Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell in a Fox Movietone Sound Picture “Street Angel”

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6868, 25 March 1929, Page 4

Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell in a Fox Movietone Sound Picture “Street Angel”

A charming lovo story of picturesque Naples will bo unfolded at the Do Luxe Theatre on Wednesday, April 3rd. when “Street Angel” Fox Film featuring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, is shown. Audiences all over the World have acclaimed the beauty of the settings and the splendid acting. Frank Borzago, who also produced “7th Heaven” featuring these same artists, has once more proved himself one of the screen’s leading directors. Under his direction Miss Gaynor rose to new heights and her performance takes rank with the best acting achievements of the year. The story tells of Angelina, an unfortunate victim . of circumstances who, desperate through poverty and tho sickness of her mother, attempts tho last resources of desperate girls and takes to tho streets of an Italian town to raise money for food and her mother’s medicine. She tries to steal enough money and pursuing police lose her within the friendly tent of a travelling circus. She is later, found and carried away to prison while her newly discovered' sweetheart, gives Her.up.for dead. However, everything turns out all right in the end and Angelina comes back to Naples tc find shelter, romance and u husband.