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“SADIE THOMPSON” “Sadie Thompson,” a story of life at American Samoa, from the novel, “Rain,” by Somerset Maugham, will j be shown this evening at the Grand I Theatre. The story of “Sadie Thompson’s” domination by a tyrannical South Seas reformer, “Alfred Atkinson,” who forces her to confess that she is an exile from the underworld of San Francisco, and then determines to break her defiant spirit and gain her repentance, is one of the most vital themes in modern literature. “Sadie Thompson” is the sort of screen narrative that is of interest to men and women everywhere, because its characters are everyday people, and their personalities are believable. The situation which dvelops from the reformer Atkinson’s struggle to choose between his devotion to duty and the call of worldly desires form a climax of draImatic power. Lionel Barrymore plays the role of Atkinson. When Edwin Carewe started “Resurrection,” he was besieged with more “Russians" than he figured lived in Moscow. When he announced his plans i to produce "Ramona,” it seemed as if i the entire population of Mexico met at ] his studio gates.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 413, 23 July 1928, Page 15
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