STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 650, 30 April 1929, Page 19

STRAND

“THE STREET ANGEL” To those who attend the Strand Theatre this week there awaits a programme of exceptional interest. There are a number of short “talkie” features, and the fine picture, “Street Angel,” which is accompanied by a synchronised musical score by the Roxy Theatre orchestra, New York. “Street Angel” is a powerful story with an absorbing, human love theme, made under the direction of Frank Borzage for Fox Films. In this production both director and critics feel that they have found a fitting successor to “Seventh Heaven,” his great masterpiece of last year which created such widespread comment as one of the greatest pictures ever filmed. Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, the two youngsters who rose to fame overnight as the . “Diane” and “Chico” of that production, appear together again in “Street Angel,” at the head of an exceptional cast. With the best matched pair of screen lovers in the movies, Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor, as the principals in an idyllic love story, “Street Angel” cannot help being a winner. “Street Angel” becomes a thing of rare beauty and a joy to the beholder. A variety of “talkie” subjects is included in the supports. An interesting feature is the opening of the New-castle-on-Tyne bridge by his Majesty tho King. The King’s address and the cheers of the crowd are clearly heard by the audience. Mr. George Bernard Shaw, one of the celebrities in the English literary world, is heard in a humorous speech. The celebrated English comedienne, Miss Gertrude Lawrence, appears in a charming “talkie” film. “Chic” Sale, the popular stage and screen artist, is the principal in “The Star Witness,” a comedy mainly composed of dialogue. Sale's answers as he is cross-examined are delightfully subtle, while the picture, apart from its novelty, is very entertaining.