PETER GRIMM RETURNS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 44, 21 February 1936, Page 10

PETER GRIMM RETURNS

LIONEL BARRYMORE IN STAR ROLE The story of how the deceased Peter Grimm once again manages to hold communication with the living makes up the unusual film “ The Return of j Peter Grimm,” which commences at the Plaza Theatre on Wednesday. Peter Grimm, flower grower and his lot-tor, who was interested in physical manifestations had arranged that whoever was to die first should return and apologise to the other. A rather ob-.-tinate old man, Peter leaves many tangled threads behind him when he d e- unexpectedly, and his interference >. :h the life of his adopted daughter, who feels herself bound by a promise had unwillingly made before his death, threatens to wreck her happim -. His attempt to rectify matters when beyond the grave and the difficulties he meets with form the greater part of the film. At first only his old log knows of his presence, and he wanders through h s old home vainly attempting to make himself understood —no one sees him. The illusion of the ghost of Peter Gri j oi ing an -ng his friends without. their knowledge has been very well pro lured on the screen and one soon to the st range posih.- Gradually through the medium ; of a diving bny and his old friend the i'< • . peter manages to convey his ■ !.r.-:-int rir.-sngp, thp villain is nnI • 1. and a. happv ending assured • ro thp romance of thp principal couple. , f: no common “sob stuff” that I j*lies this picture such pathetic charm, j but. something not often seen in film i fare of this class —the pen of an able ' sincere dramatist interpreted by » I capable and sympathetic actor. Lionel |B rvm< re as Peter Grimm carries the greater pa t of the story’s burden and • , • ...t rrn the major laurels. Both T o ;-T 1 in the elss substantial » y • - re of a spirit he is most coni’here are interesting supi 'jo Chaplin, In a. telephone talk i \ erica to London this week. . a Daiiv Mail interviewer, the services say, that he does not t to playing in talkies provided he different character from the little i with the bowler hat, baggy : and eane with which the t ■ confessed that • w..nbi like to play Napoleon, whom I , (*onc?i\ es as a great rcmantic fig u o; ;i S a god among men. ( implin's first film in five . \ .“Modern Times,” was given its ' . >rid premiere in New York on ; I'l-bniarv 5. In many recpects, the . rilus rep‘»rt, it is his most ambitious 1 : , . It i- a social satin; c-f the ••'.line age is the object. The • Imoments consist principally of his -. Phere is very little dialogue, although he breaks Ins rule and sings a song the words of | are gibberish. He (•r.mprvcd the music, wrote, produced, . ■ din ■ ted the production, which was i eived by critics and public. ' Edward Arnold, who made a great ... . , in his characterisation of j Diamond Jim Brady, that romantic -alesman of the ’eighties in “Diamond Jim.” has now completed a film ver- ■ “The Hangover Murders” entitled “Remember Last Night?”