'ABIE’S IRISH ROSE’

Evening Star, Issue 20253, 14 August 1929, Page 7

' ABIE’S IRISH ROSE ’

REGENT’S NEXT FEATURE ‘ Abie’s Irish Rose,’ the film version of which will be commenced at the Regent Theatre on Friday, is very well known as a stage play. Following its continuous season of five and a-half years in New York, the play toured throughout Australia and New Zealand with very great success. This romance between a Jewish youth and an Irish girl, and their difficulties in winning the consent of their parents to their marriage, is a very human story. It has deep pathos, as well as light humour and dramatic sequences. The picture is said to be one that pleads for unity of nations, for tolerance, peace, harmony, a human, heart-throb-lung drama, that through the beautiful love of two young people breaks down barriers that have existed throughout the ages. To hear Jean Hersholt, who plays the part of the Jewish father, reciting in Hebrew the Prayer of the Dead when In’s wife dies giving birth to their son Abie, and to hear it again when Rosemary and Abie are married, and the old father has disowned his v son, is said to give an insight into' human nature that will be touching in the extreme. Nancy Carroll takes the part of Rosemary, and Buddy Rogers plays the part of Abie. There are four distinct dialogue sequences in this picture, whilst the sound accompaniment to the remainder is said to he very effective.