“THE TRESPASSER”

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 892, 8 February 1930, Page 16

“THE TRESPASSER”

AT ROXY ON MONDAY J L '_.—___ | Gloria Swanson, with the assistance of Edmund Goulding, an excellent cast, and the best recording yet heard, has made a wonderfully successful production in “The Trespasser,” which will on Monday be shown at the Roxy. It is the best picture Miss Swanson has ever been in, and the best talking picture seen in Auckand since the talkies made their entrance. There is a combination of story, star and director in this picture, a triangular affair most necessary to the success of any production and the certain answer to an astounding success for “The Trespasser.” Never was the picture expression “the story is the thing” more exemplilied than in this production. It is an original written by Goulding. He wrote it for Gloria, knowing Gloria. The story permits her full play for all of her marvellous talents. She clowns as a stenographer, she loves as a sweet—heart, she fights in emotional situa—tions with the finish of a seasoned actress. She flirts as a divorcee, she vamps the father of her divorced husband into a Very exciting situation, she becomes famous and has the world at her feet, later renouncing all this to return to” her first leve and happiness. There is not a player in pictures that ‘could have cared for the responsibili‘ties of the role Gloria Swanson enacts [in “The Trespasser." Different ones Imight have tackled one or the other lsequence, but none could have done jwhat Swanson proved. She is an artist, and after this picture has had a. few showings, this girl will be given her true rating in pictures—“the greatest actress the screen «has ever known." Swanson does not “corner" this picture by any means. Eddie Goulding, the director-author, earns applause throughout the world for his combined efforts. Eddie has given evidence from time to time that he had “what is necessary,” but for some reason or other (maybe he did not have Swanson) the big click has not been evidenced until this picture.