STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 267, 1 February 1928, Page 17

STRAND

“SEVENTH HEAVEN” TO-MORROW Director Frank Borzage has achieved another masterpiece in the film version of "Seventh Heaven,’" which is the second big picture of the year to be shown at the Strand. This Fox production, based on the play by Austin Strong, tells one of the most remarkable love stories, and one of the most beautiful that has ever been- written. The plot, revolving as it does around two seemingly mediocre characters, brings them literally from the sewers to the great heights of love and self-sa.crifice through a doctrine of courage and faith. "Chico,” who according to his own valuation is "a very remarkable fellow, and an atheist,” is a worker in the sewers of Paris. Put his soul soars above his work, as lie shows when he selects his home seven flights up above the street, as close to the stars as he can get, and overlooking the roof-tops of Paris. And his ambitions are high for one of his class, for he aspires to be a member of the hose corps who wash the streets of Paris, and are considered among the elite of the Montmartre. “Diane” is nothing more than a dispirited waif of Paris, whose life is dominated by her sister. Is ana, an absinthe drinker. In spite of the fact that her antecedents are superior to those of Chico, whose parentage is one of the mysteries of the section, she has sunk because of her lack of courage to face and defy her sister, to the lowest depths. It is between these r.vo that the romance of "Seventh Heaven” is built up into one of the greatest love stories ever produced. Preceding the photoplay will be a beautiful prologue, and during the presentation of the film the popular Strand Symphony Orchestra will play a special orchestral score. To-day the Strand Theatre will be closed to enable the renovations and refurnishing to be finished as far as possible. _____