GINGER ROGERS’S LATEST

Evening Star, Issue 23679, 12 September 1940, Page 3

GINGER ROGERS’S LATEST

TALE OF' SIDEWALK CINDERELLA' Pioneering a new type of screen comedy, HKO llaclio stars Ginger Rogers in ‘ Fifth Avenue Girl,’ the film to be shown at the State to-morrow, an uproarious tale of a sidewalk Cinderella who brings about a revolution among the members of a rich but unhappy New York family. The picture revolves around the manifold activities of the Bordens in their Fifth Avenue home facing Central Park. The father, who has made millions with his pump manufacturing company, suddenly realises that his family thinks of him only as a one-man. mint. His wife is carrying on with a playboy, plans to go to lleuo and get a divorce. His son neglects the business to play polo. His daughter travels with a diswy crowd of nitwits, but is in love with the Borden’s elass-conseious chauffeur. And alien, after a hard day at the office, Borden comes home hoping they will at least remember it is his birthday, he finds they, have forgotten that, too, and have gone elsewhere for the evening. Despondent, lie strolls into the park and encounters a jobless but cheerful working girl. He joins her, enjoys her colourful attitude on life, her scorn of the rich, and after a hectic evening of night-clubbing, takes her borne with him as a guest. Her presence scandalises the wife, amuses the daughter—but it centres the family attention on the father for the first time in years.