GRAND AND LYRIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 774, 21 September 1929, Page 17

GRAND AND LYRIC

“FORGOTTEN FACES” An excellent double-feature programme is now at both the Grand and Lyric Theatres. The main picture on the programme is “Forgotten Faces.” featuring Clive Brook and Olga Baclanova, a dramatic film full of human interest. Brook, a faring gentleman thief, when holding up a gambling house, narrowly escapes the police, and on returning to his home discovers his wife’s

infidelity. He kills her lover, takes his baby daughter and joins his partner “ F r o g g y.” He knows that the police will be on his trail so he decides to leave the baby on the steps of a wealthy man's house. Froggy promises to watch over her and Brook gives himself up to the police.

Throughout the years in gaol Brook is kept in touch with I\is little daughter by means of photos snapped by the faithful Froggy. In this way he sees her grow from babyhood to womanhood without being able to see her in the flesh. By a ruse the unfaithful wife learns what has become of her daughter and she visits the prison to taunt her husband. The thought, of his wife’s # possible influence on his daughter 'prompts Brook to escape, but he cannot betray the warden's trust. At length he is released on parole on condition that he does not harm, his wife. The way he revenges himself on the scheming wife completes a most entertaining picture. “The One Woman Idea,” the second feature, is the tale of a Persian prince’s mad love for an Englishman’s wife, starring Rod La Rocque and Marceline Day.--