AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 April 1931, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS.

*■ VF R YBDDYS PICTURES. “SARAH AND SON.’’ Once upon a time Fredric Mnrch was the husband of Ruth Chatterton. Now he is a bachelor in love with hei. For anything can happen in the films. March was Miss Chatterton’s husband in “The Dummy”, famous comedy-drama of nearly a year ago. He is her lover in “Sarah and Son . Paramount’s newest romance-drama, which is being shown on the talking silverscreen at the Princess Theatre. “Sarah and Son” is a story of a poverty-stricken young singer who is deserted by her husband and who is forced to suffer separation from her infant son, whom she loves very much. She shapes her destiny for one purpose* —the re-union of herself and her boy. After years of toil she becomes a successful operatic singer. With the means to support her child in luxury she finds herself confronted with the intrigue of a married couple who have adopted the boy after the death of her errant husband. Tn her battle to retrieve the child she is aided by a young lawyer who soon becomes her lover. Tt is their final heroic effort to gain custody of her child, now eleven years old. which forms the exciting and engrossing climax for this powerful film. “Sarah and Son” was one of the more popular novels of 1929. Its adaptation for the movies was written bv Zoe Akins, famous woman poet and playwright. Dorothy Arzner, wield ed the megaphone.