TIVOLI AND EVERYBODY’S

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 704, 2 July 1929, Page 15

TIVOLI AND EVERYBODY’S

“SATURDAY’S CHILDREN” Those who go to see their favourite books or plays transferred to the flickering films w’ith fear and trepidation, expecting all kinds of changes in characterisation and plot, need have no hesitancy about attending the Tivoli and Everybody’s Theatres, where Maxwell Anderson’s celebrated classic of the American drama, “Saturday’s Children,” is now screening w’ith Corinne Griffith as the star. This production follows the play faithfully, even retaining the daring ending, and Miss Griffith plays the role of Bobby Halvey, a private secretary, w’ith intelligence, commendable restraint and great charm.

The story is an intimate study of home life among the American middle class, suiting the mode of a comedy of manners to apartment house life in New York City.

In adapting this play to the screen the director has followed the original comedy, in all its essentials, w’ith respect and appreciative understanding.

At both theatres the second feature is “The Kid's Clever,” an uproarious comedy starring the inimitable Glenn Tryon as a hopeful inventor of a fuelless motor-boat.

Mary Odette was born in Dieppe of an English mother and French father. She came to England when eleven, and made an instantaneous hit as the child witness in “On Trial” at the Lyric Theatre, London. She has starred in many British films, including the recent Anglo-Indian picture, “The Emerald of the East,” to be released in New Zealand by Cinema Art Films, in which she had thrilling adventures in Gwalior.