THE STRUGGLES OF LIFE

Evening Star, Issue 21824, 13 September 1934, Page 12

THE STRUGGLES OF LIFE

DEPICTED IN STATE’S ATTRACTION Eighteen months ago the worldfamous team of Janet Gayuor and Charles Farrell dissolved on the completion of ‘ Toss of the Storm Country.’ To-day, after an interlude marked by a flood of protests against the separation from screen lans and film exhibitors throughout the world, these two favourites are reunited in their twelfth co-starring vehicle, ‘ Change of Heart,’ whiyli will commence at the State Theatre to-morrow. With them appears a brilliant supporting cast, headed by James Dunn and Ginger Rogers, Beryl Mercer, Gustav Von Seyffertitz, Fiske O’Hara, Irene Franklin, Shirley Temple, Jane Harwell, and Nella Walker also have important roles. It is a new and more mature Janet who appears in ‘ Change of Heart,’ a Janet who has laid aside the juvenile aspects of her former films in favour of a womanly characterisation. And the story, taken from Kathleen Norris’s vivid novel of romance during the depression, ‘Manhattan Love Song,’ gives her a suitable vehicle in which to make this transition. Dealing in very human fashion with the joys and sorrows of four young people who, after leaving college, struggle against the trials and vicissitudes of a great city, the theme; and its trenchant handling of common problems, make the picture a unique one in the Gaynor-Farrell annals, and one that promises to become an outstanding screen hit of the year. John G. Blystone, whose long list of successes includes such films as ‘My Lips Betray ’ and ‘ Tol’able David,’ directed the production. * Sonya Levien and James Gleason collaborated on the screen play, with Samuel Hoffenstein furnishing additional dialogue.