REGENT THEATRE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 13, 30 January 1937, Page 14

REGENT THEATRE

DODSWORTH TO-DAY. As » novel, Sinclair Lewis's "Dodswortb*' was a best-seller. Adapted to the stage by Sidney Howard, with Walter Huston in the title role, it was a smash hit and ran almost two years on Broadway. Now, translated into celluloid by the same writer, and at the Regent to-day, with Huston again piaying Sam Dodsworth and given a magnificent production by Samuel Goldwyn, "Dodsworth" has found its ideal i'orm. Briliiantly acted by a perfect cast, headed by Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukae, Mary Astor and JDavid Iiven, this absorbing film tells the story qjf Sam Dodsworth, a hai'd-working, successful middle-Wes-tern business man who retires to travel. Sam looks to Europe as a place to rest and dabble jn culture, but to his pretty, selfish and adored wife Fran, (Ruth Chatterton) it means one last fiing at romance before facing middle age. They sail on the Queen Mary antl after a series of flirtations on shipboard and in Paris, Fran meets Kurt Von Obersdorf, an impoverished young Austrian aristocrat, who asks her lo marry him. She divorces Dodsworth who is left to wander miserably through Europe alone. In Italy he meets Mrs Cartright, a fine, sympathetic woman and they fall in love. When Fran's plans fall through, she sends for him and he gives up his own happiness to join her. But tlie contrast with Mrs Cartright is too great. He sees Fran at last for what she really ia and returuB to the woman h® loves.