SKATING STAR

Evening Star, Issue 23699, 5 October 1940, Page 8

SKATING STAR

SONJA DISPLAYS DRAMATIC ABILITY Sonja Horne, when she made her lirst appearance on the screen, was billed as a stating star, and nothing more! But every appearance has shown her to be the possessor of more and more ability as an actress, besides her undoubted wizardry on the ice. Story value and acting performances are counted on in ‘ Everything Happens at Night,’ more than in any of Sonja Honie’s previous five productions. It is a completely different type of story for the famous skating star and queen of the ice. It is a timely tale of modern intrigue,

with the added utLractou of Sonju’s artistry on silver blades and slippery skis. Ray Milland and Hubert Cummings are featured as Sonia's leading men in the attraction which opened yesterday at the Octagon. The east includes Maurice Moscovitch, Leonid Ivinskcy, Alan Diuehart, and Fritz Feld. Signed by Twentieth CenturyFox originally just for her skating genius, the studio asked no veal acting talent from Sonja Tlcnie in her first few pictures, where they were content just to have her perform on the ice. But it was soon apparent that a real dramatic talent w T as possessed by the ice champion. Never, however, has Sonja had a part as demanding upon her new-found ability as in ‘ Everything Happens at Night.’ As the daughter of a famous European statesman hiding in Switzerland from his enemies, she aids her father in revealing to the world the sensational inside story of the new' international intrigue. These stories, because of their style and content, lead news editors to believe they can be the work only of Dr Hugo Nordcn, world-famous peace leader, supposedly assassinated a year before in Warsaw. To Switzerland, then, come two young reporters—Ray Miliand from London, and Robert Cummings from the Paris office of a New' York paper—to seek out the author of the world-rousing revelations. The rest of the story would spoil in the telling, but the well-rounded plot is carried to a highly successful conclusion.