“MADAME X” AT NEWTON
When the screen takes a time-hon-oured novel, or a play that has achieved international success and adapts it to its own peculiar technique, theatregoers usually wait, curious, to see how the original will be altered in the translation. Hence, when Hollywood announced “Madame X” as a new talking picture play, with Ruth Chatterton, stage star, as heroine, and Lionel Barrymore, famous stage actor, as director, picture fans sat up and took notice. Would it follow the original?” The answer is being seen this week at the Empress Theatre, Newton, where the new play is being shown to astounded and delighted crowds. For not only does the picture version retam everything that the stage play had, but adds a great deal more—anil it is presented in a series of concentrated dramatic scenes that crowd three times the drama into the same length of time that it took to present the play.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 859, 31 December 1929, Page 14
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