"LILLIAN RUSSELL."

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 223, 19 September 1940, Page 15

"LILLIAN RUSSELL."

[ ATTRACTION AT CENT?TRxY Opening a season at the Century Theatre to-morrow is ■ a tale of the life and loves of the belle of another generation, "Lillian Eussell.' Darryl F. Zanuek has' incorporated 'all the elements' of successful motion picture entertainment into this Twentieth' Century-Fox _ productionglamour, song,' costume, 'brilliance,; famous names and places, and action—and .from all-advance reports the film should* pro- . vide v Aucklanders with, the type : of. film !fare'which most appeals to them. -„ : •': .v.- Welt known in singing and ' dancing parts, Alice Faye heads a strong cast in which are included Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, Edward Arnold and .-: Warreff -William. The film narrative follows the story which' Miss Russell wrote herself .and. filnigoersrwill be interested',to -learn ; that, like the book, the', film-'omits men-ition-of two of her four,-marriages. . The '.extended casfe-names are evidence in theinI ■'selves of the ammunition expended'hvthe '■-successful launching- of-the' production, While the name'of Irving Cummiugs, as Ldirector, .is a. further gucraDtee-Jif-euccess.