GRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 178, 18 October 1927, Page 15

GRAND

“IS ZAT SO?” The chief feature on the programme at the Grand Theatre is the screen version of the famous stage play, “Is Zat So?” starring Edmunu Lowe and George O’Brien. The handsome George O’Brien and Edmund Lowe are a team of male stars hard to surpass in audience popularity. So it goes without saying that if “Is Zat So?” their picture in which they appear together, nad nothing else to recommend it, the film would be worth going to see. But these two, playing the roles of a prize fighter and ms manager, the former by O'Brien and the latter by Lowe, are in the screen version of a play that sent blase Broadway audiences into roars of laughter.* 1 esteraay at the Majestic it also set the audience into peals of hearty laughter. This is one picture that is sure to please every taste. There is virile action for the men folks in the fight scenes, tender love interest in a doubiebarrelled love story for the ladies, and interesting episodes for the children in which the wonder child, Philippe l>e Lacy, has an important part. And, above all, there is plenty of fun for everyone. Chico, worker in the Paris sewers, and Diane, broken-spirited waif of Montmartre—these are the lowly characters whose romance provides the theme of "Seventh Heaven.” The tale of how, through high courage and a sublime faith, Chico leads his Diane from the depths of despair to the very

•‘seventh heaven” of happiness is one of the loveliest and most touching stories ever filmed. The fame of the two young players who are featured in this picture has spread, and has placed them in the front rank among screen stars, through the genius of their performance.