“SEVENTH HEAVEN”

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 288, 25 February 1928, Page 15

“SEVENTH HEAVEN”

FOURTH WEEK AT STRAND “Seventh Heaven,” which has been acclaimed as one of the finest pictures of the year, is entering on the fourth and final week of an extended season at the Strand Theatre. Janet Gayor, who has only recently become a star in the full sense of the title, plays the part of a forlorn though winsome Parisian street waif. Her portrayal of a difficult and emotional part is well-nigh flawless, and has gained the approbation of all the 30,000 Aucklanders who have seen the picture. Miss Gaynor is well supported by Charles Farrell, who takes the role of Chico, the big, lovable rascal from the Parisian underworld. The scene of the picture is Paris. Charming enough even as Paris, buL much, more interesting when it is the Paris which bravely awaited the coming of the Huns in the early* part of the Great War. Those were the days when the great poilus rode out to battle in taxicabs and omnibuses. All this is shown in the picture, interwoven with a delightful romance, and the struggle of the girl who was left behind. They told her that her hero was dead. She could not but believe it; so, with bitterness in her heart, she consented to become the wife of another man. Her lover, however, arrives back in Paris in time to save the girl, and the ending of the story, though not without an element of pathos, is a happy one.