"FOUR SONS”

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 358, 19 May 1928, Page 23

"FOUR SONS”

FIRST LONDON SCREENING A white-haired woman from Aberdeen, Margaret Mann, was the star of a film with a strong anti-war flavour, “Four Sons,” shown recently in London. Miss Mann, who has a lifetime’s experience of acting, had played small parts in films in Hollywood. Suddenly she was chosen for this big role of a simple German peasant woman with four sons, one of whom emigrates to the United States before the war, while the other three are killed on the battlefield. After the armistice she travels to New York to join her surviving boy, now an American citizen, and to meet her daughter-in-law and grandchild. Playing with Miss Mann in a very small part was the ex-Archduke Leopold of Austria, while two other roles were interpreted by Francis X. Bushman, jun., son of the former film idol, and Ruth Mix, daughter of the famous cowboy. “Four Sons,” though a little too long (writes a London critic), is a simple, almost old-fashioned picture of great charm and feeling. The home, the mother, the four laughing boys are contrasted with the militar- ; ism of pre-war Germany. |