'SUNRISE'

Evening Star, Issue 20132, 23 March 1929, Page 10

' SUNRISE'

COMING TO STRAHO The great dramatic triumph, ‘ Sunrise,’ will commence screening at the Strand Theatre next .Friday. It is a screen entertainment built around a plain story, but is said to be startingly thrilling in its effect on the audience. It is a story whose locale is anywhere, whose characters are downright human, and whoso time element is strictly modern. The two principal characters, a man and his wife, arc portrayed by George O’Brien and Janet Gaynor. .V city woman (Margaret Livingston) comes and fires the mail’s body with new and irrepressible desires. She tells the man to drown bis wife, sell bis farm, and go live with her in the city. The man takes his wife out in a boat, but the horror of Ids contemplated crime falls heavily on his conscience, and ho sullenly '-ows her back to shore. Hatred for the woman who conceived this evil crime lakes root in his brain, and with Ibis conics a strange feeling of tenderness and rekindled love fur his wife. Together they go to the city lor a day’s pleasure, iho wife deliriously happy in Ids new affection, and the husband all kindliness in his repentance. They dance together in an amusement park; they go to a photographer’s to have their pictures taken. And when they start back that night across the water a squall capsizes their boat, and the wife is earned away in the black current. .In despair and with a new murderous impulse in Ids heart, the husband determines to strangle the temptress, who believes, when news of the disaster reaches the village, that her plot has not gone amiss. But thc_ wife is found by-a searching party, alive, and together the man and w’ifc face the sunrise in renewed happiness. An absorbing picture, built on an unadorned theme, 1 Sunrise ’ is a treat for the eye and a constant tonic for the emotions. ' It is superbly acted. Neither George O’Brien nor Janet Gaynor have ever offered more delightful performances, and the balance of the east does equally well. 1 Sunrise ’ is a picture which one cannot afford to miss.