PRINCE EDWARD

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 332, 18 April 1928, Page 14

PRINCE EDWARD

“SORRELL AND SON” When Warwick Deeping’s novel. “Sorrell and Son,” was published, it was acclaimed a masterpiece and the writer’s most popular story. Powerful in theme, and with picturesque English settings, the picture, now being shown at the Prince Edward Theatre, has been handled in a masterly fashion by the producer, Mr. Herbert Brenon. The story is based on a wonderful father love and son devotion, a story of England during the post-war period, when men came home to find their jobs taken, and forced with the most menial tasks to support themselves and their families. Captain Stephen Sorrell was one of

these; not only was his billet gone, but his wife had deserted him for a wealthy profiteer. Sorrell grasps at a chance of a position of assistant to an antique dJealer in an English village. He arrives only to find the dealer dead. At this Sorrell contemplates giving up altogether, but the

thought of his son, and his abiding faith in him, nerves Sorrell to solicit a job as a man of all work in a shabby inn. A gleam of promise comes when Thomas Roland, an hotel prospector, engages him as second porter at a new inn he is opening. Here again he suffers from the brutal bullying of the head porter. But Sorrell never lost heart and in the end had the satisfaction of knowing that his son achieved success.