GRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 370, 2 June 1928, Page 14

GRAND

"THE GARDEN OF EDEN” “The Garden of Eden/’ starring Corinne Griffith, is now being shown at the Grand Theatre. “The Garden of Eden” takes its name from the gardens of the Eden Hotel, just outside Monte Carlo, to which place the little Toni Lebrun, played by Corinne Griffith, an unspoiled girl with an ambition for grand opera and only a sordid cabaret experience to recommend her, is taken by the costume mistress of the Palais de Paris, who is momentarily in funds and who has the right to call herself a baroness. She meets Richard Spanyi, scion of a long line of. wealthy and snobbish society folk; as bashful and repressed when he comes to propose as any Freudian subject could be, but naturally a sprightly young man. And through various vicissitudes Toni welcomes — one might almost say “pursues”—the man of her heart, only to turn him down when he finally proposes, because she is not what he thinks her. The supporting cast includes Louise Dresser and Lowell Sherman. “Twelve Miles Out,” a thrilling story of the warfare between bootleggers and customs officials in America, is the second feature.