“THE MAJOR AND THE MINOR”

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 193, 13 May 1944, Page 5

“THE MAJOR AND THE MINOR”

(Second week).—There are still probaibly a few -people who look reprovingly on a mature actress who dresses up and goes through a film masquerading as a 12-year-old. (But they are so few they really don’t matter. On -the Screen, in “The Major and the Minor” (Regent) Ginger Rogers is the masquerader, delighting and deceiving everybody, including 300 junior cadets of the Wallace Military Academy aud Major Ray Milland. Miss Rogers, who starts the thing light-heartedly because she hasn’t the railway fare home from New York, soon finfl-s herself heavily involved in adolescent flirtation and adult heartbreak. The heartbreak is ou -account of the major having, a previous engagement, and his fiancee is inclined to 'be a trifle sceptical of the wide-eyed juvenile who seems to know far too many of the answers. Miss Rogers is too wise an actress to neglect her opportunities, and the film is- consistently gay, generally discreet and always faeile.

“Ciiidei-ena. Swings It” (Tudor). —Starring Gloria AVarren and Guy Kibbee. The associate flint is “Sagebrush Law,” with Tim Holt grasping the six-shooters and trying to look as though lie had never heard of Orson Welles.

“Chetniks” (Tivoli).—-Dashing adventure and thrilling action with a people who refused to surrender to the Germans. Jeanette MacDonald and -Robert Young star in “Cairo,” which is also showing. “Abov Suspcion” (State, Petone). —-A fast-moving spy- drama starring Joan Crawford and Fred (Ma<;Murray.