ACADEMY THEATRE

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXI, Issue 8833, 14 October 1942, Page 2

ACADEMY THEATRE

CURRENT PROGRAMMES As the girl who knew all the answers, beautiful Joan Bennett comes to the Academy Theatre screen with Franchot Tone in Columbia’s newest love-and-laugh farce, “She Knew All the Answers,” which is showing to-night, to-morrow and on Friday night. Proving that Wall Street may know its stocks and blondes but a brunette like Joan Bennett is something else again, the hectic new hit was directed by Richard Wallace from a story by June Allen. John Hubbard, Eve Arden and William Tracy are important members of the supporting cast. Miss Bennett appears as a night club permormer who literally and figuratively, goes to work on Wall Street. Mr Tone is seen as the all-work and no-play-boy whose office is disrupted, whose conservative aplomb and impressive stock manipulation are completely smashed by the bewildering antics of the beautiful brunette. In “She Knew All the Answers,” too, Tone ' provides an engaging and delightful characterisation as he slowly, inevitably, arid hilariously moves from stiff-necked austerity to unconventional romance. Hubbard appears as the playboy responsible for it all; Miss Arden is seen as Joan’s “wisecracking” room-mate, and young Tracy, in what is his finest performance to date, is seen as the office boy who regards the new switchboard operator with unconcealed affection.