EVERYBODY'S THEATRE.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19918, 3 May 1930, Page 7

EVERYBODY'S THEATRE.

"SUNNY SIDE UP.**

POPDLAK MUSICAL ROMANCE HETURNS.

■ Everybody's Theatre should be the Mecca of all theatre-goers next week, when "Sunny Bfde Up" returns for a season. This popuproduction enjoyed a phenomenal run When"lt first was presented in the City, and its tones and songs are still sung wherever modern spirits gather. Though based largely on the Cinderella theme, which is always the most popular and the most' successful of all themes, "Sunny Side tTp" has nothing hackneyed about it, being fall of pleasingly new jokes, original ballets (notably "Turn on the Heat"), fascinating melodies, and the most delightful love story which is told in th» most amusing manner. imaginable. In the le>ds are those two firm favourites of the screen, Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, who are assisted by a company of excellent artists, notable Among whom sr® El Brendel, Frank Richardson, and Marjone White, the last-named three being purely oomedians. Young Farrell, who, within the .last few years has established himself as one of' the best box-office, attraetions in the profession, plays the part of « spoilt son of the fashionable world, and Janet Gaynor if, delightfully diffident nnd-gauche as the daughter of the obscure world,, who routs all others from the field in the lifMud d4ath fight for the lordly affections of the youthfal millionaire. . All this is ' told In stfch a manner.« never to tire the beholder; told with so much sparkle and verve, with so much humour, and at times, with a lavish sense of the spectacular. All these excollent attributes go towards making "Sunny Side tTp" one of the most pleasing talkies shewn in Ohristchurch. The sponsors of the film must be gratified with the success of their picture, for it is still riding on a wave of unprecedented popularity. The songs and music, by de Sylva, Brown, and (Henderson.'are "Turn on the Heat," "If I Had' a Talking Picture of You," "Picking Petal* Off .of Daisies," and the lief-motif "Sunny Side Pp" is sung by Janet Gaynor with Instant. success. Marjorie White and Frank Richardson, as a pair of pseudo-ser-vants with democratic leanings, make the theatre ring with the laughter they call . forth from-their audiences. Intending * pat* S>n« are strongly urged to book seats, at The rfitol Piano Company, where the box plans | are now- on view.