THE PICTURE HOUSES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 203, 10 August 1928, Page 6

THE PICTURE HOUSES

“SEVENTH HEAVEN,” It is generally acknowledge that. “Seventh Heaven” put Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell “on the map.” Theirs is a wonderful performance, facing as they did a battery of cameras. Oh. what a picture! The action moving with a sweeping impulsiveness that carries all before it; no moment free from an episode that swings the heart ‘twixt tears and cheers. Supporting these two stare are such artists of the setcen as Gladys Brockwell as the wicked elder sister, and Eimle Chautard as tho saintly priest of tho Sacre Coeur at Montmartre; and there are other in the east whom many will recognise. But over and above all is the story tiself; a story which has enraptured the whole world wherever this picture is shown. The drums of war mingle with the street cries of Montmartre; the lovers are torn asunder ere their love is completely satisfied. Then the months end years of waiting, man and woman true to their pledge of love which nothing on earth can break; and then the seventh heaven that comes to them as their reward. It would spoil the story to tell just how they are brought together again; suffice it to say that never in the history of the screen has anything more touchingly beautiful been attempted and accomplished than the reunion of the lovers —sewer rat and street outcast to all appearance, but their whole being transformed by the greatest of' all emotions, the love of man and woman; love that has been tried by fire, tested by long waiting. All who have seen this story of “Seventh Heaven” acclaim it as the screen’s greatest love story; and many have seen it each night it has been shown at tho Municipal Theatre, Hastings. Seats may still be reserved at Part’s for the last screening to-night. Municipal Programme. If you are tired and worried and want something to take your mind off your troubles, “Publicity Madness,” Fox Films’ comedy which opens on Saturday at the Municipal Theatre is the thing to see. This clever five reel comedy is without a doubt one of (he fastest moving and one of the funniest farces shown in Hastings for a long time. Everything about it is amusing—the characters. the plot, the title —the laughs start with the first scene and the audience is still laughing when. they reach the sidewalk. Lois Moran as the shy little Violet who is transformed into a regular and sophisticated stenographer proves she is a comedienne of no mean ability. COSY DE LUXE. William Haines never does the same thing twice in the same way. He never plays in two pictures that are alike. He is the ono light comedy star for whom the gag man does not have to find jokes. Mctro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s latest picture for Haines is a stury or polo and pleasure-seeking among the smart set —and “The Smart Set” is the name appropriately given the attraction at the Cosy Theatre now. O unique story with heaps of thrills, romance, and a strong dash of drama, most realisticlily portrayed, “The Smart Set” will be much enjoyed by most-movie goers. It will be a decided change for them to see a polo background to what is a most gay and spicey romance. Besides William Haines, Alice Day, Jack Holt and Hobart Bosworth each do splendid work in this unusual picture. Jack Conway directed. Matinee Special. Forty-niners—the bold adventurers who rushed to California gold fields in the middle of the last cen-tury-figure in a new way in “The Gay Defender,” Richard Dix’s latest Paramount Picture, coming to the Cosy Theatre on Saturday. Heretofore treated as heroes in screen dramas, the gold seekers in “The Gay Defender” are played up as villains, while Dix, in the heroic role as a native. Mexican, is driven to banditry by oppression of the unscrupulous prospectors. Thelma Todd is the heroine, while Fred Kohler heads the American desperadoes.