“THE MAJOR AND THE MINOR”

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 199, 20 May 1944, Page 8

“THE MAJOR AND THE MINOR”

(Third week).—What an actress is Ginger Rogers! She won an Academy; Award with a piece of real acting in “Kitty Foyle.” she made the brutal ‘’Primrose Path.” the tinsel, titillating “Roxie Hart," the rather odd “Once Upon a Honeymoon.’’ and uow “The Major and the Minor” (Re gent). In the present film her financial position—the necessity of having to travel home from New York on half-fare—causes her to drop her hair into beribboned pla its, put on a sailor hat, short socks, and a 12-year-old’s lisp. This disguise doesn’t deceive the audience in the slightest, but it causes all sorts of complications among Major Ray Milland and Ills 300 ’toen-ags military cadets. (Not to mention the major’s fiancee, who. like the audience, is not deceived by Miss Rogers’s wide-eyed ingenuousness.) Most of the fun of the fi'm—and there i<i plenty in this cheerful masquerade—revolves round the pupils' efforts to “mash" the major’s protege, and the poor man's efforts to act fatherly when his heart keeps beating a different tune. Eventually Ginger pops out of the 12-year-old’s chrysalis aud blossoms into the major'B new fiancee.