GRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 372, 5 June 1928, Page 17

GRAND

“THE GARDEN OF EDEN” Corinne Griffiths’s great picture. “The Garden of Eden,” 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 cabax-et 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. “Twelve Miles Out,” the second feature, is a story of bootleggers, starring John Gilbert. Lawrence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson are writing “The Cock-Eyed World” as a sequel to Fox Films’ production, “What Price Glory,” carrying the rivalry of Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt into civil life after the war. Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe will play their former roles.

With his greatest picture to date, “Drums of Love,” only just released in America, the famous producer, Mr. D. W. Griffith, has already commenced the production of his next great picture. “The Battle of the Sexes,” for United Artists. A great cast has been assembled for this much-discussed picture, notably Phyllis Haver, who recently scored a big success as the star of “Chicago,” Belle Bennett, who is “Mother Machree,” Jean Hersholt, the great character actor and many other well-known .Stars.