MAJESTIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 759, 4 September 1929, Page 17

MAJESTIC

“THIS IS HEAVEN” “This is Heaven,” the delightful talkie now at the Majestic Theatre, is also notable being the first talking role taken by Vilma Banky. The difficulties of a Hungarian immigrant girl learning to accustom herself to the new and strange life she finds in New York make up the body of the story, which gives her ample opportunity for both comedy and pathos. First seen as a frightened little peasant, muffled in countless petticoats and shawls, then in a neat waitress’s uniform as she flips hot cakes in a restaurant window, Miss Banky shows a new side of her acting ability in "This is Heaven.” James Hall, one of the most prominent leading men in Hollywood, Fritzi Ridgeway and Lucien Littlefield are prominent in the supporting cast. Its plot, built about the complication of having the little waitress tall in love wtih a rich young man, believing him to be a chauffeur, gives Miss Banky an opportunity to develop the talent for comedy which was widely commented on as being evident in “The Awakening,” her last picture. Also a month was spent by the entire Goldwyn producting staff in New York last fall filming the exterior scenes in authentic localities in the Bronx, on Fifth Avenue and Ellis Island. The talkies which make up the remainder of the programme include a Fox Movietone News, dancing and singing items by the Victoria Girls, and an all-talking comedy, “The Raw Recruit.” At the matinees every afternoon during the school holidays there is a pretty little pantomime for the children, entitled “Babes in the Wood.”