THE PICTURE HOUSES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 200, 7 August 1928, Page 9

THE PICTURE HOUSES

MUNICIPAL. An imposing east surrounds Esther Ralston in ’’Love and Learn,” Paramount’s latest picture, starring Miss Ralston, which is being shown at the Municipal Theatre. The cast picked by Frank Tuttle, director of the picture, who won fame by directing “Miss Bluebeard,’’ is one which includes veterans and those who are fast becoming popular among the motion picture theatregoers. Hedda Hopper is the mother of Miss Ralston in the picture, and so well does she fit into this type of role, that she always is in demand in Hollywood for parts in the various pictures. Claude King, a well-known member dt the New York Theatre Guild, plays Miss Ralston’s father, and does very well in the role.

COSY DE LUXE. “East Side, West Side” depicts New York Ghetto, with the chaotic jumble of brass shops, push carts and colourful Hebrew types, has remained practically unknown. ' So also, has the shifting procession of barges, great liners and small craft that plies back and forth on its rivers. Now and then a picture is released which shows fairly accurately some one phase of the city, but never before has the vast panorama which extends from the Battery to the Bronx been unrolled on any screen. “East Side. West Side.” as a book and “East Side, West Side,” as a picture, has sought honestly to do this very thing. It has what so many books and pictures laek completely—the background of a really big idea, and the additional merit of a strong plot to build against it. An exceptional cast presents the dramatic Riesenberg story with feeling and rare truth to detail, George O’Brien and Virginia Valli are the principals. Also screened is Dynamite, the won der-dog, in “Fangs of Destiny.” “SEVENTH HEAVEN.” “Seventh Heaven.” coming to the Municipal on Wednesday, which relates the story of the little street waif. Diane, and the Paris street cleaner Chico with their friends, the cab driver, the “rat,’.’ the street washer and the priest, is a thing that will stick in your memory after many other pictures yet to be seen in the years to come will be forgotten. And those twin stars newly blazing in the cinema firmament, Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, with what heart reaching sincerity do they play theii parts; But every actor in this remarkable entertainment is splendidly cast and plays his part with a sincerity that touches the hearts of the audience. There is Gladys Brock well, as the underworld sister of Diane, Ben Bard as Col. Brissac, David Butler as Gobin, George Stone as the sewer rat and Albert Gran as Boul. And while the war scenes are incidcntai to the telling of the story, still that dash of the Paris taxicabs through the hail of steel of the rescue of the city is one of the most stirring scenes every filmed.