AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 206, 12 July 1939, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

“THREE QpMRADES” Robert Taylor and Margaret Sul lavan are seen together for the first time in “Three .Comrades,” Erich Maria Remarque’s powerful story of a

post-waiv love, ♦how- made into a stirring motion picture, which ’is coming (Saturday -±o the Regent Theatre. The tingui.shed cast also stars Franchotv-A Tone and Robert Young under tli|py direction of Frank Borzage. “MY LUCKY STAR” When a personality, such as So 113 a lienie achieves T overnight stardom with one picture—as she diet less than ■ two years ago with “One 111 A MiLS V lion”—the temptation is strong on. the part of Hollywood’s movie makers to be satisfied!* with merely repeating tlie : picture formula which won. such sensational acclaim. This probably would have worked out all right in S'onja’.s case—-except for Sonja herself. Far from being satisfied with that first brilliant success, the miraculous skating star set about to surpass it in every way—and did—with “Thin Ice” and “Happy Landing”. And so it is easy to understand the- wildly enthusiastic advance reports concerning Sonja’s newest 20th. CenturyFox triumph, “M!y Lucky l Star,” .5 which opens to-night at the Regent Theatre. For one thing, “My Lucky Star” presents Sonja in an entirely new setting; far removed from Switzerland’s Alpine peaks and Norway’s remote peasant villages. A radiant modern girl, having a modenr-good time on a co-ed campus, wearing swank clothes, having swell dates—that’s Sonja as you’ll see her now, against a background as American as a college yell. Sharing star honours with her is -Richard Greene, handsome * young British actor who gave such a splendid account cf himself in “Four Men And A Prayer,” while Joan Davis, Cesar Romero and Buddy Ebsen promise much in the way of comedy in their featured roles.