MAJESTIC THEATRE
TO-NIGHT Undoubtedly Law Ayres' best screen vehicle since his memorable triumph, "All Quiet on the Western Front," is "Heaven on Earth," which opens to-night at the Majestic Theatra. The story is a drama of Mississippi River life, and presents the handsome young star as the supposed son of a steamboat captain. When he finally learns that his parents. were really "poor white trash" in the nearby village of "shanty-boaters," he returns to his own people and becomes the centre of an absorbingly interesting series of events, culminating in a raging flood on the Mississippi. The picture is adapted from that delightful novel "Mississippi" by Ben Luci'sn Burman. Ayres' work is excaptional in this picture, and in the role of States Lilly he delivers a striking characterisation of an ignorant boy somewhat bawildered by his buffeting at the hands of fate. Anita Louiss is capabla and altogether lovely in the leading feminine role, and other members of an unusually large cast who do pleasing work are Harry Beresford, Elizabeth Patterson and Charley Grapewin.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 298, 11 August 1932, Page 3
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