GRAND THEATRE.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19177, 7 December 1927, Page 8

GRAND THEATRE.

"Seventh Heaven" is one of those rave screen productions which fully merit the description "truly great." The 3lory is simplicity itself, and the characters are just those simple types of everyday folk which Charles Dickens loved to portray, litre are no impossible persons strutting through an impossible drama. No lavish scenes of splendour are dragged into cover up weaknesses in the story. No slap-stick comedian acta the fool to provido a humorous foil to the more serious characters; even tiio sub-titles arc notable for their cxtrenio simplicity. The opening scenes of this poetic masterpieco are placed in the aewere of Paris! Here one Chico, "a very remarkable fellow" in his own estimation is lamenting the fact that ho cannot rise to the position of a street sweeper. Fate, however, takes a hand in the game, and Chico is responsible for saving the life of a deserted waif of the slums. Promotion from the underworld follows and Chico, an avowed atheist, decides to "give God another chance." A feature of tho production as a whole is the melody, "Love is Just a Little Bit of Heaven," which is sung prior to the screening by Mr David McGill, and thereafter ia introdaced throughout tho drama.