GRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 287, 24 February 1928, Page 14

GRAND

“ADAM AND EVIL” “Adam and Evil,” initial co-starring vehicle of Lew Cody and Aileen Pringle, which will be shown at the Theatre to-day, may honestly be said to show these two players :o the greatest advantage they nave ever been seen on the screen. Two pears ago Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer surprised the picturegoers by changing Cody from a “heavy” to a comedy player. Recently the same organisation cast the sophisticated Miss Pringle in the role of a demure Swiss peasant girl in “Body and Soul.” The story, based on the somewhat timeworn theme of twins and mistaken identities, has been treated from a new angle, and a number of unusual twists have made it into a first-class vehicle for the talents of these extremely clever players. Cody had handled the dual role with exceptional ability, and Miss Pringle has unlimited ability as a comedienne. Roy E’Arcy, always good in his roles, has given a clever performance of comedy, as have Gwen Lee, Gertrude Short, and Hedda Hopper. Also to be shown at the Grand Theatre to-day is William Christie Cabanne’s much-discussed production. “The Untorn,” dealing with a subject that mid-Victorian prudery hid under a cloak of shame. The film has been passed by the New Zealand censor, and can be screened to mixed audiences, but children under 16 will not be admitted. “East Side, West Side” bring Virginia Valli and George O’Brien together in the leading roles of a fine dramatic offering. This Fox production is based on Felix Rissenberg’s novel of the same name, which is a throbbing human drama of New York, from the Ghetto district to Fifth Avenue. Johnny Breen, an orphaned boy, is brought up by a Jewish family, the daughter of which, Becka, falls in love 'with the athletic young man. He has ambitious dreams, and the power to put them into practice inherited from his mother, with the result that he becomes a leading light in the pugilistic world. His real father is a wealthy New York business man, who hides his parenthood from the bov, but after vicissitudes, during -which Breen drinks the cup of bitterness to its dregs, he wins out, and finds that - ove helped him to vie-