STRAND

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 314, 27 March 1928, Page 15

STRAND

LAST DAYS OF “SORRELL AND SON”

“Sorrell and Son,” the wonderful film of father-and-son love which has been enjoying a most triumphant . season at the Strand Theatre, will be screened for three days more. Powerful in theme, spectacular in action, and with one of the few truly all-star casts ever assembled for a motion picture, “Sorrell and Son” can be written down in screen history as a rare combination of popular entertainment and artistry. ‘ Sorrell and Son” is taken from Warwick Deeping’s best selling novel of the same title. From the moment that “Sorrell,” a war hero, returns to civil life to find his wife unfaithful to him, and the task of rearing and educating their young oon on his shoulders, to the daring climax, the story holds audiences’ interest as few pictures do.

In addition to the finished acting of Warner, as “Sorrell,” the cast eludes Anna Q. Nilsson as “Sorrell’s” faithless wife, Alice Joyce as Fanny Garland, Asthers as the yoiinger “Sorrell” and Mary Nolan as “Kit Sorrell’s” sweetheart.

On Friday at the Strand Theatre Charlie Chaplin’s long-awaited comedy, “The Circus,” will have its New Zealand premiere.

Charlie plays a wandering lad who is mixed up in a series of hilarious adventures, chases, arguments and ovations that land him in “The Circus” as a very fine fellow. Merna Kennedy, with red hair and just five feet, two, with eyes of blue, is his leading lady; she makes her screen debut in the role. Others in the cast are Harry Crocker, Henry Bergman, Petty Morrissey and Allan Garcia. Preceding the screening of the photoplay will be “The Tiny Tots’ Circus,” a miniature show, produced by Mdlle. Valeska.