"MY LUCKY STAR"

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

"MY LUCKY STAR"

FAVOURITE SONJA HEME I With her charming personality, • amazing ability as a skater, and convincing acting, Sonja Heme scores; another definite hit in her latest film,! "My Lucky Star,” which is screening on Friday of next week at the Plaza Theatre. The story opens with Miss Henie working in a big department store on Fifth Avenue. One of her employers (Cesar Romero), married for only a day, is seen by his wife going into his fiat with Sonja Henie. She recognises the girl, who is immediately sent away to Plymouth University, where she can be kept out of sight and at the same time show off the many ensembles provided for her for advertising purposes by the department store. At the university ice carnival she skates brilliantly, and her photograph appears on the front page of a magazine, where it is recognised by Romero’s wife. Sonja is immediately named as co-respondent in' divorce proceedings ,and is forced to leave college. But Richard Greene, enacting the role of an undergraduate very much in love, goes to New York with her and clears matters up. Solo Flight. Errol Flynn, who is as dashing offscreen as the scenario writers would have him on, added another accomplishment to his list recently when he made a solo aeroplane flight after six lessons. He was "grounded” immediately afterwards. Not by Federal officials, but by Warner Bros., for whom he is making "The Adventures of Robin Hood.” An Australian Success. Mary Maguire, the charming Australian actress who went to Hollywood and carved a niche for herself in filmdom, is only 19; she was chosen to go to England to play ingenue in the second Grade Fields picture, "Piccadilly Circus,” a Monty Banks production. Miss Maguire was thoroughly enjoying the experience of association with such a popular star as Grade Fields and loved the English scenery. Hollywood has not spoiled her naive charm or her air of youthful expectancy. Versatile Dancer. Tilly Locsh, the Viennese dancer who has appeared on stage and film, is the first dancer to be Drought to stardom through the interpretative dance, comments a film critic. She has triumphed in many forms of arias a movie star, danced with the Ballet Russe and Fred Astaire, been a • nun (in Max Reinhardt’s production .of "The Miracle”), musical comedy •star in London and New York, danced in the film "Garden of Allah,” and ! acted in "Good Earth” with Paul i Muni. Ritual dancing is a specialty I of hers. Mlle. Locsh became a student ■ and member of the Viennese Opera ! Ballet School at the age of six. At 118, Reinhardt featured her in SalzI burg in many of his productions, noti ably “The Miracle” and "Midsummer Night’s Dream.” She has always preferred to devise her own dances, and in the Cochran Revue introduced the famous "Hand Dance.” In "The Band Wagon” she and Fred Astaire did a Princess and Peasant ballet !sequence that was a rare combination of pure art and sensitive frivolity. A Novell© Novelty. A comedy by Ivor Novello that was presented at the Haymarket, London, had as its leading lady that excellent actress, Lilian Braithwaite, in the role of Donna Lovelace. The theory that a really great actress can burn heiself out at a dress rehearsal and fail on the opening night is dealt with interestingly by the talented young author-actor-playwright. He introduces a novel twist in that the leading lady, having failed, expresses delight because now the play can be taken across to America and performed, not by a waning English star, but by a promising American one. It is also a novel twist to learn that the hero of Mr. Novello’s play, the young author of the piece in which the leaning lady fails at the last moment, is the illegitimate son of her husband, and she likes the boy so much that she believes her failure will spell his success across the Atlantic. The piece was called "Comedienne.”