Cinema: Also Showing

Everything Happens at Night (20th Century-Fox) continues prudent but so far rather unproductive efforts to turn Sonja Henie into a dramatic actress against the day when even Henie fans may tire of seeing Henie skate. Surrounded by a capable cast (Maurice Moscovich, Robert Cummings, Ray Milland), in a trite little, tight little tale, this time Sonja Henie skates only once, and though she is a competent skier, long shots of her skiing were done by a double. But whether she is gliding backwards or forwards, or skating rings around Greek columns to the strains of The Blue Danube, Sonja Henie on blades is still the best part of one of her pictures.

Entente Cordiale (Max Glass) was probably intended as French propaganda for home consumption on the present Anglo-French alliance. In it royally whiskered King Edward VII (Victor Francen) faces a crisis in affairs with France, a leisurely episode which leaves the general impression that European crises were comparatively homey affairs 30 years ago.