“SUNNY SIDE UP” AT CRYSTAL PALACE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18972, 20 January 1930, Page 7

“SUNNY SIDE UP” AT CRYSTAL PALACE.

It is not quite five months since talking pictures were first presented at Crystal Palace Theatre, and in five months the patrons of that house have witnessed some excellent productions, some of them recognised as the best talkies produced in Hollywood. But, of course, there has to come a time when the very best of them all opens its season, and “Sunny Side Up” is that picture, to commence to-day. It is rather difficult, at first glance, to decide just what it is that makes “ Sunny Side Up” the masterpiece it is. The two leading players, Charles Farrell anrl Janet Gaynor, are definitely among the most popular players on stage or screen, and they both act, talk, dance and sing in a manner that simply radiates happiness and the joy of living: the music, by de Sylva Brown and Henderson, is good music, not merely ephemerally tuneful; the ballets are gorgeous affairs, and Janet Gaynor dances in a way one would never have thought her capable of: *and to complete this cycle of good things, the story is a sound, solid one that starts strongly and works up, with never a scene that lags, right up to a smashing climax. There have indeed been other sound pictures that have boasted story, cast, music and ballets; pictures that have not lagged in interest, and have written their “ Finis ” in a burst of glory, but, it is declared, they have not been “ Sunny Side Up.” And it must not be assumed that, because this picture has its interludes of song and dance and music, that it is another story of stage life, or back-stage life; it is a story of every-day people, a story of a rich young man and a poor young girl, the rich young man’s impossible mamma, and his sharp-tongued, innocent looking fiancee. The last two women range themselves against the Romanticists, but When Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor are determined to have a private romance of their own, not all the mammas and jealous fiancees in the world will stop them. Everybody will love this pair of favourites, will delight in their singing, their dancing, will watch the path of true love with interest and caught breath. The box plans are r.ow open at The Bristol Piano Company, where seats should be reserved.