UP-TO-DATE STORY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24419, 3 October 1940, Page 13

UP-TO-DATE STORY

FUN AND DRAMA IN THE ALPS The original screen play of the Octagon Theatre’s next attraction, “ Everything Happens at Night,” is a timely story centred about Dr Hugo Norden, a political refugee hiding in. a Switzerland Alpine fastness. A great European democrat and fighter for freedom, Dr Norden was supposedly assassinated' in Warsaw, but from his hideout is releasing to the world press sensational inside stories of Europe’s stormy politics. These revelations are anonymous, but from their content and style editors begin to suspect they are from Norden's pen. To check on this, the Paris office of a New York paper sends Robert Cummings to Switzerland, where he meets Ray Milland, a reporter from a London sheet on the same assignment. If either can prove Norden is alive it will be the biggest story for many years. Together they meet Sonja Henie, who says she is a nurse attending a patient in a mountain chalet, and the boys fall for her at once. In reality, Sonja is Norden’s daughter! and, while she welcomes the romantic attention her position has denied her. she is afraid the boys will discover her secret. The reporters’ romantic rivaly Is as intense as their professional battle. Soon they begin to suspect Sonja’s identity, but at the same time the men who failed at the Warsaw assassination appear on the scene. In a thrilling climax the newsmen manage to help Norden and Sonja evade the foreign agents, but how the romance is finally settled . makes for a novel and hilarious conclusion.