"THE MIRACLE MAN" RETURNS

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 207, 1 September 1932, Page 3

"THE MIRACLE MAN" RETURNS

IN TALKIE FORM AT CIVIC,

Thieves, swindlers, pickpockets—a gang of wolves from a great city, marking a village for their prey. Strangers to decency—scoffing at the laws of God and man, they ridicule honesty and all the moral virtues. In their greed for gold they plan a counterfeit "miracle" with the cunning of their kind, plotting to despoil the one uplifting influence ever to touch their wretched lives. They find themselves face-to-face with a power too great for their twisted minds to understand —too strong for their evil scheming. Even their shrivelled souls are touched—quickened by the Power of Goodness made manifest before their eyes. Thus the powerful story of "The Miracle Man" unfolds, wherein the good triumphs over evil. It is a drama so well constructed, so forcefully told, that it would have been grent a hundred years ago, and still will be great a hundred years hence. It tells a story of redemption that will stir the.emotions and cheer the hearts of millions. So strong is the dramatic power of "The Miracle Man" that in the old silent version it brought instant stardom to Lon Chaney, made Thomas Meighnn a great box office personality and Betty Compson a big favourite. To-day their roles are taken respectively by John Wray, Chester Morris and Sylvia Sidney. Hobart Bosworth is cast as the patriarch, while Irving Pichel, Robert Coogan, Ned Sparks, Lloyd Hughes and Virginia Bruce supply tlie main supporting portrayals. "The Miracle Man" will open a season at the Civic to-morrow.