OCTAGON
• Rebecca,’ the film version of Daphne du Manner's novel, continues to attract large audiences to the Octagon, where it is now in its fourth week. Laurence Olivier, who established an impressive reputation, and Joan Fontaine arc starred. HENIE COMEDY-DRAMA. A completely different type of picture for Sonja Henie is ‘ Everything Happens at Night,’ to bo the Octagon’s next attraction. Darryl F. Zanuck presents the famed skating star in a combined dramatic and comedy role. Sonja’s amazingly developed acting ability makes her perfectly at home in the story, and, of course, there are sequences in which Sonja disports not only on skates, but on ttie sheer, shimmering ski slides of the Alps. Although Sonia’s role is essentially dramatic, light comedy touches arc injected when Ray Milland and Robert Cummings, as two rival newspaper reporters, foil for her and fight |or her
love as well as for one of the biggest stories of the day.
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Evening Star, Issue 23695, 1 October 1940, Page 8
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154OCTAGON Evening Star, Issue 23695, 1 October 1940, Page 8
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