ST. JAMES THEATRE

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 25, 24 October 1942, Page 10

ST. JAMES THEATRE

In the great hue and cry that Preceded lhe finding of a star for the part of Scarlett O’Hara. Paulette Goddard s name was frequently mentioned. As the world k” o ', ? did not get the part but one might suspect that Papa de MlHe drew tne broken-hearted girlie aside an< told I*° a that one of these days he would make a film in which she would have a role SO like Scarlett O'Hara that Jj her « low a charge of plagiarism. And so w; gave Miss Goddard "the principal part and had the satisfaction of seeing her pl y f °Th”s tremendous “film, which openedl h S reta?n m suHi vigour time 111 - s, P® l ‘ t ’ w „H ac e Reid, de Mille dis?S srween Hllllllll*

shaken his faith in the spectacularj ction picture, impersonal e you . c ande Mllie. Picture without feeling ■‘That’s movie, that '''“‘J’ „ filmed ln Reefs, hurricanes and ‘P‘»“» n^ re “ ith the thl £ XtagVo? each time she men -ltay her spyglass, bhe wv lawyer .from Milland as , a + ®’l?. Te of ‘‘Gone With the Charleston (a touch- or p ftvne a plain Wind” this), and John “Vble re°brFng S you a rainbow Ash £Or Th rXax-to two hours excitement 1B 11 I'f o t he avenging B angel which with an eye «he the at® n S“ o fe roU s problem solves Miss Goddard s am fatally ?X S ’at 6 tSe eumVra One feels like say--11 be has done it, too!”