NATIONAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1002, 19 June 1930, Page 16

NATIONAL

‘‘HER UNBORN CHILD” Widespread Interest has been fc.roused by the announcement of the National Theatre that the management has secured one of the prize talking pictures of the year in the booking of “Her Unborn Child,” which will begin a special engagement for a limited period beginning on Saturday afternoon. The theatre is at present being completely renovated and equipped with the latest Western Electric apparatus. As a stage play “Her Unborn Child” has thrilled millions of playgoers for the past ten years, including its run of one year at the Eltinge and FortyEighth Street Theatres in New York City. The pungent dialogue, unconventional situations, smashing dramatic power which startled legitimate theatro audiences has been carefully preserved in the talking picture version, produced by Windsor Picture Plays. Inc., and recorded by the De Forest Talkie System. The touchingly human story of a boy and girl in love, forgetting everyhting else. presents one of the most unusual subjects yet selected for the talking screen, and “Her Unborn Child” will afford patrons of the National Theatre many breathless moments during the •unfoldment of its moving drama. Originally written by Howard McKent Barnes, the dialogue version for picture audiences has been prepared by Frederic and Fanny Hatton, and directed by A 1 Ray, responsible for several successful Fox Films. The talkie of the famous stage play presents a cast of unusual merit, recruited in the main from the ranks of Broadway stars, among them being Adele Ronson. Harry Davenport, Frances Underwood, Pauline Drake, Elisha Cook, junr., Doris Rankin, of the famous Barrymore family, Elizabeth Wragge, Paul Clare and others equally well known. The theatre management anticipates a record breaking attendance during the run of “Her Unborn Child.”