for her eager young man who is speeding to City Hail to marry her. He is killed as his car crashes into a trolley. Stunned at the tragedy, she wanders towards the river, where Herbert Marshall, a derelict physician, talks her out of a suicide attempt. She faints, and the physician sees that she is taken to a hospital... where her son is born. Marshall’s sincere love for the brave girl; her love for her child (Johnnie Russell); the love of foster parents who adopt the youngster; the temperamental Parisian ardour of Cesar Romero, and the ultimate love which brings the story to a suspenseful conclusion, create a beautiful saga with a message for to-day's womanhood. lan Hunter

heads the featured cast, which in eludes Cesar Romero, Lynn Bari Binnie Barnes, and John Russell.