GRAND AND LYRIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 731, 2 August 1929, Page 17

GRAND AND LYRIC

“THE THREE PASSIONS” “The Three Passions,” which is now at the Grand and Lyric Theatres, marks an interesting departure in production on the part of Rex Ingram, its director. “The Three Passions” is a story of present-day English life, given an ultra-modern presentation. It presents an interesting contrast witli earlier Ingram pictures in which the East, or the South of Europe, provided the background and the story called for “costume,” as in “The Garden of Allah,” or quaint setting as in the case of “Mare Nostrum.” Apart from the prospect of appreciating a director's versatility, “The Three Passions” promises patrons a strong cast, in which Alice Terry and Ivan Petrov itch as co-stars are the chief attraction. Their fellow artists include Shayle Gardner, a Xew Zealander prominent on the British stage and screen, Claire Eames, Leslie Faber and Andrews Engleman. “The Three Passions” has scenes at Oxford University, in a big English shipbuilding yard, in London restaurants and other haunts of her “bright, young people,” and in a mission in the slums of the “East End.” Many big sets were used at the Ingram studio at Xice in staging the interiors, one representing a strike of 2,000 workmen calling for a reproduction of a gigantic engineering works which is said to be the finest set ever used in France.