"SEVENTH HEAVEN."'

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19176, 6 December 1927, Page 15

"SEVENTH HEAVEN."'

A TRULY GREAT PICTURE.

BOWING THIS WEEK AT GRAND. ]jl big things in life are often absurdly iqii in their content. Indeed in such ■it H usually thoir simplicity which nta them great. . A striking example of ilk to bo found in "Seventh Heaven,' nof thoM rare screen productions which 13j writ the description "truly great." Tho to inimplicity itself, and the characters njiut those simple types of everyday folk m duties Dickens loved to portray. In ue so impossible persons strutting tafh «n impossible drama. No lavish mm ol splendour are dragged in to cover qmkneajes in the story. No slap-stick *iui sets the fool to provide a humord'tt iff- tht 'tnon Herious characters; m Ik, sub-titles are notable for their tfau-iimplicity., Aitming scenes of this poetic masterWniA opened its Chriatchurch season a«Grind Theatre last evening, are Mil the sowers of Paris ! Here one ®#\Yrery remarkable fellow" in his W diition is lamonting the fact : Wkttnnot rise to the position of a Wiwper. Fate, however, takes a Wilis wmo, and Chico is responsible ! the life of a deserted waif of Promotion from the underworld *** ud Chico, an avowed atheist, to "give God another chance." He ittrected by tho waif he has to save her from arrest declares { Pjndwmes that she is his wife. ki« own' face hb takes the girl to ? '(m home, and hero a particularly iQTe romance is "unfolded. Just "" fc» lovers are about to be united however, Chico is called J*yVjjoij his regiment, war having been ®T™»Ftom this stage on tho principal STiS ill battlegrounds of Europe, kSw j I , moa ' realistic war scenes yei K screened. War is shown in |yj™l wfity, and thero is a total JT* of inytning suggesting mero acting J"" ' Mbw». The impression created Sun.' l '^ lon picture is unforgetj.|i> '' oI 7 i' skilfully woven into the 'ki» »Xv ?•' *^ 6re ' Chico plajs out his lh Sl'i'flMoß. The denouement of | 7WU«»bIB story is completely unone of the most original rwir on ß could possibly imagine. ca9 ' interprets the various STL .J® , H9 t Gaynor and Charles FariVt h 1 sUr tftTfc?j° Production as a whols , "Love is Just a Bit of ii sung prior to tho screenMcGill. and thereafter is •,®° n J?hout the dftama as a "2«i»lt-motit. f ®?* Ten " 18 lengthy picture, .• on 'ho programme for of "Till Wo Eat Again," 5l JJ~~ ™ "lsugh-and-grow-fat" type. 1 li» *Mi > Ptogramnie W "' bo presented