GRAND AND LYRIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 610, 12 March 1929, Page 15

GRAND AND LYRIC

“7TH HEAVEN” If a picture can be perfect then “Seventh Heaven” is. Story, photography, direction, acting—none of these liavo been surpassed nor ever found in s-uch marvellous blending in any other one film. This story of the little street waif, Diane, and the Paris street cleaner, Chico, with their friends, the cab driver, the “rat,” the washer and the priest, is now at the Grand and Lyric Theatres and is a thing that will stick in one’s memory after many other pictures yet to be seen in the years to come will be forgotten. And those twin stars newly blazing in the cinema firmament, Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, with what heart-reaching sincerity do they play their parts! What actress now playing could so win the hearts of an audience as does the wistful little Janet Gaynor, with her smile bravely struggling through her tears, hex frail body bowing beneath the whip of her absinth maddened sister, or at last working and waiting for that remarkable fellow, her Chico? And great as is the interpretation of the role of Diane by Miss Gaynor, it is equalled by that of Charles Farrell in the part of “Chico.” He of the valiant heart, and the gay laugh, who dared to make a contract with God to win a heaven on earth for himself and his beloved.

At both theatres a second big ; traction is shown in “Drums Of Lov a powerful drama of brother love, sti ring Mary Pliilbin and Lionel Ban more