POPULAR SCREEN LOVERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20868, 9 May 1931, Page 12

POPULAR SCREEN LOVERS.

FINE FILM FOR CIVIC. Miss Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, the two popular screen lovers who have appeared in such delightful films as "Seventh Heaven," "Sunnyside Up" and "High Society Blues," make a return to the talking screen in "Ihe Man Who Camo Back," to he shown at the Civic Theatre for a season commencing on Friday. It has been received with enthusiasm by critics, one of whom "Pictures ,como and pictures go, and the majority of them are forgotten in a week. But every now and then there comes one that arrests and holds tho attention, a vivid piece infinitely superior to its predecessors. Such a film is 'The Man Who Came Back,' " It is brilliant, original drama directed by Raoul Walsh, the producer who gave tlio screen "What Price Glory?" and "The Cock-eyed World." Tho story opens amid the indolent luxury of the New York mansion of a wealthy financier. Following an escapade in which the ne'er-do-well son disgraces the family name, he is disowned by his father and leaves his home vowing to ruin his father in commerce. Finally arriving in Shanghai he continues his riotous mode of living nnd sinks lower and lower. A for mer lover of the youth, imagining that she has been forgotten as a parsing fancy, also loses her grip on life and becomes a rtibaret entertainer in Shanghai. Here the two former lovers meet. The story of their regeneration produces dramatic acting of the highest order.