The Tivoli

Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 7065, 26 January 1933, Page 3

The Tivoli

JANET GAYNOR AND CHARLES FARRELL “The First Year,” Frank Craven’s blue-ribbon comedy farce of the stage, neatly spiced with wise lines and alternate heartaches, brings Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, Hollywood’s first string cupid team, back to the screen. A delighted audience yesterday at the Tivoli theatre greeted this Fox version of the popular romance with all the fervor usually reserved for the opening of a Gaynor-Farrell picture. This Him, because of its more modern presentation of the stars, should be extremely popular, although it retains everything which has made Janet and Charles the screen idols of three continents. The settings show' imagination, the photography is consistently excellent, Janet is even more piquant and appealing than ever, while Charlie, in the bestcast role of his talkie career, reveals a hitherto untouched vein of acting talent. The plot of “The First Year,” briefly, is the drama of young love during the most dangerous age—the first 12 months of married life. In the picture Farrell presses his courtship for Janet's hand, they become engaged, marry, move away to a strange city to begin life on their own. Here it is that the natural laws of economic pressure, jealousy, and the natural tendencies of youth to rebel in discouraging situations gradually outweigh the ;joys of the honeymoon. It is this dramatic crux which brings on the separation, without which no young marriage would be complete. This parting, which sends Janet in tears back to her parents, is easily understood by everyone except the two most vitally interested —Janet and Charlie. To them it is no laughing matter, although everyone else seems to find much enjoyment from their predicament, as docs the audience in viewing the picture. The screening to-mor-row will be. “But the Flesh is Weak,” starring Robert .Montgomery, Nora Gregor, Heather Thatcher and others. It’s a daring picture.