"A New Cinderella

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21223, 20 September 1940, Page 8

"A New Cinderella

Hollywood has discovered a new Cinderella. She is red-headed Lana Turner. Instead of beginning beside the cold ashes on the hearth, this new Cinderella story began when Lana and a group of Hollywood high school youngsters skipped class for a chocolate soda. It was the crimson sweater that drew the eyes of a Hollywood trade paper publisher to the most curvacious figure in town. A screen test followed with a contract that eventually brought her to Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer. Nineteen, green-eyed, lithesome. Lana today stands on the threshold of stardom. Since “ These Glamour Girls.” and “ Every Other Inch a Lady,” she is on the crest of a fan mail wave that threatens top records. She is perhaps the cinema capital’s most popular photographic model, and college boys from far and near ars nominating her as their new desert isle candidate. The lucky influence of that high school red sweater has left an indelible—if crimson—stamp upon Lana’s life. She wears red frocks, drives a red roadster, answers fan mail on red-edged stationery. For to the red sweater—and the fact that algebra proved less alluring than a chocolate soda—Lana feels her loyalty is owed. “Dark Command ” Tells History W. R. Burnett’s fictionised account of the guerilla raids on Kansas territory during Civil War days has been made by Republic Pictures into an exciting and fast-moving melodrama. This film presents in its leading roles two of the players who helped to make " Stagecoach ” one of last year’s successes of the screen, Claire Trevor and John Wayne. Wayne repeats his early success by giving a fine performance in the role of Bob Seton, an illiterate sheriff whose honesty and bravery are known to all the citizens of Lawrence and feared by the guerilla chieftain, Cantrell. Miss Trevor’s fine performance is shown in the role of the Lawrence belle whose favours are sought by the sheriff and Cantrell. The latter role is played by Walter Pidgeon with all the dark art at this smooth actor’s command. The fine cast that supports the leading artists include Republic’s singing cowboy, Roy Rogers; George Hayes, well known to addicts of western films; Porter Hall, Marjorie Main and Raymond Walbum.