GRAND THEATRE.
In "Seventh Heaven" tlio story is simplicity itsolf. and the . characters arc just those simple types of everyday folk which Charles Dickens loved to portray. Here are uo impossible persons strutting through on impossible drama. No lavish scones of splendour are dragged in to covei up weaknesses in tho story. The opening scenes of this poetic masterpiece arc placed in the sewcre of Parißl Here ono C'hico, "a very icuiarkable fellow" in his own estimation ii lamenting ' the fact that ho cannot rise to the position' of a street sweeper. Fate, however, takes a hand in the game, and Chico la responsible for eaving the life of a deserted waif of the sltima Promotion from the underworld follows and Chico, an avowed atheist, decides to "givo God anothsr chance.''
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19179, 9 December 1927, Page 6
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131GRAND THEATRE. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19179, 9 December 1927, Page 6
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