GRAND AND LYRIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 836, 3 December 1929, Page 15

GRAND AND LYRIC

“EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE” ■ -Bast iSide. West Side." tlie film now at both the Grand and Lyric Theatres, is tho kind of picture which has long been needed to give the world an authentic conception of New Tork, tor the people in small towns have grown to think of it almost entirely m terms of night clubs. Broadway theatres and the tinsel gaiety of Coney Island. Its Ghetto, with the chaotic jumble of brass shops, push carts and colourful Hebrew types, has remained practically unknown. So. also, has the shifting procession ot* barges, great liners and small craft that plies back and forth on its rivers. Now and then a picture is released which shows fairly accurately some one phase of the city, but never before has the vast panorama which extends from the Battery to the Bronx been unrolled on any screen. “ETst Side. West Side, as a book, and “East Side. West Side.” as a nicture has sought honestly to do this verv thing. It has what so many books and pictures lack completely—the background of a really hig idea, and the additional merit of a stron„ plot to build against it. The second attraction at both theatres is “The Big Hop,” a thrilling aviation picture, starring Buck Jones.