TIVOLI AND EVERYBODY’S

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 664, 16 May 1929, Page 14

TIVOLI AND EVERYBODY’S

“SEVEN FOOTPRINTS TO SATAN” Those who visit the Tivoli and Everybody’s Theatres this evening where “Seven Footprints to Satan” is being presented, will do well to prepare for a lot of chills and thrills, for this new First picture has more than the ordinary amount of creepiness. It was directed by the past master of mystery films. Benjamin Christensen, and embodies a story that is at once original and tremendously exciting. It is the story of a young couple who are kidnapped and taken to a strange mansion inhabited by a queer character known as "Satan.” He is surrounded by a number of weird and grotesque figures such as the Spider, a dwarf, a witch, and others: and the things that occur in this place startle the most blase of film patrons. Thelma Todd and Creighton Hale have the leads, with Sheldon Lewis. One of the greatest stories of newspaper life ever shown on the screen will be seen here when “Freedom of the Press,” an excellent motion picture of the Press and the underworld, opens as the second attraction at both theatres tomorrow, with Lewis Stone in the leading role. There have been many newspaper films, but never before has there been ono that depicted life as it actually existed on a great metropolitan daily. Tho hurrying, feverish atmosphere for which newspapermen will give up greater success in other occupations in order to remain at their typewriters in the city room, has been brought before the screen public in a dramatic and interesting manner. .. The battle between the forces or the underworld and the truth-telling columns of a daily is the theme of the St The storv concerns the dramatic situation faced by a young man who finds that the guardian of girl ne loves is the “man higher up m the , municipal vice ring which his father, editor of the leading newspaper, is fighting. The editor is murdered by the ring and the boy is faced with carrying on his father’s policies regardless of his fiancee’s pleadings. The development of this situation makes one of the

ever screened. A group of stellar players is assembled in the cast. Marceline Daj appears in the leading feminine role as the ward of the underworld king, the part assumed by Lewis Stone. Malcolm McGregor is a newspaper reporter.