NEW REGENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 166, 4 October 1927, Page 15

NEW REGENT

“THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT” Mother sacrifice is eternal. It gives with a smile, yet often in its greatest test. Tixpe comes when a mother must realise that the baby is no longer. Full grown as a man he loves another. The great fund of understanding is to the utmost, the mother finds it hard to share his love with the wife.

And, frequently, to add to the bur-, den, the wife is jealous of the affection the husband shows for the mother. Such is the situation that builds to the smashing climax of “The Fourth Commandment,” which is being shown at the New Regent this week. Belle Bennett, as a wife and mother, gives the screen a great characterisation. Her emotions

are real and touch the heart with a poignancy that lingers^ Mary Carr appears as• another mother. Sw e t* sympathetic and lovable, she is the ideal mother and the typification of the one held dearest in tl>« hearts of millions. The two enact a pf mother iqve

that possesses almost epic quality. Strongly contrasted, they leave an un-r forgettable impression and glorify the hearts of true motherhood. Supporting them in the sensational emotional Universal production are >ueh well-known players as June Marlowe, Robert Henry Victor-, Kathleen Myers, Claire Du Brey, Knute Erickson, Brady Kline and three child actors, among whom is four-year-old Wendell Phillips Franklin.