STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1021, 11 July 1930, Page 17

STRAND

“SIDE STREET”

“iside Street,” a gripping, rousing, all-talking drama of brotherly love, begins at the Strand Theatre today. This production is notable because it introduces the three Moore brothers—Tom, Pat and Owen —in the same cast.

The story provides an admirable characterisation for each of the three stars. It concerns a family of moderate circumstances living in New York City. Tom is a policeman, Matfc an ambulance surgeon, and Owen a racketeer, who carefully hides from his family his method of livelihood.

Eventually Tom is called upon to round up the gang of which Owen is the brains. When the latter finds he has ordered his lieutenants to take his own brother “for a ride,” lie beats Tom to the rendezvous and pays with his own life. It is one of the most gripping and sensational climaxes ever portrayed in motion pictures.

The direction was in the hands of the able Mai St. Clair, noted for a score of hits in the past, including “Are Parents People,” "The Grand, Duchess and the Waiter,” “A Sociable Celebrity,” “The Canary Murder Case,” and Harold Lloyd's “Welcome Danger.” St. Clair also wrote the story and dialogue in collaboration with George O’Hara.

Sidney Clare and Oscar Levant, Radio Pictures' song-writing team, have provided some catchy musical numbers which have been deftly woven into the story. The outstanding tunes are “Take a Look At Her Now,” and “In Our Little Home.”

In addition to the Moore brothers, the cast includes Kathryn Perry, wife of Owen Moore, Emma Dunn, Frank Sheridan. Walter McNamara, Mildred Harris, Dan Wollieim, A 1 Hill and others of note. The Strand’s new programme will also include full talkie supports.