RIALTO AND REGENT, EPSOM

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 343, 2 May 1928, Page 15

RIALTO AND REGENT, EPSOM

“LES MISERABLES” TO-MORROW “Les Miserables,” Victor Hugo's immortal story will be shown at the Rialto and Regent, Epsom, Theatres, to-morrow night. The great struggle between Jean Valjean and Javert, a conflict between legal justice and humanity, the stupendous canvas on which Hugo painted with all his genius the misery, wickedness and tragedy of life, form in sympathetic French hands a powerful drama of the screen. “Les Miserables” breathes the very spirit of France of the days of Hugo’s great hero. The prison camp, where Jean first comes under the eye of Javert, the peaceful days in the little town of which he became mayor after kindliness had rekindled the spark of humanity which always glowed deep down in the man, the inn at which Jean found the heart-breaking figure of little Cosette, the scenes in Paris, all are French as no imitation could possibly be. The forces which mould Jean have been well portrayed by M. Gabrio, who plavs the difficult part of that powerful man. His finding of Cosette is one of the most touching and delightful things in the entire picture. Tattle Gpvroclie, the gay street, gamin, who dies in front of the barricades singing the Marseillaise. is another unusual figure, well done by- a l)oy, actoy* „