OPERA HOUSE ATTRACTION.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 September 1940, Page 9

OPERA HOUSE ATTRACTION.

COMEDY AT HAWERA. The Columbia picture "His Girl Friday" opened yeslerday at the Opera House, Hawera, proving itself one of the comedy hits of the season. A mad, merry whirl of husbands— past. present and future— ' "His Girl Friday" presents Cary Grant as a heartless, thoughtless, perfectly shameless guy who is still pretty grand: Miss Russell is a stubborn, stunning spitfire who refuses to be "His Girl Friday"; and Ralph Bellamy is the fretting. fuming Lothario of an insurance salesman to whom she turns for "protection." Grant is seen as the maddest managing editor ever to run a newspapor: Miss Russell is his brightest, most beautiful reporter. On the very eve of a big story, one of nation-roeking consequence. the girl announces her engagement to the insurance agent and her retircment from newspaper work. Her exbusbnnd as well as her cx-boss. the reckless Grant conspires to prevent either the marriage or the retirement taking place— "framing" Bellamy, kidnapping his mother. bribing Miss Russell to remain on the job* by taking out a tremendous life insurance policy as a wedding present to her, and generallv behaving in a delightfully mad fashion. Lesser roles are played by John Qualen, Gene Lock-hai-t and Helen Mack.