OPERA HOUS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 230, 30 September 1942, Page 3

OPERA HOUS.

“Irene,” one of t/.e most popular musical comedies of all time, comes to the screen at the Opera House today, in RKO Radio’s film version with the lovely British star, Anna Neagle, in the title role and Ray Milland co-starred as a New York playboy who falls in love with the peppery heroine. Running for almost two years on Broadway, and having half a dozen road companies covering the nation at the time it made its appearance, "Irene” scored an unqualified hit with audiences the country over, and the picture promises to be an even greater success. The four tunes that were featured on the stage, "Alice Blue Gown,” "Castle of Dreams,” "Irene,” and “There’s Something in the Air,” are stressed in the picture, and a brand new number by the same composers, “You’ve Got Me Out on a Limb,” is also woven into the offering. The plot deals with the adventures of a fiery little Irish girl, who, sponsored by a pair of wealthy young society men, quite her salesgirl job to become a model at Madame Lucys’ a fashionable gown shop in which the young men own stock.