STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 647, 26 April 1929, Page 17

STRAND

“THE STREET ANGEL” A programme which, is one of the most interesting and novel ever presented in Auckland is the “talkie” and sound synchronised filjn now at the Strand Theatre. The programme is opened by a number of short “talkie” features, of which the most interesting is, perhaps, the reproduction of the King’s speech at the opening of a bridge at Newcastle-on-Tyne. Other features are a typically amusing speech by the eminent writer and critic, George Bernard Shaw, a singing and dancing act by Gertrude Lawrence, the popular London comedienne, and an all-talkie dialogue comedy, “The Star Witness,” featuring “Chic” Gale. Finally there is a Fox movietone news, with events of the day in sight and sound. “Street Angel,” the latest Fox film featuring that charming and popular team of screen players, Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, is the chief pictorial attraction. The love story of Angelina and Gino, played by Miss Gaynor and Mr. Farrell, is just as human and appealing as that of Chico and Diane in “Seventh Heaven,” in which these players made their first great success together. They enthrall the audience every night with their simple and sincere manner of playing at love amid the quaint scenes of Naples. Reviewing “Street Angel,” the New York “Evening Post” said: “It is exquisitely accomplished and for this result you need inquire no further than for the performance of Miss Gaynor as the Naples waif, Mr. Farrell as her painter lover, and the fond touches imparted to its direction by Frank Borzage.” . This picture is accompanied throughout by a synchronised musical score played by the great orchestra of the Roxy Theatre, New York.