ALFREDTON TALKIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 September 1939, Page 9

ALFREDTON TALKIES

“HEIDI” ON THURSDAY NIGHT. Millions the world over have been enthralled by the warmth, the tenderness and the charming beauty of Johanna Spyri’s beloved story of Heid: and all the colourful folk who lived and loved high up in the Swiss Alps, just beneath the stars. Translated into all languages and read everywhere, it is a story that had to wait for its star before it could be brought to the screen. The Twentieth Century-Fox production of “Heidi” starring Shirley Temple, will be shown on Thursday night at Alfredton. “Heidi” brings a Shirley Temple more glorious than has? ever been known, in the picture she was asked to make by thousands of fans who wrote to the Twentieth Cen-tury-Fox studios. Bringing love to hearts filled with hate, and a twinkle to eyes filled with tears, “Heidi” tells of an embittered mountain-top exile, brilliantly portrayed by Jean Hersholt. reclaimed from his fierce hatred of the world, of a young girl who finds the strength and courage to walk again, and of the little heroine who brings everyone new zest for life. Arthur Treacher and Helen Westley play pro - minent roles in the story. Written into the play are two dance sequences thai present the first star of the screen o' her greatest. “In Our Little Wooden Shoes,” the specially composed song gives Shirley a gay and charming interlude in the warmly dramatic story. “Heidi” is ideally cast and gloriously played.