OPERA HOUSE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 68, 21 March 1940, Page 7

OPERA HOUSE

“FULL CONFESSION.” Vividly unfolding an amazing char acter study of a pitiable brute whosi simple passions involve him in a chair of gripping dramatic complications RKO Radio's “Full Confession” con eludes to-night at the Opera House Victor McLaglen, Sally Eilers, Josepl Calleia and Barry Fitzgerald have th< leading roles. In this powerful dram; McLaglen is reminiscent of his never to-be-forgotten portrayal as Gypo ir “The Informer,” for which he won the Academy Award. He plays a love smitten illiterate follow whose dog like devotion for Sally Eilers, a wait ress, is apparently his only virtue. “Hotel For Women.” More fun than any party Elsa Max' well ever gave is her first movie, Elss Maxwell's “Hotel For Women,” whici opens on Saturday at the Opera House Elsa says: “Take the light things seriously and the serious things lightly.’ The production is packed with girl: and glamour; office girls in love witl their bosses, girls on the make fo: fame, girls looking for life in a penthouse, girls longing for love in a cottage, girls who want a good addres: and a liberal education—it is a work of girls on their own, with Elsa t< guide them. In the cast are Anr Sothern, Linda Darnell, James Ellison Jean Rogers, Lynn Bari, June Gale Joyce Compton, Elsa herself, John Halliday, Katharine Aldridge, Alan Dinehart, and Sydney Blackmer. The film is as wise and witty as it is glamorous. Elsa inimitably comes across with such wisecracks as: “You can’t get to the top without men—the dogs! —I don’t care what you say!” "Cocktail parties are only given for people not good enough to be asked for dinner.” “When a girl wears five dif-

1 ferent fur pieces in two weeks, you ) can’t be blamed for suspecting that i she traps her own animals!” The , screen play by Kathryn Scola and] , Darrell Ware, based on a story writi ten by Elsa and Miss Scola, takes the J i audience to New York's smartest! ' places, reveals the inside story of how] a model makes good, and includes an : appealing romance. An additional! high light of the film is Elsa’s own' popular song composition, “Whistle a Little Old Melody,” which she sings to her own accompaniment as a feature of the typical Maxwell party she gives in the picture.