STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 August 1940, Page 2

STATE THEATRE

“THE SPIDER.” “The Spider” and “The Cisco Kid and the Lady,” will be finally shown tonight. “HOTEL FOR WOMEN.” In “Hotel For Women.” which the | State Theatre is presenting as its atI traction tomorrow night, Hollywood I confounds the old assertion that i “there’s nothing new under lhe sun.” j There is. It is "Hotel For Women.” i This is a film such as Hollywood has I not produced before —and that is the i secret of its fascination. It is new, i different, refreshingly original. Linda , Darnell, who failed for a long time to I secure recognition in the film capital, I here makes her first screen appearance : and turns herself overnight into a star lof the first magnitude. A lot more will I be seen of Linda Darnell —or a lot of i people will be bitterly disappointed, i "Hotel Foi’ Women,” briefly, is the ■ story of a girl who goes to New York | to join the young man to whom she was engaged, finds him otherwise interested since his arrival in the city, decides to go home and forget, changes her mind at the last moment and secures an appointment as a photographic model for advertisements, and overnight becomes the (best known girl in New York, her features presented on every hoarding, in every magazine and newspaper. But that is, really, only the beginning of a highly intriguing story. Marcia Bromley’s adventures in New York city are only beginning. The really engaging [ feature of the story is its background. I drawn from the atmosphere of the Sherrington Hotel, a hotel exclusively for women, inhabited by hundreds of women whose cardinal and dominating thought is—men. A delicious philosophy is unfolded through the reactions of half a dozen of these women, revealing their experiences and the consequent attitude they have assumed. Through the lips of these girls there is a flow of sparkling dialogue. And none of them is more intriguing that Elsa Maxwell, noted American publicist and lecturer, who wrote the story of “Hotel For Women” and herself plays a leading part. Ann Sothern, Lynn Bari, Joyce Compton, and Jean Rogers are /the principals among the guests at the Sherrington, while James Ellison and John Halliday head the other side of ; the cast.