LONDON

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1040, 2 August 1930, Page 14

LONDON

• “SEVEN DAYS’ LEAVE” Gary Cooper Is only supported In the picture now at the London Theatre, “Seven pays’ Leave,” by Beryl Mercer, veteran character actress, who plays the lovable role of Mrs. Dowey in this all-talking version of Sir James M. Barrie’s famous play, “The Old Lady Shows Her Medals.” This is the second part Miss Mercer has played in talking pictures. Her first was that of Mrs. Gubbins, the crafty little Cockney would-be pensioner in “Three Live Ghosts.” Clary Cooper is starred in this story, which, by the way, has been called “the most human story every written.” It is a story of war-time, but it is not a war story in the sense that “Wings” and “Legion of the Condemned” were war stories. In “Seven Days' Lea/ve” there is but one brief and fleeting war scene. The plot deals with a childless old woman’s affection for an orphan lad. whom she adopts in order to prove that even she can make a sacrifice for England. It is a tense, dramatic document of human love and pathos, w’ith a fine thread of natural humour to give it a real balance. Bright supports complete the programme.