NEW REGENT
“ANNA CHRISTIE”. Greta Garbo’s great talking production, "Anna Christie,” commences Us season at the New Regent Theatre today. Anna Christie is an outcast who has become sick at heart ot her nameless world and the spectator first meets her seeking her father alon r the waterfront of New York. With his leaning for drink, Anna expects little from her irresponsible parent, but hopes sink when she discovers the depths to which ho has descended. However, a great love for ills daughter is cherished by the old man, despite his weakness, and when ho tremulously welcomes her he gladly offers to share wl.h her all that tiro world has left to him. Anna’s heart feels that her father needs her and sire boards his barge with him . . . Their life is uneventful until one night the tempestuous sea tosses a raft carrying three shipwrecked sailors agains. tho barge. Two are lifeless from exposure, the third shout 3 for assistance and is taken aboard. In time Anna and Matt, the rescued sailor, fall In love, but Anna’s past descends like a cloud upon her heart and tier father's jealousy of the sailor confuses the position. Drama again arises, gripping the spectator tensely, the outcome of which is Anna's confession. The blow is shattering to tho old man; to Matt it is like deadly poison. Ho raves to think this woman is not his spotless ideal—ho has always felt that he deserved such a woman—and ho rages off the barge, cursing Anna. But soon Matt rettirns, for his love is stronger than his dreams. The rest makes a splendid ending to a magnificently presented drama. No review of this picture would be complete without mentioning the splendid work cf the supporting cast; Charles Bickford as Matt, George Marion as the father and Marie Dressier as old Christie’s associate. Their combined work is as good as anything enacted on the screen within memory, and Clarence Brown, the director, has turnel out a- picture of which he and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer can bo extremely proud. A particularly fine supporting programme is also being presented.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1039, 1 August 1930, Page 15
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348NEW REGENT Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1039, 1 August 1930, Page 15
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