"BIRD OF PARADISE"

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21347, 23 November 1932, Page 15

"BIRD OF PARADISE"

NEW KING VIDOR FILM

"Bird of Paradise," a beautiful romance of the .South Seas, directed by King Vidor, will bead the new programme "t St. James' Theatre on Friday. 1 bornton Delehanty, in the New York Evening Post, says:—"Woven into the story of a young American's love for a native girl, *hom local tabus forbid him to marry, is a rich tapestry of pictorial beauty, the kind that, King Vidor can seize on find make eminently important. "He embellishes the story with humour and glamour, and these are piled on so adroitly that they serve in the end to constitute the chief delights of the picture. ■All of the professional actors of the cast, including Skrets. Gallagher, John Halliday, and Bert Roach, fall admirably into the spirit of the direction, and their contributions are in key with the performances of the leading artists, Dolores del j'io and Joel McCrea." Richard Watts, jun., film critic for the New York Herald-Tribune, remarks: —"In 1 nil inner which does not overlook possible comparisons with the late llerr MjirDili's beautiful 'Tabu,' the new version 'Bird of Paradise' docs succeed in arranging for a handsome pictorial mood, of the type which makes one believe for the lnoment in the possibility of impossible Polynesian paradises."